BoA is not a public utility.
When I ran a business I declined to deal with certain people because they were a huge pain in the ass. Can't BoA do the same????
EVERY tourist area has a "OMFG these idiots again" vibe among the locals.
I live on an island that has tourism. It is good for our economy, but I curse them like everyone else when stuck in a traffic jam caused by them using my neighborhood as a shortcut.
But they *ARE* that stupid!
Anything that starts with "we need to do X" to protect you from:
child molesters
drug dealers
terrorists
is just fine with most people.
We just made a rule where your fucking BALLS get grabbed by government agents and so far the sheeple are mostly OK with it!
Hmmmmm........how to stop..............what to do................
I know!
Free wireless connections = bullet in head and they aren't too hard to track down.
Problem solved.
I had a sat-phone on my boat that used a GEO satellite. The delay drove me NUTS!
When I would call someone, it was like "hello -- hello-- fucking crank call! Click"
I learned to start talking BEFORE they picked up "It's a sat phone with a delay don't hang up" over and over until they answered.
The real truth is the population that is outside of cell coverage AND can afford an expensive phone is tiny.
Kind of like the "Bell Curve" for cats LOL.
My cat is quite social. She'll bug the living shit out of me if she is low on food or water.
OTOH her language skills are one-way. She complains in "cat language" and we either feed her or she'll complain even more.
My dog is quite good at English. We have to spell things out because the words WALK, OUT, or LEASH will have have her barking her head off. If she won't come in for the night, I'll yell "bones" and she comes running and makes a beeline for the kitchen where the bones are. If she wants out, she'll bark and then when you look at her she points at the door with her nose. IOf she wants bones she points at the kitchen.
Also cats take forever and day to learn not to bite hard when playing and it seems to take dogs a few days or less.
Some places I go in the Bahamas that IS what happens. You get 120 volts, 90 volts, 0 volts, and sometimes way MORE than 120 and all your shit gets fried.
I work for the Fed. We have a lot of really hard workers, but we also have more slackers than a truly private company usually would tolerate. Now by private I mean lives and dies totally outside of the government realm. Now as for CONTRACTORS, the Fed is nonstop raped, looted, and pillaged by companies large and small that take advantage of the endless fed money flow in every way you could think of.
This is all bullshit. These guys have me in endless sales meetings. They want to sell us (the agency I work for) a shitload of expensive hardware and a shitload of expensive consultants.
Them: You will save (insert huge dollar amount here) in electricity!
Me; How much does the new very expensive server and RAID array use?
Them: We don't calculate server room power in the savings.
Me: I have work to do. Come back another day (fucking idiots)..........
In other news, the group I am part of has developed in-house solutions that save MILLIONS in man-hours to get our deployments done. The outside vendors HATE this and have been whispering in the ears of upper management about the "dangers of custom code" and now we have a big push to switch to "standard" tools that don't do what we need, cost a lot of money, and OF COURSE need the services of a ton of contractors and consultants to manage.
I work for the Fed. WHERE OH WHERE do I sign up for the "excessively generous government employee pensions"? I really really want in on this.
Just FYI, the CRS retirement system that you might think of as overly generous is GONE and has been for YEARS. No one hired now or in at least the last decade or two is part of it.
The internet as we know it could not exist if your rules applied.
No kind of interactive site could possibly have a staff verifying that everyone's name is real and that everything they publish is true in real time.
Slashdot itself could not exist.
If I could make a VR machine that let you have sex wih your favorite supermodel (or first heroin rush or whatever...) over and over while supressing all feelings of thirst or hunger, I bet people would be happy enough to stay plugged in until they died.
Crackheads more or less do this now:(
I'd fire House on his second day for sure.
The multi-millions in legal expenses and settlements he would cause in a given year would be too much for my budget.
WORD
Wife is pissed because I get to "goof off" in Seattle all week.
Arrive after dark - go to hotel - try and sleep.
Work 12-16 hours days. Fly home after dark.
I never seen SAW any of Seattle.
What kind of boat do you have?
It takes me 5-6 days in good weather to get to Bermuda in my boat. It is about 600-800 miles from any port on the East Coast. You must have a VERY fast boat.
It is enlightened self-interest.
When you are a teenager and get caught doing XXX, your goal is for the cop to yell at you for doing XXX and then tell you to get the hell out of here and don't let me catch you doing XXX again. Showing some respect helps. If you take the "bite me fat pig" approach, then formal charges and/or an ass-kicking are the likely results.
