Oh, shit - sorry, I meant to say thank you but my head got running away in its own direction. Thanks. I appreciate the reminder. You guys are awesome.:D
You know what's really cool about Slashdot? I can just barely give a hint of something I've forgotten and someone almost always chimes in with the right answer. I watch documentaries as entertainment - not education, so I don't retain them for long. Someone here, almost always, knows exactly what I mean - thanks and that's the place. Looking at the pictures makes me wonder if they had indoor plumbing or if they just had the channels in the street. I've not spent time looking deeper - just a quick right click and Google.
I understand they've found at least a couple of them - Indus Valley archaeological sites that is - at least. I've seen a couple of different places in the documentaries. It's kind of fascinating how old their culture is and how, presumably, advanced they were for the time. Some of those ancient places are really interesting. I've thought about volunteering (you can do that) and going on a dig, say, in Turkey but I've never done it. I do have a lady friend who's in the Maine department and now works with the museum but I've only visited a dig she was doing with some UMF students out in Chesterville on the esker. I was a bit too drunk to be helping. It was fun to watch though.
I kind of wish I retained more of what I watch but I think it might lose the magic if I try. So, they're passive and I'm just never able to remember names, dates, and that sort of thing but I actually recall quite a bunch of useless stuff but I've really been slacking on the particulars and I guess I'm okay with that. I can't fit all that into my brain without some important stuff leaking out.
Then they work within the law until they've managed to bribe the appropriate people. I mean, come on now, we have few standards but we have to have some. We can't just let them violate the law willy nilly. That's not how society functions - they've got to at least bribe someone and THEN go to work. It's not like this is a huge barrier to entry. I don't think I'm asking all THAT much, really. Some semblance of law and order would be nice lest we let every company do so - to hell with those pesky EPA regulations! We'll just chop down the whole forest. It's better to ask for forgiveness than to be told no, after all. I mean, come on - am I really asking too much? I know you like them - I'd like to like them too. I don't have that many standards but this really isn't that much to ask.
Of course it does - or it'd be flat. Just you sitting there means you're exerting force just like the truck. It's not a hard concept - perhaps you need to retake physics?
I want to know what they're going to do with the funny reviews like the steering wheel table, three moon t-shirt, etc... Some of those are too funny to let die. Maybe we need to scrape them and host them elsewhere just to make sure they don't go away. Some of them are damned funny. I've wasted hours reading some of them.
I think they were going for more modern. Indoor plumbing has been around since at least the Romans and I think I saw a documentary that had some toilets in India in one of the abandoned cities whose name I've long since forgotten.
I don't see why not. If you put the same amount of energy into it then you can likely (and I'm way too lazy to look) find a taxi company that's paying people properly and giving them benefits. You will not find that with Uber. (We can get into the legality if you want but that's besides the point.) The entire point is that it's not a very good argument to make in response to the post that you were replying to. You can make that argument if you want - I was just explaining why someone might have come along and decided to mod you down.
It doesn't matter to me, really, my only issue with the company is that they're violating the law and no, companies don't do 'civil rights.' They do greed and we're really not going to set a good precedent by just allowing a company to willfully violate the law until the law changes. I'm pretty sure you don't want society to work like that. Imagine, if you will, that Microsoft just said screw it and kept violating the law and so the government capitulated. Either way, that's not even remotely the topic - the topic is why your argument's not the best and was modded down (probably). I couldn't see any other flaws except, you know, it's really not much of a point.
For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction - when you push against the wall, the wall pushes back. If the truck wasn't constantly fighting gravity, it'd be flat.:D
I don't actually know what you're talking about at this point. Is Kanya a kid, boyfriend, father, mother, dog, miniature pony? I refuse to Google. So you can say it's a moose and I'll just take your word for it.
I dunno, I've ordered lots of stuff on a slow boat from China and I'm kind of thinking it cost them more to ship it to me than I paid? I mean, a few dollars - total, with free shipping, for a pretty bulky package. When I get stuff shipped to me, I'm all the way over in Maine and that stuff is coming in on the West Coast. I really don't know how much they pay for shipping but it'd have to be dirt cheap. It usually takes about six weeks to get to me, sometimes longer, but it's almost always free shipping and dirt cheap prices. I'm pretty sure they're losing money or something - if not they're not making a whole lot of money.
