Sorry, I really don't want to talk or even interact with anyone not accountable for their actions. (And yes, my account name has a real name behind it so I am accountable, too.) Generally, it's no big deal. However, it's a problem just often enough that I want to be able to report "jerkish" behavior when necessary. And I want someone to do something about it. (I am not allowed to shoot these people.) Sites that do not respond these reports lose my business. Just my 2 cents. Literally.
^This. I am a geek. My wife is a geek. We make ridiculously good money being geeks. Our college age kids, in spite of our joy of playing with pcs, programming, etc., never, ever wanted to study programming, or even any other science. My kids are English and PoliSci majors. I have no idea why. To each his own, I guess. They are lucky, I suppose, to have that choice and the brains to take advantage of the opportunity.
Oh, well.
Which is pretty much one of the sub-plots of Larry Niven's "Ringworld". Teela Brown is the luckiest person on earth (or something like that) "She is the result of a secret Puppeteer experiment in selective breeding for luck among humans, which generally helps her and her descendants. The Puppeteers reckon her luck will increase the probability of a successful mission, however it soon turns out that Teela's personal luck and the luck of the expedition seldom go hand in hand." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld) Great book. Enjoy!
Actually, the "bridge to nowhere" is now a fully functioning bridge. If I remember correctly (and that is subject to, um, my forgetfulness), that bridge was across Highway 435 in northwest Kansas City, Mo, between Claycomo, MO and Liberty, MO. A nice little road passes across the KMCO "loop", as, btw, it was always planned to do. The bridge just got built first as they were building the loop. So, un-surprisingly, that was a publicity stunt. Everyone in the Mid-west USA knew that. (Well, I did. lol)
And has been doing large contracts like that for quite some time. Military, especially. Then, again, the Fed. Govt. is moving away from hiring contractors and is looking to hire permanent employees these days.
Well, that and how many other nurses and doctors, a *clean* operating theater, a first-rate hospital, an amazing supply system and so on. Not quite a "robotic operation", quite yet. But, still, grats!
Yet, they are not paying a penny for their access, right? (Or rather, the poor schmucks whose pcs they have pwned are the ones paying.) Wild, wild, and stolen web, I believe.
That would explain a lot. It could be that background gossipy stuff that lurks in every workplace, causing everything to lag behind, without any real apparent reason.
Having been stationed on a USAF missle base (mumble) years ago, and having toured such a missle site, I remember it being just as weird to me that these guys in the missle crews had to spend days or weeks in the middle of nowhere at these missle sites. There was a central place for a few crews to eat and sleep between shifts. I always wondered what it would have felt like to be sitting there eating and realize all the missiles were lifting into space. Thankfully that never happened.
Slightly off-topic, but I am sure that W7 and IE Browsers are "tightly woven" with the Sharepoint portal. You can hardly use the portal without the IE Browsers and Office200x. I never hear much ado about the interaction of all that stuff. Not many Firefox add-ons there, are there? This worries me a bit more than anything FFS is going on about.
Sorry. "Expectation of anonymity"? Where did that come from? I don't think anyone should ever expect anonymity. In fact, I am becoming more in favor of making everyone use their real name, all the time, to lessen the ridiculous-ness, the hateful content, the juvenile, spiteful posts, that we regularly see on forums. In RL, there is no anonymity. Every action has a reaction. Maybe more people need to learn that.
The idea of meditation is to watch the mind. What, if any, difference is there from a mind that is upset from being on a really high ladder (fear of heights) and a mind that is upset from watching the Star Trek scene where Kirk and Sulu fight Romulans on a 20-foot round platform that is about 5 miles up in the sky? I am so afraid of heights that I could not watch that scene. Could not actually open my eyes. Degree of FEAR would obviously be wildly different if it were actually me on that platform. (I probably would've just fainted dead away.) Still, just typing this makes my hair stand on end. So, my point is that this mental exercise is still valid as long as I am aware enough to benefit from the experience. And that is what meditation is alll about. Becoming more aware. Your mileage may vary, but I think the goal (for us Buddhists, anyway) is generally similar. If you are "offended" by such a thing as this phone, or "entranced" by it, or even not caring about this story in the least, and are not aware of your mind and its interaction (or lack of), then you are just running on automatic. (Takes one to know one, I guess.) Happy Wednesday!
