If you've got the social skills necessary to make new friends easily*, or the move won't automatically mean your friends are no longer accessable, it's worth considering moving for a significant increase in compensation.
I moved for a job once. Nearly accross the continent (North America & East-West axis). Not being a terribly gregarious person, and as indiosyncratic and paranoid as I am, it was miserable. It takes me at a long time to get to know anyone outside of the people I already know. It took about about 4 and a half months to get the first person to the preliminary friend stage.
> I was just thinking that I feel pretty old now. > Anybody else been geeky long enough to remember > when IBM was the big bad bully?
Oh don't worry. They will be again some day.
No. It's probably going to be google. It's not the obvious villains one must be wary of. It's those villains that act the part of ally who should worry you more.
Once the founders of Google are dead, some new executive type will come in and see the potential for profit. Then, presto-chango, you've got the internet's version of Walmart. Starting out as the good guy. Change of leadership. The descent into evil.
I think I read somewhere that the size limitation of a hole an octopus can squeeze through is only limited by the diameter of its eye and/or beak. As those are the most rigid part of the animal.
Speaking of convergence, I built one of those last week. All it took was about 3 inches of wire, a 3V battery, a current-limiting resistor, and an LED.
Please excuse my ignorance. But would that just be a lit LED, thus indicating that the subject is always just leeching drinks with no intention of sleeping with the bearer of said device?
It's not the differences in the type of interaction that makes cell phones or direct passenger interaction more dangerous.
It's the fact that passengers (well, most passengers at least) aren't actively beaming mind control radiation directly into your brain. And if those that beam the radiation into your head through your phone (the cell-phone overlords, a fickle bunch of miscreants) want you gone. You're gone. But only if you use a cell phone.
Yeah, but it's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. So, much like a Monty Python reference or Slashdot cliche, it was likely that between the time it took to type and click the preview and submit buttons, someone was bound to post a similar comment.
All the holiday avatars got reset at the end of the Holiday Wars storyline. Santa's alive and tossed Bun-bun into a timeless void where he was missing and presumed dead until a few days ago.
Is this Holiday Wars you make mention of a legitimate storyline? If so, where is it available? Or is this comment a result of an inability to detect sarcasm?
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About relocating for a job.
If you've got the social skills necessary to make new friends easily*, or the move won't automatically mean your friends are no longer accessable, it's worth considering moving for a significant increase in compensation.
I moved for a job once. Nearly accross the continent (North America & East-West axis). Not being a terribly gregarious person, and as indiosyncratic and paranoid as I am, it was miserable. It takes me at a long time to get to know anyone outside of the people I already know. It took about about 4 and a half months to get the first person to the preliminary friend stage.
*or are a sociopath and don't need friends
What is it in you humans that requires an overwhelming display of emotion in a situation such as this?
--Jedi Master Yoda, A long Time Ago
The French want to rule the world!
So does Google.
Do not use yellow text on a white page.
Or any large amount of text on a high contrast background.
Kaminski?
I think you meant Kaczynski.
Yeah. I'm a Subject Metter Expert on these kinds of things.
> I was just thinking that I feel pretty old now.
> Anybody else been geeky long enough to remember
> when IBM was the big bad bully?
Oh don't worry. They will be again some day.
No. It's probably going to be google. It's not the obvious villains one must be wary of. It's those villains that act the part of ally who should worry you more.
Once the founders of Google are dead, some new executive type will come in and see the potential for profit. Then, presto-chango, you've got the internet's version of Walmart. Starting out as the good guy. Change of leadership. The descent into evil.
Get a new octopus every 6 months. Put the new octopus in with the old octopus, and see if the old one teaches the new one any tricks.
Probable tricks learned by the new octopus:
1-Hide from the older octopus so as to avoid death
2-Kill and eat the older octopus
I think I read somewhere that the size limitation of a hole an octopus can squeeze through is only limited by the diameter of its eye and/or beak. As those are the most rigid part of the animal.
My pet rock last forever and never seems to stray away.
If it ever did run away, you'd know you had to do something seriously offensive.
In Korea, only old people get distracted at work.
I did. It says:
Ain't also has an apostrophe.
If I do then I'll be picking up my P45!
.45 by Kahr Arms. (scroll down to see the pistol) Comments like that can definitely lead to termination of employment.
Hopefully you don't mean the new
You need an apostrophe in the word "arent" in your sig.
Maybe the parent is using one of these and is in a third-world country.
Haven't you seen The Recruit? I believe it's covered in the movie. Only, it was the CIA.
What about Van Helsing?
What if they caused your infant to try to kill her mother?
By the time that happens you're going to need a haircut, manicure, pedicure, a shower and shave, and probably a change of underwear.
From my understanding, the standard population of slashdot probably needs at least 2 or 3 of these things anyway, eh?
Speaking of convergence, I built one of those last week. All it took was about 3 inches of wire, a 3V battery, a current-limiting resistor, and an LED.
Please excuse my ignorance. But would that just be a lit LED, thus indicating that the subject is always just leeching drinks with no intention of sleeping with the bearer of said device?
It's not the differences in the type of interaction that makes cell phones or direct passenger interaction more dangerous.
It's the fact that passengers (well, most passengers at least) aren't actively beaming mind control radiation directly into your brain. And if those that beam the radiation into your head through your phone (the cell-phone overlords, a fickle bunch of miscreants) want you gone. You're gone. But only if you use a cell phone.
Yeah, but it's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. So, much like a Monty Python reference or Slashdot cliche, it was likely that between the time it took to type and click the preview and submit buttons, someone was bound to post a similar comment.
This article should get the award for the most gratuitous uses of the word Belgium.
All the holiday avatars got reset at the end of the Holiday Wars storyline. Santa's alive and tossed Bun-bun into a timeless void where he was missing and presumed dead until a few days ago.
Is this Holiday Wars you make mention of a legitimate storyline? If so, where is it available? Or is this comment a result of an inability to detect sarcasm?