LOL That's not the right way. The right way is to petition to get the law changed - not just break it and hope for the best. I mean, think about the precedent this sets. C'mon now! I'm not really asking a whole lot from them, really. They can operate in legal markets and show how it helps and then get the other laws changed to suit.
Pretty much, yes. In fact, I've no idea why you spent all this time over a trivial reply that was purely in jest and meant only to poke a little fun at the person who implied that a truck needn't fight gravity. But, hey, it kept you amused/bemused or otherwise engaged for a few minutes, so there's that.
I wonder how pissed they are when they have to send out one of those funny ships that sinks itself part way and then gives the big ship (even carriers!) a ride on it like a piggyback ride?
You must be new here. What's this topic thing you speak of?;) No, I understood the topic just fine. That's why the "In all fairness..." was included.
But, more to the new point, topic? Heh... No... No... *shakes head sadly* We throw poop and screech like howler monkeys. We find statements like how a drone is the one that is fighting gravity, even more so - though the forces are indeed close enough to equal though the methods of opposing those forces are very different, and engage in howler monkey screeching and poop flinging.
If you're expecting on-topic, relevant, or even coherent that's down the hall on the right. You're also, more specifically, quite unlikely to find anything on-topic from me. After all, Slashdot is my personal blog. *nods*
Anyhow, like I said, nobody will read this but you and I. Your secret's safe with me.
I've helped friends start or expand businesses. I keep a hands off approach and it's all in a signed contract. My approach is to take a portion of the profit and partial ownership of the business. Strangely, as one example, I own a part of a Subway and a small chain of Dunkin Donuts. It's actually quite lucrative and the contracts stipulate buy-out provisions if they decide to take complete ownership. Other than that, there may be gifts but those are usually done in a tactful way if not entirely anonymously.
My kids have trust funds but they're not wealthy by any means - they can be lazy but not comfortably so, the motive is there to be productive. My son's kind of cheating - he's in Peru. I don't blame him. He's smoking weed and sexing a pretty native but he went there for a program in college so he's expected to return to school but, at this point, it appears he's coming back married or, at least, engaged. She's damned cute, too.
*shrugs* In the words of the immortal, wise and sage poet, bard of all time, Ozzy... "Everyone goes through changes, looking to find the truth, don't look to me for answers, don't ask me, I don't know."
It was. We laughed, we had fun, and we got shit done. We were at the cusp of a new technology and we worked hard to make things work - things never really dreamed of. It's a mundane subject, really. It was traffic modeling - vehicular and then expanding in to the pedestrian traffic analytics and then modeling. We went to each other's weddings. We went to the funerals of their family members. We didn't just laugh together, we cried together.
I didn't have "employees" so much (I don't really like the term) but I had people who worked *with* me. Employee, as a term, has connotations (in my mind) of them working for me. They didn't. They worked with me. The difference is, I think, huge.
At the end we had about 200 of us in a few offices and a couple of satellite offices - not fully staffed at all times. I'm not sure that it scales so you might be right - that may no longer be allowed in the workplace any longer. We even had a pool table and mini bar in the back. That's gone. They even have an "HR Department" now. When I sold, I made sure that those who were there from the beginning were well rewarded and they needn't work any more but some of them still do so it can't be that bad. I don't know how well the style will work there now or how well it'd work at a big company. We were small and kind of had the "right" to do it how we wanted.
An AC threaded an interesting comment about them in Australia. It seems they could have been legal but opted to not do so. I mean, yeah, I'd love to be able to buy a car and driver by the hour when I'm out in Nevada. I'd like to be able to have more choice. But no, they kinda sorta really should pretend to follow the law (without exception). I mean, we have to at least pretend to have law and order or what's the point? Sure, anarchy is a beautiful idea that, after the tumult, will be idyllic and all that but I really don't think it will ever work no matter how nice it sounds because it needs everyone to play by the rules.
Would you rather "applies an equal and opposite force against the gravitational forces?" Which, while painfully obvious, was the intent? 'Cause we can type that out if you want or you can just quietly slink away and feel silly. It's okay - I've made countless stupid mistakes online. They're still surely there in all their glory. I usually don't double or triple-down on them but, hey... It's all good. The truck must always apply an equal and opposite force against gravity - it must "fight" those forces.
