I view it as logic and not fear. I'd like to keep access to as many liberties as possible because I want to be able to use my freedom as much as possible. I'd not classify that as fear but you can ascribe it to such, if you want. I consider it well reasoned. I am not a religious person but I'd like to keep that liberty around as well. Even if it means that some religious folks will cause harm to otherwise good people. It doesn't seem fearful to me but I can see (I think) why one might think so.
From what I've read, that sounds about right. I am forever grateful that I went right to my own company and didn't have to dick around with that sort of crap. I actually paid employees to further their education. More than once, but not frequently, I even paid for them to take what would appear to be unrelated courses. Strangely enough, those unrelated courses were made useful by them.
That graphics design course? They made our reports better. That course in history? They were able to research and find things similar enough in the past so that we didn't need to repeat mistakes. Advanced math courses? Well, we can tighten that algorithm up and gain an incremental increase in speed - it might not be much but it adds up over a year. Imagine that.
That's well and good and has nothing to do with my post. Her breaking the law does not mean he didn't break the law. This shouldn't be complicated for you. You should have learned this in Kindergarten.
If even a financial transaction hits a bank in the US (not even owned by a company that is headquartered in the US but simply passing through their bank) then it also magically becomes a US' jurisdiction. There's not a damned thing more that I can do about it. It is what it is.
Hmm... I'm not sure how to approach this one? See, I'm a big fan of freedom.
I used to own my own company and sometimes I brought in things like a financial advisor and had work-groups for us/them. At the end of one, I wanted everyone to be able to *reasonably* put 20% of their salary into retirement. Preferably more.
One employee said that he was unable to do so, this was after work while we were getting a few beers together. We talked about it and he had a large family. I knew this but he was already making more than many others. I also knew that he was still fairly frugal. The key was 'reasonable.' I asked him what his finances looked like and he brought in a copy of his records, trimmed down a bit, to show me an example monthly budget. Using that budget, and having been invited to do so, I thought about the things that I'd consider reasonable.
He was paying a reasonable mortgage, paying it off quick. He was not paying for a brand new car. He was putting aside money for his kid's education. He was paying for his kids to get a reasonably good education. He was participating in a few healthy activities and was the sole financial supporter of the family (they had four or five children at the time). His grocery budget indicated that they weren't buying luxury items and things like that. The list goes on.
I determined that he could not reasonably put 20% away while maintaining his lifestyle. I gave him a raise to be able to meet that goal. He did not have to provide that documentation and it would not have affected his employment one bit. In fact, he could have walked and been paid less at a competitor as they were starting to spring up. I was already paying well above the average rates for similar jobs but I'd rather retain talent than replace it - it's just good financial and morale sense. If I were not prepared to give him an increase in salary, I'd have not been willing to even see the documents.
I did make it so that it was an earned raise. He was given a bit more responsibility than he had before and was able to earn the increased salary. We were both satisfied. It's things like this that make me leery of making things strictly illegal. I don't recall the exact figures but this was in the late 1990s and his pay rate would have been greater than 120/year, prior to the raise. It's not like I was stiffing the guy and it's not like he was asking for an unreasonable standard of living. Using the information available, and freely shared, I was able to retain him and keep it so that his wife would not have to enter the work-force while still being able to put a goodly sum of money away for retirement.
I'm not sure that I'd want to outlaw the free-flow of data between two willing parties though I can certainly see where it's open for abuse. That and, well... If he hadn't given me the data then I'd have just asked his wife for it.;-) (He'd have gotten the raise, pretty much regardless. I was not fond of losing talent. That's why I hired them in the first place.)
Years ago, I passed out drunk and woke up with some fat chick blowing me. I did the only sensible thing, I let her finish. I passed out there a week later and damned if it didn't happen again! I was traumatized! Well, not really traumatized. I never did see her a third time and I'm not even able to remember her name, if I ever knew it. She could suck a dick.
