Now, we *knew* there was life in Vegas, though not necessarily the kind you want to associate with.
On the other hand, I though Vegans were from Vega, since they don't seem to be from this planet, and apparently think they're above, or better, than the rest of us mammals....
Have you ever actually looked up the construction of an RPG? Even with the rocket blowin up, the odds were that it would come down in one lump.
And considering I heard about it during the demonstrations by idiots by my late ex, who worked as an engineer at the Cape for 17 years, and was in charge of the propellent systems on Cassini-Huygens, I'd belive her.
And just to aggravate more people, I also am strongly against nuclear power plants. You're for them... have you contacted your Congresscritters and local government, to let them know that you want nuclear waste storage facilities near you?
I lived in Austin from '86 through '94. If the district includes a lot of "downtown", it includes almost no voters.
Apparently in the late seventies/early eighties, Austin did the worst possible kind of "urban renewal", which included ripping down almost *all* housing and buildings for small stores. All that's left are Sixth St., where the clubs are... and office buildings. Except for the Capitol, there's NOTHING ELSE THERE. About 2/3rds of the busses that go downtown weekdays don't run downtown weekends - they stop at malls, or whatever, becuse there's no one there.
Brainwashing. 60 years or so of brainwashing, with it kicking in, seriously, in the late seventies. Then the active, overt support of the Republicans - Reagan's destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers' union was the opening assult. There's also offshoring....
Most Americans have become suckers: those that aren't overwhelmingly feel isolated, and as though "they're the only one". There's only a few of us who have any real "enlightened self-interest", though I think a lot more would go union if they were given a real chance.
We also need more socialists back in the unions, to make them honest again. After McCarthy & co chased them out in the fifties, some, like the Teamsters, were taken over for decades by the Mob; the rest, cowed, dropped all the social demands, and closed down to cover only working conditions, wages, and employee benefits, and started acting like the midieval guilds, whose purpose was to keep more people *out* of the busines.
I constantly search for things, and a good half the time, *maybe* a third are relevant. Then there's the times where it completely ignores my conditions. For example, I've searched for a blazer with -ladies, because, duh, I only want men's, and I get hits that explicitly, in the title, say "ladies".
I won't even *mention* Target, who *always* claims to have whatever you're looking for in a sponsored ad on the side, and doesn't....
Back in the sixties? seventies? It was noted in a lot of places in the mainstream media that the amount of money needed to create one job in the military would create 22 jobs in the civilian sector.
That's TWENTY-TWO civilian jobs. (Please insert all your stories of $722 toilet seats and $1024 hammers here, please.)
And do you really think that's gone down since then?
I see, a true Randist (even though she used getting married to get into this country, and eventually got social security and Medicare).
I assume you're either homeless, and posting from a (paid for by taxes) library computer, or live in your parent(s) home. Certainly, *if* you ever have sex, by your own esthetic, you'd better be paying for it in cold, hard cash.
Though if you have kids, someone needs to call child protective services.
What barrel did yuo come out from under? Most of the folks I know, like me, have *large* libraries of real books (>> 3000 books), many, many paperbacks, and YOU'LL GET MY BOOKS AWAY FROM ME WHEN YOU PRY THEM FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
And most of us reread, too... I know, you don't even reread a comic book.
Nah... I use stuff for mustache & beard (which I have), and leave some gray: I'm just retrofitting the color to what it was 10 years ago. I brush some into what head hair I have, too.
Ignore the kiddies and libertarian suckers' comments (I mean, if they were making that much, they wouldn't be wasting time posting here during the work day).
The real question is how long you have on your resume of you being out of work. The longer you're out, the less HR assholes want to talk to you. Back around '04 or '05, when I was *very* long "between positions", I applied for one that looked like it was written for me. Never heard anything, so I got annoyed enough to call the recruiter. She told me I "wasn't fresh".
That *really* pissed me off, so I asked her that if she took a year off to have a kid, would she never be employable again, becuase *she* "wasn't fresh"?
That took her back. She said she'd never thought of it that way, and actually put me in. Didn't get it, presumably because her opposite number thought the same way.
