IHMO if you using antenna to receive TV already you won't need a new better one at all since most stations will switch their high powered transmitter to the ATSC signal.
A note about those "available positions": I know for a fact that many of them are fake. Sorry, guys. The big companies are being assholes. They are required by law to post all open positions and take in people for interviews in some countries, but they have really writen some of the positions with specific employees already in mind. It's a frickin' scam. I know IBM did it, I know the ISPs sometimes do it (and enjoy temps they can easily shed, rather than actual employees).
I can confirm this by personal experience. My previous employer had several government contracts and posted all their jobs in Monster. No idea what HR would do with these resumes but we never saw any of them.
We will get pre-screened candidates from Contract Agencies, select a few and interview them. After the selected candidate worked for us as contractor for 3-6 months, we offered him conversion to employee. Only then the HR department will post an Ad for the position he was already filling just to comply with federal regulations and ISO procedures.
So, if you are in the market, don't waste your time applying to big corporations directly. Send your resume to Recruiter Agencies or to someone you know inside the company.
o Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws violating the bill of rights
Imho he can't do that, he can veto before signing but once it becomes law of the land only either the Supreme Court or Congress can do anything about it.
o Issue at least one executive order to have a supreme court judge arrested... (snip)
o Issue at least one executive order to have a congressman arrested.. (snip)
Have you heard about "separation of powers"? The President can't do anything against the other two powers, they are independent. I believe the procedure in the constitution is called impeachment. That would not have stop Dick Cheney from trying thought:-p
If you are clinging to a job you are doing something wrong.
If layoffs come and I have to compete for a spot I just walk away, in fact I have done it twice (in friendly terms), leaving the spot for somebody else. I always end up working elsewhere for more money.
Having a college diploma matters a lot in latin american countries. I grew up in Chile where they teach you "the diploma is everything" but that was not a problem with me. There, I dropped out of college with 3 semesters remaining, after a few weeks got IT job in a multinational corporation earning more than my 5-year experience graduated brother.
Now I live in the US and what I see here is they care a lot more about your experience. They even put "college degree or equivalent experience" in most job postings.
If you can't land the job you are seeking and you think your lack of degree is in the way, take the reasonably low salary for a couple of years so you have experience in your resume, then move on.
In this country any piece of crap legislation can become law regardless of its constitutionality. The only way to overturn an unconstitutional law is to expend years and millions in court of appeals until the Supreme Court give you the rare honor of a hearing and rules it unconstitutional.
Some countries have procedures to pass a law that includes a check for compliance with the constitution. No legislation becomes law until this organism clears it. One example is the Constitutional Tribunal defined in the Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile
The whole idea behind FCC's censorship is to prevent upsetting somebody, what they don't understand is that we CHOOSE our feelings. When somebody says something upsetting, it is each one of us who CHOOSE to feel upset.
I found ridiculous that laws get written because a group of people decided to feel upset about something.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I think the role of government is to watch for the common good of their people, this includes (in no particular order):
- Defense - Internal Security - Health (what good does a government that allows any of their people to get sick and/or die because they have no money for medical bills?) - Education
In both Health and Education, Republican's dogma is a "you are in your own" system where each one of us takes responsibility and chooses different levels of healthiness (is that a word?) in a "free market". I respectfully disagree with that. The health of the people should not be a commodity. It should not depend on a citizen's expending power (damn, this sounds a little communist, comrade:-p)
Education is a little different but the problem here is economic development. This country is lagging behind in scientific and industrial development because of all the talent that goes to waste on bad education. Education is way too important to test unproven "let the free market take care of it" theories.
On everything else I am a "you're in your own" kinda of guy. I don't want government messing with anything else.
Actually is the mix of carbs and fat. Carbs induce insulin production, insulin promotes storage of fat.
Curiously, if you go into a lowcarb diet you force your carb reserves to run out and your body will start burning fat for fuel. This is, according to Atkin's and other lowcarb diet guys, the "normal" way your body is designed to obtain its fuel.
Um, if you're that good at math, why would you settle for a B, and why wouldn't you deserve at least that high of a grade anyway, in recognition of your talent?
Unless you are looking for somebody else's approval you can settle for any grade you are comfortable with.
I barely studied in school and college and did just the minimum required to pass unless I was really interested in the topic (barely passed calculus, physics, aced electronics, programming, telecommunications)
Spam will be a problem as long as it is so cheap for them to send you their crap. Maybe with a new email protocol parallel to SMTP where you have to pay a fee for each email you send (this fee could be set on a sender by sender basis).
What I am talking here is a new email protocol with new server software and mailboxes. The big ones (google, hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc) could allow you to sign-up for these new mailboxes where you could even GET PAID a percentage of the fee for each email you receive.
This would not stop spam but how does it sound getting $0.02 for each spam you receive?
