I had a job several years ago where the recruiter called me for a $25/hour tech job. When I went to the interview, I was informed by the assistant manager that the manager was out and that the job paid only $15/hour. I told him I was no longer interested in the position. For several weeks the recruiter and manager tried to get me to reconsider. A few weeks after that, the recruiter accidentally emailed me a spreadsheet with salary information and the position I was applying for only paid $10/hour.
I had a boss who made a big deal about giving me a routine 2% raise after I was with the company for six years. When I pointed out that I got a 50% raise after my first year and every raise since then was always 2% because of the salary cap, he got mad because I made more money than him for four years. Although we were coworkers for nearly five years before he became a manager, he thought he was better than everyone else and his paycheck proved it. That I made more money than him for many years didn't sit well with him. Needless to say, I got a job and a 40% pay raise at a different company.
Ginsu gets sued because some nutso housewife decided to stab her spouse and their spawns?
Have you ever watched Mexican soap operas? They almost always ends with some poor schmuck being shot in the stomach by his angry wife. Something to keep in mind when dating a Latino woman.
A numerical score would be much more objective and therefore more fair, representing the ACTUAL risk based on the information available.
Like the AAA credit ratings given by the rating agencies on the repackaged liar loans that became worthless in the Great Recession? Despite everything that happened since then, the rating agencies haven't changed a damn thing.
Only if you're suspected of being a drug dealer under asset forfeiture laws. The police can arrest you, take your cash and don't have to give it back. Some police departments do it as a matter of policy because it easier to shake down the community than ask for a tax raise to pay for new equipment.
Based on the political analysis that I've been reading this past year, the 2016 election will be a repeat of the 2008 and 2012 elections. Hillary will be within a stone toss of getting 51% of the votes. The Republicans are more likely to split the vote between Trump and whoever else, losing both Ohio — which the GOP have never won a presidential election without — and possibly Florida. Republican voters are more likely to stay home if their favorite candidate isn't nominated.
Democrats typically come out in droves during the presidential elections. but not during midterm elections. Republicans typically come out in droves during the midterm elections, but not during the presidential elections. With 2016 being a repeat of 2012 that gives Hillary an electoral advantage, the Republicans will have a steep hill to climb to win the presidential election and keep the Senate with 24 seats — the Class of 2010 — are in play.
I've heard stories over the years of old geezers dying and leaving behind an arsenal of illegal weapons. Fire fighters had to burn down a house to the ground with sweating sticks of dynamite in the attic. A hidden bunker built underneath the backyard had enough ammo to overthrow a third-world government. My favorite was a fully restore Sherman tank with live artillery shells in the garage. The authorities didn't know about it until alerted by the relatives of the deceased.
One of the reasons GOP gained so many seats in the last midterm election is that many were upset with Snowden's revelations about how much domestic and ally-country snooping the gov't was doing.
The Republicans won the 2014 midterm elections with the lowest voter turnout since the 1920's, as Democratic voters typically stayed home during non-presidential years. Of course, the last time the Republicans held both houses of Congress was just a year before the 1929 stock market crash. Something to think about.
Nothing prevents me as a law-abiding citizen from owning guns and building up a small arsenal to slaughter people in the name of Santa Claus. All the intelligence agencies won't have the slightest clue if I keep to myself and don't broadcast my intentions to the world at large.
Alas, Jameco doesn't carry the part. Which is a shame. Since Jameco is in the next county over from Silicon Valley, my orders typically arrive in the next day mail.
I recently breadboarded a circuit to translate the input of a nine-position DIP switch into the output of a four-line BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) using an 74HC147, and a 4511 to display the number on a seven-segment LED digit. I came across a web page with a nearly identical circuit. Based on the comments by the Arduino/RPi kiddies, they have no clue to how the circuit works. One person asked why the BCD lines were inverted between the 74HC147 and the 4511. Reading the datasheets made it clear that the 74HC147 outputs ("0" = 1111) were opposite to the 4511 inputs ("0" = 0000). If you don't understand how the circuit is supposed to work, you're not going to understand the circuit when it doesn't work.
Everyone has an obligation to speak clearly in a way that everyone else can understand. As a college graduate, I could write enough buzzwords to make a scientist feel dizzy. But I write at an eighth grade level to reach the widest possible audience. If being clear makes me ignorant, I don't have a problem with that.
Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.
I did a PC refresh job at a Fortune 500 company where the engineers were allowed to hang on to their old workstation for a week before turning them in for decommissioning and recycling. Most found clever excuses to keep them indefinitely, as having more processing power was a status symbol. Not all the cubicles had multiple network ports that were open. So the engineers brought in old network switches from home. That's when the real fun started. They didn't realize that their network switch also had a DHCP server with private network addresses that cut every workstation on the segment off from the corporate network and the Internet. A network technician spent a day tracking them all down..
Not quite. The second layoff for 35 people in New York and California were cancelled after the NYT wrote an earlier article on the 250 people in Florida who were forced to train their replacements (see link below).
AC was referring to a disturbance in the I.T. dept. where Disney had American workers train their replacements from India and let them. Ergo, if you see Star Wars 7, you're a hypocrite for selling out America.
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I had a job several years ago where the recruiter called me for a $25/hour tech job. When I went to the interview, I was informed by the assistant manager that the manager was out and that the job paid only $15/hour. I told him I was no longer interested in the position. For several weeks the recruiter and manager tried to get me to reconsider. A few weeks after that, the recruiter accidentally emailed me a spreadsheet with salary information and the position I was applying for only paid $10/hour.
