It's amazing to me that while people see the actual damage of the government bureaucracy and decision making, they still believe that the government is the best entity to control major industries. (The statement is a generalization, there are also many people who do realize the waste and want smaller government, less to no entitlements, etc.)
Well, crud, all the good answers given to you are from ACs. I'm not answering to get cred, just so that people will see the good answers (for those that filter out the AC posts).
Yes, they are still around. My young girls basically learned to count from "Here Comes the 123s". "Here Comes the ABCs" and "Here Comes the Science" are both very good. The 123s really introduce some advanced information (0 is both big and small, 1 is everything and breaking it apart doesn't make sense in certain applications.)
They've done music for a lot of Disney projects, TV shows, and movies - Mickey Mouse House, Boss of Me, Coraline (a small ditty), and many others. They are currently going on tour for their latest release.
As one AC posted, "If 'Istanbul' is your favorite, I pity you your ignorance and envy you your opportunity to still discover them."
Anyone get the idea that this is a rip from the P-Robots idea? I was first introduced to this "game" in high school in my Pascal class. Essentially, each coder uses Pascal to create a robot. The game would load the robots and have them battle it out. Apparently, there is still a following.
Don't forget about Soros properties - you know, the guy who has a large influence over liberal and public media (you know, government funded) and made a (US)$1 Billion by crashing the British Pound Sterling.
(Interesting bit of information from that page: Britain attempted to keep their unit valuable, but failed to do so because of "low interest rates and high inflation". The US is at the point of low interest rates, and have been for a very long time. The high inflation part hasn't yet come, but the undertow is there to try and create it.)
Ahh, it's too bad you didn't sign your name to the post. It is very insightful. I tried to run with Groupon after a friend had very positive results (at least with initial sales - she had more sales than any Groupon sale before hers in our area), but I'm not sure what the aftermath of it was. I'll see her soon and ask.
I tried to advertise my computer repair shop, but they refused me saying they didn't see how there would be a mutual benefit. It was a cop-out, I think they just didn't want to deal with it or they felt that my desire to have a maximum number of coupons was not beneficial - they're probably correct.
In any case, I knew what I was getting in to. But all I was losing was my time - no resources or capital (no employees). But I can easily see how this may be a serious detriment to a normal small business.
I've used Groupon as a customer a few times. In one case, I will be a repeat customer... but I don't often need a nice picture frame. The other one is a one time fix for service - a service I will likely not ever need again (and definitely not at the normal price).
Perhaps. I have a friend who runs a massage business. At the time her sale finished on Groupon for our area, she had amassed the most number of sales of anybody. The only reason she didn't have the highest margin is because there was an optometrist that had a higher price and sales even after the 50+% discount. She was booked up for months and, in her line of business, it is easy to have repeat customers (do a good job with the massage) and offer fair prices after.
I tried to advertise my computer repair shop, but they refused me saying they didn't see how there would be a mutual benefit. It was a cop-out, I think they just didn't want to deal with it (have any of you seen any tech related or repair related deals go up?) or they felt that my desire to have a limited number of coupons was not beneficial - they're probably correct.
In any case, I knew what I was getting in to. But all I was losing was my time - no resources or capital (no employees). But I can easily see how this may be a serious detriment to a normal small business.
what's the idea? Something like 2, 4, or 6 high speed SD-HC card slots? Store the game data on the cards and ship? That makes sense to me. My only concern would be losing the SD-HC card or having the data corrupted on such a card.
Sounds like you might like Serious Sam 3. No hiding behind walls or buildings because the horde of enemy charging at you will bust right through it. And there ain't gon' be no wussy guns either. There may be rails... but the space is supposed to be expansive, and you will have a helicopter (or that's what it looks like in the preview).
Actually, that's the only valid reason I think these would be released on paper - for redaction (security) purposes. I agree, though, this stinks and someone doesn't want certain information found quickly.
Having said that, after the NYT, WaPo, and others get together and share the cost of purchase of the doc's, conversion through a highspeed scanner into electronic format, conversion through OCR, finding interesting tidbits of info won't be that hard.
Not that it's hard to find interesting tidbits of info. Only the Palinites refuse to see that she sticks her foot in the mouth when she criticizes Romney for mandates at any level of the government (she had plenty of mandates while governor of Alaska) or when she and her supporters (Rush Limbaugh, et al.) call out Romney for his belief that Global Warming exists (Palin is on record for stating as much and more).
