I have Microsoft disabled (I run Gentoo Linux), and my Firefox failed miserably to disable the.Net plug-in. I spent a day clicking on the menus and recompiling updates, and I still don't get the pop-up:(
On the bright side, my system now runs 1.27% faster compared to yesterday. It feels like 10% faster, really.
First, for your next headhunter, tell them clearly you want to see and approve everything about you they send out to customers. I always do that on the first meeting, and have never had issues like yours. It was, of course, a decade ago that I last spoke to a head hunter, but I doubt things have changed.
Second, let me give you an example. My wife was working with a head hunting agency (a stupider kind than yours), which began negotiating the fees with the hiring company after the interview and the offer. Naturally, things fell apart, my wife was pissed, the other company was pissed too, and it looked bad.
I had the wife call the HH, and basically tell them - you betrayed my trust, and that is what you actually sell, so get your act in order, give me a written apology that mentions you give up all claims on any subsequent interviews I have with whatever, and call that company and inform them you no longer represent me, and are sorry negotiations have collapsed because of you. It was a long hour and a half with the HH boss on the phone, but she got what she wanted from the HH, called the people from the company that was offering the job directly after the HH call, and was able to re-start the interview process and get the job.
The HH is peddling trust. If they screw up on that by mistake, it is in their interest to make that clear to both parties, and try to recover the trust they lost. If they are a "good" company, they will understand both you firing them, and why they should work to restore the truth in this case, which is, admit they lied on your behalf. If you present your request to the HH boss calmly and reasonably, he/she will probably help you out -- assuming what you want is restarting the process with the original company from a clean slate.
If the HH are "bad", that is, they lie as a matter of policy, and refuse to help you out as I suggest above, then you've been screwed, and you share part of the blame - for not being rigorous enough when selecting a head hunter. Pay more attention next time, and see the first paragraph.
The president is represented in this dispute by the US International Trade Commission, which goal is to protect US companies from (unfair, they say) foreign competition.
Stopping import is very unlikely IMHO, but we'll see - with the huge investment of your tax money into electric sports cars I wouldn't be much surprised by anything.
Not really, the aliens removed all their shit in the late 50s. Besides, theirs was on the dark side of the moon, they used periscopes protruding across the terminator to watch us.
The current project's goal is more modest -- is to blow up the alleged "moon landing" sites. That is how they will explain to us why there are no astronaut footprints. They will look at you and seriously say "Our subsequent moon research projects covered up the tracks".
This will not work in today's USA because of the one-party (some say two-party) rule.
No. It will work in any country that elects its officials and has an active, informed and participating civil society. Which begins not on elections day, but at home. People who complain about a two-party system, impossibility of change, etc. etc. are just uninformed or lazy.
It is also hard to get enough support for small issues. I
No, it isn't. If it were hard, there would be no lobbying industry in Washington. Most lobbyists are working on small to smaller to microscopic issues. That is how they tend to get an article in an unrelated law that benefits a single company.
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Yes, there is. Too bad most of the people in countries where it is available think little of it. It is called voting, and it works - although not very often. The idea is, basically, that you vote your friends into your parliament and they pass laws that forbid hi-tech crowd control.
A serious coordination effort is needed for that to happen, which would have been facilitated by some electronic medium that allows easy and cheap communication over large distances, by wire or otherwise. Maybe someone can build a prototype of such a medium as well?
1. Actually, where I live (in Japan), the weather predictions are very accurate. My wife says it is so because when a wrong prediction is given, the people phone the weather bureau and bitch about it. Since I see correct local predictions most of the time, I tend to believe the global ones as well, especially when the same nice folks make them.
2. I don't really give a fuck about Al Gore's opinion (or about yours), but I own homes in three different continents, and over my lifetime the temperatures in all three places have risen (in 2 places dramatically), with the highest temperatures being detected in the past decade. That correlates well with the theory of the trustworthy Japanese meteorologists, not the random slashdotter ramblings.
3. The most abundant green house is, indeed, water vapor. That is part of the problem, as temperatures rise not only because of the small effect of the other gases, which you produce when you drive, cook or fart, but also because higher temperatures create even more water vapor, further screwing up the situation.
