Live shows and the merchandise sold at them *are* how most bands actually make money. The truth is that not many bands make much of anything from album sales due to shady practices by the record companies. Generally the bands only break even on album sales and that's if they're lucky.
This puts you onto the path that will eventually lead to you buying MS SQL
Nah. Most people only used/use Access for smaller stuff. They came out with SQL server lite a while back. Free of charge and embeddable into.net apps (much like cloudscape is for java apps).
I recently helped a friend on a small claims case (for non-payment by one of his clients) that went to a trial de neuvo after the original judge completely ignored the contract, and reasonable legal arguments - and zeroed in on my friend having a 15-year old felony conviction and stated that she was ruling against him on that basis alone.
You know, a sane system would make sure that a judge like that was thrown off the bench and disbarred.
It's a shame that this so often isn't a sane system.
Indeed. A friend of mine was in the closet all through junior high and high school even to himself. I knew even though he denied it even to himself, but I'd had several other homosexual friends.
He finally came out 2 or 3 years into college, and his (extremely baptist) family all but disowned him. The boy that was the pride of his family until that point was suddenly horrible and evil. It took his mother over 6 months (and among other things a verbal smack to the face from me) before she even talked to him again.
No, I mean AT&T. Their logo used to be a deathstar looking space station with a little spaceship racing away from it. Their current circular logo is a highly stylized version of their old one.
he was referring to the taxes listed on your paycheck. The taxes on that don't pay for your police protection, fire protection, the federal bank insurance, local water, or most of the highways you use, which are funded by different types of governments or taxes.
Actually, in a lot of places in the US, a portion of those things *are* paid for by part of the taxes that appear on your pay stub - under the heading of City Taxes. Oh, and that Federal Taxes thing that comes out of your paycheck and that you have to file paperwork for sometime in mid April to make sure you paid enough helps to pay for part of the other things on your list.
Chances are that he either took it because the money was really really good, the market in your area isn't very good, or he isn't very good (or not well connected).
In any event, chances are that they'll probably be needing another DBA in a year or when the market in your area picks up depending on the reason the new guy is there.
In some states, those labels mean hands off. You fire someone and they can show it was for discussing a union on your own time, and they will be in serious trouble.
Actually, firing or otherwise discriminating against someone on the basis of union activity is a violation of federal labor law in the United States, so it doesn't matter *what* state you're in.
If they try it, one call to the NLRB and the place turns into a circus.
Some of the best advice on the topic that I've heard (from HR people that I know, none the less) is that the best possible notice letter you can give an employer is simply that you present your two weeks notice, effective on [date]
If someone has turned in their resignation why would you want to keep them around for two more weeks anyway? Their work should already be documented and "two weeks of paid slacking" doesn't sound like valuable work to me.
You are very very short sighted. That is something that you and far too many MBAs have in common, and you're all wrong for one very important reason:
Companies depend on their employees to get things done. It is in their interest to make current employees, former employees, and even potential employees who didn't make the cut this time to have a positive attitude about your company.
Why? Because the current people are doing work for you *right now*, the former people may be again in the future, the failed prospects may be tomorrow's perfect candidate, and all of them have one other important thing in common - they know other people, and they talk to other people, a number of them may be people that you want as employees, customers, suppliers, etc.
Most jobs are filled through networking, not through job boards. Especially the important ones.
Sow ill will with a few people, and it isn't just those people who remember it. People who they talk to and the people who those people talk to, etc remember it and it colors their perception of the company in question.
It's a really great way to cut your own throat as a company because it makes it very difficult, and possibly nearly impossible depending on the job market to get good people if you behave like that for very long.
I doubt they made it to be a precision tool. Like I said, it's nice for light work.
Extreme precision isn't always needed. Sometimes you just need a quick, working fix. It may be unpopular to say here, but sometimes the bubblegum and paperclip solution is the correct one.
Yours must be one of the rare ones like the one near where I am.
