Anyone know if this is yet another band-aid patch or are they really fixing the underlying problem? This is why we continue to see patch after patch after patch after patch.. well you get the idea. Turns admins into firemen trying to patch all of the vulnerable machines. Even for my personal machines it's really, really, really old. Glad I'm not an admin. Wonder if Ellison is sorry he bought SUN yet.
..... should be daily alcohol use of comparable amount -... drinking 8 beers a day for 20 years too...
Safe level is no more than 18 drinks a week. You should limit it to 2 a day. Then on the weekend you can go over a bit. That's what my Doc told me. I know a guy that tried to do about 15 drinks of whiskey in a day. Wonder it didn't kill him. He was yacking. Swore off of fireball.
I know money grubbing politicians read things like this. It's just a matter of time before they pass a law to pass that information to law enforcement. We have to make sure we're on our game to force them to raise speed limits to what they should be in the first place.
Hrm ok so I confused the intake and exhaust ports for having a valve controlling them, that triangular thing is a piston and the spark plug is still there.
Triangular thing isn't a piston.
Man I wish I could take you back to my high school in the early 1980s where we had one. An 80 HP sachs engine about the size of 5 HP piston engine. I could show you a small engine disassembled with pistons, valves with springs and so on. The rotary engine has that triangle that rotates around a fixed cog and the crank. That is what forces it around. No valves. That's handled by the way the triangle rotates. Today it's the same thing is to say a jet engine is the same as a piston engine. If you consider adding a super charger to compress air in front of it and so on, what you are really doing is the same things as a piston engine. Though I'm sure everyone would think you're an idiot for saying so. They have a display about that at the Air and Space museum. They really are completely different engines though they all have intake, compression, power and exhaust.
We always wanted to put that 80 HP engine on a racing go cart frame with an oil clutch. We settled for a 1 cylinder diesel instead. What fun. Wonder what ever happened to it. BTW, that little engine had as much power as my first aircraft's engine did. A Cessna 140. If you buy an RX7, you'd be surprised at how small that engine is and how powerful it is.
Um, no. A wankel has a piston, valves, and a spark plug. This has none of those. So how is it like a rotary?
No, it doesn't. Did you even bother to look it up first before posting? Of course not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine . Runs smooth and like a sewing machine.
Augh! A mirrored folder to the cloud is _not_ backup!....
Amen! Nothing beats having a physical backup that YOU OWN. I know too many people who trusted the likes of carbonite and others and when push came to shove, it wasn't there. Sure, they had excuses like when she finally got her laptop back their retention time had expired so they automatically deleted it. Even though she was still paying for it. I also don't trust the cloud. Could be one big NSA scheme to get everyone to upload their stuff willingly. Encrypted, safe.... Yea, sure bud! I suppose it could be the ultimate trojan horse. Let it in, it'll do no harm. Then you get sacked.
Mine is in a commercial safe on big usb physical disks. S&G lock. Used to be a crypto safe for the Navy. They won't get to it without me knowing. I haven't lost anything in over 25 years. I regularly back up the other machines in my house too. The Macs are wonderful for that. So easy a cave man could do it. Much easier to deal with than the POS windows machine.
Haven't thought about it like that before. I'd say it's Microsoft in general. The real Church is known for bullying their members. So is Microsoft. People I know that work with MS are like in a cult. They say it's used by real businesses. Never mind their phone, set top box, many retail stores and so on don't use Microsoft. In fact, it is quite a joke that anyone still uses it. It's quite a joke that anyone is still in the real church since the founder admitted it was a load of bull crap.
There are some sites that have vanished from the Internet entirely already. If way back machine didn't know about them and they're offline, it's a bitch to find any trace of them at all.
...but if you happen to be an African American, a nerd is someone to be stepped on, to be pushed around, to be beaten.
Yes. I've had many black bosses over the years. One thing that really pissed them off was for them to do the work in school, work hard in practice, make something of themselves and then people think "the ONLY reason that black guy/gal is there is because of affirmative action." Often it had nothing to do with it. Understand that I definitely know of cases where they had their position ONLY because of affirmative action.
... if you're gonna have a protest against the rich, go pitch a tent on the CEO's lawn, not in the middle of the street where a bunch of people only doing slightly better than you are take the bus to work every day.
Go ahead and camp on the lawn... Release the hounds.
