MP3 players were drab and virtually useless before the iPod
bullshit. Perhaps you saw MP3 players ad drab and useless before the iPod but I can assure you the millions of other people sure did not. And get this news, millions of people still don't use iPods nor iPhones because their MP3 players or smartphones of choice are still vastly superior to the iThings that Apple puts out. Apple makes a nice product but it's for the sheep of the world who blindly follow Apple and limit their demands to only that which Apple says they should have!
With no offense to Steven Chu, this sort of post is why I have to hope his time as the Secretary of Energy goes very poorly. The idea that there is one correct policy and that all we need to do is get a scientist smart enough to tell us what Science says that is come from a gross misunderstand of the nature science.
Quite the contrary! While there may be many paths, there is a general direction to what it right and true. Take, for example, a simple bar magnet. Sprinkle iron fragments about. While they make a pretty pattern there's no mistaking what direction North (or South) is. IOW while there may be many greys, the direction toward black (North) or white (South) is clear, even if it's not clear to you!
Any real policy involves trade offs between what's best for a large number of different groups, each of which has different needs, goals, tolerance for risk, etc.
Poppycock you situationalist! You can play that game and call yourself a politician, or you can peep your head out of your hole and look and see what that sort of mentality has gotten us to...
Deciding how to make those tradeoffs and select who's interests take priority in any given situation is largely subjective. While science can help determine how feasible a given proposal is (and even then, it's more in the realm of engineering than science), it's silent on which solution is best.
Hardly. Science can, and often does, speak as to which is best.
The general public needs to get over its delusion that scientists are some sort of priesthood that exists to tell them The One True Way and save them the trouble of having to understand issues well enough to make their own informed decisions about what is best.
The vast majority of people do not hold that scientists are priests. My proof? Just look at how well the paranormal bullshit artists thrive! Watch an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit show or listen to a few skeptical podcasts once in a while. The vast majority of people believe in a talking snake, heaven, ghosts, etc. None of these things has anything to do with science or scientists. You, my friend, have everything upside down. What we don't need here is a non-scientist telling us about what's good, what the tradeoffs should be WRT highly technical stuff like energy.
Politics be damned! Politicians do little else but get in the way. We need a real thinker, not somebody who's good at playing the political back stabbing/scratching game!
Clearly someone has never done tech support, and I don't mean "helped friends/relatives fix something" I mean in the trenches, taking calls all day long, every day.
Trust me on this one, there are lots of really stupid people out there, and sadly tech support is a great place to find out that being intelligent and friendly don't help
I'm on the other side of the fence here. Being in the business for some 30 years it's suffice to say that I know technology. Granted I know there are many people who are computer illiterate however from my vantage point I'm often dealing with a tech support person who doesn't know his ass from his elbow. He has a script of common problems with common solutions and he attempts to match up the two and if the match is close enough he fires back the common solution as the solution. He doesn't attempt to really understand the problem nor listen to the description of the problem as the customer is describing it. His goal seems to be to pattern match buzzwords up with the common problem and then shoot the common solution back and hang up.
when you're faced with some guy with a "fancy" last name, an e-mail address that indicates that he is a partner at a well-known law firm and serious entitlement issues ("I WANT THIS FIXED NOW YOU GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT LOSER PUNK DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY I'M LOSING EVERY HOUR THAT MY (residential $15/month DSL) BROADBAND ISN'T WORKING I'M GONNA FILE A FUCKING LAWSUIT I WANT A FUCKING SUPERVISOR RIGHT GOD DAMN NOW YOU SHITHEAD LAZY KNOW-NOTHIN....", well you get the point).
You forget the following point: THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!!, secondly without the customer you're without a job and without a business!!!
Listen I make good money in my consulting business and yes when that DSL service is down (and I'm paying closer to $55/month because I have a static IP and run my web site and email servers locally) yes I AM losing money, big time money, for every hour that I have to waste dealing with incompetent and know nothing tech support people! I've often spend several months worth of DSL service just dealing with tech support.