Most of them don't seem to carry caps, breadboard, and the like anymore. I was amazed when I walked into this one. They have an entire aisle of it. In fact, it was the only place around here that I could find one of the Cold Heat soldering irons around here (which, for light work, are actually kind of nice).
I agree. And the frightening thing is that those sorts of stories are starting to become more common. It's really starting to look like the economic problems we had in the 80s all over again.
The advantage of butted maille is that it's a heck of a lot easier to make and repair (so it would, theoretically, be cheaper). It also frequently allowed for a more dense maille than riveted rings (doing rivets in tight places is a pain in the hand - so speaks the apprentice blacksmith).
Armor is really a trade off of a lot of things - type of protection, material, flexibility, weight, cost, etc. It's a lot like computer security, really.
Armor was expensive, and you got the best that you could, but not everyone could get the best that there was. Heck, sometimes the best you could do was a brigandine or even just light leather armor and that was certainly better than nothing.
The thing is that, and this will make some people's heads hurt, lack of actual surviving pieces of armor and weapons that are described in literature or historic accounts actually often attests to their popularity - they kept getting used until they broke. It's the reason that grave effigies and literature are so important in the field - they give a good indication of what was popular.
However, with maille, it's basically impossible to tell from a drawing or carving if maille is butted or riveted. The fact that there are so many examples of riveted maille could be attributed largely to its cost since it would have been used by the very rich who don't do most of the actual fighting.
Oh, and on the cutting of maille with a blade article, in general, chain provided quite a lot of protection from slashing strikes for its weight and bit less protection for chopping strikes. Piercing ones are another story entirely because even riveted maille will split.
It's not a problem. I just find it kind of weird that you got modded through the floor for your posting. Granted, the link was from a very biased source, but still.
Then again, most people don't even have respect for each other let alone for the food they eat or the rest of the world around them. Being horribly self-absorbed and short-sighted seems to be a rampant disease.
A bit off topic, what kind of maille items do you make (asks the swordsman)?:P
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Maybe some farms are cruel to their birds, but cruelty is not necessary (and some argue not even beneficial) for the production of good foie gras.
I hate to break it to you, but you're wrong. It's legally defined as "the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage" (gavage is forced feeding).
Ask any good chef, and chances are you'll get the same answer. If you don't they're either lying to you or themselves. (for reference, I have one or two in my family)
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But I would suggest that if you eat a hamburger for lunch and wear leather shoes or a belt, you might want to do a hypocrisy check and see what your score is.
Sanity check time. Eating a cow isn't the same as force feeding a goose until its liver basically explodes so that it's extra tasty.
I spent a large portion of my childhood on a farm and have been through the whole cycle from feeding the calf to walking the adult cow in to get slaughtered. I have absolutely no problem with eating meat, hunting (provided it's done for food or to rid oneself of threats to land and crops, etc. I don't condone pure trophy hunting), and the like. In fact, I've done/do all of them myself.
That said, I can't condone the torture of an animal just because you think engorging its liver will make it yummy. If you raise something for food, treat it with respect, and when it comes time to kill it, make it a clean kill. Doing otherwise shows a lack of respect for the things which keep you alive and, by extension, a lack of respect for yourself.
(Oh, and I wear leather too. Quite a lot of it - coat, belts, several pairs of gloves, multiple pairs of shoes and boots, etc - and I view that as a positive thing. It means that one more part of the animal that helped feed someone gets used toward a positive end instead of being thrown away).
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You replied to the wrong person. I also commented that they were legumes :P
*points up*
Live shows and the merchandise sold at them *are* how most bands actually make money. The truth is that not many bands make much of anything from album sales due to shady practices by the record companies. Generally the bands only break even on album sales and that's if they're lucky.
This puts you onto the path that will eventually lead to you buying MS SQL
.net apps (much like cloudscape is for java apps).
