it would be a documentary. (That does not mean that a documentary gets it right.) The story and how it looks is what makes a good movie, not if you see something fit for the goofs section on IMDb.
I have seen a lot of shitty meetings where there was no follow up, no agenda, no minutes. I have seen people trown out of meetings, because they could not say what they were doing there. I have seen meeting that were extremely functional in duration and information and outcome. I have seen ones that were extremely non-functional in that nobody understood what just happened.
It always depended on who was leading the meeting in what manner.
I think most companies to do invest enough in how to hold meetings. What to do and what NOT to do. How to lead a meeting and how to follow up on meetings.
If it is lead by somebody who is incapable of doing so, it will be bad. The same happens with cyber meetings where often the rules have to be applied even stricter.
$# is a lot. There are phones sold that do not even make that as profit on the phone. Many devices are sold below the $300 price range. Many even below the $30 price-range and some even much lower then that.
At that moment your dollars or pennies really start to count. A few pennies in production means easily a dollar or more in retail. and that can men 10% of your sales price on cheap items that have to have the same connection as the $300+ items.
I have had a problem with Micro USB. The cable connection broke. Because I was on a holiday, I did not have any of the many micro USB cables that I have around the house with me. Rather I had one for two devices. The other devices had MiniUSB connections to charge.
Because it was such a standard connection, I could just stop a a tank station and buy a car charger with microUSB.
So the issue was that it broke. The plus side was that it was easy to replace on a weekend where normally all shops would be closed.
So even if it breaks easier (which is a very relative way to measure things) I rather go for microUSB then for non-standard ones.
I just wish there would be no difference between mini and micro USB. I like miniUSB a bit more as it is easier to see (for me) how to plug it in.
But lessor, unintentional interference, spread across millions of flights per year, may increase the risk so that one (or more) has a life threatening problem.
You mean that I could by accident put explosives in a plastic bottle, but when I put that bottle in a clear plastic bag, then we are safe?
I do hope that they come to reason and allow electronic devices, but also put a cellphone blocker in the airplanes, so you can't call. I already can imagine the conversation: I am on a plane.... What?.... No, a plane.... Yes. A plane.... No we just boarded.... ON A PLANE.... A plane. Yes..... We are on it now and I can call you.... Wait.... We are taxi-ing.... No, I am not in a taxi, I am on a plane. [... snip 3 hours of flight listening to this...] On a plane.... A plane.... We are going to land the plane.... No, the Pilot.... What?... The pilot of the plane I am on....
Do this times at least 50 people and you would be BEGGING for them to be traded for crying kids that kick your chair.
I was thinking in a different line. Perhaps the rest of the world can invade the USofA to overthrow a regime that allows torture and spies on their own citizens. A country that produces weapons of mass destruction. A political system that ignores the people and is set up to only benefit the elite minority. A country that has supported Al Quaida and other terrorist organizations.
We can say all this, where in effect we are just after their oil. But then, who would fall for such a thing and not see the real reason?
Arrests are public as a way of preventing secret arrests
So there are no secret arrests?
I do understand the purpose and it isn't working. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages by a serious margin.
In the rest of the world where people are innocent until proven guilty, they are also have some privacy. This because privacy should be a right, not a privilege.
From what I get from the summery (Can't be bot herd to RTFA) this is about people who are not paying their part in the bill. We all know that person and if you don't, you are that person. Knowing how much he ows does not mean he will pay.
However those people are unwilling to pay the bill. I once went out with a group and he ordered a more expensive drink then the rest of us, except when he ordered the drink. Then he suddenly did not want anything.
So one time when we knew he did not have money on him (also happened more then once) we ordered all a shot, poured it down and left. That was the last time he did that.
Now when a person has financial problems and informs us, we will order something cheaper AND he will not go with us as much.
Now for the subject: This is something I learned from my mom: Counted sheep are eaten by the wolfs as well.
I know it sounds cold hearted, but we can put a price on a human life.
This is not just about a life. It is about a life worth living. Give me liberty, or give me death. Privacy is a very important part of liberty. You can have privacy without liberty. You can not have liberty without privacy.
So how much is that life worth living?
And remember, you have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I dislike the fixed bar on the top. It takes away space that I would want for content. If I want to go to something else, I can scroll back to the top. I am technical and know how to use a keyboard.
1920x1200 monitor user. The text uses about 25-30% of my screen. I am a technical person. I own a large screen
The complete uselessness on the right for 'easy access'. If I want something else, I know where to find it. I am a technical person. I know how to surf a website.