Take the infamous NINJA loan: No Income, No Job, No Assets. That is, you're given a mortgage based on nothing but good looks and your credit score. Nothing else is verified
Thanks to these NINJA Loans this month it will be 5 years since I live in my own house. I may have never gotten out of renting without them since I wasn't good with money, my credit score sucked and had no assets besides my computers and car (following George Carlin's leadership, the rest of my paychecks went to pussy and beer)
The best call I made was buying the cheapest decent house ($124k) I could afford so my mortgage ended up just $100 more than what I was paying for rent. The builder told me I could qualify for a big ol' house twice that amount but I resisted. I am glad I did, I have been able to comfortably pay all my bills even on rainy days.
I'd much rather hire a person whose honest about what skills he/she does/doesn't have but demonstrates solid problem solving skills.
Well, you will be the exception, not the norm. I just went through 2 months of job hunting and keep being turned down for missing stupid meaningless questions such as the difference between a type value and reference value. In 6 years developing.NET applications I never had to deal with that crap (it is managed code, ffs, if you need to worry about that stuff you are doing something wrong).
Finally I gave up, googled typical C# interview questions, memorized them and got the next job I interviewed for...
The beauty of youtube was that anybody could post anything and it got popular because lots of stuff that would never make the press got coverage.
Senator Liberman: if you don't like what you are watching, go watch something else and leave us the option to watch it.
Youtube has peaked and from here it can only go down... it is time for opentube, a not for profit, distributed video serving system that cannot be censored by anybody.
Instead of creating his own auto factory and taking years of research, development, marketing, and infrastructure, he just sells out the blueprints so you can build it yourself.
He doesn't have to worry about competing with other auto manufacturers, pressure from Oil companies or ambulance chasers suing him because of some manufacturing flaw.
How long until somebody else takes his design and builds something much better? I would love to see the mythbusters guys building one of these.
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If I was 20 years younger and with no debt I would jump on it.
Brazil.... hmmmmm... they work hard, but they also party hard
IHMO if you using antenna to receive TV already you won't need a new better one at all since most stations will switch their high powered transmitter to the ATSC signal.
A note about those "available positions": I know for a fact that many of them are fake. Sorry, guys. The big companies are being assholes. They are required by law to post all open positions and take in people for interviews in some countries, but they have really writen some of the positions with specific employees already in mind. It's a frickin' scam. I know IBM did it, I know the ISPs sometimes do it (and enjoy temps they can easily shed, rather than actual employees).
I can confirm this by personal experience. My previous employer had several government contracts and posted all their jobs in Monster. No idea what HR would do with these resumes but we never saw any of them.
We will get pre-screened candidates from Contract Agencies, select a few and interview them. After the selected candidate worked for us as contractor for 3-6 months, we offered him conversion to employee. Only then the HR department will post an Ad for the position he was already filling just to comply with federal regulations and ISO procedures.
So, if you are in the market, don't waste your time applying to big corporations directly. Send your resume to Recruiter Agencies or to someone you know inside the company.
I agree there is a point in here, if you google any howto for Ubuntu, most of them start with "open terminal and type ..."
Newb reads that and says: "terminal?, wtf is that?"
Not everyone wants to have to fuck with xorg.conf just to get multiple displays working. Hell I don't, but you still have to, even in Ubuntu.
That's no longer true with 8.10. Just installed it from scratch in new hard drive and activating the second monitor was as easy as it is in windows.
The Bushes even went so far as to move their personal belongings out of the Whitehouse early so that it would be easier for the Obama's to move in.
methinks they could not wait to GTFO from there.
o Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws violating the bill of rights
Imho he can't do that, he can veto before signing but once it becomes law of the land only either the Supreme Court or Congress can do anything about it.
o Issue at least one executive order to have a supreme court judge arrested ... (snip)
.. (snip)
o Issue at least one executive order to have a congressman arrested
Have you heard about "separation of powers"? The President can't do anything against the other two powers, they are independent. I believe the procedure in the constitution is called impeachment. That would not have stop Dick Cheney from trying thought :-p
If you are clinging to a job you are doing something wrong.
If layoffs come and I have to compete for a spot I just walk away, in fact I have done it twice (in friendly terms), leaving the spot for somebody else. I always end up working elsewhere for more money.
I am cool with these notifications as long as there is a "disable all these annoying notifications" button somewhere.
- Wireless on/off?, just change the little icon in the bar
- Updates?, just show something I can hover to check
I don't know you but, besides pulseaudio, annoying little notifications are the only thing I would like to rip off Ubuntu.
Having a college diploma matters a lot in latin american countries. I grew up in Chile where they teach you "the diploma is everything" but that was not a problem with me. There, I dropped out of college with 3 semesters remaining, after a few weeks got IT job in a multinational corporation earning more than my 5-year experience graduated brother.
Now I live in the US and what I see here is they care a lot more about your experience. They even put "college degree or equivalent experience" in most job postings.
If you can't land the job you are seeking and you think your lack of degree is in the way, take the reasonably low salary for a couple of years so you have experience in your resume, then move on.