Nah. Most people only used/use Access for smaller stuff. They came out with SQL server lite a while back. Free of charge and embeddable into
I recently helped a friend on a small claims case (for non-payment by one of his clients) that went to a trial de neuvo after the original judge completely ignored the contract, and reasonable legal arguments - and zeroed in on my friend having a 15-year old felony conviction and stated that she was ruling against him on that basis alone.
You know, a sane system would make sure that a judge like that was thrown off the bench and disbarred.
It's a shame that this so often isn't a sane system.
"Warning : these peanuts were made in a factory that processes nuts".
That one is not a "duh" thing despite what some people think. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
Indeed. A friend of mine was in the closet all through junior high and high school even to himself. I knew even though he denied it even to himself, but I'd had several other homosexual friends.
He finally came out 2 or 3 years into college, and his (extremely baptist) family all but disowned him. The boy that was the pride of his family until that point was suddenly horrible and evil. It took his mother over 6 months (and among other things a verbal smack to the face from me) before she even talked to him again.
No, I mean AT&T. Their logo used to be a deathstar looking space station with a little spaceship racing away from it. Their current circular logo is a highly stylized version of their old one.
Sun uses death star to kill google
Let's not get AT&T involved in this.
he was referring to the taxes listed on your paycheck. The taxes on that don't pay for your police protection, fire protection, the federal bank insurance, local water, or most of the highways you use, which are funded by different types of governments or taxes.
Actually, in a lot of places in the US, a portion of those things *are* paid for by part of the taxes that appear on your pay stub - under the heading of City Taxes. Oh, and that Federal Taxes thing that comes out of your paycheck and that you have to file paperwork for sometime in mid April to make sure you paid enough helps to pay for part of the other things on your list.
Chances are that he either took it because the money was really really good, the market in your area isn't very good, or he isn't very good (or not well connected).
In any event, chances are that they'll probably be needing another DBA in a year or when the market in your area picks up depending on the reason the new guy is there.
In some states, those labels mean hands off. You fire someone and they can show it was for discussing a union on your own time, and they will be in serious trouble.
Actually, firing or otherwise discriminating against someone on the basis of union activity is a violation of federal labor law in the United States, so it doesn't matter *what* state you're in.
If they try it, one call to the NLRB and the place turns into a circus.
Some of the best advice on the topic that I've heard (from HR people that I know, none the less) is that the best possible notice letter you can give an employer is simply that you present your two weeks notice, effective on [date]
If someone has turned in their resignation why would you want to keep them around for two more weeks anyway? Their work should already be documented and "two weeks of paid slacking" doesn't sound like valuable work to me.
You are very very short sighted. That is something that you and far too many MBAs have in common, and you're all wrong for one very important reason:
Companies depend on their employees to get things done. It is in their interest to make current employees, former employees, and even potential employees who didn't make the cut this time to have a positive attitude about your company.
Why? Because the current people are doing work for you *right now*, the former people may be again in the future, the failed prospects may be tomorrow's perfect candidate, and all of them have one other important thing in common - they know other people, and they talk to other people, a number of them may be people that you want as employees, customers, suppliers, etc.
Most jobs are filled through networking, not through job boards. Especially the important ones.
Sow ill will with a few people, and it isn't just those people who remember it. People who they talk to and the people who those people talk to, etc remember it and it colors their perception of the company in question.
It's a really great way to cut your own throat as a company because it makes it very difficult, and possibly nearly impossible depending on the job market to get good people if you behave like that for very long.
One of the definitions is "Pointless; worthless"
It is indeed possible for someone to be intelligent and still be stupid or idiotic for that matter.
I doubt they made it to be a precision tool. Like I said, it's nice for light work.
Extreme precision isn't always needed. Sometimes you just need a quick, working fix. It may be unpopular to say here, but sometimes the bubblegum and paperclip solution is the correct one.
Yours must be one of the rare ones like the one near where I am.
