Don't bother dude. This guy's knee is jerking so much he may as well be dancing the Charleston. No rational response is going to sidetrack him from his retardedness.
Oh, I agree with you that it is my job. And I should get paid for doing my job.
My point is that if I'm doing my job and not getting paid for it, then it's obviously not my job, because my job duties require that I get paid for completing them. Therefor, pay up, bitches!
at this point, we're just making the money up. nobody is calling us on it yet.
there's going to come a point where we're so ridiculously in debt that when it does get called, we're just going to laugh at how insane it is and walk away.
then china will be exceptionally mad at us and we'll laugh louder and longer and no one will ever loan us another cent again.
Oh, well, you can thank our government for signing treaties that say "we will do x, y, and z".
Well, they entered into a treaty, assumedly because it has some good parts to it too. So they have to make sure they comply with all parts of the treaty or they will no longer be able to reap the benefits of said treaty.
Thus they have to enforce someone else's law on US soil. So they have to make a law that mimic's the other person's law. Thus it becomes a law here.
It depends. If you kill the murderer or thief who is engaged in the act of attacking you or endangering your safety, so be it.
But if you hold him at gunpoint, put him on his knees, and then shoot him afterward, then you, my friend, are a murderer.
"LAREDO, Texas (AP) â" A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack â" a case that sparked outrage in this border city, where many thought the man should not have even been charged.
It took the jury of eight men and four women three hours Friday to find Jose Luis Gonzalez, 63, not guilty of murdering Francisco Anguiano, who was 13 when he and three friends broke into Gonzalez's trailer to rummage for snacks and soda one night in July 2007.
"I thank God and my attorney, the jury and the judge," Gonzalez said in Spanish after the verdict. "It was a case where it was my life or theirs, and it's a very good thing that they (the jurors) decided in my favor."
Gonzalez said he was sorry for Anguiano's death, but "it was a situation in which I feared for my life."
Texas law allows homeowners to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property. In June, a grand jury in Houston cleared a homeowner who shot and killed two burglars outside his neighbor's house despite the dispatcher's repeated request that he stay inside his own home.
"I feel vindicated for Mr. Gonzalez and his family and for all of the homeowners and all of the seniors in Laredo," said Isidro "Chilo" Alaniz, Gonzalez's attorney. "This case has huge implications across the board. We always, always believed in Mr. Gonzalez's right to defend his life and his property."
Alaniz is running uncontested for Webb County district attorney in November.
However, Assistant District Attorney Uriel Druker maintained during his closing arguments that the case was not about homeowners' right to protect their property, but about when a person is justified in using deadly force to do so.
"What really took place here was a case of vigilantism," he said after the verdict. "A 13-year-old boy was killed because a man was enraged."
Anguiano's aunt, who asked not to be named, said in Saturday's editions of the Laredo Morning Times that she was disappointed with the verdict.
"The state fought the case the way it should have," she said. "There was a sufficient amount of evidence, and I thought that some of the jurors would be a father or a mother, and perhaps they would think about this happening to them."
Gonzalez had endured several break-ins at his trailer when the four boys, ranging in age from 11 to 15, broke in. Gonzalez, who was in a nearby building at the time, went into the trailer and confronted the boys with a 16-gauge shotgun. Then he forced the boys, who were unarmed, to their knees, attorneys on both sides say.
The boys say they were begging for forgiveness when Gonzalez hit them with the barrel of the shotgun and kicked them repeatedly. Then, the medical examiner testified, Anguiano was shot in the back at close range. Two mashed Twinkies and some cookies were stuffed in the pockets of his shorts.
Another boy, Jesus Soto Jr., now 16, testified that Gonzalez ordered them at gunpoint to take Anguiano's body outside.
Gonzalez said he thought Anguiano was lunging at him when he fired the shotgun.
Many people in Laredo â" a town just across the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where drug violence runs rampant â" defended Gonzalez's actions. In online responses to articles published by the Morning Times, comments included statements such as "The kid got what he deserved" and calls to "stop the unfair prosecution.""
This, to me, is not self defense. Self defense is you being inside your home, with a robber breaking in and trying to break down a door to get at you and your family. In which case, let him have it with both barrels, as they say.
But to force people into a submission position, train a gun
If you do an excellent job, I'm happy to throw a few bucks your way. I do it at the barber's all the time. If I dig my haircut, he gets a few extra bucks. If he mails it in, I walk out with my change instead.
