Who's "they"? And, assuming you're referring to google, how are they shafting you? It's not your money.
I disagree. The taxes they are avoiding paying would be used to pay for infrastructure, services, etc, so, in a very real way, it *is* his money because without those taxes, the system is not as well funded and projects/services/infrastructure have to be cut
Israel was enforcing a blockade, a number of countries do and have done for centuries.
Israel boarded ships in international waters by force, which is an act of piracy. They also practice apartheid (which we have shunned other nations, like South Africa, for in the past) among many other things.
You couldn't fire someone explicitly for using the bathroom because that would be a violation of health and safety laws. You could, however, fire them for something semi-related.
When starting on 3G and moving out of 3G coverage area, it will try to keep a signal by shifting to a less optimal signal.
However, it may not work the same in the opposite direction. If it starts a call on Edge/2G and moves into an area where both 3G and Edge are available that it might *not* try to switch to the better service, but instead stay with what it's currently on.
This is, of course, just a guess, but it would explain the behavior.
It was my experience in college that a lot of the grad students teaching math courses were nowhere *near* fluent. It made the classes that much more difficult.
Actually, leaching *does* have medicinal benefits. Doctors have learned that leaches can be used effectively in the reattaching of severed body parts. They've also found benefits in the use of maggots (they eat infected flesh, but don't bother the healthy flesh surrounding it)
Got a headache? We'll drill a gaping, untreated hole in your head to release the "bad spirits"!
Hate to break it to you, but this is used by modern medicine too in order to relieve cranial pressure caused by fluid buildup.
So, despite your cries of "it's all bunk", "new" discoveries involving old techniques are not uncommon. That's not to say that *all* old cures and treatments work, but just because someone scoffs at something as unenlightened doesn't mean it really is.
His IQ is indeed rated at 160 or 180 depending on where you look. However, I'd say that his intellect is much higher than that score would indicate. Among other things, distraction caused by pain would throw the test score off pretty dramatically judging by the difference in scores I got when I did it in a normal manner and while working on other projects at the same time.
Xue and I both test in the 140-145 range. However, we both have areas where our aptitudes would, in all honesty, put us rather above that.
Yeah. Yeah. We're in the same 5 point range so it's debatable whether or not there's any real difference in scores:P
Though to get a woman *twice* as smart he'd probably have to drink a hell of a lot of alcohol and kill a fair few brain cells since we're both rather high up on the scale.
Not to be immodest, but to get a partner twice as smart as either of us, we'd basically have to find someone on a level with Hawking and even that might be debatable...
(This would be bladesjester's girlfriend of... shit, how many years has it been now? are we up to four?).
Women are much better at deception than men, and they're smart enough to know that stupidity is a turn on for guys...
I must be weird then, because stupidity is a *huge* turn off for me. I have met incredibly beautiful women before that pretty much instantly turned me off because they had no freaking brain.
As I said, some ways are faster. However, the problem with guns tends to be the noise. It's one thing to not care who finds the body, but most people, I would think, would generally want to be somewhere else when the body is found.
Sure, you can make a single use silencer, but that adds other difficulties (prep time, actually knowing/learning how to do it, etc etc etc)
Making stops to kill people takes much longer than stopping for potty breaks or tossing Gatorade bottles out of the car.
Not really. People are rather fragile. It doesn't take a lot to kill someone in all honesty.
What takes time is hiding the evidence. If you just want someone dead and don't care who finds the body, you can do it in a couple of minutes (and that's for opening an artery or two and letting them bleed out. Certain other ways can be even faster).
Doesn't matter-- you just can't get around the fact that they currently make 1/10th of what we do and bill out at 1/3 of what we do.
This is part of the problem with the kind of short term "thinking" that a lot of the MBAs who decide to outsource a lot of this stuff engage in. They don't realize and/or don't care that paying 1/3 of what it would cost to write it here is actually more expensive in both "money cost" and missed opportunity (which is often the *really* big price that causes a lot of companies to go under) when you have to do it several times over before you get something close to usable.