But yes, I guess that counts as a fat person touching me sexually without permission. I was only in town for a short while so we've never stumbled into each other again. She had the body of a Greek god, in fact, several of them. At least a couple of Silenus (spelling? the fat one that was a follower of Dionysis). But man, she could puff a pee-pee. No, no I was not traumatized at all.
For those playing the home game, she's a friend of The Grape Ape's* sibling. Or at least was, buggered if I know what happened in the intervening years.
*: His nickname. We went home with him on leave. Good people and not to be mistaken for Boddie.
I'd kill for the ability to gain weight. I can't seem to get about 172 pounds and stay there. I peaked at 205 when I was much younger and had a whole lot of calories available and access to a gym. (Marines.) I came out of boot at 172. After a while, I was up to 205. I came home. I was 172 inside of a couple of months. I went back in, I think I made it up to about 185. I'm 172 today. I'll probably be 172 tomorrow. I'll almost certainly be 172 next month.
I'm 5'-11" on my ID but I used to be a bit taller. I'm probably actually a bit shorter than that now. (I'm old.)
Oddly, even if I try - as a civilian, to hit the weights and eat like a horse (and I do, sometimes) then I only reshape my mass and I stay at, you guessed it, 172. I've got a whole damned gym at home now. I gave up. I was at it for a couple of years and while I got quite fit, I was still just 172. I'm kind of comfy around 205. I can't get there and keep it there. I can't (somehow) replicate the environment where I was at 205. It just doesn't work. It's a combination of mentality and whatnot.
Sometimes, I get busy and forget to eat. I might drop down to as low as 160 if that lasts for a while but as soon as I start to eat again, I'm back to 172. Very few times, and only with odd circumstances, do I fluctuate from 172 and it doesn't seem to last long. I've tried pumping thousands of calories into me. My body just flushes 'em back out and doesn't want them. I will lose some, like I said, but I bounce right back up to 172. It's so regular that I can tell if the scale's off. I haven't weighed myself in a month. I'll bet a dollar that I'm within 1 pound of 172. I can kind of feel when I'm not exactly that weight, it's like that's where my body wants to be. I do not understand the physiology of it. The best answer that I've had from a doctor is, "You're healthy, that's how your body works. Try one of the many brands of weight gain supplements but don't overdo it." I've tried. I stay 172.
I think the days where my body was able and willing to be 205 are behind me. I've gone on some raging adventures where my weight drops but that's very temporary and I'm back to my normal weight soon after. I don't have a belly but I've got thick shoulders, chest, and legs. Those increase in size when I lift but the rest decreases accordingly and, sure enough, I stay just the same with very little fluctuation. I've even done the lifting faithfully for years, in a row and without fail, and seen almost no change and no real fluctuations.
Ah well... I'd love to be about 205 and a half in shorter. I'm not tall enough to be tall. I'm just tall enough to bang my head on stuff.
I want to say that there's also his first appearance in there as well. I don't remember all the details but there's actually a list of what's in the collection and an itemized retail value for everything. I'll have to OCR it when I get home. Then I can probably just script something to get a price list/average for them at retail and have some idea of the retail value. There's a scanned list somewhere on my NAS but I'm not spotting it. It's in with insurance documents, I figure they can do the work if something happens to them.
I'll be home in a month or so. I'll see what happens then.
Take a gander at Opera. Give it a full week, try out any extensions you might want (Chrome extensions work too), and see if it fits your needs. I'm not sure how many years have gone by since I started using Opera but I've been using it since the days where I had to pay for it. I'm pretty happy with it as my main browser though there was a period where they kind of lost direction.
I have firewall logs and Wireshark runs that show no unknown traffic getting out. I'm pretty happy with it. It's based on Chromium now but there's a lot added to it that Chromium doesn't have and the Google-specific bits seem to have all been ripped out, at least according to my logs.
First you say it runs flawlessly and then you say it has bugs and missing functionality. The missing functionality can be overlooked but having bugs kind of takes away that whole "flawlessly" thing, doesn't it?
Well, you could stop disabling telemetry? If they know what it is you, and those likes you, have for usage patterns they might (hey, it's possible) actually be more inclined to keep and improve the native features you enjoy.
