don't care what brand of pots you have, and neither should you,
Yes, one should care about the type, not necessarily the brand, of cookware they have. The better quality ones will last a lifetime under normal usage and can most likely be passed on (if you have progeny). The flimsy, thin crap one gets at WalMart or elsewhere doesn't cook as well, wears out in a few years and you end up paying more for it than had you spent the money in the first place. I had the cheap stuff. There is no comparison.
As to why it matters if it gets dinged, I care. I paid for it. It's mine. I take care of things which are mine. Not OCD take care of, but in the general sense of why beat it up?
My last car I had for almost 13 years. I had to take a co-worker to pick up his car after work and he couldn't believe it was that old. Sure, some things here and there showed their age, but otherwise, it was kept clean. Why? Because if I'm going to spend that kind of money for something, I'm going to take care of it so it lasts.
Might want to think about what you're saying here, dude.
Apparently you're like so many others who keep spending money to replace things they broke because they didn't care about taking care of them or who buy the cheapest crap they can find. If you don't care about your things, that's your right. Just because I choose to take care of what I have doesn't make me the oddball. Maybe you're the one who might want to think about what they're saying.
Yes, it is. When I purchased my Calphalon One cookware, I kept all the boxes (except for the ones I got at discount stores which didn't have boxes) so when/if I move, I can slide them back into their protective packaging for transport. I don't have to figure out how to wrap them to protect them, or find an odd-sized box for them to fit in. They go back into the original boxes which stack nicely.
Like the OP, I also store my rice cooker and scale in their original boxes. It helps keep everything together and the boxes store more neatly than having everything lying around with cords hanging loose.
Considering what I paid for my stuff, taking this one extra step to keep things neat, orderly and protected is an extremely minor issue to deal with.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
how long do you camp out at the local grocery store waiting for it to arrive so you can speed it home and eat it all before it melts?
That's why you bring a cooler along with ice packs to minimize the amount of melting. I'm doing that today. Brought my Little Playmate (no, that's not a euphemism) with three different freeze packs which I'll use to put my ice cream in when I buy it after work.
Granted, I'm driving my own car rather than riding a bike or using public transportation, so my time to get home is probably significantly less than yours.
The sad part is that after decades of nothing, MTV finally has a show worth watching. I came across Awkward by accident while trying to find something to watch in between commercials and while not hooked, I do enjoy watching it.
The characters are fairly standard though Ming with her rabbit cap (or whatever it is) getting involved with the asian group (she's an outside asian) is getting hilarious.
No, you'll never learn what a Higgs Boson is from watching it, but it's a guilty pleasure to watch the show.
There were several issues I had with that video but the biggest one was the person filming. At first they do a great job of holding their phone (I'm presuming it's a phone) steady so you can see the SUV launch into the air, but then they turn and twist the phone so it's all but impossible to watch what happens afterwards.
Folks, if you're going to film something like this, DO NOT TWIST THE CAMERA! Hold it steady and pan left/right so people can see what you're trying to show them. You don't have to be a film school attendee/graduate to grasp this basic concept.
Too many videos are absolutely worthless both from a viewing perspective and from an investigative perspective because people toss their camera about while filming.
I'll pass. Considering the overwhelming failure of their touchscreen controls for radio, phone, temp control and everything else, I wouldn't dare trust my life with such lousy software.
As to the overall concept of self-driving, meh. I have no problem driving myself, keeping a safe distance from the person in front of me or being aware of who's around me. It's the nutjob beside/behind me who's ghetto driving while on his phone or that person in the pickup truck who just has to get one person ahead to save that extra half second of driving time (and yes, there is someone like that I have to deal with every day).
I know the word is tainted around here, but... project management.
As someone in a similar position to the OP (no kids at least), I can assure you that trying to move from whatever IT job you have to project management is not as easy as it sounds.