For the record, Romney's stance on GW is that it exists, we're not sure man has anything to do with it or can do anything about it, and he is unwilling to put America at a disadvantage economically when the world's worst polluters (China, India, etc) will not follow suit.
I would consider myself a gamer. But I also spend over 10 hours a week playing games. I would say that anyone who spends a few hours a week, or 5+ hours a month would be considered a gamer.
As a counter-point, I would not consider myself a movie-goer or TV-viewer. I attend a movie at a theater twice a year (maybe three). I watch less than 5 hours of TV a week (and usually don't watch the full show).
Which is what I reminded my manager quite a lot actually. I'm not indispensable. I documented everything I did, left copious notes, and made sure that I trained those around me. But it was for those reasons that my manager hated to see me go. Not that I was indispensable, but that I was a valuable source of knowledge on the product and on a variety of topics that richly added to our group.
I was sad to go, but then, I was also tired of not getting paid what I felt was fair payment. I am now in a position that I am getting paid fairly, and I hope the feeling is mutual.
Or, to put it more concisely, wealth. Is it so necessary that one person have more than another? Unfortunately, some people think it is. Also, due to human tendencies, the ability of a single person or group to delegate who should have what will always be an utter failure - see USSR.
If wealth is nullified and everyone is to receive equally in food, necessities, and entertainment, then the people receiving the items must be willing to perform their duties for the improvement of society. Some FLOSS projects are a good example of people doing something for the sole purpose of societal improvement.
The problem is that some people feel they deserve more than another person. And others have no pride in their work (if I don't expect to get any more or less than what I currently get, why should I work harder, better, more efficiently?)
Oh, I should also mention, these small companies usually don't find out until one or more of their customer's cards have been compromised and the customer reports back to them. The lag time hurts.
Having worked with small businesses in the past, I can guarantee they have to be just as vigilant at protecting customer data. It's not a happy day (for them) when they report they think they've been hacked and CC data has been stolen.
I have to agree with this sentiment. If you become indispensable to your company, then you have bargaining power with said company. If they refuse to match and increase the pay over other offers, then walk - it turns out they don't value you as much as you thought.
Sadly, many companies, even small ones, are willing to lose knowledge and talent rather than give a raise. Sure, I left my team at my previous company in a bit of a lurch and a major knowledge drain, but by this point, I hope they have overcome my lose - I left them with as much documentation as I could. I can't help it if upper-management refused to even make a counter-offer.
Of course, now at a large company, another cog in the wheel, bored out of my mind most of the time... but I am getting paid MUCH better. My next position will definitely be a small company where I can contribute a lot.
While the two points are extremes of both sides, the 97% in the middle is still a large number. There are countless numbers of messed up families, kids, parents, etc, due to the direct result of drugs. Even if the drug trade were legal, we'd still have a large number of so-called consenting adults not hurting anybody but themselves actively hurting everyone and themselves.
Whether the GOP makes her a candidate or not, she just might make herself one. And Trump will be her VP candidate! Go third party!
/me leaves a little stain on that last statement. And not a good stain.
// if the people want a third party, there should also be a fourth party - liberal dems, conservative dems, liberal repubs, conservative repubs. Ok, maybe a two more - so far left they think Obama is a republican and so far right they think Bush is a democrat.
In a lot of places I go, the GPS coords are horribly off. I've stopped bothering to inform mapquest, google maps, etc. because when I look for a condo I lived in 6 years ago, that had been there for 3 years before that, still doesn't show up on google maps and is unroutable.
It's not that I can't get to some of those books, it's that I don't ever want to lay eyes on those books. According to my wife, Twilight book 1 was full of OMG, HE'S SO DANG CUTE! I COULD JUST, like, MELT! (why is he so quiet and rude to everyone?) OMG HE'S TO, like, DIE FOR! No, thanks.
Goosebumps appears to be for the 8-13 year old crowd. I can handle teen-fic (Harry Potter), but Goosebumps seems a little too young for me.
The documentary "Waiting for Superman" is well worth the watch. It's available on Netflix streaming. (Not sure about Hulu, RedBox, or any other service.)
By that same standard, just about ANY entertainment is equally immoral. Go read a book - whups, the author MIGHT be telling you that story merely to hook you and get you to read his next book!
What! That's not possible!
Excuse me, I've got to go finish this [Harry Potter | Twilight | Goosebumps | The Chronicles of Narnia | The Lord of the Rings |... ] series
(For the record, I have not read some of those on that list and likely won't ever.)
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Which sounds just like high school and probably a lot of a student's college experience.
