I have a friend who talks quite a bit like you who a few years ago had the displeausre of being repeatedly tasered "for no reason".
Long story short, after about the fifth time asking for the rest of the story, "no reason" became "I had just gotten out of rehab, trashed my parents bathroom with a shower rod, kicked in their windsheild, attacked the first officer on the scene, continued to fight with other who arrived until restrained, and then began spitting at them until incapcitated".
I'm not going to say their are no dishonest people in positions of power, but at least from my personal experience (which doesn't end there, it's just the most interesting story) most officers I've had the pleasure of meeting both on and off duty are pleasent people just doing their jobs.
It's important not let your obvious bias make you forget that there are in fact people in the world worse than the police, and that's why they exist.
If it makes you feel any better, of close to 10-15 people I know who own FFXII I'm the only one who has finished it because the rest all got bored and quit due to the endless running and grinding for items. It's sad because I think the story is one of the best FFs have to offer, but the gameplay is honestly the least enjoyable of any game I've ever played to completion.
My friend is an army reservist and when he got called up his (if it matters to anyone) strongly anti-war neighborhood all pitched in to buy him body armor.
He uses it for target practice because the Army provided far better equipment for his stay in Iraq.
Getting a permit for that silencer (from the ATF) consts the same and is identically priced to the permit for getting an automatic weapon.
Not to mention that a silencer won't hide you in a dark and quiet theater, so why bother.
Not to mention that.22s have been known to glance off skulls if they hit them wrong alot more frequently due to low mass and (comparitive, to say.223) low velocity.
LAPD and FBI studies have shown that on a per case basis looking at incidents of shooting vs. fatalities, nothing provides a one shot kill and no caliber is more dangerous than any other (of 9mm up) shoot anyone enough, and in the right areas, and they will die.
Correct. Consealed carry requires that the weapon be concealed, if it's concealed they don't know if you have it or not. If they do know you've already failed one of the requirements of your permit. They can ask you to leave, but they can't ban you becuase they inherently aren't supposed to know you have it.
The last time I went to Canada (summer 05) it was just the opposite.
Going into Canada one of the four of us didn't have a birth certificate or passport, our car was searched, our bottles of soda checked, our luggage rummaged through,the whole thing took probably an hour not counting the time we spent waiting for a team to tear through our shit.
Coming back we were hung over and barely intelligible, we failed to answer any of the guards questions coherently or logically, and we still never had to get out of our car even at at border crossing that is known for drug smuggling.
If you're anything like my friend who WOWs probably 16 hours a week, he knows he's not getting anywhere, infact there is nowhere to get no matter how much time you have. So you've made it to level 60 and the phatest l00t imaginable? Good, now start a new character and do it all over again. There's and up, but there's no top, what's the point?
He considers this a plus because like unlike games with a recognizable end he can leave at any time without feeling like he left things unfinished. He's no closer to "beating" WOW than he was when it came out.
The whole point is to kill time. Solitaire with better graphics.
Assuming Apple never fixed this, which is unlikely, which is more likely:
1) The next time they buy a new computer everyone who owns an ipod will buy a Mac, because their new computer would come with Vista
2) Everyone who buys a new computer would replace their old MP3 player with a compatible one, having not known about this problem beforehand and being unwilling to send back their new computer
My money would be on the latter, it assumes the least amount of knowledge and thought from the consumer, as well as being the less costly plan. Of course apple is going to fix the issue, because either scenario is stressful to the general populace of computer users.
I wouldn't worry about fuxoring your iPod either. If you're like most people (myself excluded, still rolling along with a 15GB third gen with absimal battery life) you're probably on your third iPod by now anyway. Of the twenty or so people I know with iPods, Mac and PC users alike, I'm the only one who hasn't had to rebuy because of burnt out batteries, faulty hard-drives, fauly screens etc etc.
Some people don't like the assumption of guilt by being paid not to work. It's not an issue of being paid or not, or working or not, it's an issue of trust and dignity. If my work was good enough for my employer yesterday it should still be good enough for them today. If you can't trust your exiting employees not to cause problems for two weeks how did you trust them not to cause problems before. If you're threatened that them talking about their new job is going to hurt your workplace what does that say about worker satisfaction?
If your employees don't like their jobs, and you trust their work ethic as far as you can throw them, then yes, it makes sense to get a dissenting voice out as fast as possible whatever the cost. If you hire good employees who like what they do you'll never have to worry what they think of the other guys new job or what they're doing in their last two weeks.
"If you're not actively fighting the government what good is maintaining the ability to do so?"
