First the Earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. [McCroskey walks off] And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it- [Jacobs turns and starts to walk away, continuing to speak, trailing off as he gets further from the camera] he took her best summer dress and he put it on and went to town...
I have seen large companies that "own" small towns in the 70s-80's do this.
This is how they try to get you in as a selling point, free in-house child care, discounted food, discounted gas, grocery stores and housing, company vehicle. Where they trick you is you won't see any real raises or employee growth and once you have a few kids the convenience is to good of a deal to walk away from, so your stuck there for another 15 or so years....
Some places were very much like the movie the firm, as in, you really didn't want to leave under threat of the company "knowing" certain things about your lifestyle.
I guess it's fine if you totally ok with that kind of lifestyle...then again this was back when companies actually kept people until they retired, they may have wanted a slave but at least they kept you employed for ever...
Oh, yea npm...well all I can say is tough shit. Do a rollback and what till its fixed or switch to yarn in the meantime, womp womp, life goes on. If you really want to be fair, that could happen to lots of package managers. And if you don't do backups for globals and source control you have bigger issues.
The contractors complain they can't get qualified people, so, they outsource this work to foreign workers to fill the role. This is of course at a cheap rate and on the govs dime.
As a born citizen our passport should at least get a foot in the door for jobs like this. Basically what's happening is the gov is paying for a background check, but the loophole is its paid if its a foreign worker....
yep all want existing sec clearance (in addition to other certs like A+ security).
Its a joke, a complete chicken vs the egg problem. Certs like A+ cost $$, not something your going to get when your looking for work or "junior" level.
I got the sense those positions are either for military vets only or purposefully exclusionary to keep the industry as incestues as possible.
Yea, dark meat today has an almost watered down chocolate milk color and tastes way less irony and more fatty. Duck meat braised with some butter or lard is about as close as I can get to the succulent dark turkey/chicken meat of my childhood.
Was the guy bald, 5 nothing, in his 30's and act like a little hitler?...Seems to always be that guy. I could never figure out if they actually drank the koolaid that heavy or if they are that desperate to be a manager over "something".
I hate equifax with a passion, but their CEO is probably correct in that most of their info comes from from third party end points (like your bank, or the utilities) directly, they might be encrypting data as it passes through them, but they are only as secure as their third party endpoints and adopted software (in this case, they say it was a bug in Apache Struts that allowed someone access).
This whole thing is one rotten contract with no oversight, just a bunch of people cashing in on private data. Multiple layers! Hah! Multiple layers of greed, shady data mining, and companies selling their customer up the river is more like it.
Some brown bears actually bulk up for the winter on nothing but moth's, insects are an excellent food source, even for a global situation they will be plentiful and you can use them as bait (if you need to find large game).
I agree though, big game is going to be gone in months of even after a small SHTF scenario....I happen to live in BMF right next to a big rail freight depot with lots of warehouses. I figure at the very least, I should be able to get by with what I might be able to salvage at the depot for a few months...if not I always have the woods...
Same thing goes for pistols. A pistol is for fighting your way back to the rifle that you never should have laid down. If you're engaging a threat beyond 15 yds, you really should be using a rifle, as any pistol is poorly suited for the task.
Gun types can be disputed, but for SHTF territory at the very least look into a firearm with compatible ammo for the area you live in.
In the case of ammunition in America, especially in urban areas, it's going to be 9mm,.40 cal and.223 or 5.56, period.
Not to mention the comment about them just now getting serious on cybersecurity in the last 3 years...your very company exists on critical/sensitive information handling, security should have been #1 priority from the git go. He's making it sound like they are just a small company trying to do what it can.
Sounds like a senior dev ops nija (that was probably the IT golden boy) just got thrown under a bus...
I am not saying we shouldn't be as clean and impactless as we can to take care of our home, we shouldn't need any kind of model to do the right thing on a global stewardship level, but this model is essentially useless for any kind of prediction.
Aside from a number what ifs that this model simply can't predict, this all depends the current social/economic/political environment remaining virtually the same (not to mention natural ones like tectonic, space phenomena, diseases, etc).
All it takes is one event (or a cascade event) to change virtually everything and render the model moot....
I think the biggest hurdle in the presidential election process is the fact you need millions of $$ in support to even compete against the binary shit we have today, putting spending/fundraising caps would largely fix a good deal of the process.
The problem with career politicians is easy to fix, add term limits like presidents for house and senate seats (at the very least a 2 term limit for re-election on back to back elections).
Get rid of lobbyist.
Those three simple tihngs would solve most of the issues I have with our election process....
I think they are more interested in the control aspects rather than being green. Just of the top of my head I can think of several scenarios where going 100% fully electric vehicle would be of benefit from a control point of view for what I would call a "Captive Audience":
1. charge stations can be turned off to isolate pockets of areas you want to keep contained/isolated. 2. don't be surprised if the "plugs" are designed to only work with certain charge stations (i.e. theirs). 3. individual transports can be tracked and controlled with much more accuracy 4. anyone running "off the grid" in say a motorcycle will stick out like a sore thumb. 5. should shit hit the fan politically the entire transportation infrastructure can be taken out with a well deployed EMP burst.
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First the Earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. [McCroskey walks off] And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it- [Jacobs turns and starts to walk away, continuing to speak, trailing off as he gets further from the camera] he took her best summer dress and he put it on and went to town...
I have seen large companies that "own" small towns in the 70s-80's do this.
