No, they seem to enjoy watching the average Joe take a flight with anything electronic manufactured after ENIAC. It must mean he is a terrorist, because Good Little Citizens only bring 4th hand beach novels onto planes. Oh wait. Those could be dangerous too if he has a lighter.
1. If you're a regular, order when the server first appears. 2. The moment they bring the order, ask for the bill. 3. While they're away, get your credit card in hand. (You can now go back to your meal.) 4. When they arrive with the bill, snap the card down pronto. (Continue with your meal.) 5. Your tip is $2 if your meal is up to $15.00, $3 if your meal is up to $22.
*Your* time is worth more than agonizing over the calculation.
If you didn't want to be spending up to $25 including tip on a meal,
you would have never entered at all.
About the time you're done with your meal, this whole sidebar transaction is done. The service provided for the $18 meal is usually the same as the $22 meal, so it justifies the same tip. Since you declined the need for extra service visits, you compensate for the couple points below the 15% mark on the $22 tip.
Well aware of this, I simnply submitted my net handle.
I'm hoping they have some other business plan than "bait & switch spam", which a smart marketing director should know is not so good for long term public relations when the word gets out.
I am starting to believe that the way to do this kind of thing properly is that the newsletters may indeed have a link to A book, such as the first couple in a series. Then since the source "dries up", the reader might be tempted into buying books 3-4.
Or, just "exposure" to other titles along with the goodwill they're already showing.
No, I modeled it as a nod to the Declaration of Independence.
Once in a while an extremely canny judge directs his court to rule on some particular case, knowing that the precedent will be devastating in the next case over.
If the ruling says that trolls, while somewhat irritating, are one of the edge cases of free speech, it's a colossal step against the Big Brother direction our country has been headed in.
One day you found a post on your blog about RIAA litigation, getting clobbered by visitors from a place called "slashdot.org" where an typically amazing Talmudic debate spiced with trolls was under way, in which various participants were citing to various segments of various litigation documents and transcripts, mixed with impassioned semi-correct theories.
Every time such a story appears, we say to ourselves:
"Who the heck are we? We're clearly an internet discussion board, but the signal-to-noise ratio is far higher than the run-of-the-mill boards, and that makes us much more dangerous. We wish we could be lawyers for an hour so we could save the 8 years of our lives but still get the correct answer. Except - we're trained in technology instead of law, so we dive head first into Technology-Law cases about judges and other lawyers trained in law instead of technology, while desperately posting disclaimers to beware of the treacherous law content of our posts.
So when a couple of Gosh-Wow Real Lawyers appear, who can triumphantly declare "I *AM* A Lawer, No N in that IAAL abbreviation here!", we begged y'all to set us straight. And so you did, and our life hasn't been the same since.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one person to separate himself from the association of the other members of a learned discussion, and to assume among the trolls of the earth a separate and equal station, it becomes incumbent upon the troll to enumerate the reasons for his separation.
"Geeks' brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful forum with the most sophisticated software cannot: learn the language of trolls simply by observing it used. A ground-breaking new theory postulates that geeks are able to learn large groups of troll tactics rapidly by data-mining."
I came of age almost exactly at the crossroads time - the very earliest stages of AOL on a Mac when they still charged some $7/hr and "it was all brand new".
After a discussion with my parents, we figured out a truism that's still useful: make acquaintances online all you want, but shield your personal info. Only when someone was close enough for a real visit did I share real info for purposes such as meeting in an activity club like an RPG group.
Nowadays, shielding info at least slows down bored "Google Trolls" who want to look up anyone they stumble onto. As other threads pointed out, this now includes employers. A good boss will eventually get to know you, but you don't want to be the star of a passe Meme.
That sounds like C. S. Lewis, whereupon for one hour per day Ballmer recants his ways when the spell wears off, and admits what he has done. Then the illusion reforms, and he is off laying more traps.
I wonder if Tad Williams, who wrote Sea of Silver Light has talked to MS about SilverLight yet.
You're right, and we have a couple of these WinOnly apps, but we're just finishing moving to a server, whereupon the user-local machines might be able to skate by being Linux (or Mac). My sole reason for not *yet* bringing my Drake box into work is because proponents of Linux need to demonstrate a proportionally higher level of competence to navigate past irrational emotional reactions. I'd rather have y'all laugh at my mistakes than my colleagues.
