Well, part of the problem is that people wear gloves -- and handle the same things they did before.
That reminds me of an old joke: The Waiter and the Spoon
I took some friends out to dinner last week, and I noticed a spoon in the shirt pocket of our waiter as he handed us the menus. It seemed a little odd, but I dismissed it as a random thing. Until our busboy came with water & tableware; he, too, sported a spoon in his breast-pocket. I looked around the room and all the waiters, waitresses, busboys, etc. had spoons in their pockets.
When our waiter returned to take our order, I just had to ask, "Why the spoons?"
"Well," he explained, "our parent company recently hired some Andersen Consulting efficiency experts to review all our procedures and after months of statistical analyses, they concluded that our patrons drop spoons on the floor 73% more often than any other utensil at a frequency of 3 spoons per hour per workstation. By preparing all our workers for this contingency in advance, we can cut our trips to the kitchen down and save time...nearly 1.5 extra man hours per shift."
Just as he concluded, a "ch-ching" came from the table behind him, and he quickly replaced a fallen spoon with the one from his pocket. "I'll grab another spoon the next time I'm in the kitchen instead of making a special trip," he proudly explained.
I was impressed. "Thanks. I had to ask." "No problem," he answered, then he continued to take our orders. As the members of my dinner party took their turns, my eyes darted back & forth from each person ordering and my menu. That's when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a thin, black thread protruding from our waiter's fly. Again, I dismissed it; yet I had to scan the room and, sure enough, there were other waiters & busboys with strings hanging out of their trousers.
My curiosity overrode discretion at this point, so before he could leave I had to ask. "Excuse me, but...uh...why, or what...about that string?" "Oh, yeah," he began in a quieter tone. "Not many people are that observant. That same efficiency group found we could save time in the Men's room, too." "How's that?".. "You see, by tying a string to the end of our, eh, selves, we can pull it out at the urinals literally hands-free and thereby eliminate the need to wash our hands, cutting time spent in the restroom by over 93%!"
"Oh, that makes sense," I said, but then thinking thru the process, I asked, "Hey, wait-a-minute. If the string helps you pull it out, how do you get it back in?"
"Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the other guys; but I use my spoon.
For that matter at times the police will just use what are more or less large zip-ties. Plastic flexi-cuffs are easy and cheap to use in a riot situation. They aren't very secure, they can be easily cut off and indeed that is what the police themselves do,
Indeed. If your hands are tied behind your back they cannot easily reach the scissors or key that it in your pocket. And even then, it takes some dexterity to marshall that key into a tiny hole, all the while officers are probably not far, and could see and stop you any time...
The teeth of the worm gear would need to be quite big to avoid breaking off by the force needed. Which implies the whole thing would need to be big. Too big to conceal.
What's important is whether teenagers make better decisions for teenagers than adults make for teenagers. I've seen no evidence that this is the case.
eventually a teenager will turn into an adult, and as an adult, will they be happy with the consequences of the decisions that they took as a teenager?
Android is Linux, so it can't get any virii or malware. So, it looks as if Google is indeed correct in their theory that it must be Windows-based virii which are just faking an Android signature.
I hope you don't tie your shoes, or do anything that takes a few seconds on a routine basis!
I guess "tieing his shoes" is part of his life. A neat appearance allows him to land a good job, and get good girls (or boys) into bed. And saves him from a bloody nose by not tripping over.
Whereas keeping his computer safe is only useful to fend off improbably trouble, that somebody else takes care, in the rare event where it happens anyways:
Stolen credit card details => covered by his bank, i.e. by all of us really who are customers of the banking system.
Messed up or virified computer => by some poor family member who is computer knowledgeable, but hasn't the assertive skills to talk GP out of windows, internet explorer and outlook express.
On the other hand, although, technically, a bloody nose will also be taken care by somebody else (the medical system), it still hurts.
So, to "somebody who has a life", the choice between tieing his shoes and setting up Noscript is a pretty easy one...
Solution: don't talk Farsi in a Apple Store. Don't talk about how you intend to use the products you buy. Only talk about the whether, or what you'll do on the weekend (the latter only if it doesn't involve any Apple products...)
Seling items on the prohibited-for-export is the same deal. If the clerk has even the slightest suspicion the buyer might be making a "straw purchase" for an Iranian destination, he's completely doing the right thing by refusing the sale - the punishments are far worse in that case than selling alcohol to a minor!
So don't let anybody else know that you've such suspicions... Sometimes, you can keep out of a lot of trouble by "not noticing thing" and just keeping quiet.
Surprise! (That doesn't change the fact that the Nigerian restaurant down the street ripped me off last Sunday... On the other hand, I've never had spiced goat larynx before,
Dude, let me explain you something: That was not the goat's larynx... . And it was not spiced either!
Actually, "likes" themselves are relatively discreet, don't show up near the top of the page, and can be hidden (if the poster is aware of them). Well these ads can probably be hidden too, but given that they were a new feature, many people were probably not aware that they even existed before it was too late.
