Hate to break it to you, but Fahrenheit is a much better metric for measuring environmental temperature relative to human norms than Celsius. 0 degrees F is very cold for a human and 100 degrees F is very hot for a human. Celsius is great for the lab, not so great for weather reports.
The details are complicated, but in this case most of the money apparently came from misappropriation of Malaysian government funds that were supposed to go towards local economic development and some big bribes from a Saudi oil company.
The money comes from illegal deals, sales, and trades. And someone wants to "launder" it to make look like it came from legitimate income or investment.
No, I don't hate farmers. I just know them for what they are. And, unlike the dumbass mass media, I don't buy into simplified, romanticized narratives.
I don't think that's what John Deere is meaning for at all. And let me play devil's advocate here for a minute, as someone who has worked with farmers in the past.
First of all, as someone who grew up working on farms and with farmers, let me dispel some of the Norman Rockwell bullshit image about the "noble farmer." The farmers that I knew coming up weren't the "heart and soul of America" (well, maybe they were, but not in a good way). They were the greediest, cheapest bunch of sonabitches you ever wanted to meet in your life. They would routinely try cheat their workers, crawl over their mother's dead bodies to make an extra penny, lie, cheat, and often outright steal if they thought they could get away with it. They were the kind of unabashed brutal capitalists who would easily give the most heartless Wall Street prick a run for his money in greed and avarice.
They didn't do this out of necessity, mind you. Most of the farmers I knew had plenty of money. Far from the popular image of the poor struggling farmers, most of them were quite well-off. Yet they would cheat you out of every dime they could if they got a chance. And when the illegals came in to my area in a big way back in the late-80's and early-90's, these "noble farmers" were the first to happily hire them, cutting farmhand wages in half and pocketing the difference by flagrantly breaking the law. The average farmworker salary went from $7/hr. to $4/hr. almost overnight, in spite of the fact that farmers were already making good money paying their workers $7/hr.
With that in mind, I suspect this John Deere situation has something in common with the controversial Monsanto seed situation, in that the real truth is that it boils down to cheap-ass greedy farmers using the "evil big corporation vs. the little noble farmer" image to their advantage by villianizing John Deere. What I suspect is REALLY going on here is that John Deere and other manufacturers have adopted a model of selling their equipment to farmers either at a loss or at cost, with the understanding that they'll make their profit in implicit servicing contracts. And the farmers, now that they have the equipment in hand on the cheap, have decided to "alter the deal" (to quote the great Darth Vader) to save a buck. And they're playing on their bullshit image to portray themselves as the little guy fighting back against evil big business to do it, when in reality they're every bit as greedy and underhanded as the company they're fighting (likely more so).
Now go ahead an mod me down, all of you whose only knowledge of farmers comes from John Mellencamp songs.
DS9 was the best Trek series, not the worst. Voyager *would* have been the worst if Paramount hadn't made the horrid mistake of casting Scott Bakula in Enterprise. His hammy smug overacting made William Shatner look like Robert De Niro.
The more backwards, koran-thumping sandbillies you have in your country/city/town, the higher the chance of an attack.
The higher the number and quality of lethal armaments that are floating around in your country/city/town, the higher the body-count from an attack will be.
The more liberals you have in your country/city/town, the higher the chance that the telltale signs leading up to the attack will be ignored or suppressed in the media.
I saw an interview with Mike Judge recently where he said that he had originally intended Silicon Valley to be a parody of the real thing, but quickly discovered that the real thing is much more bizarre and insane than he had imagined even in his comic fictional universe. The biggest criticism he said he got from real "angels" and VC's was that it wasn't realistic that these characters even had to work at all to get funding. In real life, Silicon Valley investors would be pushing each other out of the way to throw money at them, just on the PROMISE of an idea.
A multi-billion dollar valuation is easy to get in Silicon Valley these days. Just throw around a lot of hip buzzwords and phrases (like "open shared collaborative space" and "idea incubator") and VC's will throw money at you like a new stripper. And if you throw in some shit about being eco-friendly and "listening to the voice of the millenial generation" too, they'll just straight-up give you a cargo container filled with gold bars.
It sounds more like a deep-cover slashvertisement to me. But at $50+ a day for a single desk with no computer provided, I imagine they need all the help they can get.
Slashdot Mirror
time to use linux
When you see how bad Linux is, you'll be back.
1) I have a functioning sense of humor.
2) I'm not pre-programmed to treat everything Trump says as some ominous sign that he's the next Hitler.
Hate to break it to you, but Fahrenheit is a much better metric for measuring environmental temperature relative to human norms than Celsius. 0 degrees F is very cold for a human and 100 degrees F is very hot for a human. Celsius is great for the lab, not so great for weather reports.
Sounds like a form of Treason if true.
No, it sounds like a fairly typical Trump sarcastic joke/jab.
Trump: "Oh yeah, let's just support the terrorists by pretending they don't exist."