Most of Foundation action scenes are mind control fights. It would be really interesting to see how they manage to translate that to the screen.
There must be hundredths of ambulance chasers roaming Waco right now figuring a way to squeeze some cash out of SpaceX because of this.
Emotional Distress Class Action Lawsuit anyone?
Proponents of self regulation don't get that the scale is too small for it to work, even planet-wide.
moderated insightful?.. WTF?
Obama won because more people voted for him than for the other candidate. Whatever reason each voter have to vote for him does not matter.
So this means I can join an Army research project and get paid to play Eve Online all day?
Where do I sign?
In this country any piece of crap legislation can become law regardless of its constitutionality. The only way to overturn an unconstitutional law is to expend years and millions in court of appeals until the Supreme Court give you the rare honor of a hearing and rules it unconstitutional.
Some countries have procedures to pass a law that includes a check for compliance with the constitution. No legislation becomes law until this organism clears it. One example is the Constitutional Tribunal defined in the Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile
The whole idea behind FCC's censorship is to prevent upsetting somebody, what they don't understand is that we CHOOSE our feelings. When somebody says something upsetting, it is each one of us who CHOOSE to feel upset.
I found ridiculous that laws get written because a group of people decided to feel upset about something.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I think the role of government is to watch for the common good of their people, this includes (in no particular order):
- Defense
- Internal Security
- Health (what good does a government that allows any of their people to get sick and/or die because they have no money for medical bills?)
- Education
In both Health and Education, Republican's dogma is a "you are in your own" system where each one of us takes responsibility and chooses different levels of healthiness (is that a word?) in a "free market". I respectfully disagree with that. The health of the people should not be a commodity. It should not depend on a citizen's expending power (damn, this sounds a little communist, comrade :-p)
Education is a little different but the problem here is economic development. This country is lagging behind in scientific and industrial development because of all the talent that goes to waste on bad education. Education is way too important to test unproven "let the free market take care of it" theories.
On everything else I am a "you're in your own" kinda of guy. I don't want government messing with anything else.
Actually is the mix of carbs and fat. Carbs induce insulin production, insulin promotes storage of fat.
Curiously, if you go into a lowcarb diet you force your carb reserves to run out and your body will start burning fat for fuel. This is, according to Atkin's and other lowcarb diet guys, the "normal" way your body is designed to obtain its fuel.
Um, if you're that good at math, why would you settle for a B, and why wouldn't you deserve at least that high of a grade anyway, in recognition of your talent?
Unless you are looking for somebody else's approval you can settle for any grade you are comfortable with.
I barely studied in school and college and did just the minimum required to pass unless I was really interested in the topic (barely passed calculus, physics, aced electronics, programming, telecommunications)
Spam will be a problem as long as it is so cheap for them to send you their crap. Maybe with a new email protocol parallel to SMTP where you have to pay a fee for each email you send (this fee could be set on a sender by sender basis).
What I am talking here is a new email protocol with new server software and mailboxes. The big ones (google, hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc) could allow you to sign-up for these new mailboxes where you could even GET PAID a percentage of the fee for each email you receive.
This would not stop spam but how does it sound getting $0.02 for each spam you receive?
Take the infamous NINJA loan: No Income, No Job, No Assets. That is, you're given a mortgage based on nothing but good looks and your credit score. Nothing else is verified
Thanks to these NINJA Loans this month it will be 5 years since I live in my own house. I may have never gotten out of renting without them since I wasn't good with money, my credit score sucked and had no assets besides my computers and car (following George Carlin's leadership, the rest of my paychecks went to pussy and beer)
The best call I made was buying the cheapest decent house ($124k) I could afford so my mortgage ended up just $100 more than what I was paying for rent. The builder told me I could qualify for a big ol' house twice that amount but I resisted. I am glad I did, I have been able to comfortably pay all my bills even on rainy days.
Well, you will be the exception, not the norm. I just went through 2 months of job hunting and keep being turned down for missing stupid meaningless questions such as the difference between a type value and reference value. In 6 years developing .NET applications I never had to deal with that crap (it is managed code, ffs, if you need to worry about that stuff you are doing something wrong).
Finally I gave up, googled typical C# interview questions, memorized them and got the next job I interviewed for...
The beauty of youtube was that anybody could post anything and it got popular because lots of stuff that would never make the press got coverage.
Senator Liberman: if you don't like what you are watching, go watch something else and leave us the option to watch it.
Youtube has peaked and from here it can only go down... it is time for opentube, a not for profit, distributed video serving system that cannot be censored by anybody.
I think this guy is pure genius.
Instead of creating his own auto factory and taking years of research, development, marketing, and infrastructure, he just sells out the blueprints so you can build it yourself.
He doesn't have to worry about competing with other auto manufacturers, pressure from Oil companies or ambulance chasers suing him because of some manufacturing flaw.
How long until somebody else takes his design and builds something much better? I would love to see the mythbusters guys building one of these.