I have no problem with the governemnt right now, we may disagree, I may wish they'd keep their hands out of my pockets and their peeping eyes out of my personal life, but that's nothing I'm willing to fight about. That doesn't mean a time will never come when it may come to that. I'm not loking forward to it, and infact I hope it never happens. I enjoy firearms as a hobby, not as a means to an end. At the same time, I get the impression that 200 million firearms in private ownership and a nation full of citizens many of whom are very much indoctinated in the inaliable human rights that they have, rights which have included from day one the right to protect all the others with force if necessary does a lot to discourage the formation of a military dictatorship.
The history of armed resistance in America in the past hundred years isn't exactly awe-inspiring, Ruby Ridge comes to mind as the only real example off the top of my head.
For me, drug addiction, poverty, world hunger, nuclear proliferation, racism, sexual harrasment, and rising energy concerns have all been solved. Whew! Glad we got that out of the way.
Just because a problem is not having an obvious and overt effect on you personally doesn't erase your knowledge that something exists. Administrators are having a problem, they're telling you with their actions. If there was no spam there'd be no spam filters, if it wasn't getting worse they wouldn't need better ones. You clearly read/. you can't claim ignorance.
Thankfully America is still a free country, where I can get drunk and sit in a car idling in my driveway for days on end and no one will think anything of it.
Because they're not "done with their work" they're "not doing their work in the first place becasue they'd rather be checking their email and updating their myspace, not only wasting their time in school but tying up resources that could be better used by students who are interested in getting an education, few as they may be." Furthermore, a lot of kids are just as bad or worse as their supposedly computer illiterate parents as far as downloading for unsafe sources and installing things without any forethought, and why should they think, it's not their computer they're trashing?
If fake pedophiles had sweet suits and leather jackets, rode around on motorcycles and sports cars and were frequently surounded by a throng of attractive women maybe people would think pedophilia was cooler.
Or, maybe children are more suseptable to having their minds altered by what they see and that why we make efforts to keep R rated movies, violent videogames, and yes, even pronography and ciggarettes out of their hands. Saying that violent pornography has no affect on mature adults is up for debate, saying that sex and violence has no effect on forming minds is ignorance.
I have to use about four different mice in my daily life depending on where I am at the given time, only one of which ever gives me problems (which is no fault of the mouse, only of that computers owner for trying to use an small old table as a computer desk). Most mice these days are, for most people, comfortable. So if presented with multiple comfortable mice, at multiple price points, of varying quality, you'd rather just wing it?
Speed "limits"
"Assault" and Battery
"Handicapped" parking
Property "crimes"
Debating whether something should be a crime is all well and good, but implying that it isn't is simply reckless ignorance. Maybe if more drug users were activists fighting for legalization instead of passively waiting to be arrested and then crying about the unfairness of the system I'd care more about their plight. Furthermore, as a person who went to highschool with some less than admirable people, I can tell you that there are plenty of people who, just because they're in jail for possession, doesn't mean that they weren't breaking into houses and cars, guns, beatings, etc. There are also plenty of recreational users who have done nothing, and hold down steady jobs, they are also for the most part in little to no danger of ever being caught.
The war on drugs has made all drug users criminals, too many opponents try to make them all out as saints. Given that most of the opponents are middle class or above and rarely minorities I think a large portion of the actual impact is lost on them, but even were it not the mattter is not simple black and white.
And if the interview wears an old t-shirt from the 80s covered in spagetti stains what does it say about their personal standards and organization? If they wreak of a highschool locker-room what are your expectations of their ability to function well as part of a team in an office setting? If you want to take it a bit more seriosly, if they show up hung over what does it say about their work ethic? What if they're 20 minutes late and begin their replies with "Fuck man...?"
There's a lot to be said for raw talent, and there's far more to be said about being a good employee. Most managers I've ever met would prefere the latter. They may not revolutionize their department, but they'll do the job they're being paid for. Google is casual dress, but I don't see many pictures from their campus that include a tower of Mt Dew cans and a stack of pizza boxes barely covering a sweaty, half-naked genius.
I would have thought that because you willingly submit your financial forms to the IRS that you would not be covered under the fifth. Wouldn't be surprised though.
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I have a friend who talks quite a bit like you who a few years ago had the displeausre of being repeatedly tasered "for no reason".
Long story short, after about the fifth time asking for the rest of the story, "no reason" became "I had just gotten out of rehab, trashed my parents bathroom with a shower rod, kicked in their windsheild, attacked the first officer on the scene, continued to fight with other who arrived until restrained, and then began spitting at them until incapcitated".
