I know I'm probably going to get flamed by someone for this, but you'll find that a lot of the "leave your job" people are basically in a pissing match to try and make themselves either look cool (it doesn't work) or convince themselves that that is the way everything should work.
The macho crap amuses me. Found a job that you like which pays well, is stable, doesn't make you want to rip out your hair, and is in an area that you enjoy? good for you. Don't worry about the perpetual job hoppers. Do, however, try to keep your skills sharp just in case something happens.
In a bad situation? In that case, by all means, try to get yourself into a better place.
My sifu wasn't bald, and wasn't all that wrinkly. I'd say that, at the time, he was probably in his early to mid 50's.
He did, however, have the perpetual cheshire cat-like grin.
He was a tough, sadistic little man when it came to training. I miss him a lot. Some of the people I've trained thought I was tough. I went easy on them by comparison, not that they'd ever believe it.
There was one German tourist that really amused me. The guy literally ordered one of everything in the restraunt because he wanted to try it all.
I found that amusing. I do, however, agree with you that most tourists that I've met have been rather cool. Though some Americans can't get used to the notion of a complete stranger asking you if they can sit at your table.
Personally, I don't really like fighting. Doesn't mean that I'm not capable of it or that I'm not good at it - just that I'd generally rather be doing something else (Though I admit that I am occasionally in one of those moods. Thankfully, I have good self control and they are few and far between).
There was one amusing moment in not fighting when I got the eternal gratitude of a bartender by breaking up a bar fight with a word and then escorting the troublemakers out the door. Call me weird, but I don't care for barflies in my beer =]
By the by, glad you made it out in what I assume is one piece.
Yes, I've read the article, and quite frankly, being "several weight classes" above someone doesn't always mean a whole heck of a lot.
I've taken down other people that were significantly larger than I was. Conversely, I've also had my head handed to me by a little old chinese guy (I really miss him, he was a good teacher).
But if you want to learn a real lesson in frightening little men, you should meet the one master blacksmith that I got to know while I was working at the forge. He was about 5'3" and looked like a good breeze would blow him away, but he could do things physically that I couldn't do at 6' tall and built like a wall.
Not to mention the fact that the martial training (if you actually learn and have a teacher who knows what he/she is doing - this tends to be a bit more rare than you would think) will give you more than just the ability to hurt other people.
Among other things it will teach you: How to gauge the danger of a situation. How to use your environment to your advantage. To listen to your instincts when they tell you something is off about a situation. To tell if the person who's giving you a hard time is packing a conventional weapon like a gun (look for telltale bulges, slightly unusual movements, etc) That everything has the potential to be used as a weapon.
heh. I'm not much on organ meat, personally, so I think the world is safe in that regard at least.
It's often been joked by friends that if they were to be stuck in a zombie flick that they'd want me there because with my background (and the fact that I have more than enough gear in my armory for the group of them. After close to 20 years, you accumulate a few pieces.) I'd probably be able to get us out all in one piece.
Knowing me, however, if I got stuck in a zombie movie with a bunch of random people, I'd kill half of them up front because they're too stupid to live through the experience and would end up being an extreme liability. I'm just not the type to run after the person who doesn't want to off the brain eaters because they used to be people =]
Unfortunately for our muay thai trained figther, in an actual boxing match, the advantage would lie with the boxer because of the rules involved.
I grew up training in kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts as well as some training in muay thai, and in a match with rules, I am at a disadvantage because I have to stop my body from doing things that it's not allowed to do because of the rules. In a real life situation, however, the advantage tends to rest with me.
It's the reason I never wanted to do tournament fighting. Instead, I got wrangled into helping train a few people who did because of my background and ability to pick apart weaknesses while turning them into advantages.
I think I had an interview there too. Those people tend to annoy me.
Personally, I don't care if your skin is plaid or a nice purple paisley. I deal with people on a per person basis, not a per people basis. You could be a dyslexic, fur-covered purple midget for all I care as long as you know what you're doing (or are capable of learning and willing to do so) and you're at least fairly cool (read - not a total jerk).
But then, I tend to stand out a bit in a crowd myself (fairly tall, long neatly kept hair, and shoulders that can block most standard doors. I keep getting accused of looking like a fed or a mercenary)
On the expenses paid part - is it that Google pays for the trip or that they remburse you for your expenses. From what the one person who got fired for blogging about his experiences there said, it seems like the rembursement would be more likely (which also sucks, because that gets taxed, effectively costing you money any way you cut it).