Headline on CNN 20 minutes later: "Trump Supports Ignoring Terrorism"
Then I clearly need to step up my game and have them call one another for no reason that anyone reading my code will ever be able to understand.
I second this, and also add that I like to throw in a bunch of superfluous methods in all my classes that are very complicated and are never called.
The details are complicated, but in this case most of the money apparently came from misappropriation of Malaysian government funds that were supposed to go towards local economic development and some big bribes from a Saudi oil company.
The money comes from illegal deals, sales, and trades. And someone wants to "launder" it to make look like it came from legitimate income or investment.
So I imagine the feds will want all the profits from that too.
No, I don't hate farmers. I just know them for what they are. And, unlike the dumbass mass media, I don't buy into simplified, romanticized narratives.
Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?
I don't think that's what John Deere is meaning for at all. And let me play devil's advocate here for a minute, as someone who has worked with farmers in the past.
First of all, as someone who grew up working on farms and with farmers, let me dispel some of the Norman Rockwell bullshit image about the "noble farmer." The farmers that I knew coming up weren't the "heart and soul of America" (well, maybe they were, but not in a good way). They were the greediest, cheapest bunch of sonabitches you ever wanted to meet in your life. They would routinely try cheat their workers, crawl over their mother's dead bodies to make an extra penny, lie, cheat, and often outright steal if they thought they could get away with it. They were the kind of unabashed brutal capitalists who would easily give the most heartless Wall Street prick a run for his money in greed and avarice.
They didn't do this out of necessity, mind you. Most of the farmers I knew had plenty of money. Far from the popular image of the poor struggling farmers, most of them were quite well-off. Yet they would cheat you out of every dime they could if they got a chance. And when the illegals came in to my area in a big way back in the late-80's and early-90's, these "noble farmers" were the first to happily hire them, cutting farmhand wages in half and pocketing the difference by flagrantly breaking the law. The average farmworker salary went from $7/hr. to $4/hr. almost overnight, in spite of the fact that farmers were already making good money paying their workers $7/hr.
With that in mind, I suspect this John Deere situation has something in common with the controversial Monsanto seed situation, in that the real truth is that it boils down to cheap-ass greedy farmers using the "evil big corporation vs. the little noble farmer" image to their advantage by villianizing John Deere. What I suspect is REALLY going on here is that John Deere and other manufacturers have adopted a model of selling their equipment to farmers either at a loss or at cost, with the understanding that they'll make their profit in implicit servicing contracts. And the farmers, now that they have the equipment in hand on the cheap, have decided to "alter the deal" (to quote the great Darth Vader) to save a buck. And they're playing on their bullshit image to portray themselves as the little guy fighting back against evil big business to do it, when in reality they're every bit as greedy and underhanded as the company they're fighting (likely more so).
Now go ahead an mod me down, all of you whose only knowledge of farmers comes from John Mellencamp songs.
DS9 was the best Trek series, not the worst. Voyager *would* have been the worst if Paramount hadn't made the horrid mistake of casting Scott Bakula in Enterprise. His hammy smug overacting made William Shatner look like Robert De Niro.
https://xkcd.com/927/
The more backwards, koran-thumping sandbillies you have in your country/city/town, the higher the chance of an attack.
The higher the number and quality of lethal armaments that are floating around in your country/city/town, the higher the body-count from an attack will be.
The more liberals you have in your country/city/town, the higher the chance that the telltale signs leading up to the attack will be ignored or suppressed in the media.
Norway, North Pole, what's the difference?
It's not exactly brave to give up cars when you have flying reindeer to rely on.
Who's volunteering for point?
I saw an interview with Mike Judge recently where he said that he had originally intended Silicon Valley to be a parody of the real thing, but quickly discovered that the real thing is much more bizarre and insane than he had imagined even in his comic fictional universe. The biggest criticism he said he got from real "angels" and VC's was that it wasn't realistic that these characters even had to work at all to get funding. In real life, Silicon Valley investors would be pushing each other out of the way to throw money at them, just on the PROMISE of an idea.
At about $1,000 per person/per month that had better be one bitching kitchenette.
A multi-billion dollar valuation is easy to get in Silicon Valley these days. Just throw around a lot of hip buzzwords and phrases (like "open shared collaborative space" and "idea incubator") and VC's will throw money at you like a new stripper. And if you throw in some shit about being eco-friendly and "listening to the voice of the millenial generation" too, they'll just straight-up give you a cargo container filled with gold bars.
It sounds more like a deep-cover slashvertisement to me. But at $50+ a day for a single desk with no computer provided, I imagine they need all the help they can get.
At $50 a day, I would have to drink a lot of beer for it to be considered "free." But hey, I'm up for a challenge.
which lets members rent desks in an open office
Couldn't you just go to the library and get a desk and computer for free?
Yeah, but that takes hard work. Much easier to hustle, con, and sue.