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Comment Three things (Score 1) 583

1) Ability to communicate what you need and what you can do - politely and convincingly is worth far more than any other skill you have - even if you are the best computer programmer in the company.

2) If they don't give you a real promotion in 3-5 years, then they never will - but another company will give you the promotion. Make contacts.

3) Finding a place where you are happy is worth more than that promotion or the extra money.

Comment Re:Too late for him (Score 1) 144

You have misunderstood quite a bit of what was going on.

I am glad because I think his wife would very likely be DEAD if this angry idiot had not been sent to prison.

I think his wife's continued life is in fact an improvement of the situation.

I also think that this guy will most likely be better off now - with a conviction that was overturned by SCOTUS - and enough time for him realize that maybe keeping his dumb mouth shut would benefit him than he would have been if he had been convicted of another actual crime of physical violence, that he so clearly was heading towards committing.

Comment Too late for him (Score 2) 144

The man in question had actually finished serving his sentence of 44 months (less than 4 years) and been released from prison.

That said, after reading what this moron actually posted on Facebook, I am glad he spent his time in prison, even if the Judge gave the jury 'poor' instructions.

He certainly sounds like the kind of angry idiot that was (and probably still is) dangerous.

Comment Re:Bad logic) (Score 1) 692

You have a bit of a point, but a particularly great one. Yes, bone fractures, poor eye site, weakened immune systems would all be betterr if your cells do not age.

But on the other hand a lot of the illnesses associated with old age are caused by TIME, not by aging. Plaque in the arteries is caused by decades of poor eating habits, not by elderly cells.

Most importantly, aging is in fact a defense against cancer - it prevents cells from reproducing without limits. In fact, some people think that the only reason we ever evolved the process of aging was to stop cancers. Worse, it is cause again by long term exposure to gene altering effects, not natural aging.

I agree that certain disease would vanish, butt others would become far worse. A major risk is that the age reversal process still leaves us with the same risk of seniality. It could very well be that the human mind simply has so much memory available once it is filled up, we are out of luck

Comment Bad logic) (Score 1) 692

1. most people don't die from 'old age'. They die from heart disease, cancer, car accidents, etc. Reversing aging won't stop this. At best, life expectancy will double. You might get a few outliers that live to 200 but you will also get people dying at 50 from a heart attack

2. But there are some real effects. Social Security will vanish - no more quitting your job merely because you are old.

3. The real question is what to do with criminals - should we let someone with a life sentence in prison get life extension drugs? What if they are rich? What about long sentences like 70 years? What about people that get out of prison after 10 or 20 years - do we ever wipe their criminal record - what if they've been good for 60 years, should they suffer another 100 years of no job prospects merely because they made one mistake before they were 80

And then there are the mentally disadvantaged. Not just crazy people, but down's syndrome and severely autistic and similarly impaired people. If their parents are dead, will anyone take care of them? Must we give them life extension just to institutionalize them for centuries?

Submission + - Better ways to take over Texas than Jade Helm (wikipedia.org)

gurps_npc writes: For those of you that don't know, Jade Helm 15 is this year's US military training that will cross several state boundaries. A bunch of moronic people think it's part of a conspiracy plot to take over Texas and certain other states.

Please note I am calling these conspiracy people moronic not crazy, This is because, while they may be crazy, I am more concerned by how stupid their plan is. A ten year old child could have come up with a better military plan than this one. Please feel free to list better plans to take over Texas than the idiotic Jade Helm theory.

I will start off with a simple one. Drop a nuke in the most Republican county of Texas. Blame the Muslims. Declare martial law and move everyone in nearby counties. But do so in an attempt to gerrymander these refuges so their Republican votes don't matter. Put Hispanic people in Republic territories, put enough (but not to much) Republicans in city centers), and move the rest out of state.

Now that's a plan worthy of a Harvard educated professor.

Comment How to NOT put video on the internet (Score 1, Insightful) 302

Especially on a restaurant site.

In fact, let's pass a law that requires anyone that ever puts sound or video on a restaurant's web page, to walk around with a giant, bright blue dunce hat on the head. And make it legal to randomly blow boat horns right next to their ear.

I have never ever, not once, wanted to see a video of a restaurant. Nor do I want any music or sounds when I try to get their location, hours, phone number, and maybe check out their menu. Maybe once I looked at a picture to see if it was a dive or not, but that's it.

That is ALL we ever want to know about a restaurant.

Comment Re:probably good (Score 1) 36

Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? Frankly given the actual history - with bridges etc. given estimated life expectancies on creation that have now long passed - the burden of proof is clearly on YOU to claim that our infrastructure is not crumbling.

We have a situation where the Federal government built things on the premise that the states would maintain them, but the states - in large part due to people like you - have refused to spend the money the Fed said was necessary from the get go.

This is the reality and easily verifiable historical record.

Perhaps you are right - that the original maintenance recommendations were excessive. But you need to prove it, not just make a blind statement and complain about how much it costs like a greedy idiot that refuses to pay for oil changes on his car and get's upset when it breaks down.

Comment Re:Driverless is the real threat (Score 1) 287

I disagree strongly. When you are the driver, you want the drive to be enjoyable driving. There is a lot of stuff built into cars to let the driver enjoy the drive - even for cheap cars. Good acceleration, torque, feeling the road, all matter even for a simple drive to work. Competition and worry about being late makes you drive faster. Arriving someplace 4 minutes faster means you spend 4 minutes of your life DOING something better than driving.

But when you become the passenger you suddenly no longer care at ALL about acceleration, feeling the road, etc.. Driving slower is perfectly OK - because you are already doing something - reading, watching a movie, etc. Arriving someplace 4 minutes slower is no big deal, not even if you are late to work.

In your specific example, the Corolla has much more back seat space, but much LESS torque. Because it doesn't have the torque, it "feel'" weak and slow when you drive it. Which is a major reason why the Taurus is so much more expensive.

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