It's amazing to me that while people see the actual damage of the government bureaucracy and decision making, they still believe that the government is the best entity to control major industries. (The statement is a generalization, there are also many people who do realize the waste and want smaller government, less to no entitlements, etc.)
Well, crud, all the good answers given to you are from ACs. I'm not answering to get cred, just so that people will see the good answers (for those that filter out the AC posts).
Yes, they are still around. My young girls basically learned to count from "Here Comes the 123s". "Here Comes the ABCs" and "Here Comes the Science" are both very good. The 123s really introduce some advanced information (0 is both big and small, 1 is everything and breaking it apart doesn't make sense in certain applications.)
They've done music for a lot of Disney projects, TV shows, and movies - Mickey Mouse House, Boss of Me, Coraline (a small ditty), and many others. They are currently going on tour for their latest release.
As one AC posted, "If 'Istanbul' is your favorite, I pity you your ignorance and envy you your opportunity to still discover them."
Anyone get the idea that this is a rip from the P-Robots idea? I was first introduced to this "game" in high school in my Pascal class. Essentially, each coder uses Pascal to create a robot. The game would load the robots and have them battle it out. Apparently, there is still a following.
Don't forget about Soros properties - you know, the guy who has a large influence over liberal and public media (you know, government funded) and made a (US)$1 Billion by crashing the British Pound Sterling.
(Interesting bit of information from that page: Britain attempted to keep their unit valuable, but failed to do so because of "low interest rates and high inflation". The US is at the point of low interest rates, and have been for a very long time. The high inflation part hasn't yet come, but the undertow is there to try and create it.)
Ahh, it's too bad you didn't sign your name to the post. It is very insightful. I tried to run with Groupon after a friend had very positive results (at least with initial sales - she had more sales than any Groupon sale before hers in our area), but I'm not sure what the aftermath of it was. I'll see her soon and ask.
I tried to advertise my computer repair shop, but they refused me saying they didn't see how there would be a mutual benefit. It was a cop-out, I think they just didn't want to deal with it or they felt that my desire to have a maximum number of coupons was not beneficial - they're probably correct. In any case, I knew what I was getting in to. But all I was losing was my time - no resources or capital (no employees). But I can easily see how this may be a serious detriment to a normal small business. I've used Groupon as a customer a few times. In one case, I will be a repeat customer... but I don't often need a nice picture frame. The other one is a one time fix for service - a service I will likely not ever need again (and definitely not at the normal price).
Perhaps. I have a friend who runs a massage business. At the time her sale finished on Groupon for our area, she had amassed the most number of sales of anybody. The only reason she didn't have the highest margin is because there was an optometrist that had a higher price and sales even after the 50+% discount. She was booked up for months and, in her line of business, it is easy to have repeat customers (do a good job with the massage) and offer fair prices after.
I tried to advertise my computer repair shop, but they refused me saying they didn't see how there would be a mutual benefit. It was a cop-out, I think they just didn't want to deal with it (have any of you seen any tech related or repair related deals go up?) or they felt that my desire to have a limited number of coupons was not beneficial - they're probably correct.
In any case, I knew what I was getting in to. But all I was losing was my time - no resources or capital (no employees). But I can easily see how this may be a serious detriment to a normal small business.
what's the idea? Something like 2, 4, or 6 high speed SD-HC card slots? Store the game data on the cards and ship? That makes sense to me. My only concern would be losing the SD-HC card or having the data corrupted on such a card.
Sounds like you might like Serious Sam 3. No hiding behind walls or buildings because the horde of enemy charging at you will bust right through it. And there ain't gon' be no wussy guns either. There may be rails... but the space is supposed to be expansive, and you will have a helicopter (or that's what it looks like in the preview).
Actually, that's the only valid reason I think these would be released on paper - for redaction (security) purposes. I agree, though, this stinks and someone doesn't want certain information found quickly.
Having said that, after the NYT, WaPo, and others get together and share the cost of purchase of the doc's, conversion through a highspeed scanner into electronic format, conversion through OCR, finding interesting tidbits of info won't be that hard.
Not that it's hard to find interesting tidbits of info. Only the Palinites refuse to see that she sticks her foot in the mouth when she criticizes Romney for mandates at any level of the government (she had plenty of mandates while governor of Alaska) or when she and her supporters (Rush Limbaugh, et al.) call out Romney for his belief that Global Warming exists (Palin is on record for stating as much and more).
For the record, Romney's stance on GW is that it exists, we're not sure man has anything to do with it or can do anything about it, and he is unwilling to put America at a disadvantage economically when the world's worst polluters (China, India, etc) will not follow suit.