I also wrote a couple of articles I managed to get published in a mag. More on the resume. Did some F/OSS software, set it up as a project on sourceforge, and *that* went on the resume... and it also gave prospective employers examples of what I could do.
Anyway, one thing I did was to use some hair dye. Another thing was that a friend looked me up, told me he was starting a co, and had me do his co. website. I never got paid for that... but with his ok, the instant I made that website live, I had, on my resume, that I was "working" and the website as a bullet point. He was willing to answer calls that yes, I was working for him. Not that many months later, I finally started working again. Warning: you might have to work outside where you live, at least for a while (till you find something local), just so a) you can pay the bills, and b) have another point on the "yes, he's working now" check box.
A+ is useless. My son got it six or eight years ago, and no one would hire him, anyway. He went back for his 4-yr.
I already see idiot comments about an individual "allowing" themselves to being abuse, or "negotiating" with the company.... They wouldn't know their own "enlightened self-interest" if it bit them in the bum.
Right.
Anyone happen to notice we're in a slight downturn, and there's one or two more folks than usual out of work? What negotiating power does an individual have in a buyers' market? A *HUGE* buyers' market?
New unions? Like the Farmworkers (starting in the sixties and seventies)? Or the reinvigorated SEIU? And why aren't unions growing in private industry? Duh, maybe because the Republicans have created an anti-union environment that companies use (why not the check off for union elections?)? Or allowing that scumbag who sent out a letter, on official letterhead, to all the employees to tell them that if they vote for Obama, their jobs will be endangered... and that's *legal*?!?!?!
And all most of you suckers* know about unoins is money. Ever wonder when weekend, and paid vacation, and paid holiday, and paid medical care came from? I mean, money taken out of the employers ROI? Unions, dolts.
Too many folks *love* feeling important... and so they accept 50, 60, and 70 hour weeks as demonstrating that (when your parents and grandparents fought, sometimes literally, for a 40 hour week). I'm sure that those of you who have families, or even a life outside of work, adore this.
I have to put up with being allegedly salaried, and yet when the client is closed, like for Sandy, *I* have to eithe rmake up the time, or burn my earned vacation time, or not get paid. "Salaried" used to mean fixed, guaranteed income, y'know.... Oh, and all expenses paid, none of this contribue to health care, etc.
Oh, and we used to get *paid* lunch breaks.
There are also already formed unions: , *hah* - in the Phillipines , and I know another one started about 6-8 years ago, here in the States.
Stupid brainwashed gits. Afraid of Big Brother... while Bigger Boss wants you to give your life for him.
The tractor alone is incredible, though I'd love to know how they built it in six days, and starting with what.
On the *other* hand, the "reporter".... I have a friend who teaches at colleges around the country, and who has a course called "science for non-science majors". A few years ago, he went down the food chain of the majors that take the course. Business majors were the next to the bottom - "they didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them". The very bottom of the food chain were the communications majors, who "didn't get it, and didn't know that they didn't get it". The "reporter" is clearly at the bottom. If she were ever stranded away from civilization, say, with a broken down car and no cell phone, she'd be in deep do-do; if civilizaiton collapsed, I guess her choice would be either sell her body,,, or die, since she appears to be incredibly snotty about people who can actually make things and do things. "nerd camp"; "who didn't seem to have bathed in weeks" (been reading right-wing crap from the sixties, have we, girly?)
What a jerk she is.
I want their final report and docs. Esp the chip fab.
I'd be *really* surprised if Iran didn't have competitions among students, trying to find hot programmers to attack Israeli military and nuclear sites' software.
Assuming that there's idiots there, just like here, who don't know that for some things, an air gap between the controls and the 'Net....
And depending on how true it is that they managed to break the control of that US drone....
I, too, love that they outsourced their IT - they got what they apparently deserved.
But then there's the part in the article where it doesn't appear that before things came down that they'd *never* been audited.
Oh, that's right, most of this happened between '01 and '08, when Bush & Cheney were in charge, and All Republicans Love Deregulation, and if you can't deregulate, strangle the budget of the regulating agency so they can't do their job.