That was the subject, is the subject, and will be the subject. It's not changed - those are the quotes that show *exactly* what the subject is and was - in its entirety. That is, well, until you came along and decided to jump in and rant while, it seems, not actually understanding either physics or the conversation. That's okay though. I've done stupid shit before and won't hold it against you.
Trying to weasel out now won't help. *chuckles* The thread's here forever but nobody will ever read it again. So, your secret is safe with me.
I'd absolutely agree. The shipping container has done a lot but food preservation has done more. The transistor and microcomputer (by which I do not mean your tablet but if you're here I suspect you know what I speak of) have done a great deal too. I'm not sure how I'd quantify either of those.
It'd be up to you to make sure that's in the contract AND that you can accomplish the tasks in the time allowed using the tools you demand. My thinking is the projects where you simply don't get to pick and choose (as the service buyer) but have no realistic choice beyond what the seller (you) offers and insists on.
I think the most confusing was a box of rare earth magnets that I ordered. They were about a pound and I paid a whole dollar with shipping and handling. The AC above (below) your reply has some interesting info that kind of suggests what I was thinking might be true.
And no, no I didn't have a good reason for ordering rare earth magnets. But, hey! A dollar with free shipping? I'll find a use. I keep a few stuck on my fridge back home and invite people to try to pull them off the fridge by pulling them straight off and not sliding them off to the side. I am easily amused.
No, you're probably in the top.5% actually. But, you know, fuck those people who are really impoverished or aren't in your line of sight, right? Irony, I see it.
If you read the thread - it's not that it's a feeling that people are judging you. It's fact that many are. Some, in a "good" way like, "They must be smart, good, and wise because they have money. I want to be like and near them." The others, well, read this thread. I sold my business and acquired some wealth. No, not billions or anything like that - not even a half billion - not even a quarter of a billion.
While I don't mind taxes (and even think my tax rate is too low) the initial taxes due were a real eye opener. That was a tax bill. However, it didn't really change much so I don't really mind it. Incorporate, hire an accountant and lawyer, and you might actually save more money than you spent on the accountant and lawyer. Hell, the lawyer's optional.
By the way, people suck at all income levels. People are the worst thing on the planet. I'm glad I'm not one of them.;)
Oops - wait - your brother wasn't the 'won't lend money' person - my bad. Still true though, only an idiot wouldn't loan money. It's a rather lucrative process.
Your brother is an asshole. By the way, unless he's also an idiot, he's probably loaning money all the time - that's what investing and, even, just leaving it in a bank is doing.
Are you incapable of reading? Allow me to quote...
Drones have to constantly fight gravity. That is not a minimal energy task.
To which I replied...
Well, to be fair, a delivery truck must also constantly fight gravity.
To which you've gone off the rails asserting that such is not true. That's only made more amusing because you're trying to tell me that I don't understand basic physics. No, a delivery truck must also constantly fight gravity - all the time, no matter what. If it didn't then it would be flat. I'm trying to make sure this is nice and easy.
If you have problems with the big words ask. Seriously, I'll help you out. Go put your hand on the wall. The wall is exerting force against your hand. If it didn't then it would fall over. It's applying an equal and opposite force. This is pretty basic.
I'd assume that too but they're often heavy packages. Stuff that simply costs more to ship USPS, for example. They've generally got the strange 'stamp' looking thing on them and no indication of US Postage on some of them. I have no idea how they get to my mail box for that price. They must have some sort of pre-sort deal or whatnot.
He will be forever known as a 200 pound moose in my head. So, there's that. I simply refuse to Google this stuff. I don't mind being ignorant. I'm okay with that.
I kind of like Ghost, it's been stable in a VM for... Err... 68 days without a reboot. I thrash on it once in a while just to see if it breaks. It's only got 4 GB of RAM dedicated to it. It's seemingly pretty light and speedy. I'm really interested to see what it does on bare metal. What I need to do is just sit down and take the plunge and install it and use it exclusively for a few months in a row instead of playing around with it in VM.