My wife is morbidly obese....Obesity isn't a "disease" or anything like that. It's the symptom of something else. Medical dollars are best spent for people who are ready to lose the weight AND deal with their pasts by supplying them with competent psychologists, not the latest diet pills.
Does she have a BMI >= 40? If she does then enjoy what time you have with her. I was there. The fat doc showed me a graph. One that looked sort of like the graph at the bottom of this page - http://dietdatabase.com/obesity-facts-and-statistics/ . So I was looking at about a 5-7 year life expectancy at best. Today I could make it into my 80s or beyond.
I've helped probably more than 100 people lose at least 50 Lbs. Often more like 100 Lbs. They have to want to do it. Bottom line is even with bariatric surgeries or the HCG diet - both work on limiting your intake, they can also be defeated. Both work well though the HCG diet is substantially cheaper than the surgery. Often times in most cities in the US, "fat doctors" have a free clinic usually in the evening (look for surgeon, bariatric, call the office and as if they have a free clinic). Take her to one. It's an eye opener. They can also help even if you don't do the surgery. Very important to keep up vitamins and minerals or she can loose her hair or have other problems.
For inspiration, see what the Reverend Al Sharpton did. Yes, that Al Sharpton. He was 305 Lbs and a fat slob. Now I think he's 130 and looks amazing for his age. At my last HS reunion I looked like a regular guy when I saw myself in pictures. Your wife can do it. If I can do it, Al Sharpton can do it, she can do it.
I'll also add that she'll feel amazing (not how she feels to you though that may also be true, how she feels to herself). At times while loosing the weight, I would want to run around the building I had so much more energy. It's truly amazing when you realize just how much that extra weight zaps you. For how much I lost? Pick up two typical propane tanks for a bar-b-que. That's around 70 Lbs. I lost more than that and I took it wherever I went. I lost 90 Lbs and I'm ready to loose another 30. I used the HCG homeopathic drops. I purchased the hcgdiet.com stuff first. Now I use the generic drops that are $20 a bottle. Purchase the HCG diet cook book off amazon, less than $20. I know this is hard to believe, I didn't at first. AS LONG AS SHE STAYS ON THE DIET, SHE WON'T BE HUNGRY. I really mean that. Sneak in something you shouldn't and you'll have to overcome the craving for about a week to get back on track where you won't be hungry. So as I think about it, don't be an idiot and cheat. The mind is the biggest problem with senseless eating. Be sure to follow through on the ending part. You need to maintain that finishing weight for 3+3 weeks and you body will set to that new weight. 3 weeks eating more, 3 more weeks to add carbs back in slowly. Again, don't cheat or you risk putting the weight back on.
She'll also need to change what she eats for the rest of her life. I had to as well. As a rough guide, whatever a normal guy eats, I eat half of that. Not so bad, just took a bit of getting used to. Al I understands is a vegetarian now. I'm strongly considering that as well.
To plan and build a new reactor is very, very, very expensive because of the crazy greenpeace and other wackos. Even though Mr. Moore who helped found greenpeace wrote in the Washington Post back in 2006 that the concern wasn't valid, they still oppose any new Nuke plants in court. They hold up the entire industry in court. Otherwise we'd have recycling and new plants that we sorely need. The new plants are safe. Even the old plants are safe. TMI put out a lot less radiation than your standard coal plant puts out every day.
Just don't do stupid things like the Japanese did by: 1) Locating three nuke plants in a place known to get flooded with a tsunami. 2) having their diesel generators located in the basement where they'd be flooded and rendered useless. 3) Not allowing for an external source of power in case their diesel generators failed. 4) Not asking for an outside firm (outside of Japan and free from political pressures as you can get) to approve their plans.
Their decision and Germany's decision to abandon nuclear power is just silly. They'll cause a lot more environmental harm by doing this.
...Why the *hell* are we asking a domestic LE agency, the FBI , about this instead of the foreign data/signals intelligence agency, the damned NSA..
Really? FBI is for domestic stuff, supposedly ONLY. NSA is simply for secret stuff. Foreign or domestic, they're your guys for encryption/decryption and other secrets. CIA is for foreign stuff, supposedly ONLY.
The CIA should be involved in this one. Have them find the little guy, send a drone in and no more problem. It'll be a blast!
