(Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings â" Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba â" died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
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Oh yea.... religion is really against rape except for young women who are untouched by man.
Requiring that I provide a legitimate phone number for each of my farmville bot accounts was most of it. But farmville was the main reason I was logging on in the first place. I would have never given them any legitimate information after the first half dozen privacy dumps.
Plus- it just sucked the way they kept colliding and smashing up different groups of friends and different groups of relatives and causing me grief in my personal life.
So I cut them loose. And haven't missed them since.
California fought and lost the case so now many other states who have laws making it illegal are afraid to prosecute and become centers for porn production as California has.
Personally- when are we going to get past this sex/money thing. Even this sex thing.
How many conservatives need to be found having gay sex before they stop trying to make it illegal? How many people of both political persuasions need to be found having sex for money before they make it legal.
Not everyone is attractive enough to get sex.
And if you are really rich, and give the sex partner on a car and keep an apartment for them to live in- somehow it's suddenly not prostitution and is legal again.
Now that women are using prostitutes more, perhaps they'll get behind legalization. However, most vice squads are still focused on female/male and male/male prostitutes and ignore male/female and female/female prostitutes.
As I said above. When I included CC, I was getting an email every 30 seconds. 2 to 3 Huge emails over 1mb every 10 minutes. Screen shots which run 5mb very common.
The entire company is working extreme hours and now they are several hundred indian contractors as well. I put in 70 to 80 hour weeks regularly until April of this year when I finally collapsed like my former manager. My BP was running 166/140 with medication. I slept about 18 hours straight... through phone calls... alarm clocks.
So then I cut back and just said I couldn't do it any more.
Then a couple months ago- after doing this to us for close to three years, they laid almost 80% of us off and brought in an indian consulting firm. Rumors are half of those left get laid off in the spring.
But wait... it gets better... it now turns out the indian consulting firm doesn't actually have our replacements. People are quitting left and right and there is no one coming until the spring to replace us. The new plan is to train the indians here who will train the arriving indians next year after we are all gone. And meanwhile... the company has decided to accelerate the schedule-- ignoring the fact that it's hemorrhaging staff and will have inexperienced (and in some cases freshly hired and trained- no experience at all) resources trying to do the implementation.
Any place that works you 70+ hours for a new project may have no intention of keeping you. As we found out from leaks, they have been planning to let all americans go and replace them with indians since at least 2011 and probably 2010.
I'm open to suggestions on how to process the 300 emails per day that got past my filters because they were from my manager or were sent directly to me.
That's about 1 email every 2 minutes. Personally, I think it's impossible but maybe you have some good ideas.
I'm not really open to suggestions on how to process 500 emails per day. That's almost an email per minute. You are right- I can't be bothered to READ EMAIL AT A RATE OF ONE EMAIL PER MINUTE, CONSTANTLY ALL DAY, and do the work instructed in those emails... you incredible ass.
Sending an email is NOT a confirmed communication. Hell you don't even know if it left your machine if your outbox was full. If it is critical- then follow up and confirm that it was received. Send an IM.
I was reading emails until 9pm every night at one point. Working over 70 hours per week. And I was still falling behind. We didn't have the staff we needed (since staffed up to 250% of what we had them). The first manager was destroyed and went on permanent medical leave. The second manager who took over after I ran two teams without a manager for six months was fired after 11 months on the job. The 3rd manager has been demoted to team lead.
The good thing is - I retire in january and I don't have to deal with pricks any more.
The cool bit is how when they screw up and buy millions of dollars worth of shares for $57 bucks (recently, in fact), the exchange let them call a "mulligan" and negated all trades above $47.
My current place has a firm nepotism policy... they are for it. That may be changing as we are ALL outsourced. I've been through three layoffs now and the current one is the worst, most ill thought out one I've ever seen. For one thing, they told us we were laid off but the indian replacements were not ready. And now 10% of the staff has left without KT before the indians have arrived. I predict very wonderful things.
My "Chris" was assigned to the wrong job, was burnt out from the 60 hour weeks, and really just didn't care enough. You can eventually get rid of a Chris but it takes months. And in the mean time, half a loaf is better than none.
At my soon to be ex company- they are trying to go to a integrated multi building, multi nation programming staff.
I was getting emails at a rate of one per 30 seconds to as little as multiple emails per second.
First step, remove all "cc:"'s unless from my direct managers. Only if it is "TO" me do i get it.
