Oh, no, there will still be plenty of fun available. I, for instance, am getting bored with using my sling and slingshot at stationary targets, a moving target would definitely be more entertaining and challenging. I've never thrown a bolo either, but that seems like the ideal weapon to use on one of these since cast nets don't have the range. I'll have to make one this weekend in case this moron comes to Seattle.
They always did, the US and British intel agencies have always been double-agent ridden. I doubt that much of what Snowden revealed was a surprise to Moscow.
You don't work in the tech industry I take it. I've yet to see a non-compete that offered three years of compensation (typical blackout period that I've seen).
Do you not realize what a non-compete says? If you work as (for example) as a network admin you cannot leave Company A and go work for ANY OTHER company anywhere as a network admin. If they were commonly enforced you would effectively need to change careers every time you changed jobs. Do you really not see a problem with that?
I started contracting as a server, network and AD admin with one company in 2000, changed to another in 2004, moved to a security company doing server and network administration in 2008, to a different one in 2013, and finally took my current position this year. I had to sign a non-compete as part of the hiring paperwork at all of the jobs before this one. If companies in Washington actually enforced these things I would have been stuck at the same employer for the last 14 years.
No, even Downing Street knew that the whole justification for the invasion was crap, if you remember they complained internally that "the intelligence is being fixed". Blatant falsification of data, deliberate sabotage of the WMD inspections (IIRC they were 97% complete when the US told inspectors they had to leave immediately because bombing was about to start), illegal propaganda operations targeting the US public, the whole run-up to the war was founded on lies that were exposed in the foreign press but knowingly redistributed by the US media. There may be "a consensus building", but joining that group will require deliberately forgetting everything that was actually going on at the time in favor of historical revisionism.
You mean treaties like the ABM Treaty? The chemical weapons and bio-weapons treaties? The Geneva Accords? The UN Treaty? The OAS Treaty? The only reason that the US hasn't invaded Cuba (which Ronnie Raygun wanted to do until the Joint Chiefs talked him out of it) is because an invasion of the island would have made Vietnam look like a roaring success in comparison.
For that matter, why can't US students study medicine in Cuba? Why can't Cuban-trained doctors practice in the US? Students in much of the world have the opportunity to study medicine in Cuba for no charge, in exchange for the promise to practice medicine in under-served communities in their own countries for (IIRC) 5 years.
But Chavez was elected by 70% of the population, so that means he was a dictator! And they're closing down radio stations with expired licenses and giving that bandwidth to stations that don't belong to international mega-corps, so that means they're oppressing free speech! Or something.
My first half hour of every work day is wading through the emails left behind by the previous two shifts for anything I need to deal with. It's a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center, there's no way in hell the emails are going to stop coming.
I am on call, but the company pays for my phone (I wouldn't own a cell phone otherwise), and I get paid from the moment the phone rings until the issue is taken care of. After most of a decade on salary, I'm loving getting paid hourly.
$108 million in fines for HP, but when Halliburton was caught handing out over $100 million to Nigerian officials while Cheney was CEO there wasn't even an investigation in the US (and I think the suit in France eventually evaporated while he was VP).
Really, this is not likely to change the way HP or anyone else of that size do business. First, it is very unlikely that the fines amount to more than the profit generated by those sales. More importantly, the fines come long after the people involved have left the company in the game of Corporate Musical Chairs, so their grotesque income will be unaffected.
The only reason why this design is even seen as useful is because of the very poor ergonomic design of autobodies that has become popular the last few years. I have a 2002 Tacoma, I can see all four corners of the vehicle. With a glance I can tell within six inches of exactly where each corner of the vehicle is. We used to have a 1995 Corolla, and I could park it in any spot. My wife has a new Audi, and until recently I was driving a fairly new Corolla supplied by my employer. Hate parking those things, you can't see the corners of the vehicle so can only guess as to how far away I am from the next vehicle.
What an odd statement. Of course it's not going to be pondering the meaning of life or generating the guest list for an ambassadorial reception, but deciding whether the approaching snail is predator or prey is certainly thinking. So is deciding whether to move up or down in the water column to find a more comfortable temperature. It might not take a complex thought process, but it's still a thought process that comes to a conclusion.