I remember even back into the 1970s transit riders were about as sharp as a bowling ball with directions. Washington, NYC, etc.. Didn't seem to matter. Once in a while you might find a guy that actually know what they were doing other than tuning out everything except their stop. Don't ask for advice on how to buy a card fare. Often they can't even get that right.
A lot of times it isn't really the age, it's how much you're charging. That's because a guy with that much experience is more likely to be pulling 200K, perhaps more. A guy out of college you can get for 60K. Often less than that.
To get around this, use things like linked in. Network like crazy to find those jobs. Use the computer to your advantage. Otherwise I hope you have enough saved up or some way of getting re-occuring income. There's also javascript. You can do that from home if you learn it.
It's still up to you. When you're that old you're almost certainly taking meds. High BP, who knows what else. Simply stop taking them, start drinking. Go to the store while you can and get a case or so of liquor. Invite your family over and essentially say goodbye. Have a blast. I know a guy that did that. Drank himself to death. Bad thing is if you don't drink enough. I knew a guy that drank about 3/4 of a bottle of Fireball, not trying to kill himself. Man, he was not well but lived.
...My grandfather and father both have M1 Garand rifles and carbines that my great uncles brought back from WWII
Bullshit. Nobody "brought back" any US Government issued weapon from WWII legally. Every GI that is assigned one must return it or they're held accountable. Hollywood keeps up this myth. You can keep a captured enemy weapon as war prize under certain conditions.
You can purchase weapons that were used in WWII. A WWII Carbine used to go for about $15 in the 1950s. I think a 45 pistol about the same.
But I never have understood the sanity behind jumping out of a perfectly good plane.:(
You only live once. Don't let yourself get old and wish you had done stuff. It's safe as long as you listen to what they tell you and you keep it safe. You do stuff beyond what they consider safe or get reckless, you'll get hurt or killed sooner or later. Same thing with a motorcycle, scuba diving, nascar driving, airplane flying.
Last I knew you lose in the deal with solar. That is, more energy is put into the manufacturing of the cell than you'll get out of it in the lifetime of the cell thereby making this all a boon doggle. Does anyone know if that's still true today? Where to get a great deal on good units?
1) Doesn't work or PIA to figure out. Worse case, don't make me have to google more than once to get it working. Local help should help. Imagine that.
2) You bug me. Like TFA said if there's un-necessary notifications especially if I'm right in the middle of something and you interrupt me, you can almost ensure I'm going to delete it. If I can't delete it like a certain PIA app at work, I'm going to complain and make your life miserable as I can. Fucking app I'm thinking of grabs your cursor wherever you are. Middle of typing a letter and had about 8 points in your brain queue to write down? Too bad. Just to type in the password because there's an idiotic timeout to satisfy an audit question that doesn't even apply because the desktop locks after inactivity. Now good luck with whatever it was you were doing because your thought process is gone. About the time you get it back it will interrupt you again.
Evolution is fitting into this one. They pop up a notification that I got new e-mail, while they do that the normal app is locked. It's also crashing a lot lately. I'm about to replace it if I can.
3) Past upgrades weren't so nice. Postgres fits into this one. I upgraded a system about 10 years ago and it cost me about two days to find an older machine, move the old data files, dump the data to text files and reload it while I had to do more stuff to get the customer's app running again (SURPRISE!). All while the customer was breathing down my neck. Postgres - I still give you the finger over that one. Leaving me with no way to upgrade on that machine wasn't nice. Suppose I didn't have access to another machine? No BS like that with Mysql. Don't even bring up oracle. I only use them if there IS no other way. They're beyond a middle finger gesture.
4) Used to not charge, now you do AND there's little or no value added. I make my living in the IT industry and I know people need to make a living too. I get that. What I don't get is something that sort of works and a lot of people get to depend on it and now you want to charge for it. Tripwire is in this category. Used it all over the place. Great stuff. Then for the commercial version they wanted like $3 grand a machine and I manage over 900 machines. So $nothing to 2.7 million and that's just for one year? Sure, they did work on it but it still sucks. Especially with the dynamic pre-linking we have today. Support basically told me to pound sand. They made even Oracle look good (see previous item about oracle). Worse, they bought licenses for it, then wouldn't give out the licenses because it was only for a year. So the eventually expired. Money for nothing.
5) I'm paying you and you don't listen. I had an app that I paid for. Had a problem. He couldn't be bothered with helping me. Turns out I found a freeware version that was better. Adios Amigo!