Dropped it to about one every 30-60 seconds. 500 emails per day. I analyze that daily and identify new useless emails and set up rules for them. I've gotten it down to about 250-300 emails per day.
And people actually come by 2 weeks later and say, "why isn't this done?? I sent you an EMAIL!!!" Sometimes when I was only CC'd on the original.
I say, "You waited 2 WEEKS to follow up on this? How important could it be if you wanted two weeks to follow up on this? I'll start on it now."
You forgot Chris. They suck, their work is lower quality, they don't solve problems well.
But Alice, Bob, and Catherine are all working 50 hours a week. Chris takes a lower load of projects and they have bugs.
But they were done and they do work well enough not to lose the customer.
Sure- you'd like to have a superstar, or then alice, bob and catherine.
But your job as a manager is to get enough out of Chris to turn a clusterfuck into a nuclear bomb. Because it's going to take 6 to 9 months to find an Alice, Bob or even Catherine much less a superstar (who turns down your offer-- was the money to low? did they hear you were a sweatshop? did their current place make a counteroffer and that's the only reason they applied at your place to begin with?
Once things tighten up enough from retiring boomers that it drops to where they can't make us do this. then unemployment drops from 6% to 4% overnight.
I also think that our perception of daylight is heavily modified by ground level vegetation and dirt which is a mixture of green, grey, yellow, and brown light. Unless you live next to a body of water, the reflected light is rarely blue.
Comparing the light from my "sun tube" to the light coming in the window- they are different colors. One is straight from the sky- the other has tons of reflected light.
As long as there is a window into the room, I only perceive turning on incandescents as brightening the room, not making it more yellow but I can see how they would mathematically. I'm probably just less sensitive to it.
Sounds like you want to buy some extra fixtures for when they are discontinued.
I thought it was true to the spirit of the book too.
The book showed a sort of a facist/liberatrian/only people who serve the government can vote type of society.
The movie showed the same thing.
But just like the cartoon violence in the Watchmen was okay but the video violence of the exact same things was incredibly horrible, the book Starship troopers didn't seem over the top because it was a book while the movie seemed incredibly over the top.
For 80k women, there were a total 360 cases (.45%).
The increase was higher for women in families who already had a history of glaucoma.
The link was specific to caffeinated coffee and wasn't found for other products (Tea, Chocolate, decaffeinated coffee)
There was a tiny statistically significant increase compared to abstainers.
I.e. take those 360 cases, and say there were 160 cases among abstainers and 200 cases among caffeinated coffee drinkers. So the actual increased number of cases due to drinking caffeinated coffee in the population of 80k women may have been something like.05%. This is a rough swag. The actual increase was: "increased risk of EG/EGS (RR = 1.66; 95% CI, 1.09â"2.54; P trend = 0.02)"
So give up a lifetime of drinking coffee, the other benefits of drinking coffee in return for reducing your risk of Glaucoma very very slightly.
Currently on sprint which has unlimited data and texts. I liked AT&T's rollover minutes.
Best is to get friends with cell phones of the desired provider to go to areas you are going to call from a lot (like your work and house) and tell you how many bars they get there.
Friend of a friend was a hacker who got that dream job: Security compliance at the Texas nuclear plants.
After he: 1) Fooled them into letting him in by carrying a box and asking them to hold the door. 2) Punched into a secure room by going through two sheets of sheetrock. 3) Punched into a "steel clad" area by showing the "steel" was easily cut with a hacksaw. 4) climbed out of the "man trap" within 30 seconds of being "trapped" 5) fooled employees into giving various passwords and access to secure areas..
and a half dozen other weaknesses...
They posted his PICTURE and told employees to be sure to keep an eye out for the security compliance guy.
They didn't really want to fix the problems.
Nuke plants are apparently mostly security through obscurity and bluffing.
I notice that the Solux bulbs vary from 3500 to 4700k. They also appear to be particularly long lived (8x) compared to incandescents. And they are halogens.
I find the 5000k to to feel "blue", not white. I don't like that light. I have't seen a 4700k tho.
As I said above the 3500k bulbs have a very nice "white" quality to them. You might find they are okay for closets or areas where you use the light less frequently but do leave them on for more than a few minutes.
I like the warm "fire" glow of incandescents for night time lighting but find the 2900 too warm.
