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Apple without Steve Jobs is like the Korean War without General Douglas MacArthur. You DO NOT leave the business of war in the hands of dumbass politicians. That bozo from Pepsi was a dumbass politician.
The judge here should be applauded. While he understood where Tiffany was coming from, he correctly chose NOT to legislate from the bench by siding with them.
Amazon should set up a network of distribution centers as subsidiary companies perhaps in every state but no order placed in a given state shall be shipped from the center in the same state. Ship something out of state, no tax. Problem solved.
Better yet, tell the bastards in Congress to get their heads out of their big cellulite-ridden collective ass and quit taxing the economy into oblivion. Furthermore, how about a law that states that fuel taxes go ONLY into an account administered by the Dept of Transportation. Maybe that way we'll have bridges that don't fail. Oh, and while we're at it, we need to put all Social Security taxes BACK into ONLY the Social Security account instead of the general fund (you can thank the Dems back in the 60s for pulling that sh*t). "We don't know why Social Security will be bankrupt." That's because you spend the money on other crap, morons!
Is a clause that says "I will not cloud my research with Politically Correct bullsh*t" and one that says "I will not allow science to become some perverted religion e.g. Global Warming...oh wait, it's now Global Climate Change...yeah that's good...it covers everything..." So basically you should be able to question some study's methods or conclusions without fear of being subjected to a professional inquisition because it was contrary to popular opinion.
Actually, I'm a member of the Order of the Engineer which is a simple reminder to build stuff right instead of blindly extending bridges so they could be the longest span because some politician thought it would be cool.
Entry-level IT jobs usually mean a whole lot of grunt-work, answering to morons who are living proof of the Peter Principle, and having to listen to users who don't know their ass from their elbow coupled with no desire to learn the difference lest they be held accountable for it.
Unfortunately, I have a LOT of experience with this subject. Here are a few observations:
1) The "bad boy" isn't a leader because he's bad. He has acquired leadership because most people are morons and mistake CHARISMA for intelligence, wisdom, and ability. Charismatic people have the ability to convince others that what they say or do is right. Usually, they are full of sh*t.
2) Nice guys aren't exciting. The bad boys are always the life of the party because they are doing things that would normally be considered inappropriate in a civilized world.
3) Bad boys take a lot of unnecessary risks thus making them appear rebellious and therefore exciting.
4) Bad boys never get cut down to size or have their ass handed to them in verbal or physical combat. This cements the notion that they are invincible. The earlier this starts, the harder the cement. And by the time they hit their teens, they are completely unaware of the consequences of their behavior. Nobody has come down on them like a ton of bricks when they give the nerd a wedgie. Basically, they are completely self-centered a**holes.
5) Women get all hot for the bad boy because THE WOMEN WANT A CHALLENGE. That being the challenge of taming him. This usually has disastrous results because of #1 and #4. Bad boys will never change because their sense of right and wrong is warped and don't believe they should change.
6) As a corollary to #4, women who go for the bad boy also have a warped sense of right and wrong so they can't be changed by a nice guy either. They get this warped sense of right and wrong from television and Madison Avenue. I offer into evidence the proliferation of TV shows and commercials that portray the husband/boyfriend as an inept moron and the wife/girlfriend as a total rocket-scientist. Women in the last 30 years or so have come to believe this. Men also seem to believe it in that they have become chickified.
If people were logical, women would seek out the intelligent capable males as they would be able to think and do their way out of life's problems as opposed to the "THAG SMASH!" way of doing it.
But of course, when have women EVER behaved logically.
Given the recent US Supreme Court ruling. Non-US Citizens are granted all the rights afforded by the American judicial system but genuine US citizens aren't. WTF happened to not sh*tting on your own team? Jeez!
Again, I'm not speaking in absolutes. What I am saying is that just as someone living in Iceland hasn't the slightest clue about the best way to farm macadamia nuts, people who rarely venture into the hinterlands need to be aware of the fact that they aren't as well equipped to determine their fate. Should some bean-counter sitting in a corner office buy a flat screwdriver because it's cheaper when the mechanic down on the factory floor is the person who knows he needs a Philips? Sure, open space is a good thing. Better is Ag Pres as exists in Pennsylvania. But in my experience it's the people who have lived there for many years who push for it if for no other reason than to keep the thousand-houses per acre developers at bay.