"Feminization" is the wrong word for this.... that crap was being forced down from above, from a wealthy white male administrative class with MBAs (not from "touchy feely female teachers").
That's not what they meant. When they say feminization it means they want the boys to behave like the girls do (sit there, listen, be docile; not ants in pants, not listening,... well like a BOY). My kids are grown so I went through this years ago. From elementary school they start (they get the girls later when they are women - I feel bad (heart pain, broken bone, angina, etc) - here take this so you're not depressed). Your Son has a problem and should be tested. That's the start. Then they insist he needs adderal or some other form of speed - to make him more like a girl. Today in my opinion he's not right because of that crap. Thank GOD I heard an article about this on NPR and he was off that stuff the next day. That started my very adversarial relationship with the school that kept insisting he had to have it. So at Lunch time I observed over 50 out of 75 male students getting their lunch time fix. Bullshit, that many students don't need speed and they know it. These were all female "educators". Principal on down, products of the (NEA) Union based teachers. I also learned the difference between a teacher and an educator from that school. I was taught by teachers. My children with few exceptions were taught by educators who were despised by teachers. Educators = state based unionized indoctrinated people to further the Democratic agenda. Why do I think that? Because more than one of the educators told me that. Maryland isn't subtle with their demands on teachers.
You let computers drive you to and from places, you surrender your individuality, freedom. Clearly most people out there shouldn't be driving. However for the rest of us, where's your sense of life? You're in control. Otherwise, you're just like baggage in the back. Might as well take a bus.
I still dig that chick in the 1984 superbowl apple commercial. One in the hot red shorts. Otherwise, we're those masses of people listening to the dictator on the screen... Telling us what to do, like telling us all to by specific health insurance and so on.
All the had to do is do a redirect from all to a "sorry charlie" page via their load balancer or Akamai. Then simply undo it later. Why it's so easy EVEN a Windows guy could have done it.
Slashdot Mirror
...You use this device to feed disinformation to your enemy.
Think again.
You're better off destroying it and getting rid of it.
Anyone know if this is yet another band-aid patch or are they really fixing the underlying problem? This is why we continue to see patch after patch after patch after patch.. well you get the idea. Turns admins into firemen trying to patch all of the vulnerable machines. Even for my personal machines it's really, really, really old. Glad I'm not an admin. Wonder if Ellison is sorry he bought SUN yet.
..... should be daily alcohol use of comparable amount - ... drinking 8 beers a day for 20 years too...
Safe level is no more than 18 drinks a week. You should limit it to 2 a day. Then on the weekend you can go over a bit. That's what my Doc told me. I know a guy that tried to do about 15 drinks of whiskey in a day. Wonder it didn't kill him. He was yacking. Swore off of fireball.
I know money grubbing politicians read things like this. It's just a matter of time before they pass a law to pass that information to law enforcement. We have to make sure we're on our game to force them to raise speed limits to what they should be in the first place.
Hrm ok so I confused the intake and exhaust ports for having a valve controlling them, that triangular thing is a piston and the spark plug is still there.
Triangular thing isn't a piston.
Man I wish I could take you back to my high school in the early 1980s where we had one. An 80 HP sachs engine about the size of 5 HP piston engine. I could show you a small engine disassembled with pistons, valves with springs and so on. The rotary engine has that triangle that rotates around a fixed cog and the crank. That is what forces it around. No valves. That's handled by the way the triangle rotates. Today it's the same thing is to say a jet engine is the same as a piston engine. If you consider adding a super charger to compress air in front of it and so on, what you are really doing is the same things as a piston engine. Though I'm sure everyone would think you're an idiot for saying so. They have a display about that at the Air and Space museum. They really are completely different engines though they all have intake, compression, power and exhaust.
We always wanted to put that 80 HP engine on a racing go cart frame with an oil clutch. We settled for a 1 cylinder diesel instead. What fun. Wonder what ever happened to it. BTW, that little engine had as much power as my first aircraft's engine did. A Cessna 140. If you buy an RX7, you'd be surprised at how small that engine is and how powerful it is.
Um, no. A wankel has a piston, valves, and a spark plug. This has none of those. So how is it like a rotary?
No, it doesn't. Did you even bother to look it up first before posting? Of course not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine . Runs smooth and like a sewing machine.
Augh! A mirrored folder to the cloud is _not_ backup! ....