The problem with CFL is that they take close to a minute to really come up to full intensity. Another problem I see with CFL is that when you turn them off and on a lot, they get dimmer and are not really usable any more even tho they still light - the lumen count has dropped years before the bulb is dead.
Down here, any heat must also be fought with extra electricity into the air conditioner. When i have a party, each person is equal to a 100w bulb and I have to hook up a second temporary air conditioner unit to keep things cool.
It sounds like you have seasonal affective disorder too so the color of the light is important to you. Here, we get full sun over 90% of the year so the cloudy days are a welcome relief.
I agree with you a lot -- and suffered with many different types of bulbs.
I dislike the slow turn on of the "instant" CFLS.
But for me and most of my friends- the 3000k was huge as was the 900 lumens.
Sure- I might use something else for painting. But the light is indistinguishable from a G7 3000k 900 lumens and a 60watt incandescent bulb. And it costs 20% of the price. It pays for itself in the first 8 months of my typical usage. My electric bill dropped by about $15 per month vs prior years with the expenditure of about $130 bucks on a mixture of cfl and LED bulbs (most of that was the LED bulbs).
And 2900K is obviously, horribly bad compared to incandescent. It's orangy or pinkish.
And these factors are on the bulb packaging which may be helpful to other people out there. I don't recall CRI being on the bulb packaging.
For some billion dollar customers, the only test data we have a dozen test records set up by hand. No converted data. When the software fails in test, the first thing is to debug it to look for what test data wasn't set up or linked correctly.
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(Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings â" Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba â" died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
---
Oh yea.... religion is really against rape except for young women who are untouched by man.
Privacy concerns part of it.
Requiring that I provide a legitimate phone number for each of my farmville bot accounts was most of it. But farmville was the main reason I was logging on in the first place. I would have never given them any legitimate information after the first half dozen privacy dumps.
Plus- it just sucked the way they kept colliding and smashing up different groups of friends and different groups of relatives and causing me grief in my personal life.
So I cut them loose. And haven't missed them since.
I'd be careful of that. The way the law usually reads is that
A&B can have sex if C is paying them to have sex and filming them.
If C gets involved, it's prostitution.
And B giving the money to "C" ahead of time is some kind of additional crime (tho hard to prove).
Only if the person filming isn't having sex.
California fought and lost the case so now many other states who have laws making it illegal are afraid to prosecute and become centers for porn production as California has.
Personally- when are we going to get past this sex/money thing. Even this sex thing.
How many conservatives need to be found having gay sex before they stop trying to make it illegal? How many people of both political persuasions need to be found having sex for money before they make it legal.
Not everyone is attractive enough to get sex.
And if you are really rich, and give the sex partner on a car and keep an apartment for them to live in- somehow it's suddenly not prostitution and is legal again.
Now that women are using prostitutes more, perhaps they'll get behind legalization. However, most vice squads are still focused on female/male and male/male prostitutes and ignore male/female and female/female prostitutes.
John Cooper
John Smith
John Baker
John Howard
John Davis
John Brookhead
John Wilson
Juan Mendez
Juan Morales
Johen Schmidt
Jean Billet
Jean Claude
terrible. unless you live on half of what you make.
then it's Awesome!
That's because all developers are equivalent glorp.
A java programmer == a C++ programmer == an Abap programmer.
Once you hire them any way. While interviewing them you may require 7 years experience.
Then three days after they start, you reassign them from the java project to the C++ project.
As I said above. When I included CC, I was getting an email every 30 seconds. 2 to 3 Huge emails over 1mb every 10 minutes. Screen shots which run 5mb very common.
The entire company is working extreme hours and now they are several hundred indian contractors as well. I put in 70 to 80 hour weeks regularly until April of this year when I finally collapsed like my former manager. My BP was running 166/140 with medication. I slept about 18 hours straight... through phone calls... alarm clocks.
So then I cut back and just said I couldn't do it any more.
Then a couple months ago- after doing this to us for close to three years, they laid almost 80% of us off and brought in an indian consulting firm. Rumors are half of those left get laid off in the spring.
But wait... it gets better... it now turns out the indian consulting firm doesn't actually have our replacements. People are quitting left and right and there is no one coming until the spring to replace us. The new plan is to train the indians here who will train the arriving indians next year after we are all gone. And meanwhile... the company has decided to accelerate the schedule-- ignoring the fact that it's hemorrhaging staff and will have inexperienced (and in some cases freshly hired and trained- no experience at all) resources trying to do the implementation.
