Don't expect that to fund your retirement any time soon.
The thing about ebooks is that they don't have a shelf life. If you have a print book and it doesn't sell in 90 days, the print books are pulled from the bookstore shelves and pulped. My ebooks have been selling since 2010 and will continue to sell for many years to come. I make more money selling ebooks than I do selling the first serial rights for the original stories.
You must shit yourself daily worrying about your own future - no wonder you're setting yourself up to die young.
Nope. I'm too busy making the future happen. I'm only 47. I got another 73 years to live.
Ever notice how you keep talking about how "your next job" will pay really well, and "next year" you'll get those certifications, and "once your side business really starts rolling," you'll be able to save up enough money for retirement, yet your plans and dreams are all wildly unrealistic?
Those are goals. What you don't see is the efforts that I'm putting in to make those goals happened. If you did see my effort, you would still claim that "plans and dreams are all wildly unrealistic". Why? Because I'm the fat retard kid on the short bus should have been dead at 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-years-old. The reason I'm not dead is that I've chosen to live, to suffer and become a better human being than the people around me.
Above average for most Americans — especially considering that I only had $25 left after my Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Once I get my side business to start paying me a salary, I can put 100% salary and corporate matching into a qualified retirement plan for $54K per year. That's more than you can get via 401K ($18K) and IRA ($5K) each year.
That's why I have over a million dollars saved in my retirement fund already, along with nearly 150k in my personal brokerage account as relatively liquid assets. Oh, and a 650k house that's about halfway paid off now.
That's kinda of low.
You claim to be technical, but you don't seem to understand how science and math work.
The human body is a perfect state machine — on paper. Real life is a lot messier.
[...] "add up the weight you do for a super impressive total."
That's how I keep track of my progress. When I worked at the community college bookstore warehouse, I had to move one-ton of textbooks to ship back to the publisher six times in one day. Six tons of weights is my workout goal.
The back is very strong for that motion, I'd consider 150 a warmup, and 75 pounds is just wasting time.
The 75 reps @ 75 pounds is the warm up to get the kinks out of my back. The 15 reps @ 150 pounds is the workout. I plan to add 5 reps @ 300 pounds in the near future.
AlphaGo is training the Go players to become better players with every defeat. When I had the Sargon II chess game for the Commodore 64, it took me five years to learn how to consistently beat the game on the hardest difficulty level. I remembered the last the game I played because I had to defeat nine Queens to win the game.
Did your relatives die young? That's another increased risk factor for problems.
The heroin addicts are dying young. Everyone else is dying old from drinking, smoking and fucking everything with two- or four-legs that can stand still. My family provided many examples of unhealthy living for me not to follow.
And no, you won't outlive me. I'm under 40, I'm very healthy (verified by actual regular visits with my physician), and I have no family history of major diseases. Men in my family have regularly lived into their 90s, with full vigor.
Are you planned my to live to be 120? You should. Nothing is worse than outliving your retirement funds by 30+ years.
Be honest now - what is it about the medical data available to you that you don't get?
Based on my life experience, the law of averages don't apply. Medical data is all about average people living and dying an average life.
It's taken you 15 years to lose 50 pounds - by any measure that is a ridiculously slow weight loss,
As a teenager, I went from 400 pounds to 325 pounds in one summer after I got a new bike and rode all over the county. My weight settled to 350 after I started working out the gym 15 years ago. I have no problem getting bigger with weight lifting. Sliming down has been a bitch.
and let's not forget my favorite. "this site is for nerds - citation please"
We need the demographic data. That's the only way to settle the argument as to whether Slashdot is for EVERY NERD or 1% NERDS. I suspect the 1% nerds are few in number, probably because Slashdot is a relic of the dot com bust and only readers from that era know about it.
You could show recruiters a bunch of code samples written in c, tell them that they were written in java, python, bash, sql, and the framework du jour, and they wouldn't know the difference.
On several occasions I've been approached by recruiters for CLI Linux positions, which I knew in general but not too for specific Linux distro. They always got hung on this "Red Hat GUI thingie" checkbox on their checklist. I told them that the GUI was irrelevant to CLI work. They refused to let me interview.
Later on I discovered that the "Red Hat GUI thingie" was a branding package that Red Hat no longer uses.
Slashdot Mirror
I have no idea what action you are crediting this to, but Eternal September was in 1993 when AOL brought them to USENET. I
"May 26, 1995: Gates, Microsoft Jump on "Internet Tidal Wave"
https://www.wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/
The original lyrics were "I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine".
I've never heard that song before. My father's truck only had two radio stations: talk and country. ;)
Your side-business of writing $.99 cent e-books?
That's one aspect of the side business.
Don't expect that to fund your retirement any time soon.
The thing about ebooks is that they don't have a shelf life. If you have a print book and it doesn't sell in 90 days, the print books are pulled from the bookstore shelves and pulped. My ebooks have been selling since 2010 and will continue to sell for many years to come. I make more money selling ebooks than I do selling the first serial rights for the original stories.
You must shit yourself daily worrying about your own future - no wonder you're setting yourself up to die young.
Nope. I'm too busy making the future happen. I'm only 47. I got another 73 years to live.