However, I have announced my intention, to use XP until my current machine croaks, and then Linux, and received a response approaching the low end of lukewarm (up from frosty.)
I'll suggest that we can be nice for varying extended periods of time, but that it's a studied and cultured top layer over the rougher aggressive base.
Your very post contains a small dose of aggression. "Seriously, get a grip before making such categorical statements". Having noticed an exception to Grandparent's observation, why use that phrasing?
Aggression must be monitored and managed between the nice phases.
Why is it "so hard" to duplicate a known result 50 years later? The kudos go out to the first designers who did it with 1960's tech. Our computers are gloriously more powerful now, and their target deadline is another 8-ish years out anyway. (Past Windows Seven, Running *nix?)
Isn't there value to learning how to commoditize "it nearly killed us last time, now it's only $10,000,000."
Now it's only a question to decide what to do with it. Can you get permission from your bosses that "personal stuff you work on will not be commandeered by the company"? (The usual problem with employee projects). If you're safe from that Grab attempt, then you basically have Paid Vacations.
I had something like that once back in my early temp days. After getting over trying to "look busy" for hours, I went back to my love of books. I still remember: I got half way through the Greek/Roman volume of Durant's multi volume history set.
If you're stuck in a rut of surfing, then you need to step back a minute and declare to yourself that the large swath of time is there, and do something really neat with it.
"most Americans don't really understand space science. "
Yep.
When you click the "External Viewpoint" button, you'd better get total silence. Millions of people have raged at Hollywood because fake explosions sell tickets.
Slashdot Mirror
The phrasing should be, "Artists should be able to attempt to sell their work". Bad songs sell quite well if marketed by a genius. Ask William Hung.
The theme goes, "it's not fair to artists for people to take it into their own hands to undercut artists' attempts to sell their music".
No, they seem to enjoy watching the average Joe take a flight with anything electronic manufactured after ENIAC. It must mean he is a terrorist, because Good Little Citizens only bring 4th hand beach novels onto planes. Oh wait. Those could be dangerous too if he has a lighter.
Tip that has worked for me: Combine steps.
1. If you're a regular, order when the server first appears.
2. The moment they bring the order, ask for the bill.
3. While they're away, get your credit card in hand.
(You can now go back to your meal.)
4. When they arrive with the bill, snap the card down pronto.
(Continue with your meal.)
5. Your tip is $2 if your meal is up to $15.00, $3 if your meal is up to $22.
*Your* time is worth more than agonizing over the calculation.
If you didn't want to be spending up to $25 including tip on a meal,
you would have never entered at all.
About the time you're done with your meal, this whole sidebar transaction is done.
The service provided for the $18 meal is usually the same as the $22 meal, so it justifies the same tip. Since you declined the need for extra service visits, you compensate for the couple points below the 15% mark on the $22 tip.
Well aware of this, I simnply submitted my net handle.
I'm hoping they have some other business plan than "bait & switch spam", which a smart marketing director should know is not so good for long term public relations when the word gets out.
I am starting to believe that the way to do this kind of thing properly is that the newsletters may indeed have a link to A book, such as the first couple in a series. Then since the source "dries up", the reader might be tempted into buying books 3-4.
Or, just "exposure" to other titles along with the goodwill they're already showing.
No, I modeled it as a nod to the Declaration of Independence.
Once in a while an extremely canny judge directs his court to rule on some particular case, knowing that the precedent will be devastating in the next case over.
If the ruling says that trolls, while somewhat irritating, are one of the edge cases of free speech, it's a colossal step against the Big Brother direction our country has been headed in.
Dear Ray - let me adapt your post:
One day you found a post on your blog about RIAA litigation, getting clobbered by visitors from a place called "slashdot.org" where an typically amazing Talmudic debate spiced with trolls was under way, in which various participants were citing to various segments of various litigation documents and transcripts, mixed with impassioned semi-correct theories.
Every time such a story appears, we say to ourselves:
"Who the heck are we? We're clearly an internet discussion board, but the signal-to-noise ratio is far higher than the run-of-the-mill boards, and that makes us much more dangerous. We wish we could be lawyers for an hour so we could save the 8 years of our lives but still get the correct answer. Except - we're trained in technology instead of law, so we dive head first into Technology-Law cases about judges and other lawyers trained in law instead of technology, while desperately posting disclaimers to beware of the treacherous law content of our posts.