I had a boss who made a big deal about giving me a routine 2% raise after I was with the company for six years. When I pointed out that I got a 50% raise after my first year and every raise since then was always 2% because of the salary cap, he got mad because I made more money than him for four years. Although we were coworkers for nearly five years before he became a manager, he thought he was better than everyone else and his paycheck proved it. That I made more money than him for many years didn't sit well with him. Needless to say, I got a job and a 40% pay raise at a different company.
Ginsu gets sued because some nutso housewife decided to stab her spouse and their spawns?
Have you ever watched Mexican soap operas? They almost always ends with some poor schmuck being shot in the stomach by his angry wife. Something to keep in mind when dating a Latino woman.
A numerical score would be much more objective and therefore more fair, representing the ACTUAL risk based on the information available.
Like the AAA credit ratings given by the rating agencies on the repackaged liar loans that became worthless in the Great Recession? Despite everything that happened since then, the rating agencies haven't changed a damn thing.
Only if you're suspected of being a drug dealer under asset forfeiture laws. The police can arrest you, take your cash and don't have to give it back. Some police departments do it as a matter of policy because it easier to shake down the community than ask for a tax raise to pay for new equipment.
http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/police-seizing-cash-and-property-from-citizens-without-charges/
Will a Wall Street thug with a suitcase of cash be scored identically as a street thug with a suitcase of crack?
Based on the political analysis that I've been reading this past year, the 2016 election will be a repeat of the 2008 and 2012 elections. Hillary will be within a stone toss of getting 51% of the votes. The Republicans are more likely to split the vote between Trump and whoever else, losing both Ohio — which the GOP have never won a presidential election without — and possibly Florida. Republican voters are more likely to stay home if their favorite candidate isn't nominated.
Democrats had nothing that really energized them.
Democrats typically come out in droves during the presidential elections. but not during midterm elections. Republicans typically come out in droves during the midterm elections, but not during the presidential elections. With 2016 being a repeat of 2012 that gives Hillary an electoral advantage, the Republicans will have a steep hill to climb to win the presidential election and keep the Senate with 24 seats — the Class of 2010 — are in play.
At least that seems to be so based on some brief Googling.
My bad. What I meant was that today's Republican Congress has the LARGEST majority since the 1920's.
I've heard stories over the years of old geezers dying and leaving behind an arsenal of illegal weapons. Fire fighters had to burn down a house to the ground with sweating sticks of dynamite in the attic. A hidden bunker built underneath the backyard had enough ammo to overthrow a third-world government. My favorite was a fully restore Sherman tank with live artillery shells in the garage. The authorities didn't know about it until alerted by the relatives of the deceased.
One of the reasons GOP gained so many seats in the last midterm election is that many were upset with Snowden's revelations about how much domestic and ally-country snooping the gov't was doing.
The Republicans won the 2014 midterm elections with the lowest voter turnout since the 1920's, as Democratic voters typically stayed home during non-presidential years. Of course, the last time the Republicans held both houses of Congress was just a year before the 1929 stock market crash. Something to think about.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/1928-congress-last-time-republicans-had-a-majority-this-huge-112913
Nothing prevents me as a law-abiding citizen from owning guns and building up a small arsenal to slaughter people in the name of Santa Claus. All the intelligence agencies won't have the slightest clue if I keep to myself and don't broadcast my intentions to the world at large.
I never lived in San Francisco. All the hipsters I know today are from San Francisco.
We didn't have any hipsters in 2008. They came later.
Alas, Jameco doesn't carry the part. Which is a shame. Since Jameco is in the next county over from Silicon Valley, my orders typically arrive in the next day mail.
that electronics is something anyone can do
I recently breadboarded a circuit to translate the input of a nine-position DIP switch into the output of a four-line BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) using an 74HC147, and a 4511 to display the number on a seven-segment LED digit. I came across a web page with a nearly identical circuit. Based on the comments by the Arduino/RPi kiddies, they have no clue to how the circuit works. One person asked why the BCD lines were inverted between the 74HC147 and the 4511. Reading the datasheets made it clear that the 74HC147 outputs ("0" = 1111) were opposite to the 4511 inputs ("0" = 0000). If you don't understand how the circuit is supposed to work, you're not going to understand the circuit when it doesn't work.
When I worked at Google in 2008, it wasn't unusual to see a field tech carting multiple laptops on a bicycle.
Closed fist is a zero. Raised middle finger is a one.
According to the link you provided, popular usage peaked in 1990 at 0.000001551%. :/
Everyone has an obligation to speak clearly in a way that everyone else can understand. As a college graduate, I could write enough buzzwords to make a scientist feel dizzy. But I write at an eighth grade level to reach the widest possible audience. If being clear makes me ignorant, I don't have a problem with that.
A permanent case of blue balls.
Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant
I did a PC refresh job at a Fortune 500 company where the engineers were allowed to hang on to their old workstation for a week before turning them in for decommissioning and recycling. Most found clever excuses to keep them indefinitely, as having more processing power was a status symbol. Not all the cubicles had multiple network ports that were open. So the engineers brought in old network switches from home. That's when the real fun started. They didn't realize that their network switch also had a DHCP server with private network addresses that cut every workstation on the segment off from the corporate network and the Internet. A network technician spent a day tracking them all down..
Not quite. The second layoff for 35 people in New York and California were cancelled after the NYT wrote an earlier article on the 250 people in Florida who were forced to train their replacements (see link below).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
AC was referring to a disturbance in the I.T. dept. where Disney had American workers train their replacements from India and let them. Ergo, if you see Star Wars 7, you're a hypocrite for selling out America.