Granted there are many customers who don't know shit, but there are customers who do know shit. Tech support people are generally somewhere inbetween and more on the low end of the scale than the upper end. Occasionally there are really sharp tech support reps. Generally I get along swimingly with those and generally I tell them "You did a good job!". I fully believe in giving credit where credit is due but I likewise believe in giving blame where blame is due - it's only fair.
Also, when there's an outage these are the people who make you aware of the outage before the NOC calls to tell you about it because within 30 seconds of their DSL going down there's going to be about 50 of these people waiting to yell at you for the DSLAM getting destroyed by a direct lightning strike (and yeah, I've had to deal with something like 50% of the idiots who called about that particular outage demanding to speak to a supervisor because they felt I wasn't doing my job when I explained that it would take several days to repair the building the DSLAM was housed in before a replacement DSLAM could be installed. Also, this is the kind of person who works as a lawyer while somehow being unaware of the term "force majeure").
The way I see it is that that is YOUR problem, not MY problem! I'm paying for the service. I want the service. If I don't get the service then I should be entitled to a refund. Again, that's only fair.
To sum it up: There are lots of stupid assholes out there, it's not just plain stupidity due to genetic factors, there's also the issue of people who simply choose to stay uneducated about even the most basic computer skills (while relying on their computer to do their job) like understanding the difference between "a program" and "a website" or how to find the start menu in WinXP/Vista...
You mean like the tech support people who when asked for an email address give you a web site instead?
1. It's what people know how to use (don't dismiss the importance of that)
2. The infrastructure is in place for checks and not as much for direct debit - this is however steadily changing
What the hell are you talking about? I don't know a single business, be it 7/11, the grocery store, auto parts store or whatever, that does not accept a debt card, in fact they prefer it! Where the hell are you living? The times when somebody whips out a check to pay for something can be counted on one hand and when counting you here everybody else in the line groaning.
3. Millions of people in the US do not have bank accounts and checks are still useful if you don't have a counter party financial institution
Huh? Where are these bank accountless people you speak of? Surely they are in a tiny minority.
4. Checks mostly work just fine despite their problems and there is little compelling need for a switch for most people.
Dishing out thousands of pennies will also work, despite it's "problems"... There's lots of compelling reasons to switch. I bet you're one of those who's still looking for the government to solve the problem you'll be facing in 02/2009 when TV switches to all digital!
5. Direct debit IS available and widely used, but it's going to take a long time for a full switch over. It's a bit like the IPv4 to IPv6 switch. There are advantages but the advantages are minor and/or behind the scenes so most consumers don't care.
Again, you're living in the dark ages. Everybody I know uses debt cards first, credit cards next then cash and by last resort a check!
6. The US is bigger than any single European country and like getting the entire EU on a single system, getting the US to change a working (if imperfect) financial system doesn't happen overnight.
Especially when dealing with people like you who seem to have no foresight and are quite content to remain behind the times based on irrational and unfounded assumptions... The rest of us have moved on long ago....
I'm one of those holdouts who still use paper checks, envelopes, and stamps to pay my bills. Once a month or so I'll bring the stack into the office and take care of it during downtime, and folks look at me like I'm transmitting morse code over a telegraph. I do bank online, but I don't do online bill pay.
I bet there are still some holdouts with buggy whips grandpa!
One reason I still cling to checks is that they allow me to be the final arbiter and gatekeeper of my money, and I have better fiscal responsibility when I'm directly involved in disbursement.
This makes no sense whatsoever. If you pay by online payment you are still the final arbiter and gatekeeper of your money. How do you have "better" fiscal responsibility? You are still directly involved in the disbursement!
Each time I physically write out a check, there's a bit of mental bookkeeping that takes place. You can't sit down and write "One thousand one hundred ninety-eight and 32/100" without pausing for a moment to think, holy shit, that's X% of my paycheck.
Huh? If you type in 1189.32 you can still do your "mental bookkeeping" saying, damn, that's X% of my paycheck. You don't need to physically write on a piece of paper to think that.
If you elect not to use online bill pay, you have to actually look at your credit card statements each month, instead of just setting up a $200 monthly ACH and ignoring the current total.