Most of them don't seem to carry caps, breadboard, and the like anymore. I was amazed when I walked into this one. They have an entire aisle of it. In fact, it was the only place around here that I could find one of the Cold Heat soldering irons around here (which, for light work, are actually kind of nice).
I agree. And the frightening thing is that those sorts of stories are starting to become more common. It's really starting to look like the economic problems we had in the 80s all over again.
I'm looking over it now.
The advantage of butted maille is that it's a heck of a lot easier to make and repair (so it would, theoretically, be cheaper). It also frequently allowed for a more dense maille than riveted rings (doing rivets in tight places is a pain in the hand - so speaks the apprentice blacksmith).
Armor is really a trade off of a lot of things - type of protection, material, flexibility, weight, cost, etc. It's a lot like computer security, really.
Armor was expensive, and you got the best that you could, but not everyone could get the best that there was. Heck, sometimes the best you could do was a brigandine or even just light leather armor and that was certainly better than nothing.
The thing is that, and this will make some people's heads hurt, lack of actual surviving pieces of armor and weapons that are described in literature or historic accounts actually often attests to their popularity - they kept getting used until they broke. It's the reason that grave effigies and literature are so important in the field - they give a good indication of what was popular.
However, with maille, it's basically impossible to tell from a drawing or carving if maille is butted or riveted. The fact that there are so many examples of riveted maille could be attributed largely to its cost since it would have been used by the very rich who don't do most of the actual fighting.
Oh, and on the cutting of maille with a blade article, in general, chain provided quite a lot of protection from slashing strikes for its weight and bit less protection for chopping strikes. Piercing ones are another story entirely because even riveted maille will split.
Looking at the photos, something inside me screams "Tear it down!" because it's rather unsettling and not in the good way.
It's not a building I'd want to work in or around.
It's not a problem. I just find it kind of weird that you got modded through the floor for your posting. Granted, the link was from a very biased source, but still.
:P
Then again, most people don't even have respect for each other let alone for the food they eat or the rest of the world around them. Being horribly self-absorbed and short-sighted seems to be a rampant disease.
A bit off topic, what kind of maille items do you make (asks the swordsman)?
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Maybe some farms are cruel to their birds, but cruelty is not necessary (and some argue not even beneficial) for the production of good foie gras.
I hate to break it to you, but you're wrong. It's legally defined as "the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage" (gavage is forced feeding).
Ask any good chef, and chances are you'll get the same answer. If you don't they're either lying to you or themselves. (for reference, I have one or two in my family)
But I would suggest that if you eat a hamburger for lunch and wear leather shoes or a belt, you might want to do a hypocrisy check and see what your score is.
Sanity check time. Eating a cow isn't the same as force feeding a goose until its liver basically explodes so that it's extra tasty.
I spent a large portion of my childhood on a farm and have been through the whole cycle from feeding the calf to walking the adult cow in to get slaughtered. I have absolutely no problem with eating meat, hunting (provided it's done for food or to rid oneself of threats to land and crops, etc. I don't condone pure trophy hunting), and the like. In fact, I've done/do all of them myself.
That said, I can't condone the torture of an animal just because you think engorging its liver will make it yummy. If you raise something for food, treat it with respect, and when it comes time to kill it, make it a clean kill. Doing otherwise shows a lack of respect for the things which keep you alive and, by extension, a lack of respect for yourself.
(Oh, and I wear leather too. Quite a lot of it - coat, belts, several pairs of gloves, multiple pairs of shoes and boots, etc - and I view that as a positive thing. It means that one more part of the animal that helped feed someone gets used toward a positive end instead of being thrown away).
Many others have made ice cream using liquid nitrogen, and it is universally hailed as the smoothest ice cream available
Two words - Dippin Dots. I have to stop by their stand every time I'm in the mall =]
I think you even have 90 days to do so.
You only have like 30 days for electronic stuff and some of it they won't refund if it's been opened, only replace with an identical item.