But back to my original point which is that the voting results by county is much more telling than the results by state. Here's a link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm
There are exceptions of course but a large percentage of the counties that voted Democrat are clustered around major metropolitan areas.
Actually it's YOU who is drawing the black&white conclusion. You read phrases such as "tend to be" and convert that to "are". Of course I have a point of view. Everyone does. Clearly you have one but choose not to waste your breath backing it up with facts and observations. Nevertheless, my point is that if you look at the way individual counties vote you can clearly see that the majority of counties that voted Democrat are in major metropolitan areas. The definition is NOT demarcated by the geographic city limits but rather the extent to which the city has an influence over the people living near it. That influence has evolved over the last fifty years or so. Where I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s was considered by most people to be the Styx and quite frankly it was. It was certainly to all of my city-dweller friends (I went to a private high-school in the city). To them, the people living where I did were hick hayseeds totally ignorant of the so-called sophisticated nature of the city and in some ways they are. By the same token, there are a lot of city-slickers who venture into the country thinking that their street smarts are sufficient to operate in the country. It's these boneheads that I and my fellow Search & Rescue volunteers are hauling out of the wilderness because they thought a half-liter of water was enough for a two-day hike. Over the years, more and more urbanites moved to "the country" ostensibly for a "better life" but in reality what they wanted was to remake the country in their own image. Ask anyone who has lived in a small town at least two hours drive from a major city for twenty years and you'll find them lamenting all of the "change" that urban sprawl brought. That's understandable but when the city folk come to what was once "the country" they scratch their heads and ask what happened.
I disagree. Ruralites tend to be much more self-sufficient. They fix their own cars instead of taking them to the dealer who then takes them to the cleaners. Poverty is a relative term. For urbanites, not being able to afford Starbucks every day or the 50" flat-screen TV or outrageously over-priced professional sports tickets is poverty. Ruralites tend not to have such appetites. Speaking as someone who has lived half my life in both worlds, I can see the difference.
The voting results maps by COUNTY of past elections. The pattern that clearly becomes visible is that the division in the US isn't so much right versus left or conservative versus liberal but RURAL-dweller versus URBAN-dweller. Taking that a step further, have you noticed that the urbanites are usually the ones on the environmental-protection bandwagon or the consumer-protection bandwagon (read: you can't have a trike ATV). The urbanites are the ones saying that we can't drill in Alaska. I'll bet that 99.99% of them have never been to Alaska and have no clue as to how enormous the place is. "Yeah, we're going to retire all that great farm land so we can build another cloned shopping mall with the same cookie-cutter stores." "But where will your endive and cilantro salad come from?" "Don't bother me with facts, dammit!"
Three words: GET OVER YOURSELF!!! I've developed visual effects software that's been used in dozens of movies. Where the hell are MY residual checks?!? Oh, and never mind the fact that I didn't get paid $100,000 for the software either. Oh, and never mind the fact that the damn "artists" whine and complain that there are no presets or that it doesn't get fancy Academy-award Winning features every two weeks for free.
Duh. IT is a sedentary job. And most people who go into it do so in their 20s where the greatest physiological changes happen and are likely to stick. And the display companies didn't do us any favors by switch from nice heavy leaded glass CRT's to lightweight LCD's.
Jesus H, people! Why not hand our next potential technological edge in the global marketplace over to the G*dd*mn trial lawyers before it gets out of the laboratory. AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Hell, if I had to do it over again and could put up with the pre-med bullsh*t, I'd go into Radiology. Those guys get BIG bucks. The sad reality is that we in the US seem to be churning out more Ship B folks. You know, like lawyers. What's even more disgusting is the fact that we here in the US place professional athletes and so-called musical artists far above scientists and engineers. And this has been going on since the early 70s. I can remember being made fun of in fourth grade for getting all excited on the rare days when we'd do a science class.
I can think of one thing that causes global warming, you sons of bitches, and THAT'S YOU GUYS FLAPPING YOUR PIE HOLES AND EXHALING!!! Do us all a favor and kill yourselves in the name of reducing greenhouse gases which is clearly what you are full of.
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These guys don't know sh*t from shinola.
Apple without Steve Jobs is like the Korean War without General Douglas MacArthur. You DO NOT leave the business of war in the hands of dumbass politicians. That bozo from Pepsi was a dumbass politician.
The judge here should be applauded. While he understood where Tiffany was coming from, he correctly chose NOT to legislate from the bench by siding with them.