It seems more like multicast than email so maybe it would be like email to a mailing list... *nods*
Either way, a point - you have one. That was probably the worst analogy I've seen in a summary in a long time. I mean, you know, we're on Slashdot - most of us actually understand the idea of shipping if not truly comprehend it from the BILLION AND THREE documentaries we've seen about it. We don't *really* need an analogy.
*sighs*
Maybe they're aiming for a lowbrow crowd in hopes of attracting more users and finally moving on that sale they claimed they were going to have. God forbid if they shut us down and we're unleashed on the internet as a whole group - lost, lonely, and pissed off. Maybe the government will step in, just to keep us all in one spot - too big to fail, national icon, etc...
It's okay - we were told, just a few days ago, that the most important innovation was the refrigerator. Now it's a shipping container. Maybe next week it will be the transistor. At this point, I guess all we're supposed to do is howl and screech like monkeys and occasionally throw poop at one another in a maelstrom of conflicting information.
It's worth checking out in a VM. I've been enjoying GhostBSD quite a bit and have been thinking of installing it on bare metal instead of just using it in a VM. I will miss Opera though. At any rate, congrats and thanks - I'll have lots of fun poking at it. I've only played with FreeBSD and GhostBSD so I might as well give this one a shot too.
You found one example of a taxi company that doesn't treat their employees well. Yet, if you put the same effort into it, you could probably find one that does. Yet, you won't find any employees of uber (or contractors) getting any benefits at all. So your 'point' really isn't all that valid - it's a moot point, to be honest.
I don't actually hold an opinion and am unqualified to opine but he makes a compelling argument and, frankly, I suspect he knows more about it than you do. So, no, I'm going to defer to him because, you know, science doesn't work by vote and that's how Pluto lost its status. Again, I don't really care so much but I do find his argument compelling (if you even read it - and by your response, I'm not sure you did) and will defer to him as I've already stated.
You can argue with him about it - I'm unqualified to give you a reasoned rebuttal as I am not an astrophysicist or planetary geologist or whatever they're called. I'm sure he'd welcome your well reasoned rebuttal. I'm comfortable enough with my masculinity to admit that I don't know enough to offer a qualified opinion. In fact, my opinion was already stated - I defer to him.
You can probably find him in a thread making wise comments. Feel free to address him - and link me to it if you do. I'd love to watch the debate. I might even learn something. I'd enjoy that - 'tis why I'm here.
It does sound tempting, sadly. However, do you know how much time we'd waste for naught? It does sound like fun. I presume we'll need some measurements. We should be able to get those fairly accurately from images if we know the dimensions of the items around her. I'm not going to participate in scanning. I do have my limits.
Well, I guess that's one way to look at it. *chuckles* Obama's pretty damned right leaning. I think he started with ideals, I really think he did. I'm not sure where they went but I could speculate. I'll leave that to the bubble-heads. 'Tis amusing that someone marked my post as troll. No, when I troll you'll know it. Just come out and say -1 disagree - I'm okay with that. I've got karma to spare and what's the point of karma if you can't spend it?
Now THAT could be interesting. I keep going back and poking at GhostBSD. I think it's time to take it out of the VM and onto the metal. I just really like Opera as my browser. I mean, really, really, prefer it. I am going to have to spin that up in a VM and see what it is like. Thanks! This is the first I've heard of it. I haven't played in Debian land much lately - not at all, actually. I tend to flit between distros like a drunken prom queen between 'dances.' Maybe even faster.
I wouldn't mind a story being posted here about the various sizes of Kardashians' asses. Someone would post that he just completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the mathematical models of pseudo celebrity asses.
I have, to the best of my knowledge, never seen this ass or this person but I hear about her or, more accurately, read about her. I know some fluid dynamics and have some modeling skills. We can do this. Someone did try to link a picture of her for my benefit but I refused to click on it. I find it comforting to know that I don't know. I'd break that rule just to see what we could come up with.