Amen! Nothing beats having a physical backup that YOU OWN. I know too many people who trusted the likes of carbonite and others and when push came to shove, it wasn't there. Sure, they had excuses like when she finally got her laptop back their retention time had expired so they automatically deleted it. Even though she was still paying for it. I also don't trust the cloud. Could be one big NSA scheme to get everyone to upload their stuff willingly. Encrypted, safe.... Yea, sure bud! I suppose it could be the ultimate trojan horse. Let it in, it'll do no harm. Then you get sacked.
Mine is in a commercial safe on big usb physical disks. S&G lock. Used to be a crypto safe for the Navy. They won't get to it without me knowing. I haven't lost anything in over 25 years. I regularly back up the other machines in my house too. The Macs are wonderful for that. So easy a cave man could do it. Much easier to deal with than the POS windows machine.
Windows ME?
Haven't thought about it like that before. I'd say it's Microsoft in general. The real Church is known for bullying their members. So is Microsoft. People I know that work with MS are like in a cult. They say it's used by real businesses. Never mind their phone, set top box, many retail stores and so on don't use Microsoft. In fact, it is quite a joke that anyone still uses it. It's quite a joke that anyone is still in the real church since the founder admitted it was a load of bull crap.
There are some sites that have vanished from the Internet entirely already. If way back machine didn't know about them and they're offline, it's a bitch to find any trace of them at all.
...but if you happen to be an African American, a nerd is someone to be stepped on, to be pushed around, to be beaten.
Yes. I've had many black bosses over the years. One thing that really pissed them off was for them to do the work in school, work hard in practice, make something of themselves and then people think "the ONLY reason that black guy/gal is there is because of affirmative action." Often it had nothing to do with it. Understand that I definitely know of cases where they had their position ONLY because of affirmative action.
... if you're gonna have a protest against the rich, go pitch a tent on the CEO's lawn, not in the middle of the street where a bunch of people only doing slightly better than you are take the bus to work every day.
Go ahead and camp on the lawn... Release the hounds.
Sorry, couldn't resist the Simpsons reference.
Really? You remind me of the Chief of Police in this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME .
Shocked, shocked that nations spy on each other.
Of course they knew they were being spied on.
My wife is morbidly obese. ...Obesity isn't a "disease" or anything like that. It's the symptom of something else. Medical dollars are best spent for people who are ready to lose the weight AND deal with their pasts by supplying them with competent psychologists, not the latest diet pills.
Does she have a BMI >= 40? If she does then enjoy what time you have with her. I was there. The fat doc showed me a graph. One that looked sort of like the graph at the bottom of this page - http://dietdatabase.com/obesity-facts-and-statistics/ . So I was looking at about a 5-7 year life expectancy at best. Today I could make it into my 80s or beyond.
I've helped probably more than 100 people lose at least 50 Lbs. Often more like 100 Lbs. They have to want to do it. Bottom line is even with bariatric surgeries or the HCG diet - both work on limiting your intake, they can also be defeated. Both work well though the HCG diet is substantially cheaper than the surgery. Often times in most cities in the US, "fat doctors" have a free clinic usually in the evening (look for surgeon, bariatric, call the office and as if they have a free clinic). Take her to one. It's an eye opener. They can also help even if you don't do the surgery. Very important to keep up vitamins and minerals or she can loose her hair or have other problems.
For inspiration, see what the Reverend Al Sharpton did. Yes, that Al Sharpton. He was 305 Lbs and a fat slob. Now I think he's 130 and looks amazing for his age. At my last HS reunion I looked like a regular guy when I saw myself in pictures. Your wife can do it. If I can do it, Al Sharpton can do it, she can do it.
I'll also add that she'll feel amazing (not how she feels to you though that may also be true, how she feels to herself). At times while loosing the weight, I would want to run around the building I had so much more energy. It's truly amazing when you realize just how much that extra weight zaps you. For how much I lost? Pick up two typical propane tanks for a bar-b-que. That's around 70 Lbs. I lost more than that and I took it wherever I went. I lost 90 Lbs and I'm ready to loose another 30. I used the HCG homeopathic drops. I purchased the hcgdiet.com stuff first. Now I use the generic drops that are $20 a bottle. Purchase the HCG diet cook book off amazon, less than $20. I know this is hard to believe, I didn't at first. AS LONG AS SHE STAYS ON THE DIET, SHE WON'T BE HUNGRY. I really mean that. Sneak in something you shouldn't and you'll have to overcome the craving for about a week to get back on track where you won't be hungry. So as I think about it, don't be an idiot and cheat. The mind is the biggest problem with senseless eating. Be sure to follow through on the ending part. You need to maintain that finishing weight for 3+3 weeks and you body will set to that new weight. 3 weeks eating more, 3 more weeks to add carbs back in slowly. Again, don't cheat or you risk putting the weight back on.