As a rule, and this comes from own experience trying to move to project management, you need a minimum of 5 years experience to get on the bottom rung of PM. 10 if you want to make near the magical $100/K salary. This assumes of course that you fit a very narrow description, have exactly the skillset within this very narrow description and are willing to relocate to a different part of the country.
However, the fact that you're 40 and with a family means you are immediately excluded from any job opportunity due to the inherent ageism that exists, contrary what every headhunter/hiring manager/whomever says. If you hear someone say, "If you have the skills, age isn't an issue," they're lying. The only way age doesn't come into play is if you already have the experience at that age.
Don't forget, most places are also requiring some sort of certification from the PMI. Which is funny, because the only way to get certifications, except for the lowest level, is to have experience doing PM. Which is the proverbial chicken and egg scenario.
From my personal point of view, project management isn't difficult. The implementation may be hard depending on what the project is (creating software, designing network layouts, equipment upgrades, etc), but the act of managing the project isn't difficult in and of itself. It's how you follow your plan and most importantly, find out what the stakeholder really wants. If you don't know or, more importantly, if they don't know, what they want, no amount of planning/managing/gant charts/etc will help you.
If you seal the machine, instead of having USB slots on the outside, that would go a long way to prevent tampering.
Not sure why you need to have an external connector available for anyone to use anyway, other than laziness on the part of the programmers and designers.
If they can seal an ATM, they can seal a voting machine. This truly isn't rocket science.
If you think you have fast eyes, take the 5 minute, or 10 minutes, test at Panamath to see how could you really are.
The test isn't so much about how fast your eyes are, but rather, how quickly you can "guesstimate" or perceive quantities in a limited time frame. From their site:
Panamath measures your Approximate Number System (ANS) aptitude. The simple task of deciding whether there are more blue dots or yellow dots in a brief flash can tell us a lot about the accuracy of your basic gut sense for numbers.
Roberts was a Bush appointee. We have another 20-30 years of this moron to deal with.
Scalia was bad enough when he said he didn't see a problem with unlimited corporate donations. "That won't have a corrupting effect on political campaigns."
Now Roberts says it's perfectly acceptable to force people to buy something they may not want or ever use. If I'm paying for years and get run over by a bus, all the money is wasted. I get no benefit. So why should I have had to pay all that time if my money gets pissed down the widening black hole just so my pack-a-day neighbor can get "free" healthcare?
I'll never pay a dime. They can try to fine me all they want, but I will never pay. It's bad enough I don't use the healthcare I have now, which is nothing but a drain on my salary, I shouldn't have to pay for someone else because of the lifestyle they choose.
explicitly for the purposes of sharing media with each other.
So when you're done "sharing" the media in question, you meet again to return the media, right? You're not keeping it because that's not how sharing works.
it's the best option for us to minimize risk.
Risk of what? If all you're doing is "sharing", not keeping the media, there is no risk. I've done that. Gave someone a tape to listen to, when they were done they gave it back to me.
from this site, the answer to the question, based on this article, is yes. We are failing. Miserably.
When we continue to try and refute or attempt to disprove a scientific fact simply because our mythological beliefs conflict with the facts, we are failing.
If they really wanted to try and "refute" evolution, they would have used the coelecanth as evidence of a dinosaur we once thought was extinct but which is happily living on in our time.
But then, evolution says nothing about whether an animal can exist for millions of years, so there's still nothing to refute.
I was waiting for someone to say this, because if no one else did, I would.
The number of comments on here from people bragging about how they don't have to leave their parents basement and interact with people is staggering, only compared to the rest of the population.
"Oh, look at me. I don't have to go to the store to buy groceries because I can order them online and not have to talk to the cashier! Now I can spend another hour playing Diablo with that asian transsexual from Duluth!"
"It's so annoying having to wait for someone to pay with cash when I do go out. Those extra 5 seconds are torture! Why don't they just use a card or their phone?"
"Look at me! I can have 500 books on my ereader so I don't have to wander a bookstore and touch anything! I can only read one a time on my small screen, but who cares! It's digital!"
