I've never had problems, unless I had a cord unattached to something... Like my cell phone charger. THe other cords get temporarily caught by the Roomba but the weight on the end of them (my laptop for example) keeps them from being wound up in the brushes. After a moment or to the Roomba seems to jerk free.
How about $100 in DDT? It's still the most effective thing out there for combatting malaria... When we banned it the death rate for maliar shot sky high....
Is anyone else having these problems with these once great authors? Maybe I shouldn't care about their political viewpoints when I read their fiction?
When their political viewpoints influence their writing. If they have stupid viewpoints but their books don't reflect that, then it doesn't matter. The problem is that anyone who feels pasionately about something is going to let that leak into the rest of their life. You usually have two or three good books out of an author before his/her politics starts bleeding through.
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was always "vi or emacs?" Since I was interviewing Unix developers, the answer could tell me a lot about them. The people with blank looks who didn't even know you were talking about editor were never asked back.
New York is one of the few exceptions in the US because it a actually has a public transportation system. And the working poor there make more than the working poor in other places. Now I have lived in several states and have found this to be true - the working poor normall have a car that's 10-20 year old and is not very fuel efficent. They also usually drive 30+ miles (more like 90+ in California) for work. A gas tax hurts them a lot more than it hurts me.
Because gasoline taxes disproportionately hurt the poor and middle class. You know, the people who need to drive to work each day? The people who often are driving an older, gas guzzling car because they can't aford a hybrid? Upping the gas tax punishes them as well as people who choose to own Hummers.
California has the same rules - registering you car can run up to a k or so, depending on which model you have. But that's not enough... Politicians spend money far faster than it comes in, so we need more revenue streams.
One problem with the current transportation taxes is that they're levied on gallons of gasoline. As more fuel efficent cars and hybrids take off, governments are losing their gas tax money. California is actually looking at having some sort of device put into cars that records how many miles you drive and then charges you for those miles every time you gas up... Since fuel efficient cars are "cheating" the government.
I'm sure I speak for many "above average intelligence" people when I say the only thing I learned in school was that hard work is pointless, my peers are dullards, and I am a freak of nature.
I'll never forget my last day of 9th grade english - my teacher told me "I never actually read you homework assignments except the essays. I just gave you and A". My response: "You mean I did all that work for nothing?!?!?!?!?" And he said, "exactly, I knew you'd done the work."
Boy that dissalusioned me for the rest of my school life. Why work if the teacher thinks you're going to succeed anyway? I sure made taking spelling tests easier - I just made sure to blur the word enough that you couldn't tel what I'd written and the teacher would assume I was right be I was "so smart". Hah!
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Thank you for expressing my opinions so clearly. Stranger in a Stange Land was interesting but it's didn't strech the mind in the ways Moon is a Harsh Mistress does.
I openly admit I haven't worked for any of those companies, but I have several friends who were programmers at ticketmaster. And they say it was well known that you could make extra money "dating" people on match.com.
Apparently this was an internal rumor for a while. Match.com and Ticketmaster.com are owned by the same company and it was "common knowledge" that ticketmaster people could pick up a little extra on the side doing extra curicular work for match.com.
I know several engineers who delibrately dress like total slobs. Why? Because if they looks that bad no one's going to ask them to talk to a customer. This way they get more work done!
My boss is color blind and openly admits his wifes dresses him. We've been talking about a "granimals" solution for him for months now! Really, it could be handy for people who are really and truly vision impared.
And yet the e-book potential of this is worth a lot to those kids. I have a friend who adopted a school in Fiji (Okay, he grew up there, but still). His goal? To collect some books for the school as they had none. That right, the "school" was just four poles and a roof. When he brought over over 2000 books they had no idea what to do - they had prepared by building 1 shelf.
Good point, and I wish I could mod you up. A lot of Africa's problems lie in their government. Remember Ethiopia? Thousands of tons of food rotted in warehouses because the government could more easily control a starving population. So the really question is: how do you improve the distrubution mechanism? We have so many smart people here, why not work on something to help support this idea?
Oooo! Great idea! Shoot, I'll buy three or four for my nieces/nephews just to give them the pen-pal experience! I think a lot of our general unhappiness comes from our complacency - see how people live in "the rest of the world" might help us appreciate what we have all the more.
Great Brittian? The same country where a victim of hit and run was critized by police taking her report for describing the suspect as "fat"? The same country where piggy banks have been removed from public space as it might offend muslims?
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I've never had problems, unless I had a cord unattached to something... Like my cell phone charger. THe other cords get temporarily caught by the Roomba but the weight on the end of them (my laptop for example) keeps them from being wound up in the brushes. After a moment or to the Roomba seems to jerk free.
