STOP BUYING STUFF ON RELEASE. Wait a day. A week. A month.
I wait until the Black Friday sale at Valve Steam to buy video games for $5 USD or less. I bought Id Software's Rage for $2.50 USD a few years ago. Despite being a few years old with several patches, "Rage" still can't run on my AMD CPU and video card above the recommended hardware spec. The workaround solution is an Intel CPU and/or Nvidia video card.
I wasn't surprised that the minimum hardware spec for the new Wolfenstein game (using the Rage engine) exceeded the recommended hardware spec for Rage. When that game goes on sale for $5 USD or less in a few years, I might even have a rig to run it.
Please name a president in recent memory who didn't use a teleprompter for a prepared speech?
The problem with political appointees that they are often campaign contributors who want a government job to enhance their resume. Most get appointed as ambassadors to faraway countries that no one in America can find on a map.
I think the point of the story is that Duncan has never shown any curiosity once he got out of college.
This is true for a vast majority of people who graduated from high school and/or college, who see learning as the end of a long journey and not the beginning of a neverending journey. The education system tells them to stop learning, so they stopped learning and go through life without questioning the world around them. Some are even proud of being stupid or ignorant.
And why do stupid liberals like you love sales taxes so much anyway?
I'm a moderate conservative. I prefer taxes over borrowing because the sacrifice is made today rather than tomorrow. Unfortunately, neither politicians nor voters want to sacrifice anything for anyone.
People like you is why this country is in a mess. It's about you and you only, everyone else can go to hell. Shared sacrifice as a society requires taking the good with the bad.
That instructor, despite earning A's on all my papers, gave me a C for the course. That's the highest grade anyone could earn in her class. She was a tough bitch to please.
The $100M construction bond for the San Francisco 49er's Levi Stadium is tied to lease revenue from a shopping mall being built by the team. Santa Clara approved a $25M construction bond for stadium-related improvements that's tied to property taxes. Silicon Valley might be the exception, as most local government depend on sales tax revenue for their own bonds.
How do 'things' get fixed in states like Delaware and New Hampshire where they have NO sales tax?
Property taxes. Most people move to Texas to avoid paying a state income tax, and then discover that property taxes are significant higher than states with a state income tax. The privilige of living in a "no tax, low reg" state.
The California tax return has a box for Internet sales taxes. I usually skip this box as I don't keep receipts of Internet purchase I've made during the course of a year. Most of those I pay sales tax on anyway for Amazon and Newegg.
I once wrote an English paper on calculating a parabola curve, looking at 30 math books to see how other people described calculating parabola curve, and doing my best to write my own version that wasn't much different from anyone else's. The instructor accused me of copying. I challenged her to write an original description. She couldn't and give me an A anyway.
Saying in your comments that you found a 'method for neatly measuring password strength and reimplemented it' would, however, demonstrate that not only can you find code that you would need but CAN code and implement the solution.
I always cited sources in my source code when I took programming courses in college. More often it was implementing a solution from a different language into Java. The instructors never had a problem with that.
When I took a class in data structures, the instructor anonymously took two students to task for having identical code except for one slight variation. One student used the x variable, other student used the y variable.
When I worked for Cisco as a contractor in Silicon Valley last year, it was Indians vs. everyone else. That meant vegan pizzas at group events since Indians aren't meat eaters like Americans. As a fat white boy, I don't have a problem being a minority (except I don't like vegan pizzas).
When my 16-year-old mother ran away from home to have my older half-brother and marry the 21-year-old father from the Air Force base in Idaho, my grandfather tracked them down and told the base commander that the marriage was illegal without parental consent. A major scandal back in the 1950's. The base commander told the guy that he could go to prison and get a dishonorable discharge, or get a divorce and finish his enlistment babysitting a missile silo in the Midwest.
My mother was newly divorced and a single mother at 17. Her first husband got a honorable discharge at the end of his enlistment, moved to Los Angeles, and didn't see her or my brother until 30 years later at a family reunion. My grandfather worked in construction and brought my father home to meet my mother the proper way. A year later they were married. I came along a decade later. When my father was in the Army, he babysat tanks in W. Germany.
Case in point, a friend in the medical profession was actually complaining about tax dodges while setting up his own backdoor Roth IRA [personalcapital.com].
I read it was common practice for Harvard law students to pour all their money into a high-end luxury car to qualify for financial aid. It's gaming the system. The first lesson every aspiring attorney learns about.
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STOP BUYING STUFF ON RELEASE. Wait a day. A week. A month.
I wait until the Black Friday sale at Valve Steam to buy video games for $5 USD or less. I bought Id Software's Rage for $2.50 USD a few years ago. Despite being a few years old with several patches, "Rage" still can't run on my AMD CPU and video card above the recommended hardware spec. The workaround solution is an Intel CPU and/or Nvidia video card.
I wasn't surprised that the minimum hardware spec for the new Wolfenstein game (using the Rage engine) exceeded the recommended hardware spec for Rage. When that game goes on sale for $5 USD or less in a few years, I might even have a rig to run it.