The whining on here from people who are so adverse to interacting with anyone else or who think everything is a waste of their time if it's not something they can do on their iPad/PC/Mac/whatever, is the reason Sheldon Cooper is not just a comedy figment, but a true representation of reality.
If you're willing to relocate to Seattle... but neither is the cost of living.
Those are two contradictory statements. My brother and his wife relocated back to my area after living in Seattle, Kirkland specifically, for a few years and the first thing they told us when they moved was the HUGE difference in the cost of living. Things such as cereal being nearly twice the cost, everything being taxed (no tax on necessities in our state), the ridiculous fees to cross bridges. The list went on.
Seattle has a high cost of living, unless you're comparing it to LA.
Reading over what this guy is saying, I swear he's been reading my comments I've posted about the web. For example:
âoeThe real culprits are the employers themselves.â
You pay what it takes to get the people you need, and if wages have to go up, then so be it, right?
The only people that can do that are people who are currently doing the same job someplace else.
a lot of employers wonâ(TM)t accept applications from people who are currently unemployed.
youâ(TM)re always going to have this problem if employers are relying on the schools to produce their skills for them.
But the screening is never as good as somebody who has human judgment,
in many fields you canâ(TM)t easily learn this stuff in a classroom.
So the shortfall is in giving people experience,... getting them up to speed in these work-based skills. And the problem is,... virtually none of them [employers] are willing to do it.
These things, and others, I've been saying since I got my first degree. And that wasn't last year, either.
If all you expect are to find people who have the experience you want, you will eventually run out of experienced people because no one was trained to replace them because everyone was looking for experience. To beat the proverbial dead horse: how can someone gain experience if all people are looking for is people who already have experience?
Some of my own comments on this ridiculous situation:
I think the Xanth series by Piers Anthony would also fall into your list. His writing isn't that bad and with few exceptions, the words shouldn't trip up an 8-year old.
Besides, what kid who likes sci-fi/fantasy wouldn't like to be born with some kind of permanent magical talent?
That said, I gave up on the series not too long after Dor became king. Either I outgrew him or his writing no longer held my interest (or both).
we can just sub them in as we age as we all start living longer and longer.
Except for the whole scarring issue. As anyone who has to have knee replacements will tell you, there is a finite amount of time your knees can get replaced not because of the knee itself, but because of the scarring of the knee tissue.
Granted, if you're only going to get one liver replacement (or spleen or kidney or whatever), then scarring isn't an issue.
Of course my mod points expired yesterday. This one needs to be up modded.
Your point is spot on. Business is in the business of providing a product or service for a price. You cannot survive without charging for something (or have people contributing to cover your costs in some manner, i.e. non-profit organizations).
When certain people on here claim they don't give a rat's ass about the RIAA/MPAA/whomever and their desire to charge for everything, which is why these people use torrents/Pirate Bay/etc to get things for nothing, they are proving your point.
The folks who produce something, as a rule, want to be paid for their work. Only in select situations do they give their work away, sometimes in the expectation that at some point in time you will either pay them for the product or you will buy a different product from them at a later date based on the free item you received.
It is impossible to survive in business unless you make a profit. That profit is what allows you to upgrade your equipment, hire more/new people, etc.
Didn't you folks see the episode where Elmer Fudd, as a fairy, explains this to the shoemaker?
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The solution is obvious: We need TSA officials in every bathroom in America
So what you're saying is we need a tinkle fairy in every bathroom?
don't care what brand of pots you have, and neither should you,
Yes, one should care about the type, not necessarily the brand, of cookware they have. The better quality ones will last a lifetime under normal usage and can most likely be passed on (if you have progeny). The flimsy, thin crap one gets at WalMart or elsewhere doesn't cook as well, wears out in a few years and you end up paying more for it than had you spent the money in the first place. I had the cheap stuff. There is no comparison.
As to why it matters if it gets dinged, I care. I paid for it. It's mine. I take care of things which are mine. Not OCD take care of, but in the general sense of why beat it up?