Usage of just a different font for quoted text instead of the line in front of it. I rather have the standard quoting from Usenet times. I am a technical person. I know what a | in front of text means.
On the user page, the icons for achievements. Looks like stars you give to kids, but I am a technical person.
The inability to see how many scores or replies there are or how a article scores. I want these details and numbers, because I am a technical person.
I do not even comment on the frontpage as I seldom use it. I link to the articles via RSS. I know how to do that, because I am a technical person.
My general feeling is that it is a great design. It is for others who are interested in how a site looks like more then the content. People here do care more about the content then the design.
Like some companies think what their users want, you should not only listen to your your audience, you must understand them. If you make this go through, it is clear that you don't.
There are plenty of people who learned to play on a bad guitar. There are plenty of people that never learned to play on a good guitar. A lot of great photo's are taken with camera's that are not able to do half of what your phone can do, let alone a DSLR. With movies it is even worse. Just because a movie is mad with a RED camera does not mean it is a good movie. As we all know, even having great actors is no guarantee for that.
Composition is a much more important aspect of a photo then the quality. With a limited camera you will learn on a complete different level. Look at the photo's of e.g. Vivian Maier and the camera she used (most of the time) was not even able to take color. First learn to make photo's and when composition is right, upgrade your gear.
Car example: If you want to race with a car, you do not start with an F1 car and say "I am the limitation." somebody already tried that and failed. (and even he started not with a F1 car.)
No, no investigation later. If they would insist, they would need to take it by force. That would mean more then likely the end of their career. Perhaps this does not happen in every country in the world, but it happens in free countries, like Belgium, where I live.
Every cheater knows that to stay undetected, you can't win too often.
This goes for everything. Not just casino's.
Many years ago, I had a friend who did control of checkout at a large supermarket chain in Belgium. This was before cards were widely used. The way they caught the thieves was because they stole the same amount every day. e.g. 10EUR each day.
The one way around this specific situation was to take different amounts out of the till each day. Even better if some day you would have a surplus once in a while.
Oh and on that 'Make it a huge thing.' I will then be very suspicious if I would win anything. I would want to get out as quietly as possible. I would not celebrate. I would not rent a limo. I would check out and leave. But then I am not a gambler.
I have no way of verifying that right away, so I must believe you. If the reason you post with your own name is your protest, good on you. The reason I do NOT post with my real name is also a protest.
If either one of the Demublican candidates for the last Presidential election had campaigned on the "we're going to spy on Americans" platform he'd have lost in a landslide.
They still voted for it. The problem is that it does not matter who you would have voted for.
Does your coffee typically give you third-degree burns?
If it comes out of the machine, the water is 100C. If I put that in my crotch in a moving vehicle, I should expect a burn wound. If you know how they made the temperature go above 100C, please let us know. Science wants to know. (Yes, I am aware of superheating.)
I am guessing that this was worse was because the lady was sitting in a car. That means the hot fluid had nowhere to go, except of where she was sitting. So the exposure time of the hot fluid was more then standard.
However I fail to see how that is the responsibility of the place that served it. If I ordered a fondue and I put it right at the end of the table and it then falls into my lap, I should expect terrible burning wounds as well. Should I then be able to sue, or should I take some responsibility and NOT put it at the end of the table.
If you put hot beverages in your lap that are in a cardboard cup in a moving vehicle, then you should expect to be burned. If I put a clod beverage there, I do not expect the place to pay for the dry cleaners if it went wrong. The question is not how high the price was, the question is about who was responsible. I say the woman was responsible, no matter how terrible her ordeal was.
You could also use no security. Do you think that what the US military uses will be safe, or just safe enough? I can imagine that the US military has absolutely no problem if the NSA is reading what they are doing. Perhaps they do not even care if Al Quaida is reading it. As long as it is not life and takes a week/month/year to decrypt.
Where I used to work we gave 100% IF THERE WAS A COURT ORDER. Otherwise we gave nothing. There should be no exception.
One time police officers came in asking for data and they were escorted out with the insight that we would get the data aside and IF they would be coming back within the week with a court order, we would have it ready. If later, we would have to look for it again.
More then once have I told officials to take a hike. And this about serious crimes where I am completely willing to go the extra mile once they give me the court order.
The issue I have is that if I would give the information without a court order, I would be guilty of breaking the law. However they are still allowed to ask for it and they do, trying to use their imaginary authority to impress some who might be more gullible.
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Please reverse the order. I would love to the the sadness on their faces when they see their families live in poverty right before they hang them.