But the point is that is my choice. Not tipping him does not screw him, because it isn't expected anyway. When he gets it, he gets what we call a bonus, which is what tipping IS, no matter how many people try to twist it into something else ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gratuity ). It's extra, unexpected, pleasant, but most certainly NOT to be counted on.
If you allow the system to assume the tip will be given and lower your pay accordingly to avoid paying you at the appropriate rate, then that really is your problem.
If I'm getting paid to do my job, and I'm not getting paid to boot up and power down my machine, then booting up my machine and powering down my machine is not my job. Therefor, I do not have to do it.
Still though, if you think about it, finding a worthwhile woman can be a difficult task. Finding a worthwhile woman who is interested in you and isn't already taken can sometimes seem rather impossible.
I'm a big believer that being with someone doesn't necessarily make you happy.
However, I'm happier now than I would have been without someone (though still happy). 3600$ is chump change to pay for something like that. That's the cost of a pair of cruises, or a couple of gaming computers, and I'd rather have my wife than any number of idyllic sea adventures or 3 years worth of gaming rigs.
I'm not an expert by any stretch, but burnable CDs are all made by using a laser on a reactive film of dye. If the laser sits on a certain spot, it changes the dye a different color. Thus, it imitates the pits from a normally pressed CD/DVD.
The problem is that over time, this dye begins to break down. Your pits stop looking like pits, or non-pits start looking like pits, etc.
At this point, I'd feel better about magnetic retention (on a hard drive) than a burnt CD/DVD, though I'd take a pressed CD/DVD over either (especially if you aren't mucking around with it and scratching it up and whatnot).
I don't think there's a silver bullet for backup and archival at this point. You need to try a lot of different ways, depending on your circumstances. For my home use, I just make sure I have data on redundant servers with mirrored drives on the servers themselves. For the most part, I'm probably good. If my house gets hit by lightning and the surge protectors fail and the harddrives essplode, I'm screwed. If my house burns down, I'm screwed.
But, if a single drive fails, I have a backup on that particular system and I know I need to make sure the data between systems is (mostly) synchronized.
Of course, things I thought were absolutely essential to be backed up for all eternity 3 or 4 years ago no longer means anything at all to me, so I'm not sure this entire process is even worth it for me anymore. I'm sure the next time I go on a power-saving kick I'll end up powering one of the file servers down, or maybe just get a few large harddrives and shove them in my main PC and power them both down.
Right, so the only people who own the airwaves are those who can shout over all the others.
Might makes right, motherfuckers!
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I think you underestimate the fear of hanging chads, Chep.
Hanging chads are an abomination, and must be thwarted at every turn. And like the God-fearing, proud, patriotic Americans that we are, we turn right to the fanciest gizmos and gadgets we can to make our lives better.
Why buy a jump rope when you can buy a motorized running treadmill with incline, heart-rate sensors, mp3 player, and toaster oven? That's what a communist would do!
It would be rather annoying, but if that's the case, vote for yourself.
You don't HAVE to vote for anyone you don't want to. Or hell, vote for "/dev/null" on the ballot (though you may have to improvise with symbols if it's on a computer).
At the same time, I'd throw a fit with you. I vote every November, but if you don't want to cast a vote, that's your fucking right, goddammit.
Blink was freaky shit. I had planned for months afterward to get a crying angel with its hands over its eyes so I could strategically place it directly outside the bathroom door when my fiancee was in the shower.
I still think it's one of the greatest evil plans of all time (including any of the Master's diabolical plots), but I just don't have the energy to do it.
If I could pull it off though, it'd be worth the months of no sex. Everytime I thought of it until the day I died, I'd probably be stuck roffling.
(Unless she got me back, then I'd be locked in a closet with the lights on for all eternity)
The sad part is the Pants'n'at skit is not far from the truth. You should hear some of the dudes call in to DVE requesting songs sometime. I realize we Pittsburghers are known for saying "Dahn" instead of "down", but sometimes it seems like people are doing it just to be as outrageous as possible.
Coming from Western PA, I've NEVER heard accents quite like that before. I thought Pants'n'at was over the top, but it really, really is not. Some people actually sound like that.
(Me? I've just got "jagger bushes" instead of briar/thorn bushes, though a lot of my family still says "rouf" or "roum" instead of roof or room - crazy, eh?)
Question: Since you typed "favorite" with a u, I'm going to assume you're not from America and have probably seen Paterson Joseph acting before. Tell me: can he do humor well?
My favorite part about David was the way he pulled off humor. Christopher did well as well, in a goofy "my god he's got gigantic ears!" sort of way, but David was amazing at it. How would you judge Paterson?