Again, huh? I have like 70 accounts in Quicken with about 10 of them online. Every payment I've made for the last 12 years has been online payment only. Still each and every one of my accounts are reconciled by using statements. Anybody who sets up an automatic payment in a set it and forget it mode is simply a person who does not care to, nor who does pay attention to their finances that well. You can make him use antiquated ways of finance (paper, pencil and checks) and he will remain a person who is not interested in the details of his finances.
I'm afraid that if I set everything up to be paid automatically, I'd very quickly wake up to discover that my checking account is overdrawn because I wasn't paying enough attention.
Who does that?!?
Look, there are certain payments that are candidates for what Quicken calls online repeating payments. These are payments that occur at some frequency and always have the same amount. For example, rent, car payment, etc. Of what value do you get by taking time to physically write your rent or mortgage payment out each month? Will you ever not pay your mortgage? Your car payment? Alimony? No. So why not automate it. If you've automated such payments and it causes your checking account to become overdrawn then you have other problems than automated payments - you don't make enough money or your spend too much!
Writing checks and licking envelopes is my way of keeping tabs on what's going out the door each month.
Some of us use personal finance software to keep tabs on what's going out the door and with such products actually have a better understanding of their total financial picture because of using such products! You sir live in the dark ages and can't see the light because your oil lantern is low!
The potential security benefits don't hurt, as anyone screwing around with mailed bills faces the wrath of the United States Postal Inspection Service. Unlike most online fraud, fucking with the mails will actually get you in trouble, and USPIS doesn't blow you off if you haven't suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
Online fraud and identity theft faces as stiff enforcement as anything the postal service can dish out! You sir are living in denial.
I do miss the one benefit that physical checks had up until a couple of
Hogwash! Buggy whips weren't broke either. Should we still be riding in buggies? The "if it ain't broke don't fix it" crowd ignores the need for progress.
Great. Then legitimate callers have a beef with the asshole callers! Let them duke it out. This is not my problem. You don't have the right to disturb me nor use my resources. If you cannot go through the minimal amount of effort to say your name such that I can identify you and "let you in" then I don't want to talk to you!
Similarly if you knock on my door and don't answer the question that I ask (Who is it?) you won't be getting in my house either!
How is this different simply because you called instead of knocked?
There's an ambiguity to SSL certs. They do two things at once. They 1) prove that the person who has the cert is that person through a certificate authority and they 2) provide for encryption. Why not simply have grades of SSL? A self signed cert could then allow encryption and say perhaps show a yellow padlock whereas a CA signed cert could provide for encryption and provide CA authentication and give a green padlock or whatever. What's so freaking difficult about that?
Most women just won't do that to themselves. I believe this is the real reason women aren't as good in chess. They're not stupider than men, they're actually smarter.
You are wrongly defining "smarter" as "more socially desirable". It all depends on what you mean by "smart". If by smart you mean intelligent, IQ points, perseverance, dedication, devotion, study, hard work, etc. then the chess master is, by that definition, smarter. But if by smart you mean winning more beauty pageants, being more popular, better liked, well rounded, etc. then you inference above would fit. Most people, however, would disagree with you for the normal definition of "smart".
What was the result, however? He became grossly overweight, sick often, irritable, and in the end he ran off with some tart who was apparently okay with his lifestyle (or perhaps it was his money).
I'm not writing this to complain about bad fortune or whatever (I'm doing fine currently), I'm just writing this to show why I'm going to be lazy, at least according to your definition (working 40hrs a week). Like hell I'm going to work myself to death simply to enrich my employers.
Anyway you do it you will end up dying. That's life, and death. You make call it "work yourself to death" but it seems to me he worked and was nicely rewarded, provided you your life you unthankful bastard, and traded up to a newer, younger model probably after your mom failed to keep with the program. All said and done I'd rather be your dad then what you are shooting for...
How many do not have the financial means to get training to get that jobs? have you seen those cisco training courses? bat crazy money
Pick up a book and teach yourself!
I would like to ask you what makes you think that *everybody* can work like that?
Sure, not everybody can work like that. That's why they get paid less money. Which camp do you want to belong in?