I wish I could see the dragonfly with the half-meter wingspan. Wonder what it sounded like. I understand there's someone working on a robotic version, but it wouldn't be the same.
They also ordered the "disposal" of Mariner data, which NASA handed over to the Planetary Society rather than destroy. This annoyed the White House so much that they specifically ordered that the remaining unanalyzed Pioneer data be destroyed according to gov't data destruction policies. NASA management blatantly ignored the order and the Planetary Society pulled together funding almost overnight to be able to accept the tapes. Then the Society found one of the only remaining tape drives still able to read the data (in a computer museum, literally), and made the data available to the world. This is why there is a solution today to the Pioneer Anomaly.
One of my co-irkers was complimenting his buddy, saying, "Rami is one in a million!" I piped up saying, "There are 6,999 more of him? Civilization is doomed!"
The author of TFA assumes that the congresscritters don't act because they are uninformed, that perhaps with the adequate education they would change their minds. He's wrong. It's not that they don't understand the science, it's that they don't CARE what the long-term affects would ever be. Climatologists say things like "within a century" and "in 50 years", which clues the pols that they don't HAVE to give a shit since they'll be out of office and maybe dead by then. They are, as a herd, immensely self-centered and short-term thinkers. The only way to get them to act is to somehow demonstrate to them the IMMEDIATE value of action, how either they're going to get a lot more money or a lot more power by acting. Want Inhofe to act? Promise him the presidency if he does, or offer him the chairmanship of a bank. No other incentive would ever work, and he wouldn't give a flying fuck whether he understood the science or believed in the climatologists' conclusions.
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Oh, no, there will still be plenty of fun available. I, for instance, am getting bored with using my sling and slingshot at stationary targets, a moving target would definitely be more entertaining and challenging. I've never thrown a bolo either, but that seems like the ideal weapon to use on one of these since cast nets don't have the range. I'll have to make one this weekend in case this moron comes to Seattle.
They're taggers, it's not like they're doing art now either.
They always did, the US and British intel agencies have always been double-agent ridden. I doubt that much of what Snowden revealed was a surprise to Moscow.
You don't work in the tech industry I take it. I've yet to see a non-compete that offered three years of compensation (typical blackout period that I've seen).
If you're an Oracle DBA, you're unlikely to be part of something that works at all . . .
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Do you not realize what a non-compete says? If you work as (for example) as a network admin you cannot leave Company A and go work for ANY OTHER company anywhere as a network admin. If they were commonly enforced you would effectively need to change careers every time you changed jobs. Do you really not see a problem with that?
I started contracting as a server, network and AD admin with one company in 2000, changed to another in 2004, moved to a security company doing server and network administration in 2008, to a different one in 2013, and finally took my current position this year. I had to sign a non-compete as part of the hiring paperwork at all of the jobs before this one. If companies in Washington actually enforced these things I would have been stuck at the same employer for the last 14 years.
When we finally recover from the clusterfuck that he left us with.
Not any company that I am willing to support,with a few exceptions for people who quit in protest over the shenanigans they were witnessing.
No, even Downing Street knew that the whole justification for the invasion was crap, if you remember they complained internally that "the intelligence is being fixed". Blatant falsification of data, deliberate sabotage of the WMD inspections (IIRC they were 97% complete when the US told inspectors they had to leave immediately because bombing was about to start), illegal propaganda operations targeting the US public, the whole run-up to the war was founded on lies that were exposed in the foreign press but knowingly redistributed by the US media. There may be "a consensus building", but joining that group will require deliberately forgetting everything that was actually going on at the time in favor of historical revisionism.
we were scared of castro when he had nuclear arms
Huh? When did this happen? Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviet nukes never arrived at the island, just the disassembled missiles.
You mean treaties like the ABM Treaty? The chemical weapons and bio-weapons treaties? The Geneva Accords? The UN Treaty? The OAS Treaty? The only reason that the US hasn't invaded Cuba (which Ronnie Raygun wanted to do until the Joint Chiefs talked him out of it) is because an invasion of the island would have made Vietnam look like a roaring success in comparison.