I never said they didn't. But when somebody says "everybody" - you know, an explicitely inclusive statement - then I just had to point out that I did not. Which meant his statement is false.
If the GGP had said "damn near everybody" or "almost everybody", then I wouldn't have said a thing, but everybody means everybody.
Pink Floyd (a little later, but still), The Who, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and many many more. I also cannot stand the Rolling Stones (as the your sibling poster was able to point out and that I oddly agree with!) But I've been known to roll through youtube chaining a ton of hippy rock songs from time to time. I also tend to do this with punk (both old school and the stuff from the 90's, but the new stuff is a barrel full of crappy monkeys imo)
All the same, there's a ton of music I dig. It's just those few bands, I can't stand 98% of the time. There are, of course, a few exceptions (paint it black is a good song, for sure), but other than that... ick!
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That seems odd. I didn't know a single student in college who DIDN'T play games or download movies.
You must come from bizarro land where people go to university to pursue scholarly activities instead. Craziness.
Keep them so close they can't wield them effectively?
You're screwed if they a: have knives or b: can do the one inch punch ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9iPFMriz0 ).
Don't bother dude. This guy's knee is jerking so much he may as well be dancing the Charleston. No rational response is going to sidetrack him from his retardedness.
Oh, I agree with you that it is my job. And I should get paid for doing my job.
My point is that if I'm doing my job and not getting paid for it, then it's obviously not my job, because my job duties require that I get paid for completing them. Therefor, pay up, bitches!
at this point, we're just making the money up. nobody is calling us on it yet.
there's going to come a point where we're so ridiculously in debt that when it does get called, we're just going to laugh at how insane it is and walk away.
then china will be exceptionally mad at us and we'll laugh louder and longer and no one will ever loan us another cent again.
maybe it's for the best.
in other words, she was a real bitch
I won't argue that, but then the treaty is likely nullified as well.
So basically, there will be repercussions, but I'm not entirely convinced I couldn't live with them :)
Oh, well, you can thank our government for signing treaties that say "we will do x, y, and z".
Well, they entered into a treaty, assumedly because it has some good parts to it too. So they have to make sure they comply with all parts of the treaty or they will no longer be able to reap the benefits of said treaty.
Thus they have to enforce someone else's law on US soil. So they have to make a law that mimic's the other person's law. Thus it becomes a law here.
It depends. If you kill the murderer or thief who is engaged in the act of attacking you or endangering your safety, so be it.
But if you hold him at gunpoint, put him on his knees, and then shoot him afterward, then you, my friend, are a murderer.
This, to me, is not self defense. Self defense is you being inside your home, with a robber breaking in and trying to break down a door to get at you and your family. In which case, let him have it with both barrels, as they say.
But to force people into a submission position, train a gun
Unless we want to!
If you do an excellent job, I'm happy to throw a few bucks your way. I do it at the barber's all the time. If I dig my haircut, he gets a few extra bucks. If he mails it in, I walk out with my change instead.
But the point is that is my choice. Not tipping him does not screw him, because it isn't expected anyway. When he gets it, he gets what we call a bonus, which is what tipping IS, no matter how many people try to twist it into something else ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gratuity ). It's extra, unexpected, pleasant, but most certainly NOT to be counted on.
If you allow the system to assume the tip will be given and lower your pay accordingly to avoid paying you at the appropriate rate, then that really is your problem.
Even better:
If I'm getting paid to do my job, and I'm not getting paid to boot up and power down my machine, then booting up my machine and powering down my machine is not my job. Therefor, I do not have to do it.
I'm imagining he's talking about Pizza, but now I can't get Pie pie out of my head.
Thanks a lot, jerk. I'll be salivating all day long until I can get home and make a freakin' pie.
As if I didn't have other things planned for the night >.
Easy solution to that; become a fat young neighbor. After a while, she'll get so horrified she'll either a: die or b: stop looking.
Either way, it's good for everybody!
Daft Punk is about all I can come up with.
Watch the movie?
Mix sno-caps and popcorn together in one mouthful?
Hiss at my fiancee when she decides to try talking during the previews?
Pretty much the usual.
(Hey, you asked!)
Still though, if you think about it, finding a worthwhile woman can be a difficult task. Finding a worthwhile woman who is interested in you and isn't already taken can sometimes seem rather impossible.
I'm a big believer that being with someone doesn't necessarily make you happy.
However, I'm happier now than I would have been without someone (though still happy). 3600$ is chump change to pay for something like that. That's the cost of a pair of cruises, or a couple of gaming computers, and I'd rather have my wife than any number of idyllic sea adventures or 3 years worth of gaming rigs.