*sighs*
I think I might do that this week. I'll try Open and Net too. Thanks.
And yet we hear every few days of other places where they're breaking the law - though not convicted yet, that doesn't make them any less innocent. The reason the UK deal was news was because it was exceptional - they don't just report on random daily things like today David took a poop. That's why it's news. Hell, Google list of active legal cases against uber. We gotta at least pretend to have some regulations otherwise why have any at all?
Punch them all until you find the guilty party. It really sucks for you guys. Just stand outside of the hobby store or follow the Amazon deliveries and start randomly punching them in the nuts - you're bound to get your message across if you do it enough times and have enough helpers. *nods*
Oh, and if they're armed - don't punch them in the nuts. That's a bridge too far.
True - I still use it as it's a lot like Chrome with the privacy invading stuff stripped out. There are some neat features and I'm prodding them to make more. One of the big things I'm trying to get them to do (trivial seeming) and they seem inclined to work on it is to be able to automatically sync the dictionary. Right now, I've a hack job doing it for me but it'd be nice to do automatically. The other one, more complex, is to sync extension settings. That would be awesome.
Remember "fit to width?" Yeah... Load without images? Yeah... Tabs? Heh... I stick by them but it's painful. I left for a while for Firefox but I really don't like it much even though I gave them some money to get started - they even put my name in a big old newspaper ad. I still have a copy somewhere. They kind of lost their direction too.
Vivaldi looks interesting but it's buggy as hell on some architecture. They don't seem inclined to reply to bug reports so who knows where that will go. I keep trying but it's still buggy. It's a pain to install extensions and, frankly, it's reached the point where I need certain extensions to make the web usable again. So, I'll keep trying. I don't like any of the Firefox derivatives. I don't use Windows so I don't get Edge or IE (nor do I want either of them). I'm pretty much stuck in a technical lull where there's little actual innovation any more. I miss some old features - like hold the CTRL button down on right click and open URL and it opens in a new tab... I can make that work but it's not default.
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$ sudo apt-get install lynx
$ lynx
tada.wav
LOL That's not the right way. The right way is to petition to get the law changed - not just break it and hope for the best. I mean, think about the precedent this sets. C'mon now! I'm not really asking a whole lot from them, really. They can operate in legal markets and show how it helps and then get the other laws changed to suit.
Pretty much, yes. In fact, I've no idea why you spent all this time over a trivial reply that was purely in jest and meant only to poke a little fun at the person who implied that a truck needn't fight gravity. But, hey, it kept you amused/bemused or otherwise engaged for a few minutes, so there's that.
I wonder how pissed they are when they have to send out one of those funny ships that sinks itself part way and then gives the big ship (even carriers!) a ride on it like a piggyback ride?
You must be new here. What's this topic thing you speak of? ;) No, I understood the topic just fine. That's why the "In all fairness..." was included.
But, more to the new point, topic? Heh... No... No... *shakes head sadly* We throw poop and screech like howler monkeys. We find statements like how a drone is the one that is fighting gravity, even more so - though the forces are indeed close enough to equal though the methods of opposing those forces are very different, and engage in howler monkey screeching and poop flinging.
If you're expecting on-topic, relevant, or even coherent that's down the hall on the right. You're also, more specifically, quite unlikely to find anything on-topic from me. After all, Slashdot is my personal blog. *nods*
Anyhow, like I said, nobody will read this but you and I. Your secret's safe with me.
I've helped friends start or expand businesses. I keep a hands off approach and it's all in a signed contract. My approach is to take a portion of the profit and partial ownership of the business. Strangely, as one example, I own a part of a Subway and a small chain of Dunkin Donuts. It's actually quite lucrative and the contracts stipulate buy-out provisions if they decide to take complete ownership. Other than that, there may be gifts but those are usually done in a tactful way if not entirely anonymously.
My kids have trust funds but they're not wealthy by any means - they can be lazy but not comfortably so, the motive is there to be productive. My son's kind of cheating - he's in Peru. I don't blame him. He's smoking weed and sexing a pretty native but he went there for a program in college so he's expected to return to school but, at this point, it appears he's coming back married or, at least, engaged. She's damned cute, too.