I'm not going to say their are no dishonest people in positions of power, but at least from my personal experience (which doesn't end there, it's just the most interesting story) most officers I've had the pleasure of meeting both on and off duty are pleasent people just doing their jobs.
It's important not let your obvious bias make you forget that there are in fact people in the world worse than the police, and that's why they exist.
Mine looks more like freckle or birthmark on my palm.
Nerds need to stop getting stabbed with pencils.
If it makes you feel any better, of close to 10-15 people I know who own FFXII I'm the only one who has finished it because the rest all got bored and quit due to the endless running and grinding for items. It's sad because I think the story is one of the best FFs have to offer, but the gameplay is honestly the least enjoyable of any game I've ever played to completion.
I have my doubts about Reznor saying he'd never again perform it live, I've heard it twice live in the last year and a half.
Quick research shows that he has referred to it as the song "that is no longer his"
My friend is an army reservist and when he got called up his (if it matters to anyone) strongly anti-war neighborhood all pitched in to buy him body armor.
He uses it for target practice because the Army provided far better equipment for his stay in Iraq.
It would be nice if I could select more than 12 units at a time...
Getting a permit for that silencer (from the ATF) consts the same and is identically priced to the permit for getting an automatic weapon.
.22s have been known to glance off skulls if they hit them wrong alot more frequently due to low mass and (comparitive, to say .223) low velocity.
Not to mention that a silencer won't hide you in a dark and quiet theater, so why bother.
Not to mention that
LAPD and FBI studies have shown that on a per case basis looking at incidents of shooting vs. fatalities, nothing provides a one shot kill and no caliber is more dangerous than any other (of 9mm up) shoot anyone enough, and in the right areas, and they will die.
Too bad when they required "machine readable" they didn't specify "magnetic". Wisconsin has the super complex bar-codes on the back.
Correct. Consealed carry requires that the weapon be concealed, if it's concealed they don't know if you have it or not. If they do know you've already failed one of the requirements of your permit. They can ask you to leave, but they can't ban you becuase they inherently aren't supposed to know you have it.
I hadn't heard anything either.
Sucks, a friend of mine is on the art team doing textures or something like that.
The last time I went to Canada (summer 05) it was just the opposite.
Going into Canada one of the four of us didn't have a birth certificate or passport, our car was searched, our bottles of soda checked, our luggage rummaged through,the whole thing took probably an hour not counting the time we spent waiting for a team to tear through our shit.
Coming back we were hung over and barely intelligible, we failed to answer any of the guards questions coherently or logically, and we still never had to get out of our car even at at border crossing that is known for drug smuggling.
If you're anything like my friend who WOWs probably 16 hours a week, he knows he's not getting anywhere, infact there is nowhere to get no matter how much time you have. So you've made it to level 60 and the phatest l00t imaginable? Good, now start a new character and do it all over again. There's and up, but there's no top, what's the point?
He considers this a plus because like unlike games with a recognizable end he can leave at any time without feeling like he left things unfinished. He's no closer to "beating" WOW than he was when it came out.
The whole point is to kill time. Solitaire with better graphics.
Assuming Apple never fixed this, which is unlikely, which is more likely: 1) The next time they buy a new computer everyone who owns an ipod will buy a Mac, because their new computer would come with Vista 2) Everyone who buys a new computer would replace their old MP3 player with a compatible one, having not known about this problem beforehand and being unwilling to send back their new computer My money would be on the latter, it assumes the least amount of knowledge and thought from the consumer, as well as being the less costly plan. Of course apple is going to fix the issue, because either scenario is stressful to the general populace of computer users.
I wouldn't worry about fuxoring your iPod either. If you're like most people (myself excluded, still rolling along with a 15GB third gen with absimal battery life) you're probably on your third iPod by now anyway. Of the twenty or so people I know with iPods, Mac and PC users alike, I'm the only one who hasn't had to rebuy because of burnt out batteries, faulty hard-drives, fauly screens etc etc.
Some people don't like the assumption of guilt by being paid not to work. It's not an issue of being paid or not, or working or not, it's an issue of trust and dignity. If my work was good enough for my employer yesterday it should still be good enough for them today. If you can't trust your exiting employees not to cause problems for two weeks how did you trust them not to cause problems before. If you're threatened that them talking about their new job is going to hurt your workplace what does that say about worker satisfaction? If your employees don't like their jobs, and you trust their work ethic as far as you can throw them, then yes, it makes sense to get a dissenting voice out as fast as possible whatever the cost. If you hire good employees who like what they do you'll never have to worry what they think of the other guys new job or what they're doing in their last two weeks.