My last car I had for almost 13 years. I had to take a co-worker to pick up his car after work and he couldn't believe it was that old. Sure, some things here and there showed their age, but otherwise, it was kept clean. Why? Because if I'm going to spend that kind of money for something, I'm going to take care of it so it lasts.
Might want to think about what you're saying here, dude.
Apparently you're like so many others who keep spending money to replace things they broke because they didn't care about taking care of them or who buy the cheapest crap they can find. If you don't care about your things, that's your right. Just because I choose to take care of what I have doesn't make me the oddball. Maybe you're the one who might want to think about what they're saying.
That ain't normal, dude.
Yes, it is. When I purchased my Calphalon One cookware, I kept all the boxes (except for the ones I got at discount stores which didn't have boxes) so when/if I move, I can slide them back into their protective packaging for transport. I don't have to figure out how to wrap them to protect them, or find an odd-sized box for them to fit in. They go back into the original boxes which stack nicely.
Like the OP, I also store my rice cooker and scale in their original boxes. It helps keep everything together and the boxes store more neatly than having everything lying around with cords hanging loose.
Considering what I paid for my stuff, taking this one extra step to keep things neat, orderly and protected is an extremely minor issue to deal with.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
how long do you camp out at the local grocery store waiting for it to arrive so you can speed it home and eat it all before it melts?
That's why you bring a cooler along with ice packs to minimize the amount of melting. I'm doing that today. Brought my Little Playmate (no, that's not a euphemism) with three different freeze packs which I'll use to put my ice cream in when I buy it after work.
Granted, I'm driving my own car rather than riding a bike or using public transportation, so my time to get home is probably significantly less than yours.
Ayako is complete bad ass. She pretty much wipes everyone off the screen.
That said, I much prefer the eye candy of Komiya and Mikie.
Or Mai Nadaska (who never competed but is fantastic eye candy nonetheless).
MTV is full of BS "reality" TV
The sad part is that after decades of nothing, MTV finally has a show worth watching. I came across Awkward by accident while trying to find something to watch in between commercials and while not hooked, I do enjoy watching it.
The characters are fairly standard though Ming with her rabbit cap (or whatever it is) getting involved with the asian group (she's an outside asian) is getting hilarious.
No, you'll never learn what a Higgs Boson is from watching it, but it's a guilty pleasure to watch the show.
There were several issues I had with that video but the biggest one was the person filming. At first they do a great job of holding their phone (I'm presuming it's a phone) steady so you can see the SUV launch into the air, but then they turn and twist the phone so it's all but impossible to watch what happens afterwards.
Folks, if you're going to film something like this, DO NOT TWIST THE CAMERA! Hold it steady and pan left/right so people can see what you're trying to show them. You don't have to be a film school attendee/graduate to grasp this basic concept.
Too many videos are absolutely worthless both from a viewing perspective and from an investigative perspective because people toss their camera about while filming.
Funny you should say that. This morning I saw two people make left turns on red while the oncoming or cross traffic had the green.
I guess like that nutjob who has to get one car ahead, they were in too much of a hurry to worry about anyone else.
I'll pass. Considering the overwhelming failure of their touchscreen controls for radio, phone, temp control and everything else, I wouldn't dare trust my life with such lousy software.
As to the overall concept of self-driving, meh. I have no problem driving myself, keeping a safe distance from the person in front of me or being aware of who's around me. It's the nutjob beside/behind me who's ghetto driving while on his phone or that person in the pickup truck who just has to get one person ahead to save that extra half second of driving time (and yes, there is someone like that I have to deal with every day).
I know the word is tainted around here, but ... project management.
As someone in a similar position to the OP (no kids at least), I can assure you that trying to move from whatever IT job you have to project management is not as easy as it sounds.
As a rule, and this comes from own experience trying to move to project management, you need a minimum of 5 years experience to get on the bottom rung of PM. 10 if you want to make near the magical $100/K salary. This assumes of course that you fit a very narrow description, have exactly the skillset within this very narrow description and are willing to relocate to a different part of the country.