*shrugs* In the words of the immortal, wise and sage poet, bard of all time, Ozzy... "Everyone goes through changes, looking to find the truth, don't look to me for answers, don't ask me, I don't know."
It was. We laughed, we had fun, and we got shit done. We were at the cusp of a new technology and we worked hard to make things work - things never really dreamed of. It's a mundane subject, really. It was traffic modeling - vehicular and then expanding in to the pedestrian traffic analytics and then modeling. We went to each other's weddings. We went to the funerals of their family members. We didn't just laugh together, we cried together.
I didn't have "employees" so much (I don't really like the term) but I had people who worked *with* me. Employee, as a term, has connotations (in my mind) of them working for me. They didn't. They worked with me. The difference is, I think, huge.
At the end we had about 200 of us in a few offices and a couple of satellite offices - not fully staffed at all times. I'm not sure that it scales so you might be right - that may no longer be allowed in the workplace any longer. We even had a pool table and mini bar in the back. That's gone. They even have an "HR Department" now. When I sold, I made sure that those who were there from the beginning were well rewarded and they needn't work any more but some of them still do so it can't be that bad. I don't know how well the style will work there now or how well it'd work at a big company. We were small and kind of had the "right" to do it how we wanted.
An AC threaded an interesting comment about them in Australia. It seems they could have been legal but opted to not do so. I mean, yeah, I'd love to be able to buy a car and driver by the hour when I'm out in Nevada. I'd like to be able to have more choice. But no, they kinda sorta really should pretend to follow the law (without exception). I mean, we have to at least pretend to have law and order or what's the point? Sure, anarchy is a beautiful idea that, after the tumult, will be idyllic and all that but I really don't think it will ever work no matter how nice it sounds because it needs everyone to play by the rules.
Would you rather "applies an equal and opposite force against the gravitational forces?" Which, while painfully obvious, was the intent? 'Cause we can type that out if you want or you can just quietly slink away and feel silly. It's okay - I've made countless stupid mistakes online. They're still surely there in all their glory. I usually don't double or triple-down on them but, hey... It's all good. The truck must always apply an equal and opposite force against gravity - it must "fight" those forces.
That was the subject, is the subject, and will be the subject. It's not changed - those are the quotes that show *exactly* what the subject is and was - in its entirety. That is, well, until you came along and decided to jump in and rant while, it seems, not actually understanding either physics or the conversation. That's okay though. I've done stupid shit before and won't hold it against you.
Trying to weasel out now won't help. *chuckles* The thread's here forever but nobody will ever read it again. So, your secret is safe with me.
I'd absolutely agree. The shipping container has done a lot but food preservation has done more. The transistor and microcomputer (by which I do not mean your tablet but if you're here I suspect you know what I speak of) have done a great deal too. I'm not sure how I'd quantify either of those.
It'd be up to you to make sure that's in the contract AND that you can accomplish the tasks in the time allowed using the tools you demand. My thinking is the projects where you simply don't get to pick and choose (as the service buyer) but have no realistic choice beyond what the seller (you) offers and insists on.
I think the most confusing was a box of rare earth magnets that I ordered. They were about a pound and I paid a whole dollar with shipping and handling. The AC above (below) your reply has some interesting info that kind of suggests what I was thinking might be true.
And no, no I didn't have a good reason for ordering rare earth magnets. But, hey! A dollar with free shipping? I'll find a use. I keep a few stuck on my fridge back home and invite people to try to pull them off the fridge by pulling them straight off and not sliding them off to the side. I am easily amused.
No, you're probably in the top .5% actually. But, you know, fuck those people who are really impoverished or aren't in your line of sight, right? Irony, I see it.
If you read the thread - it's not that it's a feeling that people are judging you. It's fact that many are. Some, in a "good" way like, "They must be smart, good, and wise because they have money. I want to be like and near them." The others, well, read this thread. I sold my business and acquired some wealth. No, not billions or anything like that - not even a half billion - not even a quarter of a billion.