Instead, they tend to see things more like this: "I cut our expenses by x%. I want a bonus. Now let me find another place to work before this decision catches up with me."
I would also suggest just going to things that interest you. Chances are that you'll find people there that you find interesting and who find you interesting. Plus you'd already have something in common.
The thing is that "I have to go to this place and find people who will like me" should not be your goal. You should go to things that you want to go to or are interested in. Going places just to meet people with the "will you be my friend" thing tends to make you come off as weird and not in the good way.
I met most of my really good friends that way. So have a lot, if not most, of the people I know.
Okay. It's time for a reality check and/or to pull your head out of your nether regions.
A company is not a person. It is a construct created at the sufferance of the people. It exists to, among other things, limit the liability of the people who control it and, believe it or not, actually work for the good of society while making a profit.
A lot (if not most) people in this country seem to forget that, *especially* the people here who think that the "free market" is the answer to everything.
The representation granted is to the people who control the company. Ballmer and the other people who control Microsoft most certainly CAN vote provided they are citizens and have not been convicted of a felony, and most likely do so.
As for taxes, this country was founded on tax resistance. Anyone who pretends that it's unpatriotic to resist taxes today needs a remedial history course.
Actually, this country was founded on, among other things, not paying taxes to a body with which they had no representation. You remember, that whole "no taxation without representation" thing.
Guess what. Ballmer has representation in this country as he is a citizen and has the right to vote.
I think you're the one who needs a remedial history lesson.
I've seen just as crazy and worse people in large cities. The mix of crazy is slightly different in a large city, but there is plenty of crazy in any metropolis, suburb, or rural town.
Crazy does indeed exist everywhere. The concentration of it in a lot of the small towns here, however, tends to be rather higher than I have experienced in larger cities.
You also have the fact that there tends to be quite a bit of, shall we say, "shady" activity that everyone who is halfway observant knows about but nobody talks about for various reasons (one of which is that they don't want to have an "accident"). Yes, I realize that happens in larger cities as well, but believe me when I say that that sort of activity pretty much owns a lot of smaller towns in this region.
Just about any town in rural America. PA, MN, OH, NY all have these towns where you can just walk into anyone's house without a problem.
I can't speak for PA, MN, or NY, but I grew up in small rural towns in Ohio. I can assure you that people certainly *did* lock their doors and that crime, while not *insanely* rampant, was far from rare. I am, however, told that people were less likely to lock their doors when my father was a kid.
I knew a number of people whose homes were broken into while I was growing up and the thefts have only gotten worse in the last year or two as crime rates have risen due to the poor economy.
Add to this the fact that there is a prevailing sentiment in a lot of the smaller rural communities here that the entire world should be Christian (and they are willing to trample the civil rights of others to that end), that anyone less conservative than W is causing the ruin of this country, that all Muslims are evil and want to destroy America (I kid you not. Actual comments from the local paper), and, frankly, that if you're not a white, "God fearing", good ol' boy that you should just get out.
Sadly, I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating. I will readily admit that there are many good people in this area, but there are also a very large number of people who display the behaviors and prejudices that I have listed above (as well as more than a few others). It's enough to give you a headache purely from trying to not scream in frustration.
Don't try to idolize the small towns as bastions of everything good in the country, because it's just not true.
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Who's "they"? And, assuming you're referring to google, how are they shafting you?
It's not your money.
I disagree. The taxes they are avoiding paying would be used to pay for infrastructure, services, etc, so, in a very real way, it *is* his money because without those taxes, the system is not as well funded and projects/services/infrastructure have to be cut
Israel was enforcing a blockade, a number of countries do and have done for centuries.
Israel boarded ships in international waters by force, which is an act of piracy. They also practice apartheid (which we have shunned other nations, like South Africa, for in the past) among many other things.