As for the 3k of expenses, it could be that he's in another country now (some of them have states as well).
He seems like an individual to me. I don't agree with everything he says (though, on the whole, he tends to make a lot of sense), but he is indeed an individual.
At least I wasn't the only one who wasn't stuck in the box of "it has to be done with geosynchronous satelites"
Thanks for giving an explaination so I didn't have to. There was, however, one point that everyone on this portion of the thread seems to miss so far - defending an area in all three dimensions is not just about having our weapons up there, but keeping other suspicious satelites out of those orbits (which is something that could be done from the ground).
Using the Perl Harbor example - it wouldn't have required that we have planes in the air to deal with the incomming aircraft. They could have been dealt with nearly as easily from sea or land based weapons platforms.
No more strange than laying claim to a harbor or x miles of ocean from your shores, really.
Not that I'm defending the move, but I can see where, in some ways, it makes sense to defend certain portions of space (say the parts above your country) where satelite based weapons could make easy targets of important sites.
Heck, they've been talking about it since the Regan administration at least, so this is nothing really all that new.
That's a nice [job|house|whatever] you have there, Mr FileSharer. It would be a pity if something would happen to it should you not buy some of our music.
But then I'm one to joke. I'm one of the ones the RIAA really hates. I buy music, but I generally buy it used.
People suffering from depression or excessive stress often have the same problem. Unfortunately, I can vouch for that one. Even when I was training every day, I still wasn't really losing the weight.
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If fails to mention one of the startling inaccuracies in the Forbes piece: namely that they claim that RMS argues they should be giving it all away.
"the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity." - Richard Stallman
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00287-4., chapter 6
I know I'm probably going to get flamed by someone for this, but you'll find that a lot of the "leave your job" people are basically in a pissing match to try and make themselves either look cool (it doesn't work) or convince themselves that that is the way everything should work.
The macho crap amuses me. Found a job that you like which pays well, is stable, doesn't make you want to rip out your hair, and is in an area that you enjoy? good for you. Don't worry about the perpetual job hoppers. Do, however, try to keep your skills sharp just in case something happens.
In a bad situation? In that case, by all means, try to get yourself into a better place.
I don't doubt your honesty, but please tell me you're kidding.
That has got to be the most rediculous "requiremet" for an online transaction that I've ever heard.
My sifu wasn't bald, and wasn't all that wrinkly. I'd say that, at the time, he was probably in his early to mid 50's.
He did, however, have the perpetual cheshire cat-like grin.
He was a tough, sadistic little man when it came to training. I miss him a lot. Some of the people I've trained thought I was tough. I went easy on them by comparison, not that they'd ever believe it.
There was one German tourist that really amused me. The guy literally ordered one of everything in the restraunt because he wanted to try it all.
I found that amusing. I do, however, agree with you that most tourists that I've met have been rather cool. Though some Americans can't get used to the notion of a complete stranger asking you if they can sit at your table.
Whacked the mole?
Best way to avoid an attack? Don't be there.
Personally, I don't really like fighting. Doesn't mean that I'm not capable of it or that I'm not good at it - just that I'd generally rather be doing something else (Though I admit that I am occasionally in one of those moods. Thankfully, I have good self control and they are few and far between).
There was one amusing moment in not fighting when I got the eternal gratitude of a bartender by breaking up a bar fight with a word and then escorting the troublemakers out the door. Call me weird, but I don't care for barflies in my beer =]
By the by, glad you made it out in what I assume is one piece.
Yes, I've read the article, and quite frankly, being "several weight classes" above someone doesn't always mean a whole heck of a lot.
I've taken down other people that were significantly larger than I was. Conversely, I've also had my head handed to me by a little old chinese guy (I really miss him, he was a good teacher).
But if you want to learn a real lesson in frightening little men, you should meet the one master blacksmith that I got to know while I was working at the forge. He was about 5'3" and looked like a good breeze would blow him away, but he could do things physically that I couldn't do at 6' tall and built like a wall.
Not to mention the fact that the martial training (if you actually learn and have a teacher who knows what he/she is doing - this tends to be a bit more rare than you would think) will give you more than just the ability to hurt other people.