It might give me motivation to finally learn how to use this: http://www.cgal.org/
I wonder if he'll sell it and teach me how to use it - load new maps, maybe use real time data, etc... That looks like a game I'd finally be interested in playing. It needn't be 100% accurate for me - just something 'close enough' to keep me occupied, learning, and entertained. It'd be awesome to play with - I presume. I wonder how much he'd want for it? I'd also need to be able to swap in new parts easily. Hopefully it does stuff like let you land on dirt runways, even wide enough highways, etc... It'd be fun to have your own environment or even real time data.
Something like this makes me think that VR might be fun for me. I've not played any game, with any seriousness, since Fallout 2. I've bought some flight sims but I just can't get immersed in them. I don't like city sims because they're not realistic. So, yeah... Something like this seems to be nice. He probably won't sell it, though. Heh... Maybe I can ship him parts and money and he can build me one.:D
Well, I've met enough of the folks here in real life over the years and I've known a bunch of others so I guess I could be living some sort of lie but it'd have to have been a long-con over some 30 years. So, yeah, it's true or whatever. I can't really think of any motivation to lie - especially when I point out that it's not really any great skill of mine that was the enabler.
So, yeah, as you said - it's luck - at least in my case. I can't imagine what else is the real reason - I'd like to be egotistical and claim I did it all by myself. I didn't. I just happened to be doing something at a time when it was new, in a position where I could risk it, and happened to be in the right physical place to get a contract offer based on the exact same subject I was getting ready to defend.
I worked hard, that's true. I didn't work as hard as you might - I don't know you. I put in a lot of hours. I spent a lot of time away from family and friends. Sure... So do a whole bunch of people who worked much harder, at least physically, than I. Eventually, I was doing not a whole lot more than managing and guiding and I did that in a manner that made sense to me - and this is equally important.
See, I hired smart people. I told them what I wanted. They told me what they needed. I got out of the way and gave them the tools they needed. They were the reason that we stayed open and made money. I just guided, after a while. I was 'kicked out' of my own server room. They were right, I left. One of my favorite comments was, "Code comments go in the code, asshole. Not on coffee soaked index cards." (Something close to that.) I was "pretty good." But my major was maths not programming nor computer science nor systems admin. I did those things, at first, because I had to. I hired people because I could not. I listened to them because they were experts in their field - or I'd have not hired them. I hired them because they were better at their job than I was.
Luck, pure and undeserved luck. I didn't do it on my own, no way in hell. It pisses me off, to no end, when people claim they can or have. That's pretty much impossible. At the very least, it's improbable. I'm nothing special - I can just retain stuff long enough to test on it or to retain it while I'm actively working on it - I'm not even that smart. At least not compared to some of the people I know, I'm not.
I do think it also comes down to my inexperience. At first I did try to micromanage - it was my baby after all. I'd fostered a pretty decent environment and encouraged folks to speak up. They did and, I admit, it took a little to sink in. Finally I realized why I'd hired them. I may not be smart but I'm not dumb. If you pay well, treat them like humans, give them a clear goal, and then ask them what they need - they'll tell you and they'll do it. And they'll be happy. Being smart enough to know how little you know helps - it's okay for me to say that I don't know and would like to ask somebody who does. That's why I hired them.
I made loads of mistakes. We pick up the pieces, accept responsibility, and learn from it for the next time - you can get away with that when you're on the leading edge of a fairly new field. You sure as shit don't bitch at my employees. You bitch at me. However, that's about the only thing I can think of that I really did different. If that's special than so be it. However, it's still luck and I still was fortunate and rewarded for having been able to capitalize on something that seemed fairly trivial at the time. I'd actually planned on being a maths professor in a small town university somewhere. Life did not go as planned and, well, I'm damned grateful.
To the closing point you made. That's very true. Unlike the common misconception, however, there don't seem to be that many people in there that are claiming they are innocent. They may say how their lives were messed up but they don't say they are innocent. Some do. Again, my experience is pretty damned limited and shouldn't be considered anything more than an anec
You found one that doesn't. That's good. You can probably find more. What you can't find is Uber drivers to counter his example (as far as I know). However, to be honest, that's not even remotely my complaint with Uber. I'm just pointing out that you're likely being down-modded because that's not a very good argument.