I think a part of the problem is that non-tech users get heard more because they don't disable telemetry. They probably don't know how to. The few that are technical users and leave telemetry enabled are drowned out by the Average Joe User-types.
I don't blame you for the offer. I won't be back in Maine until April - maybe the start of May. I just took a peek online and it looks like first editions and appearances of Wolverine (he was quite a fan) are worth a bit of money. I'm a bit lazy in my retirement so it's hard telling how much effort I'll put into finding out a more realistic value but, assuming they'd go to a good home, I might be willing to consider an offer. You might want to wait for me to get home and go through a few boxes and then give a more realistic price - I'd probably still be more than fair. I am not really in a position where I'm in need of an income.
So, I don't know what I'll find but I've got Google and some boxes and can take a look when I get home. If you're legitimately interested in tendering an offer - AND - the offer is for a collection and not for a profit then I might be seriously inclined to investigate further. Feel free to hit me up via email. If I'm going to let them go to someone who's going to profit on them then I might as well get all that I can out of them. If they're going to a passionate collector then I'm not too worried about the value. Not sure if that makes much sense.
> Why was it any longer and why should a "right" NEVER ACTED ON be retained?
I've never used the 5th. I'd still like to retain that right, thanks.
Someone above mentioned that there were no official Batman dildos and never would be. I suspect you'd suggest that DC loses their right to restrict people from making them because they, themselves, have never made or authorized making them.
Sheesh! Don't be daft, it's only bad when the other side does it!
Hmm... I typed out the/s sarcasm indicator but then I thought about it. While it's a fine interesting subject to delve into, now may not be the best time to do so.
In short, very short for me, people really do seem to think that way. I don't actually understand the disconnect, mental process, or the likes. Seemingly otherwise intelligent people get irate, for example, if an opposing party using the the same tactics their favored party uses. A good example is the "Free Speech Zones." The Democrats have repeatedly scoffed at them. They were first used in 1988 at the DNC. They still justify them if they're used today because of reasons like not wanting to be distracted or diluting the message.
And no, no... I am not a Republican. By preference, you'd probably think I'm to the left of any elected official - in the US political arena.
Damn you. I'd thought I'd missed something and we'd actually learned if protons decay and what their half-life is. I fired up a new tab and meandered over to Wikipedia (good enough for this) and... Yeah, no. I was all sorts of ready to be excited, like a dog when he hears his family on the other side of the door and thinks they might have brought him something with a flavor.
That is true. I have a huge, all in special plastic wraps, collection of comic books. As in thousands of them - multiple boxes. Someone needed some money, I loaned them the money, and they gave me the comics in exchange for paying me back. This was years ago.
They had them appraised at something like $6000 retail price. They only owed me $600. I want to say it was 1996. I have no idea what they're worth today and I've not read a damned one of 'em. I figured it was a good investment but it turns out that I didn't need 'em so I still own them. Maybe I'll get really bored some time and look through them. There are a lot of first edition stuff in there - one that I know is first edition is Wolverine and I want to say that the first comic he appeared in is also in the collection.
I guess I could sell 'em but then I'd have to have them reappraised, inventoried, etc. There are boxes and boxes. They're special boxes made for the comic books and they're all wrapped in special plastic bags. Some of them (I presume they're worth more) are actually in stiff plastic cases. They'd had them appraised at retail value from two different shops and, as I recall, both of those shops - after appraising them, still only offered him $500 for the lot. There's an unopened leather-bound Batman in there. I don't know anything about comics, really, but the guy that I got them from actually said that one wasn't one of the more valued ones. I have no idea, I assume prices will have fluctuated.
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I view it as logic and not fear. I'd like to keep access to as many liberties as possible because I want to be able to use my freedom as much as possible. I'd not classify that as fear but you can ascribe it to such, if you want. I consider it well reasoned. I am not a religious person but I'd like to keep that liberty around as well. Even if it means that some religious folks will cause harm to otherwise good people. It doesn't seem fearful to me but I can see (I think) why one might think so.