So when a couple of Gosh-Wow Real Lawyers appear, who can triumphantly declare "I *AM* A Lawer, No N in that IAAL abbreviation here!", we begged y'all to set us straight. And so you did, and our life hasn't been the same since.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one person to separate himself from the association of the other members of a learned discussion, and to assume among the trolls of the earth a separate and equal station, it becomes incumbent upon the troll to enumerate the reasons for his separation.
In other news,
"Geeks May Learn Forums By Data Mining"
"Geeks' brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful forum with the most sophisticated software cannot: learn the language of trolls simply by observing it used. A ground-breaking new theory postulates that geeks are able to learn large groups of troll tactics rapidly by data-mining."
Where's that guy with the Oedipus .sig when you need him?
I came of age almost exactly at the crossroads time - the very earliest stages of AOL on a Mac when they still charged some $7/hr and "it was all brand new".
After a discussion with my parents, we figured out a truism that's still useful: make acquaintances online all you want, but shield your personal info. Only when someone was close enough for a real visit did I share real info for purposes such as meeting in an activity club like an RPG group.
Nowadays, shielding info at least slows down bored "Google Trolls" who want to look up anyone they stumble onto. As other threads pointed out, this now includes employers. A good boss will eventually get to know you, but you don't want to be the star of a passe Meme.
Just ask Meatloaf:
Good mail goes to Heaven ; Spam mail goes everywhere.
That sounds like C. S. Lewis, whereupon for one hour per day Ballmer recants his ways when the spell wears off, and admits what he has done. Then the illusion reforms, and he is off laying more traps.
I wonder if Tad Williams, who wrote Sea of Silver Light has talked to MS about SilverLight yet.
We won't see anything like the 1930's for a long time, because support structures are in place to soften impacts now.
... as it happens when certain indicators come in.
You can also know you are in a recession
Because he abbreviated the Acronym. The correct form is:
DJIADNADSD.
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Deep Sea Diver!" (RIP DeForrest Kelley.)
Such acronyms will be used forever to indicate being coaxed to speculate outside one's area of professional expertise.
They could be tied to a chair and forced to listen to "Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit" from the 1983 inaugural EPCOT Disney tape.
You're right, and we have a couple of these WinOnly apps, but we're just finishing moving to a server, whereupon the user-local machines might be able to skate by being Linux (or Mac). My sole reason for not *yet* bringing my Drake box into work is because proponents of Linux need to demonstrate a proportionally higher level of competence to navigate past irrational emotional reactions. I'd rather have y'all laugh at my mistakes than my colleagues.
However, I have announced my intention, to use XP until my current machine croaks, and then Linux, and received a response approaching the low end of lukewarm (up from frosty.)
The RIAA destroys evidence it doesn't have access to all the time.
Can the BSD operating system be tuned here?
Smauler,
I'll suggest that we can be nice for varying extended periods of time, but that it's a studied and cultured top layer over the rougher aggressive base.
Your very post contains a small dose of aggression. "Seriously, get a grip before making such categorical statements". Having noticed an exception to Grandparent's observation, why use that phrasing?
Aggression must be monitored and managed between the nice phases.
Why is it "so hard" to duplicate a known result 50 years later? The kudos go out to the first designers who did it with 1960's tech. Our computers are gloriously more powerful now, and their target deadline is another 8-ish years out anyway. (Past Windows Seven, Running *nix?)
Isn't there value to learning how to commoditize "it nearly killed us last time, now it's only $10,000,000."
Does constantly running strange processes for no clear reason and rebooting explorer daily count as wasting time?
Sorry sir, but you have a Sweet Deal (TM).
Now it's only a question to decide what to do with it. Can you get permission from your bosses that "personal stuff you work on will not be commandeered by the company"? (The usual problem with employee projects). If you're safe from that Grab attempt, then you basically have Paid Vacations.
I had something like that once back in my early temp days. After getting over trying to "look busy" for hours, I went back to my love of books. I still remember: I got half way through the Greek/Roman volume of Durant's multi volume history set.
If you're stuck in a rut of surfing, then you need to step back a minute and declare to yourself that the large swath of time is there, and do something really neat with it.
"most Americans don't really understand space science. "
Yep.
When you click the "External Viewpoint" button, you'd better get total silence. Millions of people have raged at Hollywood because fake explosions sell tickets.
Except your post contains none of the improved spelling skills you refer to, so that must be the impatience the article is talking about.
I thought the RIAA was working on that.