This is how they try to get you in as a selling point, free in-house child care, discounted food, discounted gas, grocery stores and housing, company vehicle. Where they trick you is you won't see any real raises or employee growth and once you have a few kids the convenience is to good of a deal to walk away from, so your stuck there for another 15 or so years....
Some places were very much like the movie the firm, as in, you really didn't want to leave under threat of the company "knowing" certain things about your lifestyle.
I guess it's fine if you totally ok with that kind of lifestyle ...then again this was back when companies actually kept people until they retired, they may have wanted a slave but at least they kept you employed for ever...
hey, you never know till you try.
They make the claim then refute its possibility further down the page....
Oh, yea npm...well all I can say is tough shit. Do a rollback and what till its fixed or switch to yarn in the meantime, womp womp, life goes on. If you really want to be fair, that could happen to lots of package managers. And if you don't do backups for globals and source control you have bigger issues.
Agree. The footprint is negligible vs the headache. If you've chosen well and leveraging your library correctly you shouldn't need more than one.
This is really comical to me.
The contractors complain they can't get qualified people, so, they outsource this work to foreign workers to fill the role. This is of course at a cheap rate and on the govs dime.
As a born citizen our passport should at least get a foot in the door for jobs like this. Basically what's happening is the gov is paying for a background check, but the loophole is its paid if its a foreign worker....
yep all want existing sec clearance (in addition to other certs like A+ security).
Its a joke, a complete chicken vs the egg problem. Certs like A+ cost $$, not something your going to get when your looking for work or "junior" level.
I got the sense those positions are either for military vets only or purposefully exclusionary to keep the industry as incestues as possible.
Yea, dark meat today has an almost watered down chocolate milk color and tastes way less irony and more fatty. Duck meat braised with some butter or lard is about as close as I can get to the succulent dark turkey/chicken meat of my childhood.
Was the guy bald, 5 nothing, in his 30's and act like a little hitler? ...Seems to always be that guy. I could never figure out if they actually drank the koolaid that heavy or if they are that desperate to be a manager over "something".
Yes it is, welcome to the real world.
Thats amazing! its the same combination on my luggage!
I hate equifax with a passion, but their CEO is probably correct in that most of their info comes from from third party end points (like your bank, or the utilities) directly, they might be encrypting data as it passes through them, but they are only as secure as their third party endpoints and adopted software (in this case, they say it was a bug in Apache Struts that allowed someone access).
This whole thing is one rotten contract with no oversight, just a bunch of people cashing in on private data. Multiple layers! Hah! Multiple layers of greed, shady data mining, and companies selling their customer up the river is more like it.
Fark didn't just purge trolls, they purged their entire community. That place isn't even a shadow of its former self.
Fatfinger, BFE.
Some brown bears actually bulk up for the winter on nothing but moth's, insects are an excellent food source, even for a global situation they will be plentiful and you can use them as bait (if you need to find large game).
I agree though, big game is going to be gone in months of even after a small SHTF scenario....I happen to live in BMF right next to a big rail freight depot with lots of warehouses. I figure at the very least, I should be able to get by with what I might be able to salvage at the depot for a few months...if not I always have the woods...
For real.
Same thing goes for pistols. A pistol is for fighting your way back to the rifle that you never should have laid down. If you're engaging a threat beyond 15 yds, you really should be using a rifle, as any pistol is poorly suited for the task.
Gun types can be disputed, but for SHTF territory at the very least look into a firearm with compatible ammo for the area you live in.
In the case of ammunition in America, especially in urban areas, it's going to be 9mm, .40 cal and .223 or 5.56, period.
Absolutely.
Not to mention the comment about them just now getting serious on cybersecurity in the last 3 years...your very company exists on critical/sensitive information handling, security should have been #1 priority from the git go. He's making it sound like they are just a small company trying to do what it can.
Sounds like a senior dev ops nija (that was probably the IT golden boy) just got thrown under a bus...
nothing about it looks remotely car like, it looks like a flying blender / head decapitator.
I am not saying we shouldn't be as clean and impactless as we can to take care of our home, we shouldn't need any kind of model to do the right thing on a global stewardship level, but this model is essentially useless for any kind of prediction.
Aside from a number what ifs that this model simply can't predict, this all depends the current social/economic/political environment remaining virtually the same (not to mention natural ones like tectonic, space phenomena, diseases, etc).
All it takes is one event (or a cascade event) to change virtually everything and render the model moot....
I think the biggest hurdle in the presidential election process is the fact you need millions of $$ in support to even compete against the binary shit we have today, putting spending/fundraising caps would largely fix a good deal of the process.
The problem with career politicians is easy to fix, add term limits like presidents for house and senate seats (at the very least a 2 term limit for re-election on back to back elections).
Get rid of lobbyist.
Those three simple tihngs would solve most of the issues I have with our election process....
I'm no trump fan but you could pretty much insert any president's name from the last 20 years in this statement and it would still be true....
I think they are more interested in the control aspects rather than being green. Just of the top of my head I can think of several scenarios where going 100% fully electric vehicle would be of benefit from a control point of view for what I would call a "Captive Audience":
1. charge stations can be turned off to isolate pockets of areas you want to keep contained/isolated.
2. don't be surprised if the "plugs" are designed to only work with certain charge stations (i.e. theirs).
3. individual transports can be tracked and controlled with much more accuracy
4. anyone running "off the grid" in say a motorcycle will stick out like a sore thumb.
5. should shit hit the fan politically the entire transportation infrastructure can be taken out with a well deployed EMP burst.
SPARK and Solaris was still the mainstay at the last large research institution I worked at up until a year ago when the first rumblings came out...