You know that feeling you get in the back of your head when you hear someone telling a lie? The "OMG...this person is lying to me, and I'm paying them to do it" feeling?
I usually let that happen twice before I call them out on it.
I worked for a quasi-government institution last year and didn't have to pay into Social Security.
They http://pacmed.org/were an independant clinic group in the puget sound which grew out of a WWI army hospital. Somehow, over the years, they were able to hold onto this exemption on paying Social Security, even though they were even less affiliated with the feds than a regular VA hospital.
I was a member of the http://afge.org/AFGE, even though I wasn't a government employee (!).
Anyway, it was sweet. We had to contribute at least 7% to a retirement fund (Lincoln Alliance) of which half had to be in bonds/stable investments, but other wise it was great. Eventually, they got rid of it, and we had to start paying in around late 2003. I left soon after just because at that point a major incentive had been removed.
I heard rumors while I was there though that the IRS doesn't have to pay in. Just rumors though...
And then be forced to carry around 2 different devices when 1 should suffice?
I'm not spending "all that money" on just a radio, I want a HD based digital music player. It's just that I also want the functionality that my 1984 model Sony Walkman provided. Recorded music and FM radio. I demand Hi-Tech!
My one and only reason for buying a Creative ZenMicro over the iPod mini was that the iPod has no radio built in.
I mean c'mon! I like to listen to Stern or This American Life when I work out. Dloading those in RA format and trying to get them to work on the iPod is too much to ask a consumer.
Have you had success getting VistA or OpenVistA running under Linux? I'm used to commercial MUMPS based products like http://idx.com/ or http://meidtech.com/, but plan on trying to get VistA running this weekend. It would be good to get some feedback before I jump into it...
Mr. Fusion is a more likly scenario than finding an extra-solar habitable planet, developing the technology required to get there (generation ship, or FTL travel) and colonizing successfully.
A non-solar, stable energy source and a cold, dark planet would suffice...
Although the quality of life on such a place would really blow.
The problem with making a DooM movie is that a real DooM movie could never be made....
Imagine this: Opening shot, a lone Space Marine steps off his landing craft and makes his way into an abandoned research outpost on Mars.
Suddenly, from around the corner a flaming, screaming skull flies towards him desperately trying to take bites out of his face. He quickly levels his shotgun and shatters the skull in mid-scream. Distracted, he fails to notice the shambling, rotting corpse slowly advancing on him. At the last second he spins around and tears the clearly human corpse apart with a chainsaw...
See what I'm getting at here? A DooM movie would be 90 minutes of:
a) Demons from hell
b) Zombie headshots
c) Ultra-violence
d) Satanism/satanic symbolism
e) Absolutely no redeeming moral value
As much as I would love to see a movie like this, there isn't a major studio in the world that would back a project like this, at this time. Did any of you see what happened on November 2nd? Jesusland would be up in arms over a real DooM movie. What you'd see would be like the opposite of The Passion of the Christ - a grass roots movement to not only ban the movie, but all violent video games.
Personally I want the movie to suck. I hope it tanks, and DooM and the legion of games it has influenced survive this strange fundamentalist movement in America.
Be careful what you wish for. A real DooM movie which stayed true to game, would ultimately create a backlash which would destroy the very thing we are all so passionate about.
For a perfect example of the need for legacy programmers. There are severalmajor software vendors who supply medical information systems to the healthcare community who rely heavily on folks skilled in (M)UMPS.
If you're looking for a language less sexy than Cobol, look no further than M.
Just to clarify, it's raw milk cheese that's been aged less than 60 days that is illegal to sell.
That said, the way the law is written, lax enforcement, and general misinformation about what raw milk cheese is (and if Goat cheese counts) means that I can still get the stuff at my local Whole Foods. Also, in the northern states anyway, there is always the option of skipping accross the border to Canadia for some cheese love.
In the long run this tactic will not work, no matter how focused or well organized. Broadcasters will slowly migrate to pay mediums (cable, satellite radio) and which will eventually become free to those who opt-in to advertiser sponsored programming. Which brings us back to the current system.
Hollywood is churning out sex and violence because that is what the people want to see, not because they have some liberal agenda that these do-gooders are trying to save us from. Eventually the free market will sort this out.
Remember, this is about boobies and cussin', and in a capitalist society any man with a little bit of money in his pocket will always be able to get him some boobies and cussin'.
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You know that feeling you get in the back of your head when you hear someone telling a lie? The "OMG...this person is lying to me, and I'm paying them to do it" feeling?
