I commonly fall asleep but then start dreaming that I am laying there still awake trying to sleep. Sometimes something will wake me up and I will realize that I was asleep but thought I wasn't. It really is horrible because I get no rest.
I am doing this right now. From my learning curve.
1) Figure out how to get a DBA and go get one from the county you live in. Then get a EIN (tax id number) from IRS. Everyone should should do this immediatly so that you can answer the question, "How long have you been in business?" with a big number. 2) You do not need an LLC unless you are are billing over $75,000. And then the LLC is for tax reduction purpose not protection. 3) You need professional liability insurance. There will be indemnification clauses in contracts that will bankrupt you if you do not have a policy to back you up against bullies. It may take a long time to get this. I am about to start my fourth week of working with insurance agents and their carriers to try to get something that will give me $2,000,000 coverage with $5,000 deductible. I may lose the gig if I cannot sign the contract shortly, however I cannot sign something that could bankrupt me before I could prove innocence. 4) Have a spouse that has health insurance, live somewhere with cheep health care, or not give a shit if you die, in which case you can skip (3). 5) While you are still working you should network your ass off. Volunteer with professional societies. Always have lunch once a week with people that do not work for you company. 6) LinkedIn is not Facebook. 7) Before you order business cards make sure the font for the phone number is big enough for 50-somethings to read. (I flubbed this.) I should write a book.....
I am seriously having trouble right now. Maybe making this simple is complicated. What is wrong with: 10 A = 24; 20 B = 26; 30 C = A + B; 40 PRINT C; 50 END I feel like I am not seeing the trees for the forest or something...
>Anything that you need to memorize is useless. Maybe, but you cannot say that memorizing is useless, unless you want to say that for top athletes hitting the gym for conditioning purposes is useless. You can verify this at home. Spend six months laying on the couch eating salty snacks, drinking beer, and watching U-toob videos of sports all day. At the end of the six weeks put on a cup and boxing trunks and step into then ring with Mike Tyson.
>...A College degree isn't worth what it used to be... >...The pickings from College are diluting in quality as well as quantity... I remember when we took lead out of gasoline. I had hoped to see different results manifest in the area of education by now. Maybe we should put the lead back?
It is so tedious when websites fire up noise with out asking you first. A lot of news pages auto play video before the page loads. If you are already listening to something it is such a bugger. More browsers should do this.
>"got his watch snagged by a kelp stalk and 'ping', off goes the watch " May I suggest you look at something called a "Nato strap" My beater watch came with one and as I looked into it they seem to have been invented to prevent this sort of goat roping. I have not yet knocked off one the the pins but it is only a matter of time. Maybe someone else has an experience with one.
I went with the Omega X-33. It is a tool watch, but it is a luxury tool. The count down timers were the deciding feature and I use them regularly. It will take a punch, I can wear it in the shower or in a down pour, is flight certified by the ESA, and the Solar Impulse modle is just beautiful to look at. Another alternative to consider would be the Seiko SKX that Redford wore in 'All is Lost'
"Foreign funding is illegal for federal elections in the US." Somebody that is not a lazy twit google up what 'Johnny Chung' and the 'Buddhist Temple contributions' were about.
>As it happens, pollution caused coral dieback is also the cause of the 'pacific atoms vanishing below the rising oceans'. This, a
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Did you mean 'atol'? If you did they are the product of plate tectonics http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/... is a good follow up to the WIKI stuff on guyots.
>I've wondered whether we should start putting carbon back into the ground, and whether this is feasible Calcium Carbonate is an alternative to plastic and plants. It has worked in the past. Disclaimer, I am a classically trained rock licking geologist. The CaCO3 will be in the form of the lifeless bodies of dead things accumulating in sea bottom ooze, not that different from 'the ground' although once it becomes carbonate there is no going back. Some places will be too deep, some marginally to acid but there are large parts of the world that could support accumulation. Someone with a calculator can work out the volume of 30 gigatonnes of CO2 converted to CaCO3.
>well, people _can_ multitask. Actually, people timeshare. That looks like multitasking but it is very different. Time sharing means a supervisor routing and swapping in and out. When you have stuff swapped out and then the system is rebooted it makes a hell of a mess.
I thought they ground him up and did radioactive dating? There was something in the news about them killing the oldest living of some kind of critter to figure out how old it was.
Learn to play a musical instrument well enough to earn supper. learn to repair sails dead tree books on edible wild plants old Encyclopedia Britannicas - anyone know how many it will take to stop a 50 cal round? I once determined empirically that a 150 grain bronze point 30-06 will penetrate 2.5 color (tube type) television sets.
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I commonly fall asleep but then start dreaming that I am laying there still awake trying to sleep. Sometimes something will wake me up and I will realize that I was asleep but thought I wasn't. It really is horrible because I get no rest.
I am doing this right now. From my learning curve.
1) Figure out how to get a DBA and go get one from the county you live in. Then get a EIN (tax id number) from IRS. Everyone should should do this immediatly so that you can answer the question, "How long have you been in business?" with a big number.
