@jchannell said:
It had to do with the whole "all the cops got fired and the city went to shit" thing... one girl I knew got gang raped at a frat party on top of a Fire Truck. :(
I will now never look at that fire truck the same way again.
@jchannell said:
It had to do with the whole "all the cops got fired and the city went to shit" thing... one girl I knew got gang raped at a frat party on top of a Fire Truck. :(
I will now never look at that fire truck the same way again.
@jchannell said:
When I lived there, highlights included:
- Getting drunk with the mayor when I was 19 at a frat party
- Witnessing a drive-by shooting
- being mugged (which was funny, because I turned my pockets out & laughed at the guy - "I have 2 cigarettes and a handshake, buddy - you can have one of my smokes." - he left me alone after that)
- meeting a 49 year old Vietnam veteran that was drunk, taking Lortabs and high on Morphine, that had 2 wooden legs and called himself "Kickstand" - and racing him across Waterfront Park on foot.
- 4 out of 5 girls I knew got raped
- There was about 9 months or so where a lot of the police force was laid off and we only had 18 officers for the entire city, and while the whole place went to shit you could rest assured that there would always be 2 sitting at the gas station across from the college drinking coffee and oogling the college girls.
Yeah, stay the hell away from Huntington WV
I call shenanigans. It's Riverfront Park.
@jchannell said:
There was about 9 months or so where a lot of the police force was laid off and we only had 18 officers for the entire city, and while the whole place went to shit you could rest assured that there would always be 2 sitting at the gas station across from the college drinking coffee and oogling the college girls.
Shenanigans again. The police have never been good at their jobs so its impossible for the city to go downhill after laying them all off.
Huntington is the fattest city in America because the water is so bad and everyone drinks gallons of soda pop instead.
They did leave an easy way to use google. Go to google.com or make the two clicks to change your provider. If this is too complicated for you, then you probably do need to stick with IE6.
@stratos said:
If I earn more I will also have to pay more salary tax, if I for instance started making more then 50K EUR a year it becomes 50% salary tax while if I would make less then 17K a year I would probably pay less, but i'm unsure how much.
In most (if not all) progressive tax systems, you only incur the higher tax percentage on the amount of money over the threshold. Your base tax rate doesn't change.
Example:
Base tax rate - 20%. Upper Income (50,000+) - 50%
If you make 50,000 you get taxed 20% of that, which turns out to 10,000, leaving you wisht 40,000
If you make 52,000 you get taxed 20% of the first 50,000 (again, 10,000) and then 50% on the remaining 2,000 (1,000) for a total tax of 11,000, leaving you wish 41,000. You are NOT going to pay 50% on the whole thing (26,000) and end up in the poor house.
Moving up in tax bracket should never equate to a loss of take-home income.
@morbiuswilters said:
I was talking about you, silly.
Wow, it must really suck for you to make less money than me.
@morbiuswilters said:
@TheTXI said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Weng said:
Congratulations, you make 5 times what you made in 2005 - give or take a few pennies on the dollar.Wewt! I started out making $100 a week working as a "cable jockey". I spent most of my time underneath desks, working amongst massive webs of cabling; plugging, unplugging, tracing and replacing. Of course, I graduated beyond that awhile ago and now I'm in charge of managing almost a dozen servers and I even program software sometimes. The sharp ascent of my career has been deeply rewarding (both financially and emotionally) and deeply deserved.
Does this include the deep nadir of being a PHP-tard who was unemployed for several months thanks to a Canadian company buying your employer out?
I guess I should applaud you just for finding a job.
It was pretty boring being unemployed, but still far better than being a fat, teetotaling (because his mother was a drunk whore), Obama-loving, marginally retarded (oh, redundant) DotNetNuke themer from backwater West Virginia (redundant again) who thinks a Mitsubishi Eclipse is an "expensive car", who gets paid about as much as McD's assistant manager and who married his ugly whale of a girlfriend after a pregnancy scare that ended up being a false alarm that wasn't all that surprising seeing as his weak, genetically-inferior sperm has trouble navigating its way completely into his cousin's toothless mouth, not to mention through the rancid, hellish cavern that is his wife's diseased womb.
Wow, it must really suck for you to make less money than that guy.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Weng said:
Congratulations, you make 5 times what you made in 2005 - give or take a few pennies on the dollar.Wewt! I started out making $100 a week working as a "cable jockey". I spent most of my time underneath desks, working amongst massive webs of cabling; plugging, unplugging, tracing and replacing. Of course, I graduated beyond that awhile ago and now I'm in charge of managing almost a dozen servers and I even program software sometimes. The sharp ascent of my career has been deeply rewarding (both financially and emotionally) and deeply deserved.
Does this include the deep nadir of being a PHP-tard who was unemployed for several months thanks to a Canadian company buying your employer out?
I guess I should applaud you just for finding a job.
@tgape said:
That's not kissing his ass. It's called a compliment. I did it because he's more entertaining than you are: he tells stories; you mostly make lame comments about how people who aren't Americans act differently from Americans, including spelling things differently and using different units.