As an adult now and older than many of the police, a simple "can I help you officer" approach works well.
Remember - you are dealing with an armed individual that deals with dangerous assholes all day. Your goal is to convince him you are NOT one of them. You want to be seen as one of the "good guys" that pay taxes - and thus his salary - and thus deserving of good treatment.
There are ways to assert your rights without being a tool about it.
Try "No officer, I do not consent to you searching my car, as is my right" instead of "Fuck off stupid pig" like you see all the lowlifes do on Cops right before they get cuffed and hauled off to jail LOL.
I read of a cheetah that was interested in eating a farmer's livestock someplace in Africa. The animals were normally enclosed in a cheetah-proof fence, but 3 times a week they were taken out for some reason. The cheetah learned the schedule and only came around on the days the animals were out to try his luck and never on the other days. My dog gets irate if not walked between 5 and 6 pm. Animals can learn a schedule!
My gun is right now sitting around doing nothing.
I live on an island where almost everyone has at least one gun. Gun crime is almost unknown here. The only murder on the island I can recall was a nutty lady that drowned her own child. Bathtubs, so far at least, have not been banned.
Guns and knives are not the problem.
The problem is raising a generation of kids who think killing people is an acceptable activity.
Down the road there are two big cities with horrible murder rates. Virtually 100% of the murderers do not legally own the guns they use. So gun laws disarm law abidding citizens who wouldn't kill anyone anyway. The thugs couldn't give a flying f@ck about gun laws or any other laws.
Every time I - or anyone - make the same point about firearms all the UK/Euros go nuts about how GUNS are evil.
Knife = tool.
Gun = tool.
Operator = good/evil
My current dog is a deadly efficient hunter. She is a rescue dog so I don't know where she learned to hunt, but she can run down and kill a rabbit or squirrel in seconds. I was astounded to find out she would hunt cooperatively with my cats too! They all team up on mouse chasing. The dog usually comes back with the mouse though:)
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BoA is not a public utility. When I ran a business I declined to deal with certain people because they were a huge pain in the ass. Can't BoA do the same????
Could be: Could also be: Wikileaks: We have all your secrets and we're going to tell on you. FU! BOA: FU too!
EVERY tourist area has a "OMFG these idiots again" vibe among the locals. I live on an island that has tourism. It is good for our economy, but I curse them like everyone else when stuck in a traffic jam caused by them using my neighborhood as a shortcut.
But they *ARE* that stupid! Anything that starts with "we need to do X" to protect you from: child molesters drug dealers terrorists is just fine with most people. We just made a rule where your fucking BALLS get grabbed by government agents and so far the sheeple are mostly OK with it!
Hmmmmm........how to stop..............what to do................ I know! Free wireless connections = bullet in head and they aren't too hard to track down. Problem solved.
Just so you know: Iridium did exactly that! Their first incarnation went bust pretty quick.
I had a sat-phone on my boat that used a GEO satellite. The delay drove me NUTS! When I would call someone, it was like "hello -- hello-- fucking crank call! Click" I learned to start talking BEFORE they picked up "It's a sat phone with a delay don't hang up" over and over until they answered. The real truth is the population that is outside of cell coverage AND can afford an expensive phone is tiny.
The shuttle could do this right this second. The tickets would cost a bit more than current first class though......................
My dog will pin the cat's head between her teeth and then she is bugged by cats no more!
Kind of like the "Bell Curve" for cats LOL. My cat is quite social. She'll bug the living shit out of me if she is low on food or water. OTOH her language skills are one-way. She complains in "cat language" and we either feed her or she'll complain even more. My dog is quite good at English. We have to spell things out because the words WALK, OUT, or LEASH will have have her barking her head off. If she won't come in for the night, I'll yell "bones" and she comes running and makes a beeline for the kitchen where the bones are. If she wants out, she'll bark and then when you look at her she points at the door with her nose. IOf she wants bones she points at the kitchen. Also cats take forever and day to learn not to bite hard when playing and it seems to take dogs a few days or less.
Some places I go in the Bahamas that IS what happens. You get 120 volts, 90 volts, 0 volts, and sometimes way MORE than 120 and all your shit gets fried.