This can and should be applied to affairs of the heart. Analyzing a social situation kills it.
Amazon should set up a network of distribution centers as subsidiary companies perhaps in every state but no order placed in a given state shall be shipped from the center in the same state. Ship something out of state, no tax. Problem solved.
Better yet, tell the bastards in Congress to get their heads out of their big cellulite-ridden collective ass and quit taxing the economy into oblivion. Furthermore, how about a law that states that fuel taxes go ONLY into an account administered by the Dept of Transportation. Maybe that way we'll have bridges that don't fail. Oh, and while we're at it, we need to put all Social Security taxes BACK into ONLY the Social Security account instead of the general fund (you can thank the Dems back in the 60s for pulling that sh*t). "We don't know why Social Security will be bankrupt." That's because you spend the money on other crap, morons!
Is a clause that says "I will not cloud my research with Politically Correct bullsh*t" and one that says "I will not allow science to become some perverted religion e.g. Global Warming...oh wait, it's now Global Climate Change...yeah that's good...it covers everything..." So basically you should be able to question some study's methods or conclusions without fear of being subjected to a professional inquisition because it was contrary to popular opinion.
Actually, I'm a member of the Order of the Engineer which is a simple reminder to build stuff right instead of blindly extending bridges so they could be the longest span because some politician thought it would be cool.
Entry-level IT jobs usually mean a whole lot of grunt-work, answering to morons who are living proof of the Peter Principle, and having to listen to users who don't know their ass from their elbow coupled with no desire to learn the difference lest they be held accountable for it.
It's Vulcan! Or perhaps that's where little green men com from.
Unfortunately, I have a LOT of experience with this subject. Here are a few observations:
1) The "bad boy" isn't a leader because he's bad. He has acquired leadership because most people are morons and mistake CHARISMA for intelligence, wisdom, and ability. Charismatic people have the ability to convince others that what they say or do is right. Usually, they are full of sh*t.
2) Nice guys aren't exciting. The bad boys are always the life of the party because they are doing things that would normally be considered inappropriate in a civilized world.
3) Bad boys take a lot of unnecessary risks thus making them appear rebellious and therefore exciting.
4) Bad boys never get cut down to size or have their ass handed to them in verbal or physical combat. This cements the notion that they are invincible. The earlier this starts, the harder the cement. And by the time they hit their teens, they are completely unaware of the consequences of their behavior. Nobody has come down on them like a ton of bricks when they give the nerd a wedgie. Basically, they are completely self-centered a**holes.
5) Women get all hot for the bad boy because THE WOMEN WANT A CHALLENGE. That being the challenge of taming him. This usually has disastrous results because of #1 and #4. Bad boys will never change because their sense of right and wrong is warped and don't believe they should change.
6) As a corollary to #4, women who go for the bad boy also have a warped sense of right and wrong so they can't be changed by a nice guy either. They get this warped sense of right and wrong from television and Madison Avenue. I offer into evidence the proliferation of TV shows and commercials that portray the husband/boyfriend as an inept moron and the wife/girlfriend as a total rocket-scientist. Women in the last 30 years or so have come to believe this. Men also seem to believe it in that they have become chickified.
If people were logical, women would seek out the intelligent capable males as they would be able to think and do their way out of life's problems as opposed to the "THAG SMASH!" way of doing it.
But of course, when have women EVER behaved logically.
Given the recent US Supreme Court ruling. Non-US Citizens are granted all the rights afforded by the American judicial system but genuine US citizens aren't. WTF happened to not sh*tting on your own team? Jeez!
Again, I'm not speaking in absolutes. What I am saying is that just as someone living in Iceland hasn't the slightest clue about the best way to farm macadamia nuts, people who rarely venture into the hinterlands need to be aware of the fact that they aren't as well equipped to determine their fate. Should some bean-counter sitting in a corner office buy a flat screwdriver because it's cheaper when the mechanic down on the factory floor is the person who knows he needs a Philips? Sure, open space is a good thing. Better is Ag Pres as exists in Pennsylvania. But in my experience it's the people who have lived there for many years who push for it if for no other reason than to keep the thousand-houses per acre developers at bay. But back to my original point which is that the voting results by county is much more telling than the results by state. Here's a link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm There are exceptions of course but a large percentage of the counties that voted Democrat are clustered around major metropolitan areas.