I usually let that happen twice before I call them out on it.
I worked for a quasi-government institution last year and didn't have to pay into Social Security.
They http://pacmed.org/were an independant clinic group in the puget sound which grew out of a WWI army hospital. Somehow, over the years, they were able to hold onto this exemption on paying Social Security, even though they were even less affiliated with the feds than a regular VA hospital.
I was a member of the http://afge.org/AFGE, even though I wasn't a government employee (!).
Anyway, it was sweet. We had to contribute at least 7% to a retirement fund (Lincoln Alliance) of which half had to be in bonds/stable investments, but other wise it was great. Eventually, they got rid of it, and we had to start paying in around late 2003. I left soon after just because at that point a major incentive had been removed.
I heard rumors while I was there though that the IRS doesn't have to pay in. Just rumors though...
And then be forced to carry around 2 different devices when 1 should suffice?
I'm not spending "all that money" on just a radio, I want a HD based digital music player. It's just that I also want the functionality that my 1984 model Sony Walkman provided. Recorded music and FM radio. I demand Hi-Tech!
My one and only reason for buying a Creative ZenMicro over the iPod mini was that the iPod has no radio built in.
I mean c'mon! I like to listen to Stern or This American Life when I work out. Dloading those in RA format and trying to get them to work on the iPod is too much to ask a consumer.
neitzsche,
Have you had success getting VistA or OpenVistA running under Linux? I'm used to commercial MUMPS based products like http://idx.com/ or http://meidtech.com/, but plan on trying to get VistA running this weekend. It would be good to get some feedback before I jump into it...
Obviously you will need to deliver Pocky via pneumatic tubes.
Mr. Fusion is a more likly scenario than finding an extra-solar habitable planet, developing the technology required to get there (generation ship, or FTL travel) and colonizing successfully.
A non-solar, stable energy source and a cold, dark planet would suffice...
Although the quality of life on such a place would really blow.
The problem with making a DooM movie is that a real DooM movie could never be made....
Imagine this: Opening shot, a lone Space Marine steps off his landing craft and makes his way into an abandoned research outpost on Mars.
Suddenly, from around the corner a flaming, screaming skull flies towards him desperately trying to take bites out of his face. He quickly levels his shotgun and shatters the skull in mid-scream. Distracted, he fails to notice the shambling, rotting corpse slowly advancing on him. At the last second he spins around and tears the clearly human corpse apart with a chainsaw...
See what I'm getting at here? A DooM movie would be 90 minutes of:
a) Demons from hell
b) Zombie headshots
c) Ultra-violence
d) Satanism/satanic symbolism
e) Absolutely no redeeming moral value
As much as I would love to see a movie like this, there isn't a major studio in the world that would back a project like this, at this time. Did any of you see what happened on November 2nd? Jesusland would be up in arms over a real DooM movie. What you'd see would be like the opposite of The Passion of the Christ - a grass roots movement to not only ban the movie, but all violent video games.
Personally I want the movie to suck. I hope it tanks, and DooM and the legion of games it has influenced survive this strange fundamentalist movement in America.
Be careful what you wish for. A real DooM movie which stayed true to game, would ultimately create a backlash which would destroy the very thing we are all so passionate about.
For a perfect example of the need for legacy programmers. There are several major software vendors who supply medical information systems to the healthcare community who rely heavily on folks skilled in (M)UMPS.
If you're looking for a language less sexy than Cobol, look no further than M.
Just to clarify, it's raw milk cheese that's been aged less than 60 days that is illegal to sell. That said, the way the law is written, lax enforcement, and general misinformation about what raw milk cheese is (and if Goat cheese counts) means that I can still get the stuff at my local Whole Foods. Also, in the northern states anyway, there is always the option of skipping accross the border to Canadia for some cheese love.
#'s 2 and 3 are on PAX, a "network" with about the same credibility as TBN. They might as well have just listed Bibleman as #1 and left it at that.
In the long run this tactic will not work, no matter how focused or well organized. Broadcasters will slowly migrate to pay mediums (cable, satellite radio) and which will eventually become free to those who opt-in to advertiser sponsored programming. Which brings us back to the current system.
Hollywood is churning out sex and violence because that is what the people want to see, not because they have some liberal agenda that these do-gooders are trying to save us from. Eventually the free market will sort this out.
Remember, this is about boobies and cussin', and in a capitalist society any man with a little bit of money in his pocket will always be able to get him some boobies and cussin'.
God bless America!