How many are not willing to put in to learn new skills because they'd rather put their time towards raising their children or going out on a date or staying home with their girlfriend and oiling her hair/giving her a backrub?
maybe not everybody is lazy
Personally oiling somebody's hair (who the hell does that?) and backrubs classify as leisure activities in my book and are more akin to lazy than productive. But hey if you wish to choose to value such activities then by all means. But realize that such choices result in certain consequences like lower pay and/or unemployment. Your choice - not mine!
not everybody has the same physical/psychological strength to work those hours.
Right. Likewise not everybody has the same skills or smarts. People who do not have such things, be definition, and by society since society started, are not seen as as valuable as those who do and thus they make less. Darwin in action!
and by work i mean both make a living and learn something new. if you can do it, more kudos to you. why are you berating those who cannot?
Because they are less valuable by definition yet they whine that they want as much compensation - that's why you berate them!
or will not?
Those are the worse kind - the kind who bitch and moan but are too lazy to get off their asses and do something about it!
why are you creating a hypothetical social/work scale where everybody has to measure the size of their dick compared to yours?
Because that's the way it is! Are you just now learning this?
furthermore, where are we supposed to go? wtf? is there a "destination" planned? cuz i didn't get the memo.
By definition, thereby not requiring a memo, you go to hell! By that I mean by being lazy you have created hell for yourself. We, the productive, are not here to support your silly ass.
And and BTW - buy a shift key!
the idea of changing 4801840938 jobs in a lifetime may not be comforting to everybody for reasons of personal priorities and/or preference.
I'm so sorry it doesn't agree with you personal preferences but here's a little clue... The world is not hear to suit you. You need to fight to survive or you die. That's how it is. And if you don't like it then well, about all you can do is die...
Oh, and if I told you once, I told you a million times - never exaggerate! Changing 4801840938 jobs! Really!
(BTW you can always tell the lazy, they are too lazy to hit the shift key! Don't you think your poor communication skills speaks volumes about you?)
i hate looking for a new job. it's draining me, psychologically. Life is not a dick measuring competition, again.
Yeah, I hate going grocery shopping. It's so draining for me! And man having to go to work and earn money. Such a bother. That's life bud! Get used to it!
It's only in Western Capitalism that the idea of financial insecurity and instability pushing people into staying with there jobs
insert marxist rant here, but still, please get off your high horse. not everybody subscribes to the protestant ethic
This phone comes with no jack! No 3.5 mm jack nor a 2.5 mm jack. You have to get an adapter that converts the USB -> 3.5 mm jack. Such converters tend to wear out the wires fairly quickly.
No stereo bluetooth support either.
And let alone, how are you supposed to get your MP3's onto the phone when there's no sync capabilities?!?
Let me see if I got this straight - you want to put the top 6 vote getters on the ballot so that they can be voted for?!? Sounds to me like you have a chicken an egg problem there bucko!
Q: How do I get votes? A: Why you get listed on the ballot.
Q: Yeah but how do I get on the ballot? A: Why you need to get votes.
I assume you mean whoever gets the most votes in the primary but in many states you can't vote in a primary whose party you are not affiliated with (which is as it should be).
By your own admission there's a "time to review" cost. As such, mailing something and placing that junk in my mailbox incurs that "time to review" penalty (even if I summarily and quickly toss it). IOW "time to review (and deal with)" applies equally to the junk snail mail we all receive. Why ain't that outlawed?
What if... we all made it a tradition to gather up all of that junk mail and on the last day of the month we all went down to the company (ya know - car sort!) and "return" it to them? They'd be so buried in junk mail they would not be able to enter their buildings!
And speaking about marketers - did you hear the one about the comedian who stayed at the same hotel as was hosting a telemarketing convention and then spent all night randomly making calls to other rooms! Gawk I wish I would have thought of that! That was golden - just golden!
Rubbish! Any defense attorney worth anything will surely fight and win that argument? Otherwise we'll have juries analyzing fingerprints, gun powder, etc.
You probably aren't that good at what you do then. I had obtained not 1, nor 2 but 3 jobs when the industry downturned. No. I didn't have 3 jobs at once. I got 3 different jobs. I was out of work a total of 3 months.
And what's this "other than contract work" shit! Contracts pay better!