Actually it's YOU who is drawing the black&white conclusion. You read phrases such as "tend to be" and convert that to "are". Of course I have a point of view. Everyone does. Clearly you have one but choose not to waste your breath backing it up with facts and observations. Nevertheless, my point is that if you look at the way individual counties vote you can clearly see that the majority of counties that voted Democrat are in major metropolitan areas. The definition is NOT demarcated by the geographic city limits but rather the extent to which the city has an influence over the people living near it. That influence has evolved over the last fifty years or so. Where I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s was considered by most people to be the Styx and quite frankly it was. It was certainly to all of my city-dweller friends (I went to a private high-school in the city). To them, the people living where I did were hick hayseeds totally ignorant of the so-called sophisticated nature of the city and in some ways they are. By the same token, there are a lot of city-slickers who venture into the country thinking that their street smarts are sufficient to operate in the country. It's these boneheads that I and my fellow Search & Rescue volunteers are hauling out of the wilderness because they thought a half-liter of water was enough for a two-day hike. Over the years, more and more urbanites moved to "the country" ostensibly for a "better life" but in reality what they wanted was to remake the country in their own image. Ask anyone who has lived in a small town at least two hours drive from a major city for twenty years and you'll find them lamenting all of the "change" that urban sprawl brought. That's understandable but when the city folk come to what was once "the country" they scratch their heads and ask what happened.
I disagree. Ruralites tend to be much more self-sufficient. They fix their own cars instead of taking them to the dealer who then takes them to the cleaners. Poverty is a relative term. For urbanites, not being able to afford Starbucks every day or the 50" flat-screen TV or outrageously over-priced professional sports tickets is poverty. Ruralites tend not to have such appetites. Speaking as someone who has lived half my life in both worlds, I can see the difference.
The voting results maps by COUNTY of past elections. The pattern that clearly becomes visible is that the division in the US isn't so much right versus left or conservative versus liberal but RURAL-dweller versus URBAN-dweller. Taking that a step further, have you noticed that the urbanites are usually the ones on the environmental-protection bandwagon or the consumer-protection bandwagon (read: you can't have a trike ATV). The urbanites are the ones saying that we can't drill in Alaska. I'll bet that 99.99% of them have never been to Alaska and have no clue as to how enormous the place is. "Yeah, we're going to retire all that great farm land so we can build another cloned shopping mall with the same cookie-cutter stores." "But where will your endive and cilantro salad come from?" "Don't bother me with facts, dammit!"
Now maybe we can stop torturing ourselves with Alltel's lame-ass "Wizard" commercials. They're sucking my will to live! Oh the humanity!
And here I thought this article was going to be about the Connection Machine which is one of the coolest looking computers ever built.
Oh man, that's better than trading carbon credits here on Earth! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm a happy Viser.
Three words: GET OVER YOURSELF!!! I've developed visual effects software that's been used in dozens of movies. Where the hell are MY residual checks?!? Oh, and never mind the fact that I didn't get paid $100,000 for the software either. Oh, and never mind the fact that the damn "artists" whine and complain that there are no presets or that it doesn't get fancy Academy-award Winning features every two weeks for free.
Is this setup placed outdoors in 120 degree desert heat. Any takers?
Duh. IT is a sedentary job. And most people who go into it do so in their 20s where the greatest physiological changes happen and are likely to stick. And the display companies didn't do us any favors by switch from nice heavy leaded glass CRT's to lightweight LCD's.
Jesus H, people! Why not hand our next potential technological edge in the global marketplace over to the G*dd*mn trial lawyers before it gets out of the laboratory. AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
What if you made a hat covered with infrared LEDs all blinking furiously?
Hell, if I had to do it over again and could put up with the pre-med bullsh*t, I'd go into Radiology. Those guys get BIG bucks. The sad reality is that we in the US seem to be churning out more Ship B folks. You know, like lawyers. What's even more disgusting is the fact that we here in the US place professional athletes and so-called musical artists far above scientists and engineers. And this has been going on since the early 70s. I can remember being made fun of in fourth grade for getting all excited on the rare days when we'd do a science class.
I can think of one thing that causes global warming, you sons of bitches, and THAT'S YOU GUYS FLAPPING YOUR PIE HOLES AND EXHALING!!! Do us all a favor and kill yourselves in the name of reducing greenhouse gases which is clearly what you are full of.
This would explain why Nigerian scammers are still lurking about.