That's really sad (and hilarious) when
@tgape said:
he tells stories
Is considered more entertaining than morb.
I got five words into this and gave up.
That was the most beautiful thing I have ever read on a forum.
Pesto, can I have your babies?
@blakeyrat said:
The real problem is that nobody has the balls to *really* compete with Microsoft. Nobody's even trying to replicate all the features of Office, or of Exchange, or of Active Directory, which is 90% of what gives Microsoft the monopoly in businesses.
Nobody wants to compete with Microsoft because trying to compete against someone with such a huge market share more often than not will lead to failure. Your product has to be much better (or equal and much cheaper) to make a foothold, and most microsoft competitor products just don't measure up (office suites, active directory, etc.)
@DOA said:
Edge cases don't prove anything. The vast majority still uses Google. You included. And you call me a hypocrite.
Why would a company with its own search engine business make a competing company's search engine the default when it is actively trying to grow its search engine business? Because the "vast majority" (last report puts google use at around 61%) uses the competitor? So now when a company gains > 50.00% of the market everybody else in the market should pull out and let their competitor get all of it? Your business sense is TRWTF here.
This reminds me of an email that was accidentally sent to every member of my university's Exchange server. Some staffer was emailing her supervisor to tell her that she wouldn't be able to make it into work and then became very detailed about the exact nature of her symptoms (diarhea, vomitting, etc.). Probably one of the most amusing emails I have ever woken up to read.
@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
servage didn't manage to keep their bandwidth promises for Project Euler about a year ago. Although the traffic was far below the promised IIRC 3TB/month, their servers couldn't handle it. Also they were completely unhelpful resolving the problems. For a high-traffic site, I can't recommend them.
Are we really expecting a volunteer fire department website to classify as a high-traffic risk?
After reading through some of the items posted here, I'm starting to have a bit more appreciation for my situation:
I don't think you were offending him. I think it was more of a "please let me know in advance so that I can prepare for this annoying bullshit"
Not discounting RCP, but I've also seen electoral maps that showed Obama with a sizeable advantage (likely to have probably shrank by now I guess).
I follow politics pretty closely and all it really does is reaffirm my belief that the United States puts a premium price tag on stupidity. This will be the third straight election cycle in which a fairly intelligent person was put up against a slack-jawed idiot (or someone who aspires to be like one), and as much as I want Obama to win, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we as a nation once again are stuck with the mentally unfit.
Overally it's just very depressing how vicious the attacks are coming from one side (read: Republican) and knowing that before long, the Obama camp is going to end up abandoning the high road and join them in the mud. The whole thing about questioning Obama's patriotism is getting old but they will keep harping on it as long as they can because they know that at least 50% of this country are jingoistic America uber alles types.
The one thing that I did find the most ridiculous, however, was McCain's claim that Obama is doing what he is doing because he has the ambition to be President. Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC Monday night did a good job of making that backfire by taking the excerpt right out of McCain's own book:
"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time." - John McCain, Worth Fighting For (2002)
The fact that the two are in a statistical dead heat in national polling just blows my mind.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was stuckfrom some sort of recursive loop. The last employee he had he was scared of losing, so he maintained a fairly heavy eye on. The burden causes the employee to quit, further reinforcing the boss's fear of employee leaving, therefore he must be on top of it even more. Now you went and fulfilled his fears again.
TRWTF here is how bad your successor is going to have it.
This is the first time I've ever posted anything relating to a WTF, and I'm sure that this project will cause a whole lot more, but this is by far the most obvious one I've had so far.
The project I am working on is rebuilding a website for a state juvenile services department (correctional system for kiddies). One of the requests was for each juvenile institution there be a photo slideshow serving as a sort of "virtual tour" of the grounds (apparently state juvenile centers are something that everyone should visit at least once in their life). The department sends us a series of photos for each center and we simply put the images in the apporpriate folder and point the slideshow to the folder on the server.
The next week we have our conference call with the client and the #1 problem they have with the site up to this point is the slideshows. Nobody would be quiet about how the photos seemed to put the centers in a bad light, or were showing things that they wouldn't want the public to see (such as a cell shakedown). We tell them that we just used the photos that they supplied to us for each center, and if they had a problem with any of them, they should have never sent those unsatisfactory pictures to us.
@morbiuswilters said:
Then this is your problem, not mine. If you want the functionality, enable scripting. Otherwise, get off of my site. We're not talking about viewing a blog here, we're talking about more sophisticated sites (like the one you are posting to right now!) and applications. Trying to support paranoid and delusional users who refuse to use modern technology is a waste of my time.
Agree. Doesn't it come to a point where you have to consider the costs (time mostly) involved in trying to cater to .001 of your expected visitor base? You can spend hours/days/etc. hacking around to get the page(s) to look and work identical on every single browser ever produced, but all you've really done (other than giving yourself a Standards Gold Star ™) is waste your time and probably the client's money.
All of this is making me want to go and create an entire page using just tables in the hope that somebody's head will explode in fury over it.