After I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, I spent the next two years working a daily job (Monday-Friday) and a weekend job (Friday-Sunday) to recover financially. When I got my government IT job, the two-hour background investigative interview lasted four hours as I had to provide the names and phone numbers of the 20+ contract assignments I've done during that time. The government finds it suspicious if you deviate from what they considered is an average person. An average person would only have one job for two to three years.
Why even bother unless it affects the plot in some way?
Because the scene plays off a moment in Generations where an older Kirk is at a crossroad in his life when Chekov introduces Sulu's daughter, which Kirk replied that the last time he saw her was when she was so tall. In the new movie, a young Kirk is at a crossroad in his life when he notices Sulu being greeted by his spouse and little daughter.
The problem is making him gay for no reason other than to pander.
Science fiction is a reflection of today's society. ST:TOS made TV history in the 1960's with the first interracial kiss when the civil rights movement was ongoing. I'm sure critics called that pandering as well.
Global warming will probably kill off humanity in the near future. The planet, however, will continue on just fine as it did without the dinosaurs. After the sun turns into a red giant in four billion years, the planet will be no more.
In the 80s/90s shows they are glorified flat, thin text terminals, basically portable versions of 1970s computers. What's worse is that people carry stacks of them, 1 for every report or case or whatever.
The Apple Message Pad (Newton) was state of the art in 1993 with 640K of memory and monochrome LCD screen, which basically portable versions of 1970s computers.
How retarded.
What's retarded is making a comparison out of context. Science fiction is a snapshot in time. Although Star Trek is set in the future, it has frequent references to the 20th century. I wonder if anyone today in the 21st century knows what the significance of 1939 in Germany?
There are only three scenes with Sulu's "husband" and daughter in the Star Trek Beyond. If I haven't heard about the controversy before seeing the movie, I could have assumed that the "husband" was Sulu's brother and maybe the daughter was his niece. The scenes are quite subtle. No kissing, no glory holes, no rainbow flags.
Not anymore. It's no longer cheaper to ship products on the ocean as it was before. All those up and coming workers are expecting better pay and benefits to support a middle income lifestyle. China need automation because labor is no longer cheaper.
if they help fortune 500 companies stay rich, their methods will be legalized soon.
During the robber baron days, it was common for the corporations to hire mercenaries and thugs to wage battles with workers and strikers. Murder, mayhem and riots were so routine that the government had to dispatch the military. That activity got outlawed. Internet warfare between corporations will get outlawed in time.
You first adopters that have fat wallets, please start buying.
The Nvidia 1060 6GB 192-bit video cards are supposed to start at $250. That's $100 more than the Nvidia 950 2GB 128-bit video cards. I'm set up for auto-notify at Newegg.
She was talking to someone while she was peeing or p...ewwww.....I hope just peeing...
She wasn't using her phone. It fell out of her pocket. She didn't elaborate on what she was doing on the shitter when her phone committed suicide by diving into the drink.
Verizon are adding insult to injury by resorting to such puerile tactics, that will fool very, very few of its customers, actual or otherwise.
Most Americans are not financially literate. If they were, they would recognized that there is no such thing as an "unlimited" resource, "unlimited" is a marketing term, and, sooner or later, "unlimited" has to come an end.
My sister-in-law had a voice-only plan that was $15 per month and kept it for over a decade. While using the toilet at work, her phone slipped out of her pocket and fell into the toilet. Of course, it was an auto flush toilet. Bye-bye, phone. The carrier refused to sell her a new phone on the old plan. That's how she got an iPhone and became a data junkie like the rest of us.
When all the baby boomers are retired, and retirees outnumber workers (taxpayers), Social Security and Medicare will consume two-thirds of the federal budget in 2030. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else. It's better to be rich or poor, as the middle class will pay through wazoo to support all those seniors who think the whole world owes them a dime or two.
If you have something to say, say it. I shouldn't have to ask 20 questions to figure out why you're nitpicking this issue to death. Seems like you're in denial that people bigger than me exist in the general population.