If you can't find work but insist on staying where the work ain't then you just made you your biggest problem!
What potential costs of a lawsuit?!? It's perfectly legal. How to successfully defend your firm in such a lawsuit:
Step 1: Show up in court. Step 2: Stand up and say "Your honor, what law did we violate?"
Done.
The constant barrage of claims that you don't want to end up in an expensive lawsuit defending yourself for doing things that are perfectly legal is stupid!
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bullshit. Perhaps you saw MP3 players ad drab and useless before the iPod but I can assure you the millions of other people sure did not. And get this news, millions of people still don't use iPods nor iPhones because their MP3 players or smartphones of choice are still vastly superior to the iThings that Apple puts out. Apple makes a nice product but it's for the sheep of the world who blindly follow Apple and limit their demands to only that which Apple says they should have!
Quite the contrary! While there may be many paths, there is a general direction to what it right and true. Take, for example, a simple bar magnet. Sprinkle iron fragments about. While they make a pretty pattern there's no mistaking what direction North (or South) is. IOW while there may be many greys, the direction toward black (North) or white (South) is clear, even if it's not clear to you!
Poppycock you situationalist! You can play that game and call yourself a politician, or you can peep your head out of your hole and look and see what that sort of mentality has gotten us to...
Hardly. Science can, and often does, speak as to which is best.
The vast majority of people do not hold that scientists are priests. My proof? Just look at how well the paranormal bullshit artists thrive! Watch an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit show or listen to a few skeptical podcasts once in a while. The vast majority of people believe in a talking snake, heaven, ghosts, etc. None of these things has anything to do with science or scientists. You, my friend, have everything upside down. What we don't need here is a non-scientist telling us about what's good, what the tradeoffs should be WRT highly technical stuff like energy.
Politics be damned! Politicians do little else but get in the way. We need a real thinker, not somebody who's good at playing the political back stabbing/scratching game!
I'm on the other side of the fence here. Being in the business for some 30 years it's suffice to say that I know technology. Granted I know there are many people who are computer illiterate however from my vantage point I'm often dealing with a tech support person who doesn't know his ass from his elbow. He has a script of common problems with common solutions and he attempts to match up the two and if the match is close enough he fires back the common solution as the solution. He doesn't attempt to really understand the problem nor listen to the description of the problem as the customer is describing it. His goal seems to be to pattern match buzzwords up with the common problem and then shoot the common solution back and hang up.
You forget the following point: THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!!, secondly without the customer you're without a job and without a business!!! Listen I make good money in my consulting business and yes when that DSL service is down (and I'm paying closer to $55/month because I have a static IP and run my web site and email servers locally) yes I AM losing money, big time money, for every hour that I have to waste dealing with incompetent and know nothing tech support people! I've often spend several months worth of DSL service just dealing with tech support. Granted there are many customers who don't know shit, but there are customers who do know shit. Tech support people are generally somewhere inbetween and more on the low end of the scale than the upper end. Occasionally there are really sharp tech support reps. Generally I get along swimingly with those and generally I tell them "You did a good job!". I fully believe in giving credit where credit is due but I likewise believe in giving blame where blame is due - it's only fair.
The way I see it is that that is YOUR problem, not MY problem! I'm paying for the service. I want the service. If I don't get the service then I should be entitled to a refund. Again, that's only fair.
You mean like the tech support people who when asked for an email address give you a web site instead?
What the hell are you talking about? I don't know a single business, be it 7/11, the grocery store, auto parts store or whatever, that does not accept a debt card, in fact they prefer it! Where the hell are you living? The times when somebody whips out a check to pay for something can be counted on one hand and when counting you here everybody else in the line groaning.
Huh? Where are these bank accountless people you speak of? Surely they are in a tiny minority.
Dishing out thousands of pennies will also work, despite it's "problems"... There's lots of compelling reasons to switch. I bet you're one of those who's still looking for the government to solve the problem you'll be facing in 02/2009 when TV switches to all digital!
Again, you're living in the dark ages. Everybody I know uses debt cards first, credit cards next then cash and by last resort a check!