However, the fact that you're 40 and with a family means you are immediately excluded from any job opportunity due to the inherent ageism that exists, contrary what every headhunter/hiring manager/whomever says. If you hear someone say, "If you have the skills, age isn't an issue," they're lying. The only way age doesn't come into play is if you already have the experience at that age.
Don't forget, most places are also requiring some sort of certification from the PMI. Which is funny, because the only way to get certifications, except for the lowest level, is to have experience doing PM. Which is the proverbial chicken and egg scenario.
From my personal point of view, project management isn't difficult. The implementation may be hard depending on what the project is (creating software, designing network layouts, equipment upgrades, etc), but the act of managing the project isn't difficult in and of itself. It's how you follow your plan and most importantly, find out what the stakeholder really wants. If you don't know or, more importantly, if they don't know, what they want, no amount of planning/managing/gant charts/etc will help you.
Nothing. But this involves technology so it must be better. If you're not thinking of convoluted ways to do something simple, you're too old.
It's all about technology and how we can insulate ourselves from having to communicate or gasp! interact with other people.
If you seal the machine, instead of having USB slots on the outside, that would go a long way to prevent tampering.
Not sure why you need to have an external connector available for anyone to use anyway, other than laziness on the part of the programmers and designers.
If they can seal an ATM, they can seal a voting machine. This truly isn't rocket science.
If you think you have fast eyes, take the 5 minute, or 10 minutes, test at Panamath to see how could you really are.
The test isn't so much about how fast your eyes are, but rather, how quickly you can "guesstimate" or perceive quantities in a limited time frame. From their site:
Panamath measures your Approximate Number System (ANS) aptitude. The simple task of deciding whether there are more blue dots or yellow dots in a brief flash can tell us a lot about the accuracy of your basic gut sense for numbers.
The link: http://www.panamath.org/testyourself.php
Roberts was a Bush appointee. We have another 20-30 years of this moron to deal with.
Scalia was bad enough when he said he didn't see a problem with unlimited corporate donations. "That won't have a corrupting effect on political campaigns."
Now Roberts says it's perfectly acceptable to force people to buy something they may not want or ever use. If I'm paying for years and get run over by a bus, all the money is wasted. I get no benefit. So why should I have had to pay all that time if my money gets pissed down the widening black hole just so my pack-a-day neighbor can get "free" healthcare?
I'll never pay a dime. They can try to fine me all they want, but I will never pay. It's bad enough I don't use the healthcare I have now, which is nothing but a drain on my salary, I shouldn't have to pay for someone else because of the lifestyle they choose.
I think myself, my brother and a friend were able to play for over a minute before one of us had to put in another quarter.
It's been a (long) while but I think we got to the third screen/level/whatever once or twice.
explicitly for the purposes of sharing media with each other.
So when you're done "sharing" the media in question, you meet again to return the media, right? You're not keeping it because that's not how sharing works.
it's the best option for us to minimize risk.
Risk of what? If all you're doing is "sharing", not keeping the media, there is no risk. I've done that. Gave someone a tape to listen to, when they were done they gave it back to me.
That's what you guys are doing, right?
from this site, the answer to the question, based on this article, is yes. We are failing. Miserably.
When we continue to try and refute or attempt to disprove a scientific fact simply because our mythological beliefs conflict with the facts, we are failing.
If they really wanted to try and "refute" evolution, they would have used the coelecanth as evidence of a dinosaur we once thought was extinct but which is happily living on in our time.
But then, evolution says nothing about whether an animal can exist for millions of years, so there's still nothing to refute.
They'll make a good killing off those morons.
And that's before you include the Monster cables.
I was waiting for someone to say this, because if no one else did, I would.
The number of comments on here from people bragging about how they don't have to leave their parents basement and interact with people is staggering, only compared to the rest of the population.