And before you libertarians here jump on me, tell me what you would have done if *you* had invested with them.
mark "that's right, you *ain't* rich, or you wouldn't be spending time reading comments on slashdot"
Oh, and a *real* troll crossposts to, say, five newsgroups guaranteed to start flamewars, like, a non-Xian religious group, talk.christian, and talk.abortion....
mark, who loved the one who added alt.religion.editors
No, the kid wasn't a troll. He was, rather, a stalker. In the US, if he'd been after me, I'd have tried a couple of things: one, as much as I despise them, I would have called the FBI. This is possibly wire fraud, and is certainly a death threat. The Men In Black showing up at the kid's door, and probably taking his computer, might have gotten his attention to the RW.
Two: I could do my own tracking. The thought of either threatening to show up at his door with a real sword, which I know how to use, is vastly entertaining.
Three: possibly the simplest one, and the one I'd start with: I'd contact my 'Net provider, a phone company, and talk to their Fraud and Abuse dept. I can say, from having worked for several US telecoms, they do *NOT* take this kind of thing kindly... and they can talk to other phone co.s....
Dear dork:
Do you actually know the meaning of the word "galaxy"?
Do you also say that you've traveled to another continent when you go to the corner store?
Slashdot Mirror
Now, we *knew* there was life in Vegas, though not necessarily the kind you want to associate with.
On the other hand, I though Vegans were from Vega, since they don't seem to be from this planet, and apparently think they're above, or better, than the rest of us mammals....
mark
That the US Army started issuing during WWII?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_chocolate#The_Tropical_Bar
mark "eventually, it gets crumbly"
Have you ever actually looked up the construction of an RPG? Even with the rocket blowin up, the odds were that it would come down in one lump.
And considering I heard about it during the demonstrations by idiots by my late ex, who worked as an engineer at the Cape for 17 years, and was in charge of the propellent systems on Cassini-Huygens, I'd belive her.
And just to aggravate more people, I also am strongly against nuclear power plants. You're for them... have you contacted your Congresscritters and local government, to let them know that you want nuclear waste storage facilities near you?
mark
So, can you point to evidence in the geological record where this much happened in THIRTY YEARS, not CENTURIES?
For extra credit, what do you recommend we do: move NYC, with all of its inhabitants, to, say, Denver? (And who would pay?)
mark
ROTFLMAO!
I lived in Austin from '86 through '94. If the district includes a lot of "downtown", it includes almost no voters.
Apparently in the late seventies/early eighties, Austin did the worst possible kind of "urban renewal", which included ripping down almost *all* housing and buildings for small stores. All that's left are Sixth St., where the clubs are... and office buildings. Except for the Capitol, there's NOTHING ELSE THERE. About 2/3rds of the busses that go downtown weekdays don't run downtown weekends - they stop at malls, or whatever, becuse there's no one there.
mark, naturalized Texan
She actually comes across as a reasonably intellegent person, who appears to not view hackers as bugs under a microscope.
Of course, that may be one reason that academics don't care for her....
And why not three years? Is a 19 yr old hacker who's come to it over the preceeding three years not a hacker? Can you be over 40 and still a hacker?
mark "well over: most recent hack: repairing HP's ppd for the z3200PS printer"
Brainwashing. 60 years or so of brainwashing, with it kicking in, seriously, in the late seventies. Then the active, overt support of the Republicans - Reagan's destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers' union was the opening assult. There's also offshoring....
Most Americans have become suckers: those that aren't overwhelmingly feel isolated, and as though "they're the only one". There's only a few of us who have any real "enlightened self-interest", though I think a lot more would go union if they were given a real chance.
We also need more socialists back in the unions, to make them honest again. After McCarthy & co chased them out in the fifties, some, like the Teamsters, were taken over for decades by the Mob; the rest, cowed, dropped all the social demands, and closed down to cover only working conditions, wages, and employee benefits, and started acting like the midieval guilds, whose purpose was to keep more people *out* of the busines.
mark
I constantly search for things, and a good half the time, *maybe* a third are relevant. Then there's the times where it completely ignores my conditions. For example, I've searched for a blazer with -ladies, because, duh, I only want men's, and I get hits that explicitly, in the title, say "ladies".