Gravity is not the (only) problem with what is wring on LotR
Fellowship
Two Towers
Return of the King
And if you want to talk about the story itself, there is Mistakes and inconsistencies in Tolkien's works
That all does not make the books any less interesting, nor the movies any less enjoyable.
it would be a documentary. (That does not mean that a documentary gets it right.) The story and how it looks is what makes a good movie, not if you see something fit for the goofs section on IMDb.
Movies are not real life. News at 11.
I have seen a lot of shitty meetings where there was no follow up, no agenda, no minutes.
I have seen people trown out of meetings, because they could not say what they were doing there.
I have seen meeting that were extremely functional in duration and information and outcome. I have seen ones that were extremely non-functional in that nobody understood what just happened.
It always depended on who was leading the meeting in what manner.
I think most companies to do invest enough in how to hold meetings. What to do and what NOT to do. How to lead a meeting and how to follow up on meetings.
If it is lead by somebody who is incapable of doing so, it will be bad. The same happens with cyber meetings where often the rules have to be applied even stricter.
$# is a lot. There are phones sold that do not even make that as profit on the phone. Many devices are sold below the $300 price range. Many even below the $30 price-range and some even much lower then that.
At that moment your dollars or pennies really start to count. A few pennies in production means easily a dollar or more in retail. and that can men 10% of your sales price on cheap items that have to have the same connection as the $300+ items.
I have had a problem with Micro USB. The cable connection broke. Because I was on a holiday, I did not have any of the many micro USB cables that I have around the house with me. Rather I had one for two devices.
The other devices had MiniUSB connections to charge.
Because it was such a standard connection, I could just stop a a tank station and buy a car charger with microUSB.
So the issue was that it broke. The plus side was that it was easy to replace on a weekend where normally all shops would be closed.
So even if it breaks easier (which is a very relative way to measure things) I rather go for microUSB then for non-standard ones.
I just wish there would be no difference between mini and micro USB. I like miniUSB a bit more as it is easier to see (for me) how to plug it in.
There is no doubt in my mind that we can do something about it. The question is if we will.
The reason they do this is because the user is the product they are selling.
If you consider a career change look at How to Make Money Selling Drugs Also see the trailer
I was Anonymous before it was cool.
Signed,
Spartacus
You mean that I could by accident put explosives in a plastic bottle, but when I put that bottle in a clear plastic bag, then we are safe?
I do hope that they come to reason and allow electronic devices, but also put a cellphone blocker in the airplanes, so you can't call. I already can imagine the conversation: ... What? .... No, a plane. ... Yes. A plane. ... No we just boarded. ... ON A PLANE. ... A plane. Yes..... We are on it now and I can call you. ... Wait. ... We are taxi-ing. ... No, I am not in a taxi, I am on a plane. [... snip 3 hours of flight listening to this ...] On a plane. ... A plane. ... We are going to land the plane. ... No, the Pilot. ... What? ... The pilot of the plane I am on. ...
I am on a plane.
Do this times at least 50 people and you would be BEGGING for them to be traded for crying kids that kick your chair.
Please stop screaming at the waitress. BTW, how much should I tip them? When I asked they became rude.
I was thinking in a different line. Perhaps the rest of the world can invade the USofA to overthrow a regime that allows torture and spies on their own citizens. A country that produces weapons of mass destruction. A political system that ignores the people and is set up to only benefit the elite minority.
A country that has supported Al Quaida and other terrorist organizations.
We can say all this, where in effect we are just after their oil. But then, who would fall for such a thing and not see the real reason?
So there are no secret arrests?
I do understand the purpose and it isn't working. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages by a serious margin.
In the rest of the world where people are innocent until proven guilty, they are also have some privacy. This because privacy should be a right, not a privilege.
From what I get from the summery (Can't be bot herd to RTFA) this is about people who are not paying their part in the bill. We all know that person and if you don't, you are that person. Knowing how much he ows does not mean he will pay.
However those people are unwilling to pay the bill. I once went out with a group and he ordered a more expensive drink then the rest of us, except when he ordered the drink. Then he suddenly did not want anything.
So one time when we knew he did not have money on him (also happened more then once) we ordered all a shot, poured it down and left. That was the last time he did that.
Now when a person has financial problems and informs us, we will order something cheaper AND he will not go with us as much.
Now for the subject: This is something I learned from my mom: Counted sheep are eaten by the wolfs as well.
This is not just about a life. It is about a life worth living. Give me liberty, or give me death.
Privacy is a very important part of liberty. You can have privacy without liberty. You can not have liberty without privacy.
So how much is that life worth living?
And remember, you have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
You mean like the Abacus?