2) You do not need an LLC unless you are are billing over $75,000. And then the LLC is for tax reduction purpose not protection.
3) You need professional liability insurance. There will be indemnification clauses in contracts that will bankrupt you if you do not have a policy to back you up against bullies. It may take a long time to get this. I am about to start my fourth week of working with insurance agents and their carriers to try to get something that will give me $2,000,000 coverage with $5,000 deductible. I may lose the gig if I cannot sign the contract shortly, however I cannot sign something that could bankrupt me before I could prove innocence.
4) Have a spouse that has health insurance, live somewhere with cheep health care, or not give a shit if you die, in which case you can skip (3).
5) While you are still working you should network your ass off. Volunteer with professional societies. Always have lunch once a week with people that do not work for you company.
6) LinkedIn is not Facebook.
7) Before you order business cards make sure the font for the phone number is big enough for 50-somethings to read. (I flubbed this.)
I should write a book.....
I am seriously having trouble right now. Maybe making this simple is complicated.
What is wrong with:
10 A = 24;
20 B = 26;
30 C = A + B;
40 PRINT C;
50 END
I feel like I am not seeing the trees for the forest or something...
>Anything that you need to memorize is useless.
Maybe, but you cannot say that memorizing is useless, unless you want to say that for top athletes hitting the gym for conditioning purposes is useless. You can verify this at home. Spend six months laying on the couch eating salty snacks, drinking beer, and watching U-toob videos of sports all day. At the end of the six weeks put on a cup and boxing trunks and step into then ring with Mike Tyson.
>...A College degree isn't worth what it used to be...
>...The pickings from College are diluting in quality as well as quantity...
I remember when we took lead out of gasoline. I had hoped to see different results manifest in the area of education by now. Maybe we should put the lead back?
It is so tedious when websites fire up noise with out asking you first. A lot of news pages auto play video before the page loads. If you are already listening to something it is such a bugger. More browsers should do this.
I would split it with the tax man. Problem solved.
my state is not listed.
>"got his watch snagged by a kelp stalk and 'ping', off goes the watch "
May I suggest you look at something called a "Nato strap" My beater watch came with one and as I looked into it they seem to have been invented to prevent this sort of goat roping. I have not yet knocked off one the the pins but it is only a matter of time. Maybe someone else has an experience with one.
I went with the Omega X-33. It is a tool watch, but it is a luxury tool. The count down timers were the deciding feature and I use them regularly. It will take a punch, I can wear it in the shower or in a down pour, is flight certified by the ESA, and the Solar Impulse modle is just beautiful to look at. Another alternative to consider would be the Seiko SKX that Redford wore in 'All is Lost'
"Foreign funding is illegal for federal elections in the US."
Somebody that is not a lazy twit google up what 'Johnny Chung' and the 'Buddhist Temple contributions' were about.
> Lots of deaths recently.
Keith Fucking Richards is still alive. Who would have thunk it.
>With logic like that who needs enemies!
With logic like that who needs enemas!!!
>"I go from full to famished in about an hour. "\n Thank you for not leading into a tired joke about Chinese pussy.
>As it happens, pollution caused coral dieback is also the cause of the 'pacific atoms vanishing below the rising oceans'. This, a \n Did you mean 'atol'? If you did they are the product of plate tectonics http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/... is a good follow up to the WIKI stuff on guyots.
>I've wondered whether we should start putting carbon back into the ground, and whether this is feasible
Calcium Carbonate is an alternative to plastic and plants. It has worked in the past. Disclaimer, I am a classically trained rock licking geologist. The CaCO3 will be in the form of the lifeless bodies of dead things accumulating in sea bottom ooze, not that different from 'the ground' although once it becomes carbonate there is no going back. Some places will be too deep, some marginally to acid but there are large parts of the world that could support accumulation. Someone with a calculator can work out the volume of 30 gigatonnes of CO2 converted to CaCO3.
>Unicorns don't exist in the real world...
Yes they do, they are also known as rhinoceros, are ugly as homemade sin, and mean.
Eatted, not et.
And both are correct.
The simplest answer is that American tech workers have a better union.
I have toyed with the idea of turning my land line into a 1-900 number so that the robocallers have to pay me to talk to the box.
I think you mean cow-orker
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>well, people _can_ multitask.
Actually, people timeshare. That looks like multitasking but it is very different. Time sharing means a supervisor routing and swapping in and out. When you have stuff swapped out and then the system is rebooted it makes a hell of a mess.
I thought they ground him up and did radioactive dating? There was something in the news about them killing the oldest living of some kind of critter to figure out how old it was.
Learn to play a musical instrument well enough to earn supper.
learn to repair sails
dead tree books on edible wild plants
old Encyclopedia Britannicas - anyone know how many it will take to stop a 50 cal round? I once determined empirically that a 150 grain bronze point 30-06 will penetrate 2.5 color (tube type) television sets.