You couldn't fire someone explicitly for using the bathroom because that would be a violation of health and safety laws. You could, however, fire them for something semi-related.
I have to agree with you. I don't get the hostility toward "Teach yourself X" books. They're a great place to start.
Granted, there are a number of crappy ones out there, but a lot of them are great as intro tutorials (and some even serve well as refs)
When starting on 3G and moving out of 3G coverage area, it will try to keep a signal by shifting to a less optimal signal.
However, it may not work the same in the opposite direction. If it starts a call on Edge/2G and moves into an area where both 3G and Edge are available that it might *not* try to switch to the better service, but instead stay with what it's currently on.
This is, of course, just a guess, but it would explain the behavior.
Hey, they placed.
Last is a place :P
It was my experience in college that a lot of the grad students teaching math courses were nowhere *near* fluent. It made the classes that much more difficult.
Yup, right up there with leeching
Actually, leaching *does* have medicinal benefits. Doctors have learned that leaches can be used effectively in the reattaching of severed body parts. They've also found benefits in the use of maggots (they eat infected flesh, but don't bother the healthy flesh surrounding it)
Got a headache? We'll drill a gaping, untreated hole in your head to release the "bad spirits"!
Hate to break it to you, but this is used by modern medicine too in order to relieve cranial pressure caused by fluid buildup.
So, despite your cries of "it's all bunk", "new" discoveries involving old techniques are not uncommon. That's not to say that *all* old cures and treatments work, but just because someone scoffs at something as unenlightened doesn't mean it really is.
His IQ is indeed rated at 160 or 180 depending on where you look. However, I'd say that his intellect is much higher than that score would indicate. Among other things, distraction caused by pain would throw the test score off pretty dramatically judging by the difference in scores I got when I did it in a normal manner and while working on other projects at the same time.
Xue and I both test in the 140-145 range. However, we both have areas where our aptitudes would, in all honesty, put us rather above that.
Care to make a retraction on that now that we've traded numbers again? *smirks and giggles*
At least he didn't look down and say "You...poor...thing..." :P
She was rather shy before she met me. There was a lot of time spent building her confidence and dragging her out of her shell when we first met.
Of course, there was also quite a bit of time spent yelling at her, telling her to stab harder (fencing) lol
And yes, of the two of us, my IQ's higher. ;)
Yeah. Yeah. We're in the same 5 point range so it's debatable whether or not there's any real difference in scores :P
Though to get a woman *twice* as smart he'd probably have to drink a hell of a lot of alcohol and kill a fair few brain cells since we're both rather high up on the scale.
Not to be immodest, but to get a partner twice as smart as either of us, we'd basically have to find someone on a level with Hawking and even that might be debatable...
(This would be bladesjester's girlfriend of... shit, how many years has it been now? are we up to four?).
Probably, yeah. Possibly a little more.
Women are much better at deception than men, and they're smart enough to know that stupidity is a turn on for guys...
I must be weird then, because stupidity is a *huge* turn off for me. I have met incredibly beautiful women before that pretty much instantly turned me off because they had no freaking brain.
As I said, some ways are faster. However, the problem with guns tends to be the noise. It's one thing to not care who finds the body, but most people, I would think, would generally want to be somewhere else when the body is found.
Sure, you can make a single use silencer, but that adds other difficulties (prep time, actually knowing/learning how to do it, etc etc etc)
Making stops to kill people takes much longer than stopping for potty breaks or tossing Gatorade bottles out of the car.
Not really. People are rather fragile. It doesn't take a lot to kill someone in all honesty.
What takes time is hiding the evidence. If you just want someone dead and don't care who finds the body, you can do it in a couple of minutes (and that's for opening an artery or two and letting them bleed out. Certain other ways can be even faster).
Unfortunately, we find much of this same short-sighted idiotic MBA behaviour in the US government [salon.com] over the past several years:
There's a reason for that. George W Bush *does* have an MBA from the Harvard Business School...