But your neck is wider than your head in that photo and it's a big fat roll.
My neck is not larger than my head. As a boss who was my size (and the runt of the family with seven-foot-tall father and brothers) told me, those are jowls. Even if my body fat drops down to zero, I don't think those jowls are going away.
And there are at rolls of fat at your elbows and wrists.
The roll of fat at my elbows is because I stopped lifting weights in general. It's easy for me to get bigger from lifting weights. I gave up a lot of muscle mass to go from 400 pounds (4XL shirts) to 350 pounds (2XL shirts). The fat deposits went where they went. I don't have any rolls of fat at my wrists even though that's what the picture imply. Of course, I've been accused of wearing griddle or weight lifting belt in that picture to make waist appear thinner.
You do seem to have a quite unusual distribution of fat though.
I was the poster child of mongolism in the 1970's, going to special ed classes even though the annual evaluations ranked me on the genius side. I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth-grade skills in everything else, skipped high school, spent four years in community college to get my general education degree (two years in remedial classes, two years in major classes). A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming, taking two classes per semester, working 60+ hours per week and teaching Sunday school, and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
[...] but are generally non pro, not ripped either and have a bit of far too making them somewhat normal in that regard.
I'm frequently asked if played linebacker in high school or college based on my physique today. Most people don't realize that I was a 400-pound butterball when I was younger. There are plenty of heavy pro athletes.
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The number of Pokemon you have collected is not suitable for a line on your resume.
Never mind that my job site has TWO Pokemon gyms.
After I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, I spent the next two years working a daily job (Monday-Friday) and a weekend job (Friday-Sunday) to recover financially. When I got my government IT job, the two-hour background investigative interview lasted four hours as I had to provide the names and phone numbers of the 20+ contract assignments I've done during that time. The government finds it suspicious if you deviate from what they considered is an average person. An average person would only have one job for two to three years.
Promotions come and go all the time.
I'm waiting for $100 model. I didn't get a PlayStation One until Sony came out with the $100 model.
Why even bother unless it affects the plot in some way?
Because the scene plays off a moment in Generations where an older Kirk is at a crossroad in his life when Chekov introduces Sulu's daughter, which Kirk replied that the last time he saw her was when she was so tall. In the new movie, a young Kirk is at a crossroad in his life when he notices Sulu being greeted by his spouse and little daughter.
The problem is making him gay for no reason other than to pander.
Science fiction is a reflection of today's society. ST:TOS made TV history in the 1960's with the first interracial kiss when the civil rights movement was ongoing. I'm sure critics called that pandering as well.
Global warming will probably kill off humanity in the near future. The planet, however, will continue on just fine as it did without the dinosaurs. After the sun turns into a red giant in four billion years, the planet will be no more.
In the 80s/90s shows they are glorified flat, thin text terminals, basically portable versions of 1970s computers. What's worse is that people carry stacks of them, 1 for every report or case or whatever.
The Apple Message Pad (Newton) was state of the art in 1993 with 640K of memory and monochrome LCD screen, which basically portable versions of 1970s computers.
How retarded.
What's retarded is making a comparison out of context. Science fiction is a snapshot in time. Although Star Trek is set in the future, it has frequent references to the 20th century. I wonder if anyone today in the 21st century knows what the significance of 1939 in Germany?
There are only three scenes with Sulu's "husband" and daughter in the Star Trek Beyond. If I haven't heard about the controversy before seeing the movie, I could have assumed that the "husband" was Sulu's brother and maybe the daughter was his niece. The scenes are quite subtle. No kissing, no glory holes, no rainbow flags.
Star Trek Discovery is the new TV show. But STD as an acronym has other meanings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=264s-sFqvTA
However in China Labor is much cheaper.
Not anymore. It's no longer cheaper to ship products on the ocean as it was before. All those up and coming workers are expecting better pay and benefits to support a middle income lifestyle. China need automation because labor is no longer cheaper.
Chinese men outnumber Chinese women by 24 million. All those extra men need to go somewhere.
