It's just the language you have learned and political correctness.
You see, I have friend called Jamesi who I have no problem calling ass (as in bum, not as in four legged beast). Then there is American fashion dude called James Perse, who you probably have no problem calling that, but for me calling him is somewhat problematic in English, 'cause perse is ass in Finnish...
"Kuntavaaleissa koko maassa hylÃttiin 17 073 ÃÃnestyslippua. Se on 0,7 prosenttia kaikista ÃÃnistÃ."
-mtv3
So in whole country there were 17 073 invalid votes, that is 0,7% of all votes. And that number includes "protest votes" where people draw cunt or wrote Donald Duck to the ballot paper instead of number...
The traditional US measuring system, which is derived from the pre-imperial English anthropic system, is in many ways superior to the metric system for common tasks like home construction. Basing your system on 12 instead of ten is extremely practical (outside the ivory towers and groves of Academe) because carpenters, artists and architects can easily achieve aesthetic and functional balance without generating excessive trim waste or requiring computers to figure out how to center a window frame.
Basing on 12... so 12 inch to foot, 12 foot to yard 12 yards to mile? Hmh, last one is probably wrong... so it must be 144 yards to mile? Still waaaay too short so it must be 1728 yards? (quite close in fact!:)
I can understand that imperial system is more intuitive in some (many?) cases, but _based_ on 12 it is not.
But it's not your decision to make. If I build a car and decide to sell it for $5000, your only options are to buy it for $5000 or not buy it for $5000. You can't just steal it from me and give me $1000 because that's all you think it's worth. That's just not how trading works. If it were, I could kick you out of your house, toss you a $5 bill and claim I bought it from you.
But if that car was software, you would still have that car and I would have "mine".
Well, I have. I just bought one of the Jetta TDI wagons and it's amazing. I can get 50 MPG in mixed city/highway driving plus intermittent AC with some mild hypermiling techniques (fixed consumption hill climb, engine braking, anticipating traffic ahead; no pulse/glide or unpowered driving) and I expect that the fuel consumption will go down measurably as the engine breaks in (peak compression increases by 20% over the break-in of a VW TDI engine). All this in a car that's big enough to fit five people plus cargo.
Engine braking and anticipating traffic ahead... how do you avoid collisions unless you anticipate traffic? And engine braking is not hard to do (unless you drive with automatic): just lift your right leg.
Hmm, your numbers are probably in the right ballpark, but skewed to mainframe's side, imho. For example: you probably don't need 3 admins all the time and they are probably easier to find prospective employees than for mainframe. Also you need to find mainframe operators willing to work 7 days a week and 52 weeks per year and god damn if they dare to call in sick!;)
I usually forget the password and throwaway mail account that I used to register it (or e-mail provider goes belly up, like with my firs account *snif*).
Which brings me back to topic: most of the times I've got stuff "stolen" I have in fact just lost or misplaced my things just myself. Especially when I am tired, and who isn't at lans?
I don't count my commute to "time spent working", because I try to live/work so that I can use bicycle for commuting. I'm lazy to exercise otherwise... and physical exercise really helps that unwinding. As I get older, that "getting ready" (if by getting ready, we mean shower, shave etc.) part seems to be part of morning chores regardless of the day.
Sometimes I bring work to home or do some thinking or learning for work at "my time". But I also do my own stuff at work time. I've done my share of being on the call, but never for free.
Even 1/3:rd of my adult life is too much to spend on work, unless you are entrepreneur (so you can hopefully chill when you sell your company or when your company generates profits without you). But if I work on salary or hourly pay, I would like to keep my time working near 1/4:th of my time. Maybe even less, if you count holidays, but near 8 hours a day anyway. Few people nowadays are driven enough and physically fit enough to work 10 or more hours a day. You need to be fit, even in office job.
You got it wrong. I have no hate for any system, because I don't have to play those I don't like. And my preference to other systems stems from history: I played them before I played DnD and found DnD lacking to them. I preferred RQ's world and RM's system over DnD. Just like I appreciate DnD for being first RPG (?), I appreciate RQ and RM more, because they were first RPG's that I played.
Having said that, I really haven't played or DM'd game for... over ten years! Shees, now I feel old!
Oh, and a soldier is NOT like a policeman. Police exist to keep the peace by enforcing the laws, and provide assistance to citizens in need. In an ideal situation, police serve the public, though that isn't always true. But generally speaking, they serve the law, whatever the law might be. They are not trained to kill, and certainly not trained to survive. To claim that police and military are the same means you either have a warped sense of the place and purpose of soldiers, the place and purpose of law enforcement, or both. Additionally, policeman almost never goes over the ocean to bust someone for breaking the local law, or to Mexico to arrest illegal immigrants. <wishful thinking>Modern armies should be for defence of the nation and defencive doctrine should not include preemptive strikes </wishful thinking> People that are trained to kill and obey commands without questions make bad policemen, imho.
Instead of juvenile detention, Jaime was selected by a judge to be enrolled in a pilot program at Bryan Adams in which chronically truant students are monitored electronically. So you would send your kid to jail rather than make him/her carry a device with him/her? I can understand your raging if everyone would have to carry one. But using gps-device before locking kids up to juvenile detention is a good step imho.
and maybe that reason should be looked for somewhere other than the children! Yeah, like parents? And it seems that not everyone is good at that. And this seems to be targeted to kids which are worst kids of bad parents. I highly doubt that your kids are sleeping to noon and skip school? So why should they be monitored? What aboit children that do skip school and their parents do nothing about it?
5 to 13 watts at 2GHz? And 100 cycles per command? What kind of range is that "5 to 13"? And obligatory car analogy: 20 to 52MPG seems rather large deviation...