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Oh, shit - sorry, I meant to say thank you but my head got running away in its own direction. Thanks. I appreciate the reminder. You guys are awesome. :D
You know what's really cool about Slashdot? I can just barely give a hint of something I've forgotten and someone almost always chimes in with the right answer. I watch documentaries as entertainment - not education, so I don't retain them for long. Someone here, almost always, knows exactly what I mean - thanks and that's the place. Looking at the pictures makes me wonder if they had indoor plumbing or if they just had the channels in the street. I've not spent time looking deeper - just a quick right click and Google.
I understand they've found at least a couple of them - Indus Valley archaeological sites that is - at least. I've seen a couple of different places in the documentaries. It's kind of fascinating how old their culture is and how, presumably, advanced they were for the time. Some of those ancient places are really interesting. I've thought about volunteering (you can do that) and going on a dig, say, in Turkey but I've never done it. I do have a lady friend who's in the Maine department and now works with the museum but I've only visited a dig she was doing with some UMF students out in Chesterville on the esker. I was a bit too drunk to be helping. It was fun to watch though.
I kind of wish I retained more of what I watch but I think it might lose the magic if I try. So, they're passive and I'm just never able to remember names, dates, and that sort of thing but I actually recall quite a bunch of useless stuff but I've really been slacking on the particulars and I guess I'm okay with that. I can't fit all that into my brain without some important stuff leaking out.
Then they work within the law until they've managed to bribe the appropriate people. I mean, come on now, we have few standards but we have to have some. We can't just let them violate the law willy nilly. That's not how society functions - they've got to at least bribe someone and THEN go to work. It's not like this is a huge barrier to entry. I don't think I'm asking all THAT much, really. Some semblance of law and order would be nice lest we let every company do so - to hell with those pesky EPA regulations! We'll just chop down the whole forest. It's better to ask for forgiveness than to be told no, after all. I mean, come on - am I really asking too much? I know you like them - I'd like to like them too. I don't have that many standards but this really isn't that much to ask.
Of course it does - or it'd be flat. Just you sitting there means you're exerting force just like the truck. It's not a hard concept - perhaps you need to retake physics?
I want to know what they're going to do with the funny reviews like the steering wheel table, three moon t-shirt, etc... Some of those are too funny to let die. Maybe we need to scrape them and host them elsewhere just to make sure they don't go away. Some of them are damned funny. I've wasted hours reading some of them.
I think they were going for more modern. Indoor plumbing has been around since at least the Romans and I think I saw a documentary that had some toilets in India in one of the abandoned cities whose name I've long since forgotten.
Too cheap and too low tech - consider that some of these phones are the coveted iPhone.
Nope. That's the fillings in your teeth. /s
I don't see why not. If you put the same amount of energy into it then you can likely (and I'm way too lazy to look) find a taxi company that's paying people properly and giving them benefits. You will not find that with Uber. (We can get into the legality if you want but that's besides the point.) The entire point is that it's not a very good argument to make in response to the post that you were replying to. You can make that argument if you want - I was just explaining why someone might have come along and decided to mod you down.
It doesn't matter to me, really, my only issue with the company is that they're violating the law and no, companies don't do 'civil rights.' They do greed and we're really not going to set a good precedent by just allowing a company to willfully violate the law until the law changes. I'm pretty sure you don't want society to work like that. Imagine, if you will, that Microsoft just said screw it and kept violating the law and so the government capitulated. Either way, that's not even remotely the topic - the topic is why your argument's not the best and was modded down (probably). I couldn't see any other flaws except, you know, it's really not much of a point.
For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction - when you push against the wall, the wall pushes back. If the truck wasn't constantly fighting gravity, it'd be flat. :D
I don't actually know what you're talking about at this point. Is Kanya a kid, boyfriend, father, mother, dog, miniature pony? I refuse to Google. So you can say it's a moose and I'll just take your word for it.
I dunno, I've ordered lots of stuff on a slow boat from China and I'm kind of thinking it cost them more to ship it to me than I paid? I mean, a few dollars - total, with free shipping, for a pretty bulky package. When I get stuff shipped to me, I'm all the way over in Maine and that stuff is coming in on the West Coast. I really don't know how much they pay for shipping but it'd have to be dirt cheap. It usually takes about six weeks to get to me, sometimes longer, but it's almost always free shipping and dirt cheap prices. I'm pretty sure they're losing money or something - if not they're not making a whole lot of money.
