I just got back from a 5 day vacation. I spent about ALL DAY on a ton of emails. The best ( or worst) was people being directed to me for help who sent all kinds of nastygrams because I guess my Out-Of-Offce was not enough clue that I was NOT going to be answering them last week!
Yes - that is it. Great book. I loved how the Italian Communist Party almost took over in Italy with KGB help, but then pissed them off royal by deciding Italy would stay in NATO after they won LOL.
The Edward Snowden of the KGB revealed *there really were communists* infiltrating all over the place. I have a book he wrote - something like the Verona Files or ????
The WII-U has a well known issue where the consoles get harder and harder to turn on and then die. We had this happen. When sent back to Nintendo they said "no warranty - you modded the console". Well sure the kids downloaded some mod to make their own maps in a game or something, but that does not cause power issues. Well we'll suck it up and PAY for the repair, right? Nintendo says NO - they wil NOT repair it for any amount of money. To add to the insult, if they repair it or you buy another one, either way paid-for downloadable content is GONE. They are reaping what they have sewn.
I loved the LoTR movies. I could *not* watch the Hobbit movies. WTF happened to them? I also noticed that dwarves were no longer dwarves, but "normal height" humans shot at weird camera angles. I know there are no such thing as dragons or orcs, but dwarves are freaking real and you can hire some FFS!!!
Smallpox vaccine is over *200 year old* tech at this point. I think with over 2 centuries of data, we know it works and it is NOT made out of smallpox anyway.
Want to DIY it? Go find a cow with cowpox and rub it until you get cowpox. You are now immune to smallpox!
Some people do not need to work, but the majority of people in the USA kind of count on having a job to pay for their housing. Is this not the case in most of the 1st world?
A friend of mine got an Odyssey once. We were all wanting to drive it when we thought he meant the Hondy off road ATV Odyssey thing. Once we found out it was a van we threatened to take his man card away forever. They DO have a stigma even though the thing was GREAT for hauling people and stuff and we all used it between insults LOL.
OTOH I had a BMW station wagon that was just as fun to drive - if not more so - than the sedan version, good decent MPG, hauled ass, AND could haul a bunch'o crap. I loved that car:)
I take it you are unfamiliar with the history of coal miner unions? Corporations have used PLENTY of violence. You may want to look up The Battle of Blair Mountain. It got so out of hand the frigging ARMY had to go settle it down.
Sample of what went on:
Mining families lived under the terror of Baldwin-Felts detective agents who were professional strikebreakers under the hire of coal operators. During that dispute, agents drove a heavily armored train through a tent colony at night, opening fire on women, men, and children with a machine gun.[9] They would repeat this type of tactic during the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado the next year, with even more disastrous results.[10]
My dogs like their food, but they won't touch it until after dinner. They spend all day mooching for human food and only eat the dog food when they know they have got all the human food they are going to get for the day.
Sorry - gotta call BS. All the places I have worked had a bunch of male engineers bugging HR about why can't we ever hire any girls around here, this place is turning into Sausage-Fest Central.
One SciFi writer had AIs eventually learning to make themselves have a non-stop euphoria feedback system and they would just melt down in a puddle of happy goo. They had a finite - and short - lifespan between smart enough to work and electronic OD.
WHAT problem is very real?
In my experience a bunch of nerds might be rude to women, but about the last people to be a physical threat to them. A lot of the "brogrammer" fake macho bullshit is very much a defensive reaction to being treated as invisible or an obstacle when they actually encounter real live females. They got no game, so they talk trash.....
What you CAN do is make it MUCH harder to do day-to-day operations. If you know a phone call or email will result in a drone strike, you send letters by courier. You now have almost perfect security and also are running at 19th century speeds. Also note the really smart people are NEVER the ones blowing themselves up. If getting killed is the price for being Al Queda #2, then the best canditates will be looking to work at other firms.
The Stanley twins fascination for speed insured that the earliest models included racers and roadsters while later production centered on touring cars and their unique Mountain Wagon that was both a bus and a truck. A Stanley car set a land speed record of 127 MPH in 1906 and the following year one was clocked at nearly 150 MPH before it crashed near Daytona Beach.
IMHO these are not cars and the records are fairly meaningless. It is a low flying aircraft being precisely controlled to keep the landing gear down on the runway. Don't believe me - watch what happens if the design is wrong. it will definitely be flying and not in a good way.
There is nothing COVERT about it. Driving 65 in a 50 in Virginia in a long line of cars going 65. I am the only one with an out-of-state tag so of course the popo pull ME out of the line. Out of state drivers rarely come back to court, they just send in the cash.
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I just got back from a 5 day vacation. I spent about ALL DAY on a ton of emails. The best ( or worst) was people being directed to me for help who sent all kinds of nastygrams because I guess my Out-Of-Offce was not enough clue that I was NOT going to be answering them last week!