Especially when dealing with people like you who seem to have no foresight and are quite content to remain behind the times based on irrational and unfounded assumptions... The rest of us have moved on long ago....
I bet there are still some holdouts with buggy whips grandpa!
This makes no sense whatsoever. If you pay by online payment you are still the final arbiter and gatekeeper of your money. How do you have "better" fiscal responsibility? You are still directly involved in the disbursement!
Huh? If you type in 1189.32 you can still do your "mental bookkeeping" saying, damn, that's X% of my paycheck. You don't need to physically write on a piece of paper to think that.
Again, huh? I have like 70 accounts in Quicken with about 10 of them online. Every payment I've made for the last 12 years has been online payment only. Still each and every one of my accounts are reconciled by using statements. Anybody who sets up an automatic payment in a set it and forget it mode is simply a person who does not care to, nor who does pay attention to their finances that well. You can make him use antiquated ways of finance (paper, pencil and checks) and he will remain a person who is not interested in the details of his finances.
Who does that?!? Look, there are certain payments that are candidates for what Quicken calls online repeating payments. These are payments that occur at some frequency and always have the same amount. For example, rent, car payment, etc. Of what value do you get by taking time to physically write your rent or mortgage payment out each month? Will you ever not pay your mortgage? Your car payment? Alimony? No. So why not automate it. If you've automated such payments and it causes your checking account to become overdrawn then you have other problems than automated payments - you don't make enough money or your spend too much!
Some of us use personal finance software to keep tabs on what's going out the door and with such products actually have a better understanding of their total financial picture because of using such products! You sir live in the dark ages and can't see the light because your oil lantern is low!
Online fraud and identity theft faces as stiff enforcement as anything the postal service can dish out! You sir are living in denial.
There's nothing saying you need to have a lawyer in court to represent you for such a frivolous case. Just represent it yourself at minimal cost.
Haven't felt the need.
Who cares!
Why bother? Just use bash, set -o emacs then type Cntrl-R and simply find the last time you executed <str>.
These are good.
Yes you need to explain it! Particularly why I would want to use sftp at all when I have scp!
I rarely have need for this...
Hogwash! Buggy whips weren't broke either. Should we still be riding in buggies? The "if it ain't broke don't fix it" crowd ignores the need for progress.
Great. Then legitimate callers have a beef with the asshole callers! Let them duke it out. This is not my problem. You don't have the right to disturb me nor use my resources. If you cannot go through the minimal amount of effort to say your name such that I can identify you and "let you in" then I don't want to talk to you!
Similarly if you knock on my door and don't answer the question that I ask (Who is it?) you won't be getting in my house either!
How is this different simply because you called instead of knocked?
There's an ambiguity to SSL certs. They do two things at once. They 1) prove that the person who has the cert is that person through a certificate authority and they 2) provide for encryption. Why not simply have grades of SSL? A self signed cert could then allow encryption and say perhaps show a yellow padlock whereas a CA signed cert could provide for encryption and provide CA authentication and give a green padlock or whatever. What's so freaking difficult about that?
You are wrongly defining "smarter" as "more socially desirable". It all depends on what you mean by "smart". If by smart you mean intelligent, IQ points, perseverance, dedication, devotion, study, hard work, etc. then the chess master is, by that definition, smarter. But if by smart you mean winning more beauty pageants, being more popular, better liked, well rounded, etc. then you inference above would fit. Most people, however, would disagree with you for the normal definition of "smart".
Anyway you do it you will end up dying. That's life, and death. You make call it "work yourself to death" but it seems to me he worked and was nicely rewarded, provided you your life you unthankful bastard, and traded up to a newer, younger model probably after your mom failed to keep with the program. All said and done I'd rather be your dad then what you are shooting for...
Pick up a book and teach yourself!
Sure, not everybody can work like that. That's why they get paid less money. Which camp do you want to belong in?
Personally oiling somebody's hair (who the hell does that?) and backrubs classify as leisure activities in my book and are more akin to lazy than productive. But hey if you wish to choose to value such activities then by all means. But realize that such choices result in certain consequences like lower pay and/or unemployment. Your choice - not mine!