It seems more like multicast than email so maybe it would be like email to a mailing list... *nods*
Either way, a point - you have one. That was probably the worst analogy I've seen in a summary in a long time. I mean, you know, we're on Slashdot - most of us actually understand the idea of shipping if not truly comprehend it from the BILLION AND THREE documentaries we've seen about it. We don't *really* need an analogy.
*sighs*
Maybe they're aiming for a lowbrow crowd in hopes of attracting more users and finally moving on that sale they claimed they were going to have. God forbid if they shut us down and we're unleashed on the internet as a whole group - lost, lonely, and pissed off. Maybe the government will step in, just to keep us all in one spot - too big to fail, national icon, etc...
It's okay - we were told, just a few days ago, that the most important innovation was the refrigerator. Now it's a shipping container. Maybe next week it will be the transistor. At this point, I guess all we're supposed to do is howl and screech like monkeys and occasionally throw poop at one another in a maelstrom of conflicting information.
It's worth checking out in a VM. I've been enjoying GhostBSD quite a bit and have been thinking of installing it on bare metal instead of just using it in a VM. I will miss Opera though. At any rate, congrats and thanks - I'll have lots of fun poking at it. I've only played with FreeBSD and GhostBSD so I might as well give this one a shot too.
You found one example of a taxi company that doesn't treat their employees well. Yet, if you put the same effort into it, you could probably find one that does. Yet, you won't find any employees of uber (or contractors) getting any benefits at all. So your 'point' really isn't all that valid - it's a moot point, to be honest.
I don't actually hold an opinion and am unqualified to opine but he makes a compelling argument and, frankly, I suspect he knows more about it than you do. So, no, I'm going to defer to him because, you know, science doesn't work by vote and that's how Pluto lost its status. Again, I don't really care so much but I do find his argument compelling (if you even read it - and by your response, I'm not sure you did) and will defer to him as I've already stated.
You can argue with him about it - I'm unqualified to give you a reasoned rebuttal as I am not an astrophysicist or planetary geologist or whatever they're called. I'm sure he'd welcome your well reasoned rebuttal. I'm comfortable enough with my masculinity to admit that I don't know enough to offer a qualified opinion. In fact, my opinion was already stated - I defer to him.
You can probably find him in a thread making wise comments. Feel free to address him - and link me to it if you do. I'd love to watch the debate. I might even learn something. I'd enjoy that - 'tis why I'm here.
It does sound tempting, sadly. However, do you know how much time we'd waste for naught? It does sound like fun. I presume we'll need some measurements. We should be able to get those fairly accurately from images if we know the dimensions of the items around her. I'm not going to participate in scanning. I do have my limits.
Well, I guess that's one way to look at it. *chuckles* Obama's pretty damned right leaning. I think he started with ideals, I really think he did. I'm not sure where they went but I could speculate. I'll leave that to the bubble-heads. 'Tis amusing that someone marked my post as troll. No, when I troll you'll know it. Just come out and say -1 disagree - I'm okay with that. I've got karma to spare and what's the point of karma if you can't spend it?
Now THAT could be interesting. I keep going back and poking at GhostBSD. I think it's time to take it out of the VM and onto the metal. I just really like Opera as my browser. I mean, really, really, prefer it. I am going to have to spin that up in a VM and see what it is like. Thanks! This is the first I've heard of it. I haven't played in Debian land much lately - not at all, actually. I tend to flit between distros like a drunken prom queen between 'dances.' Maybe even faster.
Hmm... Do we count BSD as Unix?
I wouldn't mind a story being posted here about the various sizes of Kardashians' asses. Someone would post that he just completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the mathematical models of pseudo celebrity asses.
I have, to the best of my knowledge, never seen this ass or this person but I hear about her or, more accurately, read about her. I know some fluid dynamics and have some modeling skills. We can do this. Someone did try to link a picture of her for my benefit but I refused to click on it. I find it comforting to know that I don't know. I'd break that rule just to see what we could come up with.
It might give me motivation to finally learn how to use this:
http://www.cgal.org/
Which, by the way, looks awesome.