I was with you right up to the "...so does it really matter?" There is the crux of the matter, I guess. Does it matter? I am thinking "yes", obviously, not only for what may or may not happen to me after I die (a debatable subject, obviously, to some) but for what my life's effects are to other folks's lives. Positive, hopefully, for a similar reason, actually.
Btw, in Southeast Asia in some Buddhist temples, some monks keep pictures of de-composing dead people to help them not get too attached (or to be become less attached, at least) to this life. Web sites, too. Interesting stuff. I could not find a link to any of the pictures, but, a bit ironically, instead discovered a paper on the medieval Japanese art form of painting the "9 stages" of decomposing bodies. (New to me, too. I think I'll go read it now. Later.)
So, is there actually a working, reliable, automatic fingerprint-reading system that can be used as legal evidence? I am not aware of one, but I am not aware of a whole lot of stuff. (like where's my coffee?)
Yep. Better get permission slips from the parents, first. Turning their kids into geekss without their permission might not make them happy in the least. (My teen-age son was simply stunned the first time he heard me refer to myself as a geek.)
Have fun. Really. If you are having fun, they probably are, too.
My wife's mother had a major stroke about 5 years ago. (She was around 60 at the time.) She was actually given last rites (a Catholic ritual for the about-to-be-dead) after a life-flight between hospitals. Upshot of it all is that she is 98% recovered, mentally and physically. The only neurological area of her brain that seems to have been permanently affect is her sense of smell. Completely gone. Cannot sense, by smell, if meat is bad, only that it is hot, cold, or in-between. She used to enjoy cooking. Now she has had to give up that hobby. Surprisingly, she has gained a tremendous amount of weight.
Life is odd,
Cragen
Not necessarily. I just moved from Virginia to Stuttgart, Germany, where there are no screens (window or door) and air-conditioning is almost unheard of. Summers are short. (The old 2 Seasons joke - Winter and July - applies here.) They do have bugs here, but not, thankfully, like they do back home. Windows open most of the time here, except when it is frigid cold. Interesting how different cultures work.
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Sorry, I really don't want to talk or even interact with anyone not accountable for their actions. (And yes, my account name has a real name behind it so I am accountable, too.) Generally, it's no big deal. However, it's a problem just often enough that I want to be able to report "jerkish" behavior when necessary. And I want someone to do something about it. (I am not allowed to shoot these people.) Sites that do not respond these reports lose my business. Just my 2 cents. Literally.
Don't drive in Europe if you do not want to be tracked by your license plate.
Which leaves out, by my estimate, 99.99% of all the users I have ever supported.
Sweet. I have never heard one. Very nice. I really like that. (Can't mod you up so am belaboring the point.)
^This. I am a geek. My wife is a geek. We make ridiculously good money being geeks. Our college age kids, in spite of our joy of playing with pcs, programming, etc., never, ever wanted to study programming, or even any other science. My kids are English and PoliSci majors. I have no idea why. To each his own, I guess. They are lucky, I suppose, to have that choice and the brains to take advantage of the opportunity. Oh, well.
Which is pretty much one of the sub-plots of Larry Niven's "Ringworld". Teela Brown is the luckiest person on earth (or something like that) "She is the result of a secret Puppeteer experiment in selective breeding for luck among humans, which generally helps her and her descendants. The Puppeteers reckon her luck will increase the probability of a successful mission, however it soon turns out that Teela's personal luck and the luck of the expedition seldom go hand in hand." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld) Great book. Enjoy!
Actually, the "bridge to nowhere" is now a fully functioning bridge. If I remember correctly (and that is subject to, um, my forgetfulness), that bridge was across Highway 435 in northwest Kansas City, Mo, between Claycomo, MO and Liberty, MO. A nice little road passes across the KMCO "loop", as, btw, it was always planned to do. The bridge just got built first as they were building the loop. So, un-surprisingly, that was a publicity stunt. Everyone in the Mid-west USA knew that. (Well, I did. lol)
And has been doing large contracts like that for quite some time. Military, especially. Then, again, the Fed. Govt. is moving away from hiring contractors and is looking to hire permanent employees these days.
Lovely little fish heads! The only place that song EVER got played. Perhaps "They're coming to take him away. ha-ha. ho-ho. hee-hee..."
Well, that and how many other nurses and doctors, a *clean* operating theater, a first-rate hospital, an amazing supply system and so on. Not quite a "robotic operation", quite yet. But, still, grats!