How about $100 in DDT? It's still the most effective thing out there for combatting malaria... When we banned it the death rate for maliar shot sky high....
Can I join? I've already worked out a constitution and government model! Please please please?
Ever read Calculating God? In that story cancer is a deliberate mechanism left in creation. Without it you can't grow another "god".
Legit, but not for the jobs I was hiring for.
When their political viewpoints influence their writing. If they have stupid viewpoints but their books don't reflect that, then it doesn't matter. The problem is that anyone who feels pasionately about something is going to let that leak into the rest of their life. You usually have two or three good books out of an author before his/her politics starts bleeding through.
was always "vi or emacs?" Since I was interviewing Unix developers, the answer could tell me a lot about them. The people with blank looks who didn't even know you were talking about editor were never asked back.
New York is one of the few exceptions in the US because it a actually has a public transportation system. And the working poor there make more than the working poor in other places. Now I have lived in several states and have found this to be true - the working poor normall have a car that's 10-20 year old and is not very fuel efficent. They also usually drive 30+ miles (more like 90+ in California) for work. A gas tax hurts them a lot more than it hurts me.
Where do live that phone calls are only a quarter? My dog needs 35 cents!
Because gasoline taxes disproportionately hurt the poor and middle class. You know, the people who need to drive to work each day? The people who often are driving an older, gas guzzling car because they can't aford a hybrid? Upping the gas tax punishes them as well as people who choose to own Hummers.
California has the same rules - registering you car can run up to a k or so, depending on which model you have. But that's not enough... Politicians spend money far faster than it comes in, so we need more revenue streams.
One problem with the current transportation taxes is that they're levied on gallons of gasoline. As more fuel efficent cars and hybrids take off, governments are losing their gas tax money. California is actually looking at having some sort of device put into cars that records how many miles you drive and then charges you for those miles every time you gas up... Since fuel efficient cars are "cheating" the government.
Not mention that the chances of your body rejecting your own cells is small. Which is one of the highlights of this proceedure.
Use this complaint form if your computer has been infected by Sony. This way the attorney general has real, not estimated numbers.
I'll never forget my last day of 9th grade english - my teacher told me "I never actually read you homework assignments except the essays. I just gave you and A". My response: "You mean I did all that work for nothing?!?!?!?!?" And he said, "exactly, I knew you'd done the work."
Boy that dissalusioned me for the rest of my school life. Why work if the teacher thinks you're going to succeed anyway? I sure made taking spelling tests easier - I just made sure to blur the word enough that you couldn't tel what I'd written and the teacher would assume I was right be I was "so smart". Hah!
Thank you for expressing my opinions so clearly. Stranger in a Stange Land was interesting but it's didn't strech the mind in the ways Moon is a Harsh Mistress does.
I openly admit I haven't worked for any of those companies, but I have several friends who were programmers at ticketmaster. And they say it was well known that you could make extra money "dating" people on match.com.
Apparently this was an internal rumor for a while. Match.com and Ticketmaster.com are owned by the same company and it was "common knowledge" that ticketmaster people could pick up a little extra on the side doing extra curicular work for match.com.
I had this story rejected on friday! Silly me, it was fresh then, and doesn't /. like their news a little more aged?
I know several engineers who delibrately dress like total slobs. Why? Because if they looks that bad no one's going to ask them to talk to a customer. This way they get more work done!
My boss is color blind and openly admits his wifes dresses him. We've been talking about a "granimals" solution for him for months now! Really, it could be handy for people who are really and truly vision impared.
And yet the e-book potential of this is worth a lot to those kids. I have a friend who adopted a school in Fiji (Okay, he grew up there, but still). His goal? To collect some books for the school as they had none. That right, the "school" was just four poles and a roof. When he brought over over 2000 books they had no idea what to do - they had prepared by building 1 shelf.
Good point, and I wish I could mod you up. A lot of Africa's problems lie in their government. Remember Ethiopia? Thousands of tons of food rotted in warehouses because the government could more easily control a starving population. So the really question is: how do you improve the distrubution mechanism? We have so many smart people here, why not work on something to help support this idea?
Oooo! Great idea! Shoot, I'll buy three or four for my nieces/nephews just to give them the pen-pal experience! I think a lot of our general unhappiness comes from our complacency - see how people live in "the rest of the world" might help us appreciate what we have all the more.
Great Brittian? The same country where a victim of hit and run was critized by police taking her report for describing the suspect as "fat"? The same country where piggy banks have been removed from public space as it might offend muslims?