From what I've read, that sounds about right. I am forever grateful that I went right to my own company and didn't have to dick around with that sort of crap. I actually paid employees to further their education. More than once, but not frequently, I even paid for them to take what would appear to be unrelated courses. Strangely enough, those unrelated courses were made useful by them.
That graphics design course? They made our reports better. That course in history? They were able to research and find things similar enough in the past so that we didn't need to repeat mistakes. Advanced math courses? Well, we can tighten that algorithm up and gain an incremental increase in speed - it might not be much but it adds up over a year. Imagine that.
Absolutely, be my guest. I'll even help fund their trip to your particular country so that you can try them there.
I'm not sure what your point is.
That's well and good and has nothing to do with my post. Her breaking the law does not mean he didn't break the law. This shouldn't be complicated for you. You should have learned this in Kindergarten.
If even a financial transaction hits a bank in the US (not even owned by a company that is headquartered in the US but simply passing through their bank) then it also magically becomes a US' jurisdiction. There's not a damned thing more that I can do about it. It is what it is.
Hmm... I'm not sure how to approach this one? See, I'm a big fan of freedom.
I used to own my own company and sometimes I brought in things like a financial advisor and had work-groups for us/them. At the end of one, I wanted everyone to be able to *reasonably* put 20% of their salary into retirement. Preferably more.
One employee said that he was unable to do so, this was after work while we were getting a few beers together. We talked about it and he had a large family. I knew this but he was already making more than many others. I also knew that he was still fairly frugal. The key was 'reasonable.' I asked him what his finances looked like and he brought in a copy of his records, trimmed down a bit, to show me an example monthly budget. Using that budget, and having been invited to do so, I thought about the things that I'd consider reasonable.
He was paying a reasonable mortgage, paying it off quick. He was not paying for a brand new car. He was putting aside money for his kid's education. He was paying for his kids to get a reasonably good education. He was participating in a few healthy activities and was the sole financial supporter of the family (they had four or five children at the time). His grocery budget indicated that they weren't buying luxury items and things like that. The list goes on.
I determined that he could not reasonably put 20% away while maintaining his lifestyle. I gave him a raise to be able to meet that goal. He did not have to provide that documentation and it would not have affected his employment one bit. In fact, he could have walked and been paid less at a competitor as they were starting to spring up. I was already paying well above the average rates for similar jobs but I'd rather retain talent than replace it - it's just good financial and morale sense. If I were not prepared to give him an increase in salary, I'd have not been willing to even see the documents.
I did make it so that it was an earned raise. He was given a bit more responsibility than he had before and was able to earn the increased salary. We were both satisfied. It's things like this that make me leery of making things strictly illegal. I don't recall the exact figures but this was in the late 1990s and his pay rate would have been greater than 120/year, prior to the raise. It's not like I was stiffing the guy and it's not like he was asking for an unreasonable standard of living. Using the information available, and freely shared, I was able to retain him and keep it so that his wife would not have to enter the work-force while still being able to put a goodly sum of money away for retirement.
I'm not sure that I'd want to outlaw the free-flow of data between two willing parties though I can certainly see where it's open for abuse. That and, well... If he hadn't given me the data then I'd have just asked his wife for it. ;-) (He'd have gotten the raise, pretty much regardless. I was not fond of losing talent. That's why I hired them in the first place.)
Right there... *points at his penis*
Years ago, I passed out drunk and woke up with some fat chick blowing me. I did the only sensible thing, I let her finish. I passed out there a week later and damned if it didn't happen again! I was traumatized! Well, not really traumatized. I never did see her a third time and I'm not even able to remember her name, if I ever knew it. She could suck a dick.
But yes, I guess that counts as a fat person touching me sexually without permission. I was only in town for a short while so we've never stumbled into each other again. She had the body of a Greek god, in fact, several of them. At least a couple of Silenus (spelling? the fat one that was a follower of Dionysis). But man, she could puff a pee-pee. No, no I was not traumatized at all.