I dislike the fixed bar on the top. It takes away space that I would want for content. If I want to go to something else, I can scroll back to the top. I am technical and know how to use a keyboard.
1920x1200 monitor user. The text uses about 25-30% of my screen. I am a technical person. I own a large screen
The complete uselessness on the right for 'easy access'. If I want something else, I know where to find it. I am a technical person. I know how to surf a website.
Usage of just a different font for quoted text instead of the line in front of it. I rather have the standard quoting from Usenet times. I am a technical person. I know what a | in front of text means.
On the user page, the icons for achievements. Looks like stars you give to kids, but I am a technical person.
The inability to see how many scores or replies there are or how a article scores. I want these details and numbers, because I am a technical person.
I do not even comment on the frontpage as I seldom use it. I link to the articles via RSS. I know how to do that, because I am a technical person.
My general feeling is that it is a great design. It is for others who are interested in how a site looks like more then the content. People here do care more about the content then the design.
Like some companies think what their users want, you should not only listen to your your audience, you must understand them. If you make this go through, it is clear that you don't.
There are plenty of people who learned to play on a bad guitar. There are plenty of people that never learned to play on a good guitar.
A lot of great photo's are taken with camera's that are not able to do half of what your phone can do, let alone a DSLR. With movies it is even worse.
Just because a movie is mad with a RED camera does not mean it is a good movie. As we all know, even having great actors is no guarantee for that.
Composition is a much more important aspect of a photo then the quality. With a limited camera you will learn on a complete different level. Look at the photo's of e.g. Vivian Maier and the camera she used (most of the time) was not even able to take color.
First learn to make photo's and when composition is right, upgrade your gear.
Car example: If you want to race with a car, you do not start with an F1 car and say "I am the limitation." somebody already tried that and failed. (and even he started not with a F1 car.)
No, no investigation later. If they would insist, they would need to take it by force. That would mean more then likely the end of their career.
Perhaps this does not happen in every country in the world, but it happens in free countries, like Belgium, where I live.
This goes for everything. Not just casino's.
Many years ago, I had a friend who did control of checkout at a large supermarket chain in Belgium. This was before cards were widely used. The way they caught the thieves was because they stole the same amount every day. e.g. 10EUR each day.
The one way around this specific situation was to take different amounts out of the till each day. Even better if some day you would have a surplus once in a while.
Oh and on that 'Make it a huge thing.' I will then be very suspicious if I would win anything. I would want to get out as quietly as possible. I would not celebrate. I would not rent a limo. I would check out and leave. But then I am not a gambler.
I have no way of verifying that right away, so I must believe you. If the reason you post with your own name is your protest, good on you. The reason I do NOT post with my real name is also a protest.
They still voted for it. The problem is that it does not matter who you would have voted for.
If it comes out of the machine, the water is 100C. If I put that in my crotch in a moving vehicle, I should expect a burn wound. If you know how they made the temperature go above 100C, please let us know. Science wants to know. (Yes, I am aware of superheating.)
I am guessing that this was worse was because the lady was sitting in a car. That means the hot fluid had nowhere to go, except of where she was sitting. So the exposure time of the hot fluid was more then standard.
However I fail to see how that is the responsibility of the place that served it. If I ordered a fondue and I put it right at the end of the table and it then falls into my lap, I should expect terrible burning wounds as well. Should I then be able to sue, or should I take some responsibility and NOT put it at the end of the table.
If you put hot beverages in your lap that are in a cardboard cup in a moving vehicle, then you should expect to be burned. If I put a clod beverage there, I do not expect the place to pay for the dry cleaners if it went wrong. The question is not how high the price was, the question is about who was responsible. I say the woman was responsible, no matter how terrible her ordeal was.
You could also use no security. Do you think that what the US military uses will be safe, or just safe enough?
I can imagine that the US military has absolutely no problem if the NSA is reading what they are doing. Perhaps they do not even care if Al Quaida is reading it. As long as it is not life and takes a week/month/year to decrypt.
Where I used to work we gave 100% IF THERE WAS A COURT ORDER. Otherwise we gave nothing. There should be no exception.
One time police officers came in asking for data and they were escorted out with the insight that we would get the data aside and IF they would be coming back within the week with a court order, we would have it ready. If later, we would have to look for it again.
More then once have I told officials to take a hike. And this about serious crimes where I am completely willing to go the extra mile once they give me the court order.
The issue I have is that if I would give the information without a court order, I would be guilty of breaking the law. However they are still allowed to ask for it and they do, trying to use their imaginary authority to impress some who might be more gullible.