Ever notice how you keep talking about how "your next job" will pay really well, and "next year" you'll get those certifications, and "once your side business really starts rolling," you'll be able to save up enough money for retirement, yet your plans and dreams are all wildly unrealistic?
Those are goals. What you don't see is the efforts that I'm putting in to make those goals happened. If you did see my effort, you would still claim that "plans and dreams are all wildly unrealistic". Why? Because I'm the fat retard kid on the short bus should have been dead at 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-years-old. The reason I'm not dead is that I've chosen to live, to suffer and become a better human being than the people around me.
Happen to the free exchange of ideas?
I wonder how many people will get the reference.
I know only one reference to jumping queen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrFOr8oF95A
Apparently not a spell checker, there's no such word as "pre-dominant".
I meant "predominant," not sure why I put in a hyphen.
How's your nest egg looking, bro?
Above average for most Americans — especially considering that I only had $25 left after my Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Once I get my side business to start paying me a salary, I can put 100% salary and corporate matching into a qualified retirement plan for $54K per year. That's more than you can get via 401K ($18K) and IRA ($5K) each year.
I remember IE6. *shudders*
Your definition of the web is nonsensical, much like most of your posts here
What's the pre-dominant application on the web today? The web browser.
When did the web browser came into existence? 1995.
What year did the unwashed masses discover the web? 1995.
What application did the unwashed masses use to access the web? The web browser.
Ergo, let go of my Eggo.
And during 1995 it was The Information Super-Highway
Let's leave Al Gore out of this. :P
That's why I have over a million dollars saved in my retirement fund already, along with nearly 150k in my personal brokerage account as relatively liquid assets. Oh, and a 650k house that's about halfway paid off now.
That's kinda of low.
You claim to be technical, but you don't seem to understand how science and math work.
The human body is a perfect state machine — on paper. Real life is a lot messier.
[...] "add up the weight you do for a super impressive total."
That's how I keep track of my progress. When I worked at the community college bookstore warehouse, I had to move one-ton of textbooks to ship back to the publisher six times in one day. Six tons of weights is my workout goal.
The back is very strong for that motion, I'd consider 150 a warmup, and 75 pounds is just wasting time.
The 75 reps @ 75 pounds is the warm up to get the kinks out of my back. The 15 reps @ 150 pounds is the workout. I plan to add 5 reps @ 300 pounds in the near future.
Pre-Internet: < 1995, THE WEB, post-Internet: > 1995
You beat the computer equivalent of an average club-level player.
It was the only chess game I had for the Commodore 64. I never got around to getting Battle Chess.
No one *adds up* the pulls from a rowing machine you fucking mongoloid clown.
You do on a sit up rowing machine, asshat.
http://weighttraining.guide/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cablerow.png
AlphaGo is training the Go players to become better players with every defeat. When I had the Sargon II chess game for the Commodore 64, it took me five years to learn how to consistently beat the game on the hardest difficulty level. I remembered the last the game I played because I had to defeat nine Queens to win the game.
At the behest of Russian officials. The Amerika revolution continues, comrade!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU49MR19CcA&list=PL6B42A52B2363A16C
You have neck rolls and you don't lift heavy weights.
I pull 7,875pounds (75 reps @ 75 pounds, 15 reps @ 150 pounds) on the sit-up rowing machine during my workouts.
Isn't that how businesses operate — get away with as much as possible and pull back when a lawsuit becomes inevitable?
Did your relatives die young? That's another increased risk factor for problems.
The heroin addicts are dying young. Everyone else is dying old from drinking, smoking and fucking everything with two- or four-legs that can stand still. My family provided many examples of unhealthy living for me not to follow.
And no, you won't outlive me. I'm under 40, I'm very healthy (verified by actual regular visits with my physician), and I have no family history of major diseases. Men in my family have regularly lived into their 90s, with full vigor.
Are you planned my to live to be 120? You should. Nothing is worse than outliving your retirement funds by 30+ years.
Be honest now - what is it about the medical data available to you that you don't get?
Based on my life experience, the law of averages don't apply. Medical data is all about average people living and dying an average life.
It's taken you 15 years to lose 50 pounds - by any measure that is a ridiculously slow weight loss,
As a teenager, I went from 400 pounds to 325 pounds in one summer after I got a new bike and rode all over the county. My weight settled to 350 after I started working out the gym 15 years ago. I have no problem getting bigger with weight lifting. Sliming down has been a bitch.
and let's not forget my favorite. "this site is for nerds - citation please"
We need the demographic data. That's the only way to settle the argument as to whether Slashdot is for EVERY NERD or 1% NERDS. I suspect the 1% nerds are few in number, probably because Slashdot is a relic of the dot com bust and only readers from that era know about it.
That story got covered in "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" by G. Pascal Zachary. A great book that is out of print and not available in ebook format.
You could show recruiters a bunch of code samples written in c, tell them that they were written in java, python, bash, sql, and the framework du jour, and they wouldn't know the difference.
On several occasions I've been approached by recruiters for CLI Linux positions, which I knew in general but not too for specific Linux distro. They always got hung on this "Red Hat GUI thingie" checkbox on their checklist. I told them that the GUI was irrelevant to CLI work. They refused to let me interview. Later on I discovered that the "Red Hat GUI thingie" was a branding package that Red Hat no longer uses.