Doesn't matter-- you just can't get around the fact that they currently make 1/10th of what we do and bill out at 1/3 of what we do.
This is part of the problem with the kind of short term "thinking" that a lot of the MBAs who decide to outsource a lot of this stuff engage in. They don't realize and/or don't care that paying 1/3 of what it would cost to write it here is actually more expensive in both "money cost" and missed opportunity (which is often the *really* big price that causes a lot of companies to go under) when you have to do it several times over before you get something close to usable.
Instead, they tend to see things more like this: "I cut our expenses by x%. I want a bonus. Now let me find another place to work before this decision catches up with me."
You raise an excellent point, which only begs a very interesting question, what should we call it then? What's your idea?
AFK =]
I would also suggest just going to things that interest you. Chances are that you'll find people there that you find interesting and who find you interesting. Plus you'd already have something in common.
The thing is that "I have to go to this place and find people who will like me" should not be your goal. You should go to things that you want to go to or are interested in. Going places just to meet people with the "will you be my friend" thing tends to make you come off as weird and not in the good way.
I met most of my really good friends that way. So have a lot, if not most, of the people I know.
And Olberman offered to give $1000 to charity for each rock that Hannity had thrown at him =]
Microsoft cannot vote.
Okay. It's time for a reality check and/or to pull your head out of your nether regions.
A company is not a person. It is a construct created at the sufferance of the people. It exists to, among other things, limit the liability of the people who control it and, believe it or not, actually work for the good of society while making a profit.
A lot (if not most) people in this country seem to forget that, *especially* the people here who think that the "free market" is the answer to everything.
The representation granted is to the people who control the company. Ballmer and the other people who control Microsoft most certainly CAN vote provided they are citizens and have not been convicted of a felony, and most likely do so.
As for taxes, this country was founded on tax resistance. Anyone who pretends that it's unpatriotic to resist taxes today needs a remedial history course.
Actually, this country was founded on, among other things, not paying taxes to a body with which they had no representation. You remember, that whole "no taxation without representation" thing.
Guess what. Ballmer has representation in this country as he is a citizen and has the right to vote.
I think you're the one who needs a remedial history lesson.
I've seen just as crazy and worse people in large cities. The mix of crazy is slightly different in a large city, but there is plenty of crazy in any metropolis, suburb, or rural town.
Crazy does indeed exist everywhere. The concentration of it in a lot of the small towns here, however, tends to be rather higher than I have experienced in larger cities.
You also have the fact that there tends to be quite a bit of, shall we say, "shady" activity that everyone who is halfway observant knows about but nobody talks about for various reasons (one of which is that they don't want to have an "accident"). Yes, I realize that happens in larger cities as well, but believe me when I say that that sort of activity pretty much owns a lot of smaller towns in this region.
Just about any town in rural America. PA, MN, OH, NY all have these towns where you can just walk into anyone's house without a problem.
I can't speak for PA, MN, or NY, but I grew up in small rural towns in Ohio. I can assure you that people certainly *did* lock their doors and that crime, while not *insanely* rampant, was far from rare. I am, however, told that people were less likely to lock their doors when my father was a kid.
I knew a number of people whose homes were broken into while I was growing up and the thefts have only gotten worse in the last year or two as crime rates have risen due to the poor economy.
Add to this the fact that there is a prevailing sentiment in a lot of the smaller rural communities here that the entire world should be Christian (and they are willing to trample the civil rights of others to that end), that anyone less conservative than W is causing the ruin of this country, that all Muslims are evil and want to destroy America (I kid you not. Actual comments from the local paper), and, frankly, that if you're not a white, "God fearing", good ol' boy that you should just get out.
Sadly, I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating. I will readily admit that there are many good people in this area, but there are also a very large number of people who display the behaviors and prejudices that I have listed above (as well as more than a few others). It's enough to give you a headache purely from trying to not scream in frustration.
Don't try to idolize the small towns as bastions of everything good in the country, because it's just not true.