Yet, they are not paying a penny for their access, right? (Or rather, the poor schmucks whose pcs they have pwned are the ones paying.) Wild, wild, and stolen web, I believe.
Indeed, much of the Department of Defense, a fairly large employer in some sectors, just moved to IE7 last year.
That would explain a lot. It could be that background gossipy stuff that lurks in every workplace, causing everything to lag behind, without any real apparent reason.
Having been stationed on a USAF missle base (mumble) years ago, and having toured such a missle site, I remember it being just as weird to me that these guys in the missle crews had to spend days or weeks in the middle of nowhere at these missle sites. There was a central place for a few crews to eat and sleep between shifts. I always wondered what it would have felt like to be sitting there eating and realize all the missiles were lifting into space. Thankfully that never happened.
Yup, the Mensa test was depressing. I passed, of course.
Slightly off-topic, but I am sure that W7 and IE Browsers are "tightly woven" with the Sharepoint portal. You can hardly use the portal without the IE Browsers and Office200x. I never hear much ado about the interaction of all that stuff. Not many Firefox add-ons there, are there? This worries me a bit more than anything FFS is going on about.
Ha! Good point. I will be posting it, um, soon. Bah-ha-ha!
Sorry. "Expectation of anonymity"? Where did that come from? I don't think anyone should ever expect anonymity. In fact, I am becoming more in favor of making everyone use their real name, all the time, to lessen the ridiculous-ness, the hateful content, the juvenile, spiteful posts, that we regularly see on forums. In RL, there is no anonymity. Every action has a reaction. Maybe more people need to learn that.
The idea of meditation is to watch the mind. What, if any, difference is there from a mind that is upset from being on a really high ladder (fear of heights) and a mind that is upset from watching the Star Trek scene where Kirk and Sulu fight Romulans on a 20-foot round platform that is about 5 miles up in the sky? I am so afraid of heights that I could not watch that scene. Could not actually open my eyes. Degree of FEAR would obviously be wildly different if it were actually me on that platform. (I probably would've just fainted dead away.) Still, just typing this makes my hair stand on end. So, my point is that this mental exercise is still valid as long as I am aware enough to benefit from the experience. And that is what meditation is alll about. Becoming more aware. Your mileage may vary, but I think the goal (for us Buddhists, anyway) is generally similar. If you are "offended" by such a thing as this phone, or "entranced" by it, or even not caring about this story in the least, and are not aware of your mind and its interaction (or lack of), then you are just running on automatic. (Takes one to know one, I guess.) Happy Wednesday!
Sorry, meant to add the link to the post above. Medieval Japanese Art of Decomposing Bodies Paintings. A morbid read, indeed.
I was with you right up to the "...so does it really matter?" There is the crux of the matter, I guess. Does it matter? I am thinking "yes", obviously, not only for what may or may not happen to me after I die (a debatable subject, obviously, to some) but for what my life's effects are to other folks's lives. Positive, hopefully, for a similar reason, actually. Btw, in Southeast Asia in some Buddhist temples, some monks keep pictures of de-composing dead people to help them not get too attached (or to be become less attached, at least) to this life. Web sites, too. Interesting stuff. I could not find a link to any of the pictures, but, a bit ironically, instead discovered a paper on the medieval Japanese art form of painting the "9 stages" of decomposing bodies. (New to me, too. I think I'll go read it now. Later.)
Cragen
Have fun. Really. If you are having fun, they probably are, too.
My wife's mother had a major stroke about 5 years ago. (She was around 60 at the time.) She was actually given last rites (a Catholic ritual for the about-to-be-dead) after a life-flight between hospitals. Upshot of it all is that she is 98% recovered, mentally and physically. The only neurological area of her brain that seems to have been permanently affect is her sense of smell. Completely gone. Cannot sense, by smell, if meat is bad, only that it is hot, cold, or in-between. She used to enjoy cooking. Now she has had to give up that hobby. Surprisingly, she has gained a tremendous amount of weight. Life is odd, Cragen
Not necessarily. I just moved from Virginia to Stuttgart, Germany, where there are no screens (window or door) and air-conditioning is almost unheard of. Summers are short. (The old 2 Seasons joke - Winter and July - applies here.) They do have bugs here, but not, thankfully, like they do back home. Windows open most of the time here, except when it is frigid cold. Interesting how different cultures work.