I would consider myself a gamer. But I also spend over 10 hours a week playing games. I would say that anyone who spends a few hours a week, or 5+ hours a month would be considered a gamer.
As a counter-point, I would not consider myself a movie-goer or TV-viewer. I attend a movie at a theater twice a year (maybe three). I watch less than 5 hours of TV a week (and usually don't watch the full show).
Get Serious Sam and its sequels.
Which is what I reminded my manager quite a lot actually. I'm not indispensable. I documented everything I did, left copious notes, and made sure that I trained those around me. But it was for those reasons that my manager hated to see me go. Not that I was indispensable, but that I was a valuable source of knowledge on the product and on a variety of topics that richly added to our group.
I was sad to go, but then, I was also tired of not getting paid what I felt was fair payment. I am now in a position that I am getting paid fairly, and I hope the feeling is mutual.
Or, to put it more concisely, wealth. Is it so necessary that one person have more than another? Unfortunately, some people think it is. Also, due to human tendencies, the ability of a single person or group to delegate who should have what will always be an utter failure - see USSR.
If wealth is nullified and everyone is to receive equally in food, necessities, and entertainment, then the people receiving the items must be willing to perform their duties for the improvement of society. Some FLOSS projects are a good example of people doing something for the sole purpose of societal improvement.
The problem is that some people feel they deserve more than another person. And others have no pride in their work (if I don't expect to get any more or less than what I currently get, why should I work harder, better, more efficiently?)
Oh, I should also mention, these small companies usually don't find out until one or more of their customer's cards have been compromised and the customer reports back to them. The lag time hurts.
Having worked with small businesses in the past, I can guarantee they have to be just as vigilant at protecting customer data. It's not a happy day (for them) when they report they think they've been hacked and CC data has been stolen.
From the dumpster - they snagged an old box with an XP license!
YMMV, legality not tested.
I have to agree with this sentiment. If you become indispensable to your company, then you have bargaining power with said company. If they refuse to match and increase the pay over other offers, then walk - it turns out they don't value you as much as you thought.
Sadly, many companies, even small ones, are willing to lose knowledge and talent rather than give a raise. Sure, I left my team at my previous company in a bit of a lurch and a major knowledge drain, but by this point, I hope they have overcome my lose - I left them with as much documentation as I could. I can't help it if upper-management refused to even make a counter-offer.
Of course, now at a large company, another cog in the wheel, bored out of my mind most of the time... but I am getting paid MUCH better. My next position will definitely be a small company where I can contribute a lot.
As long as they don't call it Unobtainium.
While the two points are extremes of both sides, the 97% in the middle is still a large number. There are countless numbers of messed up families, kids, parents, etc, due to the direct result of drugs. Even if the drug trade were legal, we'd still have a large number of so-called consenting adults not hurting anybody but themselves actively hurting everyone and themselves.
Whether the GOP makes her a candidate or not, she just might make herself one. And Trump will be her VP candidate! Go third party!
/me leaves a little stain on that last statement. And not a good stain.
// if the people want a third party, there should also be a fourth party - liberal dems, conservative dems, liberal repubs, conservative repubs. Ok, maybe a two more - so far left they think Obama is a republican and so far right they think Bush is a democrat.
In a lot of places I go, the GPS coords are horribly off. I've stopped bothering to inform mapquest, google maps, etc. because when I look for a condo I lived in 6 years ago, that had been there for 3 years before that, still doesn't show up on google maps and is unroutable.
It's not that I can't get to some of those books, it's that I don't ever want to lay eyes on those books. According to my wife, Twilight book 1 was full of OMG, HE'S SO DANG CUTE! I COULD JUST, like, MELT! (why is he so quiet and rude to everyone?) OMG HE'S TO, like, DIE FOR! No, thanks. Goosebumps appears to be for the 8-13 year old crowd. I can handle teen-fic (Harry Potter), but Goosebumps seems a little too young for me.
The documentary "Waiting for Superman" is well worth the watch. It's available on Netflix streaming. (Not sure about Hulu, RedBox, or any other service.)
By that same standard, just about ANY entertainment is equally immoral. Go read a book - whups, the author MIGHT be telling you that story merely to hook you and get you to read his next book!
What! That's not possible!
... ] series
Excuse me, I've got to go finish this [Harry Potter | Twilight | Goosebumps | The Chronicles of Narnia | The Lord of the Rings |
(For the record, I have not read some of those on that list and likely won't ever.)