While I don't mind taxes (and even think my tax rate is too low) the initial taxes due were a real eye opener. That was a tax bill. However, it didn't really change much so I don't really mind it. Incorporate, hire an accountant and lawyer, and you might actually save more money than you spent on the accountant and lawyer. Hell, the lawyer's optional.
By the way, people suck at all income levels. People are the worst thing on the planet. I'm glad I'm not one of them. ;)
Oops - wait - your brother wasn't the 'won't lend money' person - my bad. Still true though, only an idiot wouldn't loan money. It's a rather lucrative process.
Your brother is an asshole. By the way, unless he's also an idiot, he's probably loaning money all the time - that's what investing and, even, just leaving it in a bank is doing.
He's straight up full of shit.
I've only read the banana ones. I'll be reading the others this evening. Thanks. :D
Are you incapable of reading? Allow me to quote...
Drones have to constantly fight gravity. That is not a minimal energy task.
To which I replied...
Well, to be fair, a delivery truck must also constantly fight gravity.
To which you've gone off the rails asserting that such is not true. That's only made more amusing because you're trying to tell me that I don't understand basic physics. No, a delivery truck must also constantly fight gravity - all the time, no matter what. If it didn't then it would be flat. I'm trying to make sure this is nice and easy.
If you have problems with the big words ask. Seriously, I'll help you out. Go put your hand on the wall. The wall is exerting force against your hand. If it didn't then it would fall over. It's applying an equal and opposite force. This is pretty basic.
I'd assume that too but they're often heavy packages. Stuff that simply costs more to ship USPS, for example. They've generally got the strange 'stamp' looking thing on them and no indication of US Postage on some of them. I have no idea how they get to my mail box for that price. They must have some sort of pre-sort deal or whatnot.
He will be forever known as a 200 pound moose in my head. So, there's that. I simply refuse to Google this stuff. I don't mind being ignorant. I'm okay with that.
I kind of like Ghost, it's been stable in a VM for... Err... 68 days without a reboot. I thrash on it once in a while just to see if it breaks. It's only got 4 GB of RAM dedicated to it. It's seemingly pretty light and speedy. I'm really interested to see what it does on bare metal. What I need to do is just sit down and take the plunge and install it and use it exclusively for a few months in a row instead of playing around with it in VM.
*sighs*
I think I might do that this week. I'll try Open and Net too. Thanks.
And yet we hear every few days of other places where they're breaking the law - though not convicted yet, that doesn't make them any less innocent. The reason the UK deal was news was because it was exceptional - they don't just report on random daily things like today David took a poop. That's why it's news. Hell, Google list of active legal cases against uber. We gotta at least pretend to have some regulations otherwise why have any at all?
Punch them all until you find the guilty party. It really sucks for you guys. Just stand outside of the hobby store or follow the Amazon deliveries and start randomly punching them in the nuts - you're bound to get your message across if you do it enough times and have enough helpers. *nods*
Oh, and if they're armed - don't punch them in the nuts. That's a bridge too far.
True - I still use it as it's a lot like Chrome with the privacy invading stuff stripped out. There are some neat features and I'm prodding them to make more. One of the big things I'm trying to get them to do (trivial seeming) and they seem inclined to work on it is to be able to automatically sync the dictionary. Right now, I've a hack job doing it for me but it'd be nice to do automatically. The other one, more complex, is to sync extension settings. That would be awesome.
Remember "fit to width?" Yeah... Load without images? Yeah... Tabs? Heh... I stick by them but it's painful. I left for a while for Firefox but I really don't like it much even though I gave them some money to get started - they even put my name in a big old newspaper ad. I still have a copy somewhere. They kind of lost their direction too.
Vivaldi looks interesting but it's buggy as hell on some architecture. They don't seem inclined to reply to bug reports so who knows where that will go. I keep trying but it's still buggy. It's a pain to install extensions and, frankly, it's reached the point where I need certain extensions to make the web usable again. So, I'll keep trying. I don't like any of the Firefox derivatives. I don't use Windows so I don't get Edge or IE (nor do I want either of them). I'm pretty much stuck in a technical lull where there's little actual innovation any more. I miss some old features - like hold the CTRL button down on right click and open URL and it opens in a new tab... I can make that work but it's not default.
I guess I'm just bitchy.