Any place that works you 70+ hours for a new project may have no intention of keeping you. As we found out from leaks, they have been planning to let all americans go and replace them with indians since at least 2011 and probably 2010.
I'm open to suggestions on how to process the 300 emails per day that got past my filters because they were from my manager or were sent directly to me.
That's about 1 email every 2 minutes. Personally, I think it's impossible but maybe you have some good ideas.
I'm not really open to suggestions on how to process 500 emails per day. That's almost an email per minute. You are right- I can't be bothered to READ EMAIL AT A RATE OF ONE EMAIL PER MINUTE, CONSTANTLY ALL DAY, and do the work instructed in those emails... you incredible ass.
Sending an email is NOT a confirmed communication. Hell you don't even know if it left your machine if your outbox was full. If it is critical- then follow up and confirm that it was received. Send an IM.
I was reading emails until 9pm every night at one point. Working over 70 hours per week. And I was still falling behind. We didn't have the staff we needed (since staffed up to 250% of what we had them). The first manager was destroyed and went on permanent medical leave. The second manager who took over after I ran two teams without a manager for six months was fired after 11 months on the job. The 3rd manager has been demoted to team lead.
The good thing is - I retire in january and I don't have to deal with pricks any more.
The cool bit is how when they screw up and buy millions of dollars worth of shares for $57 bucks (recently, in fact), the exchange let them call a "mulligan" and negated all trades above $47.
40 cents a minute cost would stop this kind of crap and not even be noticable to human traders.
Limit orders are a suggestion- not a commitment.
They can blow through your limit or stop by 1000% before it fires.
Esp on market open or close.
I've had to deal with both.
My current place has a firm nepotism policy... they are for it. That may be changing as we are ALL outsourced. I've been through three layoffs now and the current one is the worst, most ill thought out one I've ever seen. For one thing, they told us we were laid off but the indian replacements were not ready. And now 10% of the staff has left without KT before the indians have arrived. I predict very wonderful things.
My "Chris" was assigned to the wrong job, was burnt out from the 60 hour weeks, and really just didn't care enough. You can eventually get rid of a Chris but it takes months. And in the mean time, half a loaf is better than none.
At my soon to be ex company- they are trying to go to a integrated multi building, multi nation programming staff.
I was getting emails at a rate of one per 30 seconds to as little as multiple emails per second.
First step, remove all "cc:"'s unless from my direct managers. Only if it is "TO" me do i get it.
Dropped it to about one every 30-60 seconds. 500 emails per day.
I analyze that daily and identify new useless emails and set up rules for them.
I've gotten it down to about 250-300 emails per day.
And people actually come by 2 weeks later and say, "why isn't this done?? I sent you an EMAIL!!!" Sometimes when I was only CC'd on the original.
I say, "You waited 2 WEEKS to follow up on this? How important could it be if you wanted two weeks to follow up on this? I'll start on it now."
You forgot Chris.
They suck, their work is lower quality, they don't solve problems well.
But Alice, Bob, and Catherine are all working 50 hours a week.
Chris takes a lower load of projects and they have bugs.
But they were done and they do work well enough not to lose the customer.
Sure- you'd like to have a superstar, or then alice, bob and catherine.
But your job as a manager is to get enough out of Chris to turn a clusterfuck into a nuclear bomb. Because it's going to take 6 to 9 months to find an Alice, Bob or even Catherine much less a superstar (who turns down your offer-- was the money to low? did they hear you were a sweatshop? did their current place make a counteroffer and that's the only reason they applied at your place to begin with?
They've been working us 60+ hours a week at work.
Once things tighten up enough from retiring boomers that it drops to where they can't make us do this. then unemployment drops from 6% to 4% overnight.
2016.
unless the robots get here first.
I also think that our perception of daylight is heavily modified by ground level vegetation and dirt which is a mixture of green, grey, yellow, and brown light. Unless you live next to a body of water, the reflected light is rarely blue.
Comparing the light from my "sun tube" to the light coming in the window- they are different colors. One is straight from the sky- the other has tons of reflected light.
As long as there is a window into the room, I only perceive turning on incandescents as brightening the room, not making it more yellow but I can see how they would mathematically. I'm probably just less sensitive to it.