How valuable was the land that they lived on? One cannot put price to the homeland. To some it is priceless, to other it means nothing. And those to whom it means less, it is usually easy to leave for greener grasses...
Bear Stearns would not have collapsed completely: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns for a bargain-basement $236.2 million â" or $2 a share"
But shareholders were not happy with that so: "On March 16, JP Morgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share and guarantee the stricken bankâ(TM)s trading positions supported by US Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which agreed to provide $30bn in financing backed by a portfolio of assets. A week later the offer was increased to $10 per share."
Handout to Bear Stearns stockholders or providing stability to markets? You decide.
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It's just the language you have learned and political correctness.
You see, I have friend called Jamesi who I have no problem calling ass (as in bum, not as in four legged beast). Then there is American fashion dude called James Perse, who you probably have no problem calling that, but for me calling him is somewhat problematic in English, 'cause perse is ass in Finnish...
Yeah, tell us why Finns name their programs that way?
Linus - Linux
My - MySQL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
"Blizzard Entertainment is currently testing a Blizzard Downloader that is based upon BitTorrent"
So you probably _were_ using bittorrent.
Noup, paty can set (1,5 x number of seats) candidates. http://www.vaalit.fi/15522.htm
"Kuntavaaleissa koko maassa hylÃttiin 17 073 ÃÃnestyslippua. Se on 0,7 prosenttia kaikista ÃÃnistÃ." -mtv3
So in whole country there were 17 073 invalid votes, that is 0,7% of all votes. And that number includes "protest votes" where people draw cunt or wrote Donald Duck to the ballot paper instead of number...
The traditional US measuring system, which is derived from the pre-imperial English anthropic system, is in many ways superior to the metric system for common tasks like home construction. Basing your system on 12 instead of ten is extremely practical (outside the ivory towers and groves of Academe) because carpenters, artists and architects can easily achieve aesthetic and functional balance without generating excessive trim waste or requiring computers to figure out how to center a window frame.
Basing on 12... so 12 inch to foot, 12 foot to yard 12 yards to mile? Hmh, last one is probably wrong... so it must be 144 yards to mile? Still waaaay too short so it must be 1728 yards? (quite close in fact! :)
I can understand that imperial system is more intuitive in some (many?) cases, but _based_ on 12 it is not.
But it's not your decision to make. If I build a car and decide to sell it for $5000, your only options are to buy it for $5000 or not buy it for $5000. You can't just steal it from me and give me $1000 because that's all you think it's worth. That's just not how trading works. If it were, I could kick you out of your house, toss you a $5 bill and claim I bought it from you.
But if that car was software, you would still have that car and I would have "mine".
Then why is the mutilation of dick so popular in USA? I thought they had McD on every corner there, right between Starbucks.
Well, I have. I just bought one of the Jetta TDI wagons and it's amazing. I can get 50 MPG in mixed city/highway driving plus intermittent AC with some mild hypermiling techniques (fixed consumption hill climb, engine braking, anticipating traffic ahead; no pulse/glide or unpowered driving) and I expect that the fuel consumption will go down measurably as the engine breaks in (peak compression increases by 20% over the break-in of a VW TDI engine). All this in a car that's big enough to fit five people plus cargo.
Engine braking and anticipating traffic ahead... how do you avoid collisions unless you anticipate traffic? And engine braking is not hard to do (unless you drive with automatic): just lift your right leg.
Blame Microsoft for Halos.
Hmm, your numbers are probably in the right ballpark, but skewed to mainframe's side, imho. For example: you probably don't need 3 admins all the time and they are probably easier to find prospective employees than for mainframe. Also you need to find mainframe operators willing to work 7 days a week and 52 weeks per year and god damn if they dare to call in sick! ;)
Which brings me back to topic: most of the times I've got stuff "stolen" I have in fact just lost or misplaced my things just myself. Especially when I am tired, and who isn't at lans?
Cover everything in mirrors.
Wouldn't everything then reflect radar?
Sometimes I bring work to home or do some thinking or learning for work at "my time". But I also do my own stuff at work time. I've done my share of being on the call, but never for free.
Even 1/3:rd of my adult life is too much to spend on work, unless you are entrepreneur (so you can hopefully chill when you sell your company or when your company generates profits without you). But if I work on salary or hourly pay, I would like to keep my time working near 1/4:th of my time. Maybe even less, if you count holidays, but near 8 hours a day anyway. Few people nowadays are driven enough and physically fit enough to work 10 or more hours a day. You need to be fit, even in office job.
Why anyone would want to merge with NZ? They have BOFH! and you _really_ don't want one near you.
But if I don't have a problem, then I don't need help, so why should I admit anything?
Having said that, I really haven't played or DM'd game for... over ten years! Shees, now I feel old!
I never played D&D, but it's still nice to read about true rpgs sometimes. Though I still would prefer Rune Quest or Rolemaster over DnD...
I run away from linux, but it keeps poppig up everywhere I look at. Linux, its everywhere!
and maybe that reason should be looked for somewhere other than the children! Yeah, like parents? And it seems that not everyone is good at that. And this seems to be targeted to kids which are worst kids of bad parents. I highly doubt that your kids are sleeping to noon and skip school? So why should they be monitored? What aboit children that do skip school and their parents do nothing about it?
5 to 13 watts at 2GHz? And 100 cycles per command? What kind of range is that "5 to 13"? And obligatory car analogy: 20 to 52MPG seems rather large deviation...
Bear Stearns would not have collapsed completely: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns for a bargain-basement $236.2 million â" or $2 a share"
But shareholders were not happy with that so: "On March 16, JP Morgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share and guarantee the stricken bankâ(TM)s trading positions supported by US Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which agreed to provide $30bn in financing backed by a portfolio of assets. A week later the offer was increased to $10 per share."
Handout to Bear Stearns stockholders or providing stability to markets? You decide.