For that matter, why can't US students study medicine in Cuba? Why can't Cuban-trained doctors practice in the US? Students in much of the world have the opportunity to study medicine in Cuba for no charge, in exchange for the promise to practice medicine in under-served communities in their own countries for (IIRC) 5 years.
But Chavez was elected by 70% of the population, so that means he was a dictator! And they're closing down radio stations with expired licenses and giving that bandwidth to stations that don't belong to international mega-corps, so that means they're oppressing free speech! Or something.
My first half hour of every work day is wading through the emails left behind by the previous two shifts for anything I need to deal with. It's a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center, there's no way in hell the emails are going to stop coming.
I am on call, but the company pays for my phone (I wouldn't own a cell phone otherwise), and I get paid from the moment the phone rings until the issue is taken care of. After most of a decade on salary, I'm loving getting paid hourly.
Well, the Quebecois are protective of **THEIR** version of the language, which is almost unintelligible to Parisians.
$108 million in fines for HP, but when Halliburton was caught handing out over $100 million to Nigerian officials while Cheney was CEO there wasn't even an investigation in the US (and I think the suit in France eventually evaporated while he was VP).
Really, this is not likely to change the way HP or anyone else of that size do business. First, it is very unlikely that the fines amount to more than the profit generated by those sales. More importantly, the fines come long after the people involved have left the company in the game of Corporate Musical Chairs, so their grotesque income will be unaffected.
The only reason why this design is even seen as useful is because of the very poor ergonomic design of autobodies that has become popular the last few years. I have a 2002 Tacoma, I can see all four corners of the vehicle. With a glance I can tell within six inches of exactly where each corner of the vehicle is. We used to have a 1995 Corolla, and I could park it in any spot. My wife has a new Audi, and until recently I was driving a fairly new Corolla supplied by my employer. Hate parking those things, you can't see the corners of the vehicle so can only guess as to how far away I am from the next vehicle.
or were Mt. Gox's alleged scam conspirators unusually stupid?
Considering that most of the company's depositors were unusually stupid I don't think that's much of a stretch.
What an odd statement. Of course it's not going to be pondering the meaning of life or generating the guest list for an ambassadorial reception, but deciding whether the approaching snail is predator or prey is certainly thinking. So is deciding whether to move up or down in the water column to find a more comfortable temperature. It might not take a complex thought process, but it's still a thought process that comes to a conclusion.
I wish I could see the dragonfly with the half-meter wingspan. Wonder what it sounded like. I understand there's someone working on a robotic version, but it wouldn't be the same.
They also ordered the "disposal" of Mariner data, which NASA handed over to the Planetary Society rather than destroy. This annoyed the White House so much that they specifically ordered that the remaining unanalyzed Pioneer data be destroyed according to gov't data destruction policies. NASA management blatantly ignored the order and the Planetary Society pulled together funding almost overnight to be able to accept the tapes. Then the Society found one of the only remaining tape drives still able to read the data (in a computer museum, literally), and made the data available to the world. This is why there is a solution today to the Pioneer Anomaly.
It's actually 'bated breath', not 'baited breath', as in holding one's breath in anticipation, not having breath that smells of rotting minnows.
Sorry, just couldn't resist. Actually I agree completely with your point.
One of my co-irkers was complimenting his buddy, saying, "Rami is one in a million!" I piped up saying, "There are 6,999 more of him? Civilization is doomed!"
The author of TFA assumes that the congresscritters don't act because they are uninformed, that perhaps with the adequate education they would change their minds. He's wrong. It's not that they don't understand the science, it's that they don't CARE what the long-term affects would ever be. Climatologists say things like "within a century" and "in 50 years", which clues the pols that they don't HAVE to give a shit since they'll be out of office and maybe dead by then. They are, as a herd, immensely self-centered and short-term thinkers. The only way to get them to act is to somehow demonstrate to them the IMMEDIATE value of action, how either they're going to get a lot more money or a lot more power by acting. Want Inhofe to act? Promise him the presidency if he does, or offer him the chairmanship of a bank. No other incentive would ever work, and he wouldn't give a flying fuck whether he understood the science or believed in the climatologists' conclusions.