Is it your current thinking that hiring hackers to attack your competition is currently legal?
If so, you are wrong.
Murder, mayhem and riots aren't legal. Not then, not now.
if they help fortune 500 companies stay rich, their methods will be legalized soon.
During the robber baron days, it was common for the corporations to hire mercenaries and thugs to wage battles with workers and strikers. Murder, mayhem and riots were so routine that the government had to dispatch the military. That activity got outlawed. Internet warfare between corporations will get outlawed in time.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/how-build-gpu-accelerated-research-cluster/
The card you should be comparing to in the hiearchy is the GTX 960 4GiB
I stand corrected. Thank you.
You first adopters that have fat wallets, please start buying.
The Nvidia 1060 6GB 192-bit video cards are supposed to start at $250. That's $100 more than the Nvidia 950 2GB 128-bit video cards. I'm set up for auto-notify at Newegg.
Oberon
That's the hostname of my FreeNAS file server. Not sure why my file server is relevant to this discussion.
She was talking to someone while she was peeing or p...ewwww.....I hope just peeing...
She wasn't using her phone. It fell out of her pocket. She didn't elaborate on what she was doing on the shitter when her phone committed suicide by diving into the drink.
Verizon are adding insult to injury by resorting to such puerile tactics, that will fool very, very few of its customers, actual or otherwise.
Most Americans are not financially literate. If they were, they would recognized that there is no such thing as an "unlimited" resource, "unlimited" is a marketing term, and, sooner or later, "unlimited" has to come an end.
My sister-in-law had a voice-only plan that was $15 per month and kept it for over a decade. While using the toilet at work, her phone slipped out of her pocket and fell into the toilet. Of course, it was an auto flush toilet. Bye-bye, phone. The carrier refused to sell her a new phone on the old plan. That's how she got an iPhone and became a data junkie like the rest of us.
Nickel-and-diming your customers to death is an American tradition.
Social Security and Medicare already consume 60% of the federal budget.
60% < 67%
You are behind the times.
Your math skills are lacking.
Another reason not to use it.
When all the baby boomers are retired, and retirees outnumber workers (taxpayers), Social Security and Medicare will consume two-thirds of the federal budget in 2030. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else. It's better to be rich or poor, as the middle class will pay through wazoo to support all those seniors who think the whole world owes them a dime or two.
Look, first up, this isn't personal.
If you have something to say, say it. I shouldn't have to ask 20 questions to figure out why you're nitpicking this issue to death. Seems like you're in denial that people bigger than me exist in the general population.
But your neck is wider than your head in that photo and it's a big fat roll.
My neck is not larger than my head. As a boss who was my size (and the runt of the family with seven-foot-tall father and brothers) told me, those are jowls. Even if my body fat drops down to zero, I don't think those jowls are going away.
And there are at rolls of fat at your elbows and wrists.
The roll of fat at my elbows is because I stopped lifting weights in general. It's easy for me to get bigger from lifting weights. I gave up a lot of muscle mass to go from 400 pounds (4XL shirts) to 350 pounds (2XL shirts). The fat deposits went where they went. I don't have any rolls of fat at my wrists even though that's what the picture imply. Of course, I've been accused of wearing griddle or weight lifting belt in that picture to make waist appear thinner.
You do seem to have a quite unusual distribution of fat though.
I was the poster child of mongolism in the 1970's, going to special ed classes even though the annual evaluations ranked me on the genius side. I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth-grade skills in everything else, skipped high school, spent four years in community college to get my general education degree (two years in remedial classes, two years in major classes). A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming, taking two classes per semester, working 60+ hours per week and teaching Sunday school, and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
[...] but are generally non pro, not ripped either and have a bit of far too making them somewhat normal in that regard.
I'm frequently asked if played linebacker in high school or college based on my physique today. Most people don't realize that I was a 400-pound butterball when I was younger. There are plenty of heavy pro athletes.
http://www.thesportster.com/entertainment/15-of-the-largest-active-athletes-in-the-world/