"If you're not actively fighting the government what good is maintaining the ability to do so?"
I have no problem with the governemnt right now, we may disagree, I may wish they'd keep their hands out of my pockets and their peeping eyes out of my personal life, but that's nothing I'm willing to fight about. That doesn't mean a time will never come when it may come to that. I'm not loking forward to it, and infact I hope it never happens. I enjoy firearms as a hobby, not as a means to an end. At the same time, I get the impression that 200 million firearms in private ownership and a nation full of citizens many of whom are very much indoctinated in the inaliable human rights that they have, rights which have included from day one the right to protect all the others with force if necessary does a lot to discourage the formation of a military dictatorship.
The history of armed resistance in America in the past hundred years isn't exactly awe-inspiring, Ruby Ridge comes to mind as the only real example off the top of my head.
Furthermore, whether the grandparent likes to admit it or not, almost all revolutions are very far from peaceful.
The LCD panels that the extremely bright light is projected through. They fade over time, frequently unevenly, Blue is usually the first to go.
For me, drug addiction, poverty, world hunger, nuclear proliferation, racism, sexual harrasment, and rising energy concerns have all been solved. Whew! Glad we got that out of the way.
/. you can't claim ignorance.
Just because a problem is not having an obvious and overt effect on you personally doesn't erase your knowledge that something exists. Administrators are having a problem, they're telling you with their actions. If there was no spam there'd be no spam filters, if it wasn't getting worse they wouldn't need better ones. You clearly read
Thankfully America is still a free country, where I can get drunk and sit in a car idling in my driveway for days on end and no one will think anything of it.
Because they're not "done with their work" they're "not doing their work in the first place becasue they'd rather be checking their email and updating their myspace, not only wasting their time in school but tying up resources that could be better used by students who are interested in getting an education, few as they may be." Furthermore, a lot of kids are just as bad or worse as their supposedly computer illiterate parents as far as downloading for unsafe sources and installing things without any forethought, and why should they think, it's not their computer they're trashing?
If fake pedophiles had sweet suits and leather jackets, rode around on motorcycles and sports cars and were frequently surounded by a throng of attractive women maybe people would think pedophilia was cooler.
Or, maybe children are more suseptable to having their minds altered by what they see and that why we make efforts to keep R rated movies, violent videogames, and yes, even pronography and ciggarettes out of their hands. Saying that violent pornography has no affect on mature adults is up for debate, saying that sex and violence has no effect on forming minds is ignorance.
I have to use about four different mice in my daily life depending on where I am at the given time, only one of which ever gives me problems (which is no fault of the mouse, only of that computers owner for trying to use an small old table as a computer desk). Most mice these days are, for most people, comfortable. So if presented with multiple comfortable mice, at multiple price points, of varying quality, you'd rather just wing it?
Speed "limits" "Assault" and Battery "Handicapped" parking Property "crimes" Debating whether something should be a crime is all well and good, but implying that it isn't is simply reckless ignorance. Maybe if more drug users were activists fighting for legalization instead of passively waiting to be arrested and then crying about the unfairness of the system I'd care more about their plight. Furthermore, as a person who went to highschool with some less than admirable people, I can tell you that there are plenty of people who, just because they're in jail for possession, doesn't mean that they weren't breaking into houses and cars, guns, beatings, etc. There are also plenty of recreational users who have done nothing, and hold down steady jobs, they are also for the most part in little to no danger of ever being caught.
The war on drugs has made all drug users criminals, too many opponents try to make them all out as saints. Given that most of the opponents are middle class or above and rarely minorities I think a large portion of the actual impact is lost on them, but even were it not the mattter is not simple black and white.
And if the interview wears an old t-shirt from the 80s covered in spagetti stains what does it say about their personal standards and organization? If they wreak of a highschool locker-room what are your expectations of their ability to function well as part of a team in an office setting? If you want to take it a bit more seriosly, if they show up hung over what does it say about their work ethic? What if they're 20 minutes late and begin their replies with "Fuck man...?"
There's a lot to be said for raw talent, and there's far more to be said about being a good employee. Most managers I've ever met would prefere the latter. They may not revolutionize their department, but they'll do the job they're being paid for. Google is casual dress, but I don't see many pictures from their campus that include a tower of Mt Dew cans and a stack of pizza boxes barely covering a sweaty, half-naked genius.
I would have thought that because you willingly submit your financial forms to the IRS that you would not be covered under the fifth. Wouldn't be surprised though.