It is really simple. It all depends on how much kick are you getting out of the environment as we know it.
It is true that so far whenever cataclysms occured and species died out there was a subsequent re-population with new flora and fauna. It is also true that whenever such events have occurred, nearly all of the prevalent species have disappeared, and the subsequent re-population has taken millions of years to happen.
So, if you really, really don't care about your species disappearing in famine and diseases and other niceties those bring then yeah, life will eventually adapt to the new equilibrium that will prevail, and there is little to worry about in the long run.
If you are one of the neo-conservatives who want to keep living as we like it (a.k.a. tree-huggers), without disruptions and without need to die out and re-adapt, then you understand there are things that better be done sooner than later.
Well, the KZ900 looks a lot more like a motorcycle than the contraption in TFA. So much so, that only very confused people (such as some Harley heads) will call a KZ900 anything other than a motorcycle, and then for a different reason.
The TFA vehicle, on the other hand, is as cool as they come, but trying to pass it off as a bike is stretching it a bit, IMHO.
As I said, go ahead with whatever story makes you feel good. I have no further interest in arguing with you.
Btw, nice strawman here: Perhaps you think that because we did not give warning, this proves something?. I suppose it feels good to argue with yourself and win;)
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FYI, it doesn't help at all !!!
I have Microsoft disabled (I run Gentoo Linux), and my Firefox failed miserably to disable the .Net plug-in. I spent a day clicking on the menus and recompiling updates, and I still don't get the pop-up :(
On the bright side, my system now runs 1.27% faster compared to yesterday. It feels like 10% faster, really.
You should have read the parent comment.
George?
First, for your next headhunter, tell them clearly you want to see and approve everything about you they send out to customers. I always do that on the first meeting, and have never had issues like yours. It was, of course, a decade ago that I last spoke to a head hunter, but I doubt things have changed.
Second, let me give you an example. My wife was working with a head hunting agency (a stupider kind than yours), which began negotiating the fees with the hiring company after the interview and the offer. Naturally, things fell apart, my wife was pissed, the other company was pissed too, and it looked bad.
I had the wife call the HH, and basically tell them - you betrayed my trust, and that is what you actually sell, so get your act in order, give me a written apology that mentions you give up all claims on any subsequent interviews I have with whatever, and call that company and inform them you no longer represent me, and are sorry negotiations have collapsed because of you. It was a long hour and a half with the HH boss on the phone, but she got what she wanted from the HH, called the people from the company that was offering the job directly after the HH call, and was able to re-start the interview process and get the job.
The HH is peddling trust. If they screw up on that by mistake, it is in their interest to make that clear to both parties, and try to recover the trust they lost. If they are a "good" company, they will understand both you firing them, and why they should work to restore the truth in this case, which is, admit they lied on your behalf. If you present your request to the HH boss calmly and reasonably, he/she will probably help you out -- assuming what you want is restarting the process with the original company from a clean slate.
If the HH are "bad", that is, they lie as a matter of policy, and refuse to help you out as I suggest above, then you've been screwed, and you share part of the blame - for not being rigorous enough when selecting a head hunter. Pay more attention next time, and see the first paragraph.
Either way, good luck
No, it will only show the "Autodestruct" button. You still have to kill all monsters and hit it manually (with a fist) to have the PC assplode.
The president is represented in this dispute by the US International Trade Commission, which goal is to protect US companies from (unfair, they say) foreign competition.
Stopping import is very unlikely IMHO, but we'll see - with the huge investment of your tax money into electric sports cars I wouldn't be much surprised by anything.
They ARE JUST A SOFTWARE COMPANY! They can't actually ruin your life. They really can't FORCE you to do anything.
They managed to force a lot of very large companies to do various things over the years, for which, MS was tried and convicted. Blind to reality much?
With Scitech Doctor windows move around normally, games play okay, both in windowed and in fullscreen mode.
Of course, I have only tried two or three - Larry, DukeNukem and LHX, if those mean something to you, but FWIW, worked fine.
I run it on Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz, the virtual machine is 500MB RAM and the default video RAM size that virtbox provides.