I won't even *mention* Target, who *always* claims to have whatever you're looking for in a sponsored ad on the side, and doesn't....
mark
Back in the sixties? seventies? It was noted in a lot of places in the mainstream media that the amount of money needed to create one job in the military would create 22 jobs in the civilian sector.
That's TWENTY-TWO civilian jobs. (Please insert all your stories of $722 toilet seats and $1024 hammers here, please.)
And do you really think that's gone down since then?
mark
I see, a true Randist (even though she used getting married to get into this country, and eventually got social security and Medicare).
I assume you're either homeless, and posting from a (paid for by taxes) library computer, or live in your parent(s) home. Certainly, *if* you ever have sex, by your own esthetic, you'd better be paying for it in cold, hard cash.
Though if you have kids, someone needs to call child protective services.
mark
What barrel did yuo come out from under? Most of the folks I know, like me, have *large* libraries of real books (>> 3000 books), many, many paperbacks, and YOU'LL GET MY BOOKS AWAY FROM ME WHEN YOU PRY THEM FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
And most of us reread, too... I know, you don't even reread a comic book.
mark
And you're going to waste huge amounts of power to work the muscles, so it can run and punch?
Sorry, I think my Ogre/Bolo http ( colon) //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank) beats your mecha. And crunches the pieces.
mark
First hit for googling host file ad block:
http(colon)//winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Works well.
mark
Nah... I use stuff for mustache & beard (which I have), and leave some gray: I'm just retrofitting the color to what it was 10 years ago. I brush some into what head hair I have, too.
mark
Ignore the kiddies and libertarian suckers' comments (I mean, if they were making that much, they wouldn't be wasting time posting here during the work day).
The real question is how long you have on your resume of you being out of work. The longer you're out, the less HR assholes want to talk to you. Back around '04 or '05, when I was *very* long "between positions", I applied for one that looked like it was written for me. Never heard anything, so I got annoyed enough to call the recruiter. She told me I "wasn't fresh".
That *really* pissed me off, so I asked her that if she took a year off to have a kid, would she never be employable again, becuase *she* "wasn't fresh"?
That took her back. She said she'd never thought of it that way, and actually put me in. Didn't get it, presumably because her opposite number thought the same way.
I also wrote a couple of articles I managed to get published in a mag. More on the resume. Did some F/OSS software, set it up as a project on sourceforge, and *that* went on the resume... and it also gave prospective employers examples of what I could do.
Anyway, one thing I did was to use some hair dye. Another thing was that a friend looked me up, told me he was starting a co, and had me do his co. website. I never got paid for that... but with his ok, the instant I made that website live, I had, on my resume, that I was "working" and the website as a bullet point. He was willing to answer calls that yes, I was working for him. Not that many months later, I finally started working again. Warning: you might have to work outside where you live, at least for a while (till you find something local), just so a) you can pay the bills, and b) have another point on the "yes, he's working now" check box.
A+ is useless. My son got it six or eight years ago, and no one would hire him, anyway. He went back for his 4-yr.
Best of luck.
mark
No, it was Fortran
mark
So, now we know where Valeria is.
mark
I already see idiot comments about an individual "allowing" themselves to being abuse, or "negotiating" with the company.... They wouldn't know their own "enlightened self-interest" if it bit them in the bum.
Right.
Anyone happen to notice we're in a slight downturn, and there's one or two more folks than usual out of work? What negotiating power does an individual have in a buyers' market? A *HUGE* buyers' market?
New unions? Like the Farmworkers (starting in the sixties and seventies)? Or the reinvigorated SEIU? And why aren't unions growing in private industry? Duh, maybe because the Republicans have created an anti-union environment that companies use (why not the check off for union elections?)? Or allowing that scumbag who sent out a letter, on official letterhead, to all the employees to tell them that if they vote for Obama, their jobs will be endangered... and that's *legal*?!?!?!