I wonder if he'll sell it and teach me how to use it - load new maps, maybe use real time data, etc... That looks like a game I'd finally be interested in playing. It needn't be 100% accurate for me - just something 'close enough' to keep me occupied, learning, and entertained. It'd be awesome to play with - I presume. I wonder how much he'd want for it? I'd also need to be able to swap in new parts easily. Hopefully it does stuff like let you land on dirt runways, even wide enough highways, etc... It'd be fun to have your own environment or even real time data.
Something like this makes me think that VR might be fun for me. I've not played any game, with any seriousness, since Fallout 2. I've bought some flight sims but I just can't get immersed in them. I don't like city sims because they're not realistic. So, yeah... Something like this seems to be nice. He probably won't sell it, though. Heh... Maybe I can ship him parts and money and he can build me one. :D
Well, I've met enough of the folks here in real life over the years and I've known a bunch of others so I guess I could be living some sort of lie but it'd have to have been a long-con over some 30 years. So, yeah, it's true or whatever. I can't really think of any motivation to lie - especially when I point out that it's not really any great skill of mine that was the enabler.
So, yeah, as you said - it's luck - at least in my case. I can't imagine what else is the real reason - I'd like to be egotistical and claim I did it all by myself. I didn't. I just happened to be doing something at a time when it was new, in a position where I could risk it, and happened to be in the right physical place to get a contract offer based on the exact same subject I was getting ready to defend.
I worked hard, that's true. I didn't work as hard as you might - I don't know you. I put in a lot of hours. I spent a lot of time away from family and friends. Sure... So do a whole bunch of people who worked much harder, at least physically, than I. Eventually, I was doing not a whole lot more than managing and guiding and I did that in a manner that made sense to me - and this is equally important.
See, I hired smart people. I told them what I wanted. They told me what they needed. I got out of the way and gave them the tools they needed. They were the reason that we stayed open and made money. I just guided, after a while. I was 'kicked out' of my own server room. They were right, I left. One of my favorite comments was, "Code comments go in the code, asshole. Not on coffee soaked index cards." (Something close to that.) I was "pretty good." But my major was maths not programming nor computer science nor systems admin. I did those things, at first, because I had to. I hired people because I could not. I listened to them because they were experts in their field - or I'd have not hired them. I hired them because they were better at their job than I was.
Luck, pure and undeserved luck. I didn't do it on my own, no way in hell. It pisses me off, to no end, when people claim they can or have. That's pretty much impossible. At the very least, it's improbable. I'm nothing special - I can just retain stuff long enough to test on it or to retain it while I'm actively working on it - I'm not even that smart. At least not compared to some of the people I know, I'm not.
I do think it also comes down to my inexperience. At first I did try to micromanage - it was my baby after all. I'd fostered a pretty decent environment and encouraged folks to speak up. They did and, I admit, it took a little to sink in. Finally I realized why I'd hired them. I may not be smart but I'm not dumb. If you pay well, treat them like humans, give them a clear goal, and then ask them what they need - they'll tell you and they'll do it. And they'll be happy. Being smart enough to know how little you know helps - it's okay for me to say that I don't know and would like to ask somebody who does. That's why I hired them.
I made loads of mistakes. We pick up the pieces, accept responsibility, and learn from it for the next time - you can get away with that when you're on the leading edge of a fairly new field. You sure as shit don't bitch at my employees. You bitch at me. However, that's about the only thing I can think of that I really did different. If that's special than so be it. However, it's still luck and I still was fortunate and rewarded for having been able to capitalize on something that seemed fairly trivial at the time. I'd actually planned on being a maths professor in a small town university somewhere. Life did not go as planned and, well, I'm damned grateful.
To the closing point you made. That's very true. Unlike the common misconception, however, there don't seem to be that many people in there that are claiming they are innocent. They may say how their lives were messed up but they don't say they are innocent. Some do. Again, my experience is pretty damned limited and shouldn't be considered anything more than an anec
Err... That *is* Linux which was, you know, my point. Well, not that I had much of a point but Linux !== Unix. Similar but not the same.
You found one that doesn't. That's good. You can probably find more. What you can't find is Uber drivers to counter his example (as far as I know). However, to be honest, that's not even remotely my complaint with Uber. I'm just pointing out that you're likely being down-modded because that's not a very good argument.