I'm not an expert by any stretch, but burnable CDs are all made by using a laser on a reactive film of dye. If the laser sits on a certain spot, it changes the dye a different color. Thus, it imitates the pits from a normally pressed CD/DVD.
The problem is that over time, this dye begins to break down. Your pits stop looking like pits, or non-pits start looking like pits, etc.
At this point, I'd feel better about magnetic retention (on a hard drive) than a burnt CD/DVD, though I'd take a pressed CD/DVD over either (especially if you aren't mucking around with it and scratching it up and whatnot).
I don't think there's a silver bullet for backup and archival at this point. You need to try a lot of different ways, depending on your circumstances. For my home use, I just make sure I have data on redundant servers with mirrored drives on the servers themselves. For the most part, I'm probably good. If my house gets hit by lightning and the surge protectors fail and the harddrives essplode, I'm screwed. If my house burns down, I'm screwed.
But, if a single drive fails, I have a backup on that particular system and I know I need to make sure the data between systems is (mostly) synchronized.
Of course, things I thought were absolutely essential to be backed up for all eternity 3 or 4 years ago no longer means anything at all to me, so I'm not sure this entire process is even worth it for me anymore. I'm sure the next time I go on a power-saving kick I'll end up powering one of the file servers down, or maybe just get a few large harddrives and shove them in my main PC and power them both down.
But I digress. At length.
Right, so the only people who own the airwaves are those who can shout over all the others.
Might makes right, motherfuckers!
I think you underestimate the fear of hanging chads, Chep.
Hanging chads are an abomination, and must be thwarted at every turn. And like the God-fearing, proud, patriotic Americans that we are, we turn right to the fanciest gizmos and gadgets we can to make our lives better.
Why buy a jump rope when you can buy a motorized running treadmill with incline, heart-rate sensors, mp3 player, and toaster oven? That's what a communist would do!
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It would be rather annoying, but if that's the case, vote for yourself.
You don't HAVE to vote for anyone you don't want to. Or hell, vote for "/dev/null" on the ballot (though you may have to improvise with symbols if it's on a computer).
At the same time, I'd throw a fit with you. I vote every November, but if you don't want to cast a vote, that's your fucking right, goddammit.
Blink was freaky shit. I had planned for months afterward to get a crying angel with its hands over its eyes so I could strategically place it directly outside the bathroom door when my fiancee was in the shower.
I still think it's one of the greatest evil plans of all time (including any of the Master's diabolical plots), but I just don't have the energy to do it.
If I could pull it off though, it'd be worth the months of no sex. Everytime I thought of it until the day I died, I'd probably be stuck roffling.
(Unless she got me back, then I'd be locked in a closet with the lights on for all eternity)
The sad part is the Pants'n'at skit is not far from the truth. You should hear some of the dudes call in to DVE requesting songs sometime. I realize we Pittsburghers are known for saying "Dahn" instead of "down", but sometimes it seems like people are doing it just to be as outrageous as possible.
Coming from Western PA, I've NEVER heard accents quite like that before. I thought Pants'n'at was over the top, but it really, really is not. Some people actually sound like that.
(Me? I've just got "jagger bushes" instead of briar/thorn bushes, though a lot of my family still says "rouf" or "roum" instead of roof or room - crazy, eh?)
Question: Since you typed "favorite" with a u, I'm going to assume you're not from America and have probably seen Paterson Joseph acting before. Tell me: can he do humor well?
My favorite part about David was the way he pulled off humor. Christopher did well as well, in a goofy "my god he's got gigantic ears!" sort of way, but David was amazing at it. How would you judge Paterson?
I never said they didn't. But when somebody says "everybody" - you know, an explicitely inclusive statement - then I just had to point out that I did not. Which meant his statement is false.
If the GGP had said "damn near everybody" or "almost everybody", then I wouldn't have said a thing, but everybody means everybody.
Pink Floyd (a little later, but still), The Who, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and many many more. I also cannot stand the Rolling Stones (as the your sibling poster was able to point out and that I oddly agree with!) But I've been known to roll through youtube chaining a ton of hippy rock songs from time to time. I also tend to do this with punk (both old school and the stuff from the 90's, but the new stuff is a barrel full of crappy monkeys imo)
All the same, there's a ton of music I dig. It's just those few bands, I can't stand 98% of the time. There are, of course, a few exceptions (paint it black is a good song, for sure), but other than that ... ick!