"Oh, look at me. I don't have to go to the store to buy groceries because I can order them online and not have to talk to the cashier! Now I can spend another hour playing Diablo with that asian transsexual from Duluth!"
"It's so annoying having to wait for someone to pay with cash when I do go out. Those extra 5 seconds are torture! Why don't they just use a card or their phone?"
"Look at me! I can have 500 books on my ereader so I don't have to wander a bookstore and touch anything! I can only read one a time on my small screen, but who cares! It's digital!"
The whining on here from people who are so adverse to interacting with anyone else or who think everything is a waste of their time if it's not something they can do on their iPad/PC/Mac/whatever, is the reason Sheldon Cooper is not just a comedy figment, but a true representation of reality.
If you're willing to relocate to Seattle ... but neither is the cost of living.
Those are two contradictory statements. My brother and his wife relocated back to my area after living in Seattle, Kirkland specifically, for a few years and the first thing they told us when they moved was the HUGE difference in the cost of living. Things such as cereal being nearly twice the cost, everything being taxed (no tax on necessities in our state), the ridiculous fees to cross bridges. The list went on.
Seattle has a high cost of living, unless you're comparing it to LA.
Reading over what this guy is saying, I swear he's been reading my comments I've posted about the web. For example:
âoeThe real culprits are the employers themselves.â
You pay what it takes to get the people you need, and if wages have to go up, then so be it, right?
The only people that can do that are people who are currently doing the same job someplace else.
a lot of employers wonâ(TM)t accept applications from people who are currently unemployed.
youâ(TM)re always going to have this problem if employers are relying on the schools to produce their skills for them.
But the screening is never as good as somebody who has human judgment,
in many fields you canâ(TM)t easily learn this stuff in a classroom.
So the shortfall is in giving people experience, ... getting them up to speed in these work-based skills. And the problem is, ... virtually none of them [employers] are willing to do it.
These things, and others, I've been saying since I got my first degree. And that wasn't last year, either.
If all you expect are to find people who have the experience you want, you will eventually run out of experienced people because no one was trained to replace them because everyone was looking for experience. To beat the proverbial dead horse: how can someone gain experience if all people are looking for is people who already have experience?
Some of my own comments on this ridiculous situation:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle/main/columns/articles/whining_for_employees.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle/main/columns/articles/here_we_go_again.html
I think the Xanth series by Piers Anthony would also fall into your list. His writing isn't that bad and with few exceptions, the words shouldn't trip up an 8-year old.
Besides, what kid who likes sci-fi/fantasy wouldn't like to be born with some kind of permanent magical talent?
That said, I gave up on the series not too long after Dor became king. Either I outgrew him or his writing no longer held my interest (or both).
we can just sub them in as we age as we all start living longer and longer.
Except for the whole scarring issue. As anyone who has to have knee replacements will tell you, there is a finite amount of time your knees can get replaced not because of the knee itself, but because of the scarring of the knee tissue.
Granted, if you're only going to get one liver replacement (or spleen or kidney or whatever), then scarring isn't an issue.
Of course my mod points expired yesterday. This one needs to be up modded.
Your point is spot on. Business is in the business of providing a product or service for a price. You cannot survive without charging for something (or have people contributing to cover your costs in some manner, i.e. non-profit organizations).
When certain people on here claim they don't give a rat's ass about the RIAA/MPAA/whomever and their desire to charge for everything, which is why these people use torrents/Pirate Bay/etc to get things for nothing, they are proving your point.
The folks who produce something, as a rule, want to be paid for their work. Only in select situations do they give their work away, sometimes in the expectation that at some point in time you will either pay them for the product or you will buy a different product from them at a later date based on the free item you received.
It is impossible to survive in business unless you make a profit. That profit is what allows you to upgrade your equipment, hire more/new people, etc.
Didn't you folks see the episode where Elmer Fudd, as a fairy, explains this to the shoemaker?
For those that missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auI6Uz3D8I