Among other things it will teach you:
How to gauge the danger of a situation.
How to use your environment to your advantage.
To listen to your instincts when they tell you something is off about a situation.
To tell if the person who's giving you a hard time is packing a conventional weapon like a gun (look for telltale bulges, slightly unusual movements, etc)
That everything has the potential to be used as a weapon.
All of those things can save your neck.
heh. I'm not much on organ meat, personally, so I think the world is safe in that regard at least.
It's often been joked by friends that if they were to be stuck in a zombie flick that they'd want me there because with my background (and the fact that I have more than enough gear in my armory for the group of them. After close to 20 years, you accumulate a few pieces.) I'd probably be able to get us out all in one piece.
Knowing me, however, if I got stuck in a zombie movie with a bunch of random people, I'd kill half of them up front because they're too stupid to live through the experience and would end up being an extreme liability. I'm just not the type to run after the person who doesn't want to off the brain eaters because they used to be people =]
Unfortunately for our muay thai trained figther, in an actual boxing match, the advantage would lie with the boxer because of the rules involved.
I grew up training in kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts as well as some training in muay thai, and in a match with rules, I am at a disadvantage because I have to stop my body from doing things that it's not allowed to do because of the rules. In a real life situation, however, the advantage tends to rest with me.
It's the reason I never wanted to do tournament fighting. Instead, I got wrangled into helping train a few people who did because of my background and ability to pick apart weaknesses while turning them into advantages.
I think I had an interview there too. Those people tend to annoy me.
Personally, I don't care if your skin is plaid or a nice purple paisley. I deal with people on a per person basis, not a per people basis. You could be a dyslexic, fur-covered purple midget for all I care as long as you know what you're doing (or are capable of learning and willing to do so) and you're at least fairly cool (read - not a total jerk).
But then, I tend to stand out a bit in a crowd myself (fairly tall, long neatly kept hair, and shoulders that can block most standard doors. I keep getting accused of looking like a fed or a mercenary)
On the expenses paid part - is it that Google pays for the trip or that they remburse you for your expenses. From what the one person who got fired for blogging about his experiences there said, it seems like the rembursement would be more likely (which also sucks, because that gets taxed, effectively costing you money any way you cut it).
As for the 3k of expenses, it could be that he's in another country now (some of them have states as well).
It was an article that he wrote when he was doing a piece for PC Computing every issue.
They're all archived on the penn and teller site.
anti-GPL people aren't people, they're corporations
how about Penn of Penn and Teller?
He seems like an individual to me. I don't agree with everything he says (though, on the whole, he tends to make a lot of sense), but he is indeed an individual.
I think I dated one once.
Still have my kidney though.
At least I wasn't the only one who wasn't stuck in the box of "it has to be done with geosynchronous satelites"
Thanks for giving an explaination so I didn't have to. There was, however, one point that everyone on this portion of the thread seems to miss so far - defending an area in all three dimensions is not just about having our weapons up there, but keeping other suspicious satelites out of those orbits (which is something that could be done from the ground).
Using the Perl Harbor example - it wouldn't have required that we have planes in the air to deal with the incomming aircraft. They could have been dealt with nearly as easily from sea or land based weapons platforms.
No more strange than laying claim to a harbor or x miles of ocean from your shores, really.
Not that I'm defending the move, but I can see where, in some ways, it makes sense to defend certain portions of space (say the parts above your country) where satelite based weapons could make easy targets of important sites.
Heck, they've been talking about it since the Regan administration at least, so this is nothing really all that new.
Notice that the guy's name is Guido?
That's a nice [job|house|whatever] you have there, Mr FileSharer. It would be a pity if something would happen to it should you not buy some of our music.
But then I'm one to joke. I'm one of the ones the RIAA really hates. I buy music, but I generally buy it used.
So you're saying that goth kids are the only ones with a real sense of reality? :P
Apple is selling ipods with a virus on them and they're taking it as an opportunity to bash Microsoft??
I'm sorry, but that just seems ass backwards to me. This one is not Microsoft's fault, and I hope people realize that.
best mac parody ever
I remember seeing it a few times here in the US as well.
Hey, that didn't even compile!
Sure it does
if(money)
take = true;
if(take)
run();
People suffering from depression or excessive stress often have the same problem. Unfortunately, I can vouch for that one. Even when I was training every day, I still wasn't really losing the weight.