Surely it would make most sense for the lawyer bringing a class action suit to be responsible for contacting the people covered by it and then following their wishes.
Actually, they do, if they have contact info. Case in point: I've lost some money on the stock market during the dot com bubble, and in the years after the crash, I occasionally got letters from lawyers organizing class action suits on behalf of the people that lost out. In these letters, I was proposed the option to participate or to exclude myself from the class. Payments were in cash too, rather than coupons (though much smaller than the amounts lost).
But I guess, a similar course of action might be difficult in cases where the identity of the harmed parties is not easily known.
Why has this been modded as funny rather than insightful?
This is the perfect way how this "sponsored stories" misfeature may backfire. Closeted gay person likes an ad about an anal dildo or a new gay bathhouse in town. Next day, the ad shows up on all his straight friends' and work colleagues' profiles with his name attached...
I'm pretty sure that tells the search engine not to follow the links in the comments.
Actually, this is no longer true. Nowadays, google even follows stuff that are not even links. Mention http:/// in plain text, and google will follow it. I've got a couple of perl scripts available for download on my site, and some have URLs embedded in them, which the script pieces together with other stuff to get a real URL to download. Google crawls the script, recognizes the pieces as URLs, and the download attempts show up in my logs...
So yes, spamming forums helps the spammers again, and that even if the forum doesn't allow to embed links! Well played, Google!
Is it the hard truth though? Or just somebody's snap judgment? It's possible that the perception of one VC is way off.
Then it is still useful to know. First you could give counter arguments. Or if that is not an option (VC may feel to lose face if he is swayed, or may think that it's bad form to "react to feedback"), then you could pre-emptively work your counter arguments into your presentation to the next VC, so that that one doesn't make the same "snap judgement" as the first one...
when you fire a significant chunk of your IT staff in one go, minor things like security patches tend to get put on the backburner while everyone goes into crisis mode.
That, and if you fire more than one IT guy at once, each of them now has plausible deniability...
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Probably more people would get it if the initial question was not:
Wait, Rodney King was armed during his beating?
but:
Wait, Rodney King had arms during his beating?
or maybe then it would have been too obvious...
It's not changing my feelings towards McDonalds in general - mostly towards that one location.
Agreed, if by location you mean Paris, rather than this particular outlet.
Well, part of the problem is that people wear gloves -- and handle the same things they did before.
That reminds me of an old joke:
The Waiter and the Spoon
I took some friends out to dinner last week, and I noticed a spoon in the shirt pocket of our waiter as he handed us the menus. It seemed a little odd, but I dismissed it as a random thing. Until our busboy came with water & tableware; he, too, sported a spoon in his breast-pocket. I looked around the room and all the waiters, waitresses, busboys, etc. had spoons in their pockets.
When our waiter returned to take our order, I just had to ask, "Why the spoons?"
"Well," he explained, "our parent company recently hired some Andersen Consulting efficiency experts to review all our procedures and after months of statistical analyses, they concluded that our patrons drop spoons on the floor 73% more often than any other utensil at a frequency of 3 spoons per hour per workstation. By preparing all our workers for this contingency in advance, we can cut our trips to the kitchen down and save time...nearly 1.5 extra man hours per shift."
Just as he concluded, a "ch-ching" came from the table behind him, and he quickly replaced a fallen spoon with the one from his pocket. "I'll grab another spoon the next time I'm in the kitchen instead of making a special trip," he proudly explained.
I was impressed. "Thanks. I had to ask." "No problem," he answered, then he continued to take our orders. As the members of my dinner party took their turns, my eyes darted back & forth from each person ordering and my menu. That's when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a thin, black thread protruding from our waiter's fly. Again, I dismissed it; yet I had to scan the room and, sure enough, there were other waiters & busboys with strings hanging out of their trousers.
My curiosity overrode discretion at this point, so before he could leave I had to ask. "Excuse me, but...uh...why, or what...about that string?" "Oh, yeah," he began in a quieter tone. "Not many people are that observant. That same efficiency group found we could save time in the Men's room, too." "How's that?" .. "You see, by tying a string to the end of our, eh, selves, we can pull it out at the urinals literally hands-free and thereby eliminate the need to wash our hands, cutting time spent in the restroom by over 93%!"
"Oh, that makes sense," I said, but then thinking thru the process, I asked, "Hey, wait-a-minute. If the string helps you pull it out, how do you get it back in?"
"Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the other guys; but I use my spoon.
For that matter at times the police will just use what are more or less large zip-ties. Plastic flexi-cuffs are easy and cheap to use in a riot situation. They aren't very secure, they can be easily cut off and indeed that is what the police themselves do,
Indeed. If your hands are tied behind your back they cannot easily reach the scissors or key that it in your pocket. And even then, it takes some dexterity to marshall that key into a tiny hole, all the while officers are probably not far, and could see and stop you any time...
a hand crank and multiplier worm gear
The teeth of the worm gear would need to be quite big to avoid breaking off by the force needed. Which implies the whole thing would need to be big. Too big to conceal.