For those playing the home game, she's a friend of The Grape Ape's* sibling. Or at least was, buggered if I know what happened in the intervening years.
*: His nickname. We went home with him on leave. Good people and not to be mistaken for Boddie.
I'd kill for the ability to gain weight. I can't seem to get about 172 pounds and stay there. I peaked at 205 when I was much younger and had a whole lot of calories available and access to a gym. (Marines.) I came out of boot at 172. After a while, I was up to 205. I came home. I was 172 inside of a couple of months. I went back in, I think I made it up to about 185. I'm 172 today. I'll probably be 172 tomorrow. I'll almost certainly be 172 next month.
I'm 5'-11" on my ID but I used to be a bit taller. I'm probably actually a bit shorter than that now. (I'm old.)
Oddly, even if I try - as a civilian, to hit the weights and eat like a horse (and I do, sometimes) then I only reshape my mass and I stay at, you guessed it, 172. I've got a whole damned gym at home now. I gave up. I was at it for a couple of years and while I got quite fit, I was still just 172. I'm kind of comfy around 205. I can't get there and keep it there. I can't (somehow) replicate the environment where I was at 205. It just doesn't work. It's a combination of mentality and whatnot.
Sometimes, I get busy and forget to eat. I might drop down to as low as 160 if that lasts for a while but as soon as I start to eat again, I'm back to 172. Very few times, and only with odd circumstances, do I fluctuate from 172 and it doesn't seem to last long. I've tried pumping thousands of calories into me. My body just flushes 'em back out and doesn't want them. I will lose some, like I said, but I bounce right back up to 172. It's so regular that I can tell if the scale's off. I haven't weighed myself in a month. I'll bet a dollar that I'm within 1 pound of 172. I can kind of feel when I'm not exactly that weight, it's like that's where my body wants to be. I do not understand the physiology of it. The best answer that I've had from a doctor is, "You're healthy, that's how your body works. Try one of the many brands of weight gain supplements but don't overdo it." I've tried. I stay 172.
I think the days where my body was able and willing to be 205 are behind me. I've gone on some raging adventures where my weight drops but that's very temporary and I'm back to my normal weight soon after. I don't have a belly but I've got thick shoulders, chest, and legs. Those increase in size when I lift but the rest decreases accordingly and, sure enough, I stay just the same with very little fluctuation. I've even done the lifting faithfully for years, in a row and without fail, and seen almost no change and no real fluctuations.
Ah well... I'd love to be about 205 and a half in shorter. I'm not tall enough to be tall. I'm just tall enough to bang my head on stuff.
It's just new(ish) spam. I assume it's fully automated.
I want to say that there's also his first appearance in there as well. I don't remember all the details but there's actually a list of what's in the collection and an itemized retail value for everything. I'll have to OCR it when I get home. Then I can probably just script something to get a price list/average for them at retail and have some idea of the retail value. There's a scanned list somewhere on my NAS but I'm not spotting it. It's in with insurance documents, I figure they can do the work if something happens to them.
I'll be home in a month or so. I'll see what happens then.
Take a gander at Opera. Give it a full week, try out any extensions you might want (Chrome extensions work too), and see if it fits your needs. I'm not sure how many years have gone by since I started using Opera but I've been using it since the days where I had to pay for it. I'm pretty happy with it as my main browser though there was a period where they kind of lost direction.
I have firewall logs and Wireshark runs that show no unknown traffic getting out. I'm pretty happy with it. It's based on Chromium now but there's a lot added to it that Chromium doesn't have and the Google-specific bits seem to have all been ripped out, at least according to my logs.
First you say it runs flawlessly and then you say it has bugs and missing functionality. The missing functionality can be overlooked but having bugs kind of takes away that whole "flawlessly" thing, doesn't it?
Well, you could stop disabling telemetry? If they know what it is you, and those likes you, have for usage patterns they might (hey, it's possible) actually be more inclined to keep and improve the native features you enjoy.
I think a part of the problem is that non-tech users get heard more because they don't disable telemetry. They probably don't know how to. The few that are technical users and leave telemetry enabled are drowned out by the Average Joe User-types.