And all most of you suckers* know about unoins is money. Ever wonder when weekend, and paid vacation, and paid holiday, and paid medical care came from? I mean, money taken out of the employers ROI? Unions, dolts.
Too many folks *love* feeling important... and so they accept 50, 60, and 70 hour weeks as demonstrating that (when your parents and grandparents fought, sometimes literally, for a 40 hour week). I'm sure that those of you who have families, or even a life outside of work, adore this.
I have to put up with being allegedly salaried, and yet when the client is closed, like for Sandy, *I* have to eithe rmake up the time, or burn my earned vacation time, or not get paid. "Salaried" used to mean fixed, guaranteed income, y'know.... Oh, and all expenses paid, none of this contribue to health care, etc.
Oh, and we used to get *paid* lunch breaks.
There are also already formed unions: , *hah* - in the Phillipines , and I know another one started about 6-8 years ago, here in the States.
Stupid brainwashed gits. Afraid of Big Brother... while Bigger Boss wants you to give your life for him.
mark
The tractor alone is incredible, though I'd love to know how they built it in six days, and starting with what.
On the *other* hand, the "reporter".... I have a friend who teaches at colleges around the country, and who has a course called "science for non-science majors". A few years ago, he went down the food chain of the majors that take the course. Business majors were the next to the bottom - "they didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them". The very bottom of the food chain were the communications majors, who "didn't get it, and didn't know that they didn't get it". The "reporter" is clearly at the bottom. If she were ever stranded away from civilization, say, with a broken down car and no cell phone, she'd be in deep do-do; if civilizaiton collapsed, I guess her choice would be either sell her body,,, or die, since she appears to be incredibly snotty about people who can actually make things and do things. "nerd camp"; "who didn't seem to have bathed in weeks" (been reading right-wing crap from the sixties, have we, girly?)
What a jerk she is.
I want their final report and docs. Esp the chip fab.
mark
I'd be *really* surprised if Iran didn't have competitions among students, trying to find hot programmers to attack Israeli military and nuclear sites' software.
Assuming that there's idiots there, just like here, who don't know that for some things, an air gap between the controls and the 'Net....
And depending on how true it is that they managed to break the control of that US drone....
mark
Especially Rann. Now, *where* did I put my red flight suit and rocket packs?
mark "Alanna's waiting for me...."
I, too, love that they outsourced their IT - they got what they apparently deserved.
But then there's the part in the article where it doesn't appear that before things came down that they'd *never* been audited.
Oh, that's right, most of this happened between '01 and '08, when Bush & Cheney were in charge, and All Republicans Love Deregulation, and if you can't deregulate, strangle the budget of the regulating agency so they can't do their job.
And before you libertarians here jump on me, tell me what you would have done if *you* had invested with them.
mark "that's right, you *ain't* rich, or you wouldn't be spending time reading comments on slashdot"
Oh, and a *real* troll crossposts to, say, five newsgroups guaranteed to start flamewars, like, a non-Xian religious group, talk.christian, and talk.abortion....
mark, who loved the one who added alt.religion.editors
No, the kid wasn't a troll. He was, rather, a stalker. In the US, if he'd been after me, I'd have tried a couple of things: one, as much as I despise them, I would have called the FBI. This is possibly wire fraud, and is certainly a death threat. The Men In Black showing up at the kid's door, and probably taking his computer, might have gotten his attention to the RW.
Two: I could do my own tracking. The thought of either threatening to show up at his door with a real sword, which I know how to use, is vastly entertaining.
Three: possibly the simplest one, and the one I'd start with: I'd contact my 'Net provider, a phone company, and talk to their Fraud and Abuse dept. I can say, from having worked for several US telecoms, they do *NOT* take this kind of thing kindly... and they can talk to other phone co.s....
mark, who needs to sharpen his sword....
Dear dork:
Do you actually know the meaning of the word "galaxy"?
Do you also say that you've traveled to another continent when you go to the corner store?
mark