Right. Likewise not everybody has the same skills or smarts. People who do not have such things, be definition, and by society since society started, are not seen as as valuable as those who do and thus they make less. Darwin in action!
Because they are less valuable by definition yet they whine that they want as much compensation - that's why you berate them!
Those are the worse kind - the kind who bitch and moan but are too lazy to get off their asses and do something about it!
Because that's the way it is! Are you just now learning this?
By definition, thereby not requiring a memo, you go to hell! By that I mean by being lazy you have created hell for yourself. We, the productive, are not here to support your silly ass. And and BTW - buy a shift key!
I'm so sorry it doesn't agree with you personal preferences but here's a little clue... The world is not hear to suit you. You need to fight to survive or you die. That's how it is. And if you don't like it then well, about all you can do is die... Oh, and if I told you once, I told you a million times - never exaggerate! Changing 4801840938 jobs! Really! (BTW you can always tell the lazy, they are too lazy to hit the shift key! Don't you think your poor communication skills speaks volumes about you?)
Yeah, I hate going grocery shopping. It's so draining for me! And man having to go to work and earn money. Such a bother. That's life bud! Get used to it! It's only in Western Capitalism that the idea of financial insecurity and instability pushing people into staying with there jobs insert marxist rant here, but still, please get off your high horse. not everybody subscribes to the protestant ethic
This phone comes with no jack! No 3.5 mm jack nor a 2.5 mm jack. You have to get an adapter that converts the USB -> 3.5 mm jack. Such converters tend to wear out the wires fairly quickly.
No stereo bluetooth support either.
And let alone, how are you supposed to get your MP3's onto the phone when there's no sync capabilities?!?
Let me see if I got this straight - you want to put the top 6 vote getters on the ballot so that they can be voted for?!? Sounds to me like you have a chicken an egg problem there bucko!
Q: How do I get votes?
A: Why you get listed on the ballot.
Q: Yeah but how do I get on the ballot?
A: Why you need to get votes.
I assume you mean whoever gets the most votes in the primary but in many states you can't vote in a primary whose party you are not affiliated with (which is as it should be).
By your own admission there's a "time to review" cost. As such, mailing something and placing that junk in my mailbox incurs that "time to review" penalty (even if I summarily and quickly toss it). IOW "time to review (and deal with)" applies equally to the junk snail mail we all receive. Why ain't that outlawed?
What if... we all made it a tradition to gather up all of that junk mail and on the last day of the month we all went down to the company (ya know - car sort!) and "return" it to them? They'd be so buried in junk mail they would not be able to enter their buildings!
And speaking about marketers - did you hear the one about the comedian who stayed at the same hotel as was hosting a telemarketing convention and then spent all night randomly making calls to other rooms! Gawk I wish I would have thought of that! That was golden - just golden!
Rubbish! Any defense attorney worth anything will surely fight and win that argument? Otherwise we'll have juries analyzing fingerprints, gun powder, etc.
I hear tell there's a "CA" called the Hong Kong Post Office. Now tell me - do *YOU* trust the Hong Kong Post Office?
Any chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Given this attack, checking the big boys "CA" is relatively irrelevant!
They don't have more than the Saudis! That's just not true.
http://wolf.readinglitho.co.uk/mainpages/oilworldmap.html
"Proportionate" wars yield stalemate by definition. Disproportionate wars are how wars are won!
Huh? What even semi serious security checklist would *not* have buffer overflow high on the list? Your argument sir is nonsense!
You probably aren't that good at what you do then. I had obtained not 1, nor 2 but 3 jobs when the industry downturned. No. I didn't have 3 jobs at once. I got 3 different jobs. I was out of work a total of 3 months.
And what's this "other than contract work" shit! Contracts pay better!
If you can't find work but insist on staying where the work ain't then you just made you your biggest problem!
What potential costs of a lawsuit?!? It's perfectly legal. How to successfully defend your firm in such a lawsuit:
Step 1: Show up in court.
Step 2: Stand up and say "Your honor, what law did we violate?"
Done.
The constant barrage of claims that you don't want to end up in an expensive lawsuit defending yourself for doing things that are perfectly legal is stupid!
If you see that problem as complex then you have no business in this business!