Have you looked at this:
https://addons.opera.com/en/ex...
I don't blame you for the offer. I won't be back in Maine until April - maybe the start of May. I just took a peek online and it looks like first editions and appearances of Wolverine (he was quite a fan) are worth a bit of money. I'm a bit lazy in my retirement so it's hard telling how much effort I'll put into finding out a more realistic value but, assuming they'd go to a good home, I might be willing to consider an offer. You might want to wait for me to get home and go through a few boxes and then give a more realistic price - I'd probably still be more than fair. I am not really in a position where I'm in need of an income.
So, I don't know what I'll find but I've got Google and some boxes and can take a look when I get home. If you're legitimately interested in tendering an offer - AND - the offer is for a collection and not for a profit then I might be seriously inclined to investigate further. Feel free to hit me up via email. If I'm going to let them go to someone who's going to profit on them then I might as well get all that I can out of them. If they're going to a passionate collector then I'm not too worried about the value. Not sure if that makes much sense.
Did they? I could have sworn that I read it was unfinished. Maybe we have a different definition of "solid?" I dunno, I am not really a gamer.
Ah. No habla portugués! ;-)
Like hell I wouldn't. I never understood that commercial. "You wouldn't download a car!" Oh, hell yes I would.
> Why was it any longer and why should a "right" NEVER ACTED ON be retained?
I've never used the 5th. I'd still like to retain that right, thanks.
Someone above mentioned that there were no official Batman dildos and never would be. I suspect you'd suggest that DC loses their right to restrict people from making them because they, themselves, have never made or authorized making them.
Sheesh! Don't be daft, it's only bad when the other side does it!
Hmm... I typed out the /s sarcasm indicator but then I thought about it. While it's a fine interesting subject to delve into, now may not be the best time to do so.
In short, very short for me, people really do seem to think that way. I don't actually understand the disconnect, mental process, or the likes. Seemingly otherwise intelligent people get irate, for example, if an opposing party using the the same tactics their favored party uses. A good example is the "Free Speech Zones." The Democrats have repeatedly scoffed at them. They were first used in 1988 at the DNC. They still justify them if they're used today because of reasons like not wanting to be distracted or diluting the message.
And no, no... I am not a Republican. By preference, you'd probably think I'm to the left of any elected official - in the US political arena.
Damn you. I'd thought I'd missed something and we'd actually learned if protons decay and what their half-life is. I fired up a new tab and meandered over to Wikipedia (good enough for this) and... Yeah, no. I was all sorts of ready to be excited, like a dog when he hears his family on the other side of the door and thinks they might have brought him something with a flavor.
For those playing the home game, it's a well known unsolved problem in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That is true. I have a huge, all in special plastic wraps, collection of comic books. As in thousands of them - multiple boxes. Someone needed some money, I loaned them the money, and they gave me the comics in exchange for paying me back. This was years ago.
They had them appraised at something like $6000 retail price. They only owed me $600. I want to say it was 1996. I have no idea what they're worth today and I've not read a damned one of 'em. I figured it was a good investment but it turns out that I didn't need 'em so I still own them. Maybe I'll get really bored some time and look through them. There are a lot of first edition stuff in there - one that I know is first edition is Wolverine and I want to say that the first comic he appeared in is also in the collection.
I guess I could sell 'em but then I'd have to have them reappraised, inventoried, etc. There are boxes and boxes. They're special boxes made for the comic books and they're all wrapped in special plastic bags. Some of them (I presume they're worth more) are actually in stiff plastic cases. They'd had them appraised at retail value from two different shops and, as I recall, both of those shops - after appraising them, still only offered him $500 for the lot. There's an unopened leather-bound Batman in there. I don't know anything about comics, really, but the guy that I got them from actually said that one wasn't one of the more valued ones. I have no idea, I assume prices will have fluctuated.
En Inglés es "defamatory" y "campaign." Mí Español es malo, es muy mierda.
Well, they've sold /. so, presumably, they've moved up a notch.
You're kidding, right?