What's important is whether teenagers make better decisions for teenagers than adults make for teenagers. I've seen no evidence that this is the case.
eventually a teenager will turn into an adult, and as an adult, will they be happy with the consequences of the decisions that they took as a teenager?
So Google has the right to monitor your chats and emails?
Yes.
There is a reason why smart people don't have a gmail.com address. Or if they have, they don't use it for anything important.
Sure, if you are in a park, you can't do certain things that you could in the privacy of your home even if you don't see anyone,
o yes, you can :-)
because you might not just have noticed someone and so on.
Well, if he's in the park at that time of the night, just invite him to join the fun!
Android is Linux, so it can't get any virii or malware. So, it looks as if Google is indeed correct in their theory that it must be Windows-based virii which are just faking an Android signature.
or even if he just wants a skill that can pay the bills outside of work (you don't need a job to have a trading account
Or maybe he could learn how to play poker, or just play the lottery...
I hope you don't tie your shoes, or do anything that takes a few seconds on a routine basis!
I guess "tieing his shoes" is part of his life. A neat appearance allows him to land a good job, and get good girls (or boys) into bed. And saves him from a bloody nose by not tripping over.
Whereas keeping his computer safe is only useful to fend off improbably trouble, that somebody else takes care, in the rare event where it happens anyways:
So, to "somebody who has a life", the choice between tieing his shoes and setting up Noscript is a pretty easy one...
Solution: don't talk Farsi in a Apple Store. Don't talk about how you intend to use the products you buy. Only talk about the whether, or what you'll do on the weekend (the latter only if it doesn't involve any Apple products...)
Seling items on the prohibited-for-export is the same deal. If the clerk has even the slightest suspicion the buyer might be making a "straw purchase" for an Iranian destination, he's completely doing the right thing by refusing the sale - the punishments are far worse in that case than selling alcohol to a minor!
So don't let anybody else know that you've such suspicions... Sometimes, you can keep out of a lot of trouble by "not noticing thing" and just keeping quiet.
It has nothing to do with homosexuality. It is a trade restriction based on the fact that Iran is allegedly developing nuclear weapons, ...
... of which the first one was dropped by a plane named Enola Gay...
The truth fairy is hot...
Surprise! (That doesn't change the fact that the Nigerian restaurant down the street ripped me off last Sunday... On the other hand, I've never had spiced goat larynx before,
Dude, let me explain you something: That was not the goat's larynx... . And it was not spiced either!
Smart phones and dumb people... a deadly mix!
Actually, "likes" themselves are relatively discreet, don't show up near the top of the page, and can be hidden (if the poster is aware of them). Well these ads can probably be hidden too, but given that they were a new feature, many people were probably not aware that they even existed before it was too late.
I've been using this method for years, some coworkers even know about it, and I've never had any problem over this.
Surely it would make most sense for the lawyer bringing a class action suit to be responsible for contacting the people covered by it and then following their wishes.
Actually, they do, if they have contact info. Case in point: I've lost some money on the stock market during the dot com bubble, and in the years after the crash, I occasionally got letters from lawyers organizing class action suits on behalf of the people that lost out. In these letters, I was proposed the option to participate or to exclude myself from the class. Payments were in cash too, rather than coupons (though much smaller than the amounts lost).
But I guess, a similar course of action might be difficult in cases where the identity of the harmed parties is not easily known.
This is the perfect way how this "sponsored stories" misfeature may backfire. Closeted gay person likes an ad about an anal dildo or a new gay bathhouse in town. Next day, the ad shows up on all his straight friends' and work colleagues' profiles with his name attached...
Woosh! (Hint: look at what thread GP is being posted to...)
I'm pretty sure that tells the search engine not to follow the links in the comments.
Actually, this is no longer true. Nowadays, google even follows stuff that are not even links. Mention http:/// in plain text, and google will follow it. I've got a couple of perl scripts available for download on my site, and some have URLs embedded in them, which the script pieces together with other stuff to get a real URL to download. Google crawls the script, recognizes the pieces as URLs, and the download attempts show up in my logs...
So yes, spamming forums helps the spammers again, and that even if the forum doesn't allow to embed links! Well played, Google!
Is it the hard truth though? Or just somebody's snap judgment? It's possible that the perception of one VC is way off.
Then it is still useful to know. First you could give counter arguments. Or if that is not an option (VC may feel to lose face if he is swayed, or may think that it's bad form to "react to feedback"), then you could pre-emptively work your counter arguments into your presentation to the next VC, so that that one doesn't make the same "snap judgement" as the first one...
when you fire a significant chunk of your IT staff in one go, minor things like security patches tend to get put on the backburner while everyone goes into crisis mode.
That, and if you fire more than one IT guy at once, each of them now has plausible deniability...