Yes - that is it. Great book. I loved how the Italian Communist Party almost took over in Italy with KGB help, but then pissed them off royal by deciding Italy would stay in NATO after they won LOL.
The Edward Snowden of the KGB revealed *there really were communists* infiltrating all over the place. I have a book he wrote - something like the Verona Files or ????
The WII-U has a well known issue where the consoles get harder and harder to turn on and then die. We had this happen. When sent back to Nintendo they said "no warranty - you modded the console". Well sure the kids downloaded some mod to make their own maps in a game or something, but that does not cause power issues. Well we'll suck it up and PAY for the repair, right? Nintendo says NO - they wil NOT repair it for any amount of money. To add to the insult, if they repair it or you buy another one, either way paid-for downloadable content is GONE. They are reaping what they have sewn.
I loved the LoTR movies. I could *not* watch the Hobbit movies. WTF happened to them? I also noticed that dwarves were no longer dwarves, but "normal height" humans shot at weird camera angles. I know there are no such thing as dragons or orcs, but dwarves are freaking real and you can hire some FFS!!!
The cowpox trick or any of the vaccines?
Smallpox vaccine is over *200 year old* tech at this point. I think with over 2 centuries of data, we know it works and it is NOT made out of smallpox anyway. Want to DIY it? Go find a cow with cowpox and rub it until you get cowpox. You are now immune to smallpox!
Some people do not need to work, but the majority of people in the USA kind of count on having a job to pay for their housing. Is this not the case in most of the 1st world?
Because all other countries have free food and housing????
A friend of mine got an Odyssey once. We were all wanting to drive it when we thought he meant the Hondy off road ATV Odyssey thing. Once we found out it was a van we threatened to take his man card away forever. They DO have a stigma even though the thing was GREAT for hauling people and stuff and we all used it between insults LOL. OTOH I had a BMW station wagon that was just as fun to drive - if not more so - than the sedan version, good decent MPG, hauled ass, AND could haul a bunch'o crap. I loved that car :)
If your attempt at getting a date is classified as assualt, you are doing it wrong to put it mildly.
The DAY before? I have been driving through a construction zone on the way to work that has up a YEAR and can go months between seeing any work done!
I take it you are unfamiliar with the history of coal miner unions? Corporations have used PLENTY of violence. You may want to look up The Battle of Blair Mountain. It got so out of hand the frigging ARMY had to go settle it down. Sample of what went on: Mining families lived under the terror of Baldwin-Felts detective agents who were professional strikebreakers under the hire of coal operators. During that dispute, agents drove a heavily armored train through a tent colony at night, opening fire on women, men, and children with a machine gun.[9] They would repeat this type of tactic during the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado the next year, with even more disastrous results.[10]
My dogs like their food, but they won't touch it until after dinner. They spend all day mooching for human food and only eat the dog food when they know they have got all the human food they are going to get for the day.
30 knots is about 34 MPH.
Read Band of Brothers. One of the "BoB" shot a man for disobeying an order and was not punished.
Sorry - gotta call BS. All the places I have worked had a bunch of male engineers bugging HR about why can't we ever hire any girls around here, this place is turning into Sausage-Fest Central.
One SciFi writer had AIs eventually learning to make themselves have a non-stop euphoria feedback system and they would just melt down in a puddle of happy goo. They had a finite - and short - lifespan between smart enough to work and electronic OD.
WHAT problem is very real? In my experience a bunch of nerds might be rude to women, but about the last people to be a physical threat to them. A lot of the "brogrammer" fake macho bullshit is very much a defensive reaction to being treated as invisible or an obstacle when they actually encounter real live females. They got no game, so they talk trash.....
What you CAN do is make it MUCH harder to do day-to-day operations. If you know a phone call or email will result in a drone strike, you send letters by courier. You now have almost perfect security and also are running at 19th century speeds. Also note the really smart people are NEVER the ones blowing themselves up. If getting killed is the price for being Al Queda #2, then the best canditates will be looking to work at other firms.
Holy Shit! So THAT is where it came from. This manual seems to be in constant use every place that I have ever worked. Thanks for nothing OSS.
The Stanley twins fascination for speed insured that the earliest models included racers and roadsters while later production centered on touring cars and their unique Mountain Wagon that was both a bus and a truck. A Stanley car set a land speed record of 127 MPH in 1906 and the following year one was clocked at nearly 150 MPH before it crashed near Daytona Beach.
The Stanley Steamer is not impressed with a steam car going 137 MPH. >>
IMHO these are not cars and the records are fairly meaningless. It is a low flying aircraft being precisely controlled to keep the landing gear down on the runway. Don't believe me - watch what happens if the design is wrong. it will definitely be flying and not in a good way.
There is nothing COVERT about it. Driving 65 in a 50 in Virginia in a long line of cars going 65. I am the only one with an out-of-state tag so of course the popo pull ME out of the line. Out of state drivers rarely come back to court, they just send in the cash.