Sounds like you want to buy some extra fixtures for when they are discontinued.
Cheers,
been a pleasure talking with you
I thought it was a wonderful film.
I thought it was true to the spirit of the book too.
The book showed a sort of a facist/liberatrian/only people who serve the government can vote type of society.
The movie showed the same thing.
But just like the cartoon violence in the Watchmen was okay but the video violence of the exact same things was incredibly horrible, the book Starship troopers didn't seem over the top because it was a book while the movie seemed incredibly over the top.
For 80k women, there were a total 360 cases (.45%).
The increase was higher for women in families who already had a history of glaucoma.
The link was specific to caffeinated coffee and wasn't found for other products (Tea, Chocolate, decaffeinated coffee)
There was a tiny statistically significant increase compared to abstainers.
I.e. take those 360 cases, and say there were 160 cases among abstainers and 200 cases among caffeinated coffee drinkers. So the actual increased number of cases due to drinking caffeinated coffee in the population of 80k women may have been something like .05%. This is a rough swag. The actual increase was:
"increased risk of EG/EGS (RR = 1.66; 95% CI, 1.09â"2.54; P trend = 0.02)"
So give up a lifetime of drinking coffee, the other benefits of drinking coffee in return for reducing your risk of Glaucoma very very slightly.
I have had many providers.
Each had dead areas.
Currently on sprint which has unlimited data and texts.
I liked AT&T's rollover minutes.
Best is to get friends with cell phones of the desired provider to go to areas you are going to call from a lot (like your work and house) and tell you how many bars they get there.
Friend of a friend was a hacker who got that dream job: Security compliance at the Texas nuclear plants.
After he:
1) Fooled them into letting him in by carrying a box and asking them to hold the door.
2) Punched into a secure room by going through two sheets of sheetrock.
3) Punched into a "steel clad" area by showing the "steel" was easily cut with a hacksaw.
4) climbed out of the "man trap" within 30 seconds of being "trapped"
5) fooled employees into giving various passwords and access to secure areas..
and a half dozen other weaknesses...
They posted his PICTURE and told employees to be sure to keep an eye out for the security compliance guy.
They didn't really want to fix the problems.
Nuke plants are apparently mostly security through obscurity and bluffing.
I notice that the Solux bulbs vary from 3500 to 4700k. They also appear to be particularly long lived (8x) compared to incandescents. And they are halogens.
I find the 5000k to to feel "blue", not white. I don't like that light. I have't seen a 4700k tho.
As I said above the 3500k bulbs have a very nice "white" quality to them. You might find they are okay for closets or areas where you use the light less frequently but do leave them on for more than a few minutes.
I like the warm "fire" glow of incandescents for night time lighting but find the 2900 too warm.
The problem with CFL is that they take close to a minute to really come up to full intensity. Another problem I see with CFL is that when you turn them off and on a lot, they get dimmer and are not really usable any more even tho they still light - the lumen count has dropped years before the bulb is dead.
Down here, any heat must also be fought with extra electricity into the air conditioner. When i have a party, each person is equal to a 100w bulb and I have to hook up a second temporary air conditioner unit to keep things cool.
It sounds like you have seasonal affective disorder too so the color of the light is important to you. Here, we get full sun over 90% of the year so the cloudy days are a welcome relief.
Cheers!
I agree with you a lot -- and suffered with many different types of bulbs.
I dislike the slow turn on of the "instant" CFLS.
But for me and most of my friends- the 3000k was huge as was the 900 lumens.
Sure- I might use something else for painting. But the light is indistinguishable from a G7 3000k 900 lumens and a 60watt incandescent bulb. And it costs 20% of the price. It pays for itself in the first 8 months of my typical usage. My electric bill dropped by about $15 per month vs prior years with the expenditure of about $130 bucks on a mixture of cfl and LED bulbs (most of that was the LED bulbs).
And 2900K is obviously, horribly bad compared to incandescent. It's orangy or pinkish.
And these factors are on the bulb packaging which may be helpful to other people out there. I don't recall CRI being on the bulb packaging.
okay--- read the part where I actually tested these with myself and others and the human eye found them indistinguishable.
But it doesn't.
The business won't pay for it.
For some billion dollar customers, the only test data we have a dozen test records set up by hand. No converted data. When the software fails in test, the first thing is to debug it to look for what test data wasn't set up or linked correctly.
Then you may have a real bug to deal with.