I work for the Fed. We have a lot of really hard workers, but we also have more slackers than a truly private company usually would tolerate. Now by private I mean lives and dies totally outside of the government realm. Now as for CONTRACTORS, the Fed is nonstop raped, looted, and pillaged by companies large and small that take advantage of the endless fed money flow in every way you could think of.
This is all bullshit. These guys have me in endless sales meetings. They want to sell us (the agency I work for) a shitload of expensive hardware and a shitload of expensive consultants. Them: You will save (insert huge dollar amount here) in electricity! Me; How much does the new very expensive server and RAID array use? Them: We don't calculate server room power in the savings. Me: I have work to do. Come back another day (fucking idiots).......... In other news, the group I am part of has developed in-house solutions that save MILLIONS in man-hours to get our deployments done. The outside vendors HATE this and have been whispering in the ears of upper management about the "dangers of custom code" and now we have a big push to switch to "standard" tools that don't do what we need, cost a lot of money, and OF COURSE need the services of a ton of contractors and consultants to manage.
I work for the Fed. WHERE OH WHERE do I sign up for the "excessively generous government employee pensions"? I really really want in on this. Just FYI, the CRS retirement system that you might think of as overly generous is GONE and has been for YEARS. No one hired now or in at least the last decade or two is part of it.
The internet as we know it could not exist if your rules applied. No kind of interactive site could possibly have a staff verifying that everyone's name is real and that everything they publish is true in real time. Slashdot itself could not exist.
I can't seem to find your name, phone number, email, IP, and address on your post. I'll ask a mod to delete it ASAP.
If I could make a VR machine that let you have sex wih your favorite supermodel (or first heroin rush or whatever...) over and over while supressing all feelings of thirst or hunger, I bet people would be happy enough to stay plugged in until they died. Crackheads more or less do this now :(
I'd fire House on his second day for sure. The multi-millions in legal expenses and settlements he would cause in a given year would be too much for my budget.
WORD Wife is pissed because I get to "goof off" in Seattle all week. Arrive after dark - go to hotel - try and sleep. Work 12-16 hours days. Fly home after dark. I never seen SAW any of Seattle.
What kind of boat do you have? It takes me 5-6 days in good weather to get to Bermuda in my boat. It is about 600-800 miles from any port on the East Coast. You must have a VERY fast boat.
It is enlightened self-interest. When you are a teenager and get caught doing XXX, your goal is for the cop to yell at you for doing XXX and then tell you to get the hell out of here and don't let me catch you doing XXX again. Showing some respect helps. If you take the "bite me fat pig" approach, then formal charges and/or an ass-kicking are the likely results. As an adult now and older than many of the police, a simple "can I help you officer" approach works well. Remember - you are dealing with an armed individual that deals with dangerous assholes all day. Your goal is to convince him you are NOT one of them. You want to be seen as one of the "good guys" that pay taxes - and thus his salary - and thus deserving of good treatment. There are ways to assert your rights without being a tool about it. Try "No officer, I do not consent to you searching my car, as is my right" instead of "Fuck off stupid pig" like you see all the lowlifes do on Cops right before they get cuffed and hauled off to jail LOL.
I read of a cheetah that was interested in eating a farmer's livestock someplace in Africa. The animals were normally enclosed in a cheetah-proof fence, but 3 times a week they were taken out for some reason. The cheetah learned the schedule and only came around on the days the animals were out to try his luck and never on the other days. My dog gets irate if not walked between 5 and 6 pm. Animals can learn a schedule!
My gun is right now sitting around doing nothing. I live on an island where almost everyone has at least one gun. Gun crime is almost unknown here. The only murder on the island I can recall was a nutty lady that drowned her own child. Bathtubs, so far at least, have not been banned. Guns and knives are not the problem. The problem is raising a generation of kids who think killing people is an acceptable activity. Down the road there are two big cities with horrible murder rates. Virtually 100% of the murderers do not legally own the guns they use. So gun laws disarm law abidding citizens who wouldn't kill anyone anyway. The thugs couldn't give a flying f@ck about gun laws or any other laws.
Every time I - or anyone - make the same point about firearms all the UK/Euros go nuts about how GUNS are evil. Knife = tool. Gun = tool. Operator = good/evil
My current dog is a deadly efficient hunter. She is a rescue dog so I don't know where she learned to hunt, but she can run down and kill a rabbit or squirrel in seconds. I was astounded to find out she would hunt cooperatively with my cats too! They all team up on mouse chasing. The dog usually comes back with the mouse though :)