She'll also need to change what she eats for the rest of her life. I had to as well. As a rough guide, whatever a normal guy eats, I eat half of that. Not so bad, just took a bit of getting used to. Al I understands is a vegetarian now. I'm strongly considering that as well.
Hope this helps.
To plan and build a new reactor is very, very, very expensive because of the crazy greenpeace and other wackos. Even though Mr. Moore who helped found greenpeace wrote in the Washington Post back in 2006 that the concern wasn't valid, they still oppose any new Nuke plants in court. They hold up the entire industry in court. Otherwise we'd have recycling and new plants that we sorely need. The new plants are safe. Even the old plants are safe. TMI put out a lot less radiation than your standard coal plant puts out every day.
Just don't do stupid things like the Japanese did by:
1) Locating three nuke plants in a place known to get flooded with a tsunami.
2) having their diesel generators located in the basement where they'd be flooded and rendered useless.
3) Not allowing for an external source of power in case their diesel generators failed.
4) Not asking for an outside firm (outside of Japan and free from political pressures as you can get) to approve their plans.
Their decision and Germany's decision to abandon nuclear power is just silly. They'll cause a lot more environmental harm by doing this.
...Why the *hell* are we asking a domestic LE agency, the FBI , about this instead of the foreign data/signals intelligence agency, the damned NSA..
Really? FBI is for domestic stuff, supposedly ONLY. NSA is simply for secret stuff. Foreign or domestic, they're your guys for encryption/decryption and other secrets. CIA is for foreign stuff, supposedly ONLY.
The CIA should be involved in this one. Have them find the little guy, send a drone in and no more problem. It'll be a blast!
I remember even back into the 1970s transit riders were about as sharp as a bowling ball with directions. Washington, NYC, etc.. Didn't seem to matter. Once in a while you might find a guy that actually know what they were doing other than tuning out everything except their stop. Don't ask for advice on how to buy a card fare. Often they can't even get that right.
And somehow we made it to the moon.
A lot of times it isn't really the age, it's how much you're charging. That's because a guy with that much experience is more likely to be pulling 200K, perhaps more. A guy out of college you can get for 60K. Often less than that.
To get around this, use things like linked in. Network like crazy to find those jobs. Use the computer to your advantage. Otherwise I hope you have enough saved up or some way of getting re-occuring income. There's also javascript. You can do that from home if you learn it.
I'm in the same boat. Good luck.
It's still up to you. When you're that old you're almost certainly taking meds. High BP, who knows what else. Simply stop taking them, start drinking. Go to the store while you can and get a case or so of liquor. Invite your family over and essentially say goodbye. Have a blast. I know a guy that did that. Drank himself to death. Bad thing is if you don't drink enough. I knew a guy that drank about 3/4 of a bottle of Fireball, not trying to kill himself. Man, he was not well but lived.
...My grandfather and father both have M1 Garand rifles and carbines that my great uncles brought back from WWII
Bullshit. Nobody "brought back" any US Government issued weapon from WWII legally. Every GI that is assigned one must return it or they're held accountable. Hollywood keeps up this myth. You can keep a captured enemy weapon as war prize under certain conditions.
You can purchase weapons that were used in WWII. A WWII Carbine used to go for about $15 in the 1950s. I think a 45 pistol about the same.
But I never have understood the sanity behind jumping out of a perfectly good plane. :(
You only live once. Don't let yourself get old and wish you had done stuff. It's safe as long as you listen to what they tell you and you keep it safe. You do stuff beyond what they consider safe or get reckless, you'll get hurt or killed sooner or later. Same thing with a motorcycle, scuba diving, nascar driving, airplane flying.
Last I knew you lose in the deal with solar. That is, more energy is put into the manufacturing of the cell than you'll get out of it in the lifetime of the cell thereby making this all a boon doggle. Does anyone know if that's still true today? Where to get a great deal on good units?