There are workarounds for this on the virtualbox site (see the faq). With them 98 works more or less okay.
How did you manage to submit half the posting after your RAM was hit by a cosmic ra
For that kind of cash, I'll even hook a one-time warp drive to it. Just be careful when you use it.
Not really, the aliens removed all their shit in the late 50s. Besides, theirs was on the dark side of the moon, they used periscopes protruding across the terminator to watch us.
The current project's goal is more modest -- is to blow up the alleged "moon landing" sites. That is how they will explain to us why there are no astronaut footprints. They will look at you and seriously say "Our subsequent moon research projects covered up the tracks".
This will not work in today's USA because of the one-party (some say two-party) rule.
No. It will work in any country that elects its officials and has an active, informed and participating civil society. Which begins not on elections day, but at home. People who complain about a two-party system, impossibility of change, etc. etc. are just uninformed or lazy.
It is also hard to get enough support for small issues. I
No, it isn't. If it were hard, there would be no lobbying industry in Washington. Most lobbyists are working on small to smaller to microscopic issues. That is how they tend to get an article in an unrelated law that benefits a single company.
Yes, there is. Too bad most of the people in countries where it is available think little of it. It is called voting, and it works - although not very often. The idea is, basically, that you vote your friends into your parliament and they pass laws that forbid hi-tech crowd control.
A serious coordination effort is needed for that to happen, which would have been facilitated by some electronic medium that allows easy and cheap communication over large distances, by wire or otherwise. Maybe someone can build a prototype of such a medium as well?
1. Actually, where I live (in Japan), the weather predictions are very accurate. My wife says it is so because when a wrong prediction is given, the people phone the weather bureau and bitch about it. Since I see correct local predictions most of the time, I tend to believe the global ones as well, especially when the same nice folks make them.
2. I don't really give a fuck about Al Gore's opinion (or about yours), but I own homes in three different continents, and over my lifetime the temperatures in all three places have risen (in 2 places dramatically), with the highest temperatures being detected in the past decade. That correlates well with the theory of the trustworthy Japanese meteorologists, not the random slashdotter ramblings.
3. The most abundant green house is, indeed, water vapor. That is part of the problem, as temperatures rise not only because of the small effect of the other gases, which you produce when you drive, cook or fart, but also because higher temperatures create even more water vapor, further screwing up the situation.
It is really simple. It all depends on how much kick are you getting out of the environment as we know it.
It is true that so far whenever cataclysms occured and species died out there was a subsequent re-population with new flora and fauna. It is also true that whenever such events have occurred, nearly all of the prevalent species have disappeared, and the subsequent re-population has taken millions of years to happen.
So, if you really, really don't care about your species disappearing in famine and diseases and other niceties those bring then yeah, life will eventually adapt to the new equilibrium that will prevail, and there is little to worry about in the long run.
If you are one of the neo-conservatives who want to keep living as we like it (a.k.a. tree-huggers), without disruptions and without need to die out and re-adapt, then you understand there are things that better be done sooner than later.
Well, the KZ900 looks a lot more like a motorcycle than the contraption in TFA. So much so, that only very confused people (such as some Harley heads) will call a KZ900 anything other than a motorcycle, and then for a different reason.
The TFA vehicle, on the other hand, is as cool as they come, but trying to pass it off as a bike is stretching it a bit, IMHO.
As a biker with a long graying beard, lemme point out that whatever that thing on the picture is, it damn sure ain't a motorcycle.
There's an event rapidly approaching
Do you mean the Doomsday, or the Rapture?
Sweet Shimmer Glitter Lube. In juicy apple, boysenberry, pink champagne or pina colada.
is finally having the last laugh? /dnrtfa
Infanticide? Which side would that be? I wasn't aware Herod the Great was still active politically.
Yes, yes, yes you're emphatically right. You win all the Internet arguments through sheer persistence. Enjoy your win, I have other things to do.
As I said, go ahead with whatever story makes you feel good. I have no further interest in arguing with you.
Btw, nice strawman here: Perhaps you think that because we did not give warning, this proves something?. I suppose it feels good to argue with yourself and win ;)
Whatever. When you disregard the published documents of your own military planners, it is beyond hopeless.