Just what the C++ language needed, a gooey char to represent melted characters.
I make sure to stand behind a utility pole when he leaves the bus stop. He whacks people and utiltiy poles with equal pleasure.
Please name a president in recent memory who didn't use a teleprompter for a prepared speech?
The problem with political appointees that they are often campaign contributors who want a government job to enhance their resume. Most get appointed as ambassadors to faraway countries that no one in America can find on a map.
I think the point of the story is that Duncan has never shown any curiosity once he got out of college.
This is true for a vast majority of people who graduated from high school and/or college, who see learning as the end of a long journey and not the beginning of a neverending journey. The education system tells them to stop learning, so they stopped learning and go through life without questioning the world around them. Some are even proud of being stupid or ignorant.
I don't think a sonar watch will prevent the blind guy on my morning commute from whacking people and utility poles with his cane.
I would repeal the Bush/Obama tax cuts to fix the $4T revenue hole in the annual budget and pay off the national debt in five years.
And why do stupid liberals like you love sales taxes so much anyway?
I'm a moderate conservative. I prefer taxes over borrowing because the sacrifice is made today rather than tomorrow. Unfortunately, neither politicians nor voters want to sacrifice anything for anyone.
HR will change the requirements from five years to ten years of experience in Go programming.
People like you is why this country is in a mess. It's about you and you only, everyone else can go to hell. Shared sacrifice as a society requires taking the good with the bad.
Gridlock is expensive. I prefer my tax dollars spent on a functional government that get things done.
That instructor, despite earning A's on all my papers, gave me a C for the course. That's the highest grade anyone could earn in her class. She was a tough bitch to please.
Or better yet, give self-documenting variable names so as to create legible code.
That's what got them in trouble. They put their name on the assignment and turned it in. If they haven't, the instructor would have been clueless.
The $100M construction bond for the San Francisco 49er's Levi Stadium is tied to lease revenue from a shopping mall being built by the team. Santa Clara approved a $25M construction bond for stadium-related improvements that's tied to property taxes. Silicon Valley might be the exception, as most local government depend on sales tax revenue for their own bonds.
I am so happy that I voted for the right party this time.
No, you voted for the status quo. The Republicans lack the votes to get anything done in Congress. Another two years of gridlock.
How do 'things' get fixed in states like Delaware and New Hampshire where they have NO sales tax?
Property taxes. Most people move to Texas to avoid paying a state income tax, and then discover that property taxes are significant higher than states with a state income tax. The privilige of living in a "no tax, low reg" state.
If you remove all of those entities from being able to charge sales tax, how we will build new stadiums?
Most construction bonds are tied to property tax receipts.
The California tax return has a box for Internet sales taxes. I usually skip this box as I don't keep receipts of Internet purchase I've made during the course of a year. Most of those I pay sales tax on anyway for Amazon and Newegg.
I once wrote an English paper on calculating a parabola curve, looking at 30 math books to see how other people described calculating parabola curve, and doing my best to write my own version that wasn't much different from anyone else's. The instructor accused me of copying. I challenged her to write an original description. She couldn't and give me an A anyway.
Saying in your comments that you found a 'method for neatly measuring password strength and reimplemented it' would, however, demonstrate that not only can you find code that you would need but CAN code and implement the solution.
I always cited sources in my source code when I took programming courses in college. More often it was implementing a solution from a different language into Java. The instructors never had a problem with that.
When I took a class in data structures, the instructor anonymously took two students to task for having identical code except for one slight variation. One student used the x variable, other student used the y variable.
When I worked for Cisco as a contractor in Silicon Valley last year, it was Indians vs. everyone else. That meant vegan pizzas at group events since Indians aren't meat eaters like Americans. As a fat white boy, I don't have a problem being a minority (except I don't like vegan pizzas).
When my 16-year-old mother ran away from home to have my older half-brother and marry the 21-year-old father from the Air Force base in Idaho, my grandfather tracked them down and told the base commander that the marriage was illegal without parental consent. A major scandal back in the 1950's. The base commander told the guy that he could go to prison and get a dishonorable discharge, or get a divorce and finish his enlistment babysitting a missile silo in the Midwest.
My mother was newly divorced and a single mother at 17. Her first husband got a honorable discharge at the end of his enlistment, moved to Los Angeles, and didn't see her or my brother until 30 years later at a family reunion. My grandfather worked in construction and brought my father home to meet my mother the proper way. A year later they were married. I came along a decade later. When my father was in the Army, he babysat tanks in W. Germany.
Case in point, a friend in the medical profession was actually complaining about tax dodges while setting up his own backdoor Roth IRA [personalcapital.com].
I read it was common practice for Harvard law students to pour all their money into a high-end luxury car to qualify for financial aid. It's gaming the system. The first lesson every aspiring attorney learns about.
California slides into the ocean. Lex Corp opens new beach front developments in Nevada. Superman is dead.