I just went through a round of this.
1) Doesn't work or PIA to figure out. Worse case, don't make me have to google more than once to get it working. Local help should help. Imagine that.
2) You bug me. Like TFA said if there's un-necessary notifications especially if I'm right in the middle of something and you interrupt me, you can almost ensure I'm going to delete it. If I can't delete it like a certain PIA app at work, I'm going to complain and make your life miserable as I can. Fucking app I'm thinking of grabs your cursor wherever you are. Middle of typing a letter and had about 8 points in your brain queue to write down? Too bad. Just to type in the password because there's an idiotic timeout to satisfy an audit question that doesn't even apply because the desktop locks after inactivity. Now good luck with whatever it was you were doing because your thought process is gone. About the time you get it back it will interrupt you again.
Evolution is fitting into this one. They pop up a notification that I got new e-mail, while they do that the normal app is locked. It's also crashing a lot lately. I'm about to replace it if I can.
3) Past upgrades weren't so nice. Postgres fits into this one. I upgraded a system about 10 years ago and it cost me about two days to find an older machine, move the old data files, dump the data to text files and reload it while I had to do more stuff to get the customer's app running again (SURPRISE!). All while the customer was breathing down my neck. Postgres - I still give you the finger over that one. Leaving me with no way to upgrade on that machine wasn't nice. Suppose I didn't have access to another machine? No BS like that with Mysql. Don't even bring up oracle. I only use them if there IS no other way. They're beyond a middle finger gesture.
4) Used to not charge, now you do AND there's little or no value added. I make my living in the IT industry and I know people need to make a living too. I get that. What I don't get is something that sort of works and a lot of people get to depend on it and now you want to charge for it. Tripwire is in this category. Used it all over the place. Great stuff. Then for the commercial version they wanted like $3 grand a machine and I manage over 900 machines. So $nothing to 2.7 million and that's just for one year? Sure, they did work on it but it still sucks. Especially with the dynamic pre-linking we have today. Support basically told me to pound sand. They made even Oracle look good (see previous item about oracle). Worse, they bought licenses for it, then wouldn't give out the licenses because it was only for a year. So the eventually expired. Money for nothing.
5) I'm paying you and you don't listen. I had an app that I paid for. Had a problem. He couldn't be bothered with helping me. Turns out I found a freeware version that was better. Adios Amigo!
"Feminization" is the wrong word for this.... that crap was being forced down from above, from a wealthy white male administrative class with MBAs (not from "touchy feely female teachers").
That's not what they meant. When they say feminization it means they want the boys to behave like the girls do (sit there, listen, be docile; not ants in pants, not listening, ... well like a BOY). My kids are grown so I went through this years ago. From elementary school they start (they get the girls later when they are women - I feel bad (heart pain, broken bone, angina, etc) - here take this so you're not depressed). Your Son has a problem and should be tested. That's the start. Then they insist he needs adderal or some other form of speed - to make him more like a girl. Today in my opinion he's not right because of that crap. Thank GOD I heard an article about this on NPR and he was off that stuff the next day. That started my very adversarial relationship with the school that kept insisting he had to have it. So at Lunch time I observed over 50 out of 75 male students getting their lunch time fix. Bullshit, that many students don't need speed and they know it. These were all female "educators". Principal on down, products of the (NEA) Union based teachers. I also learned the difference between a teacher and an educator from that school. I was taught by teachers. My children with few exceptions were taught by educators who were despised by teachers. Educators = state based unionized indoctrinated people to further the Democratic agenda. Why do I think that? Because more than one of the educators told me that. Maryland isn't subtle with their demands on teachers.
Glad I'm not a kid today. I bet it'd kill me.
You let computers drive you to and from places, you surrender your individuality, freedom. Clearly most people out there shouldn't be driving. However for the rest of us, where's your sense of life? You're in control. Otherwise, you're just like baggage in the back. Might as well take a bus.
I still dig that chick in the 1984 superbowl apple commercial. One in the hot red shorts. Otherwise, we're those masses of people listening to the dictator on the screen... Telling us what to do, like telling us all to by specific health insurance and so on.
All the had to do is do a redirect from all to a "sorry charlie" page via their load balancer or Akamai. Then simply undo it later. Why it's so easy EVEN a Windows guy could have done it.