@Carnival-Boy said in How I Picture Managers Taking Away Facebook for "Productivity":
That's how I picture Americans - if there's something you don't like, shoot it.
As an American I find this offensive.... Now hold still and stand in front of that tree.... 
Not sure if I have posted this before around here, just wanted to put my two cents in. I did a little over a year of fat free vegan, and I lost 80 lbs. but I started having some health issues from not watching my micro nutrients. I quit that diet. I decided after a couple years that I still wasn't where I wanted to be, so I have tried a new diet and my wife and I love it. It is The Wilfe Diet from Able James. I do well with strict rules and structure around weight loss, so it works for me. It is basically paleo with less restrictions, a focus on quality food, and intermittent fasting. I have lost another 20 lbs between this a just watching what I eat then about 6 weeks ago changing over to this diet and loosing another 10-15lbs. My new fitness addition is putting Olympic Gymnastic rings and a ceiling mounted pull up bar in my garage and giving up the gym membership to work out at home. I work out there 3 days a week doing the Reddit Bodyweight Fitness RR, then yoga 2-3 days a week on my off days, and walk 1-2 miles a day on my lunch break playing Pokemon Go! So far so good, and I am by far in the best shape of my life.
Feel free to hit me up if you are interested in trying out any of this stuff, I would love to help someone else get in shape.
I am having a blast. There were 50 people in a local park all running around talking with each other and interacting. Smaller kids were playing, parents were catching pokemon. I overheard one guy say "I have brought my daughter up here to play every night." I have never seen this on a Monday Night in my life.
@scottalanmiller said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
@irj said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
...still falling....
Panic has triggered at this point.
30 year old me would love for 15 year old me to have taken this opportunity. 15 year old me would probably be too busy working on cars and playing in a band to take time out of his day for this kinda thing. This would be a killer opertunity for some lucky kid.
I see where he is coming from. Asking a question on this forum can be intimidating. For me personally I love it, I like being proven wrong, I like going to head to head. I have never won a debate with @scottalanmiller, and I like that, I learn from it. From what I have gathered in life a vast majority of people don't like this feeling, and take it personally.
Tomorrow is my birthday, so I am celebrating Saturday. I plan on riding bikes with my wife, filling a growler with craft beer, and secretly drink it out of water bottles while riding around town. Beer + Bikes + day drinking is the best Saturday possible.
I can relate. I remember thinking @scottalanmiller was this untouchable IT rock star from the SW community. Then in 2011 when I went to my first Spiceworld, and Scott was there. I went up to him like a fan girl, and ended up hanging out and having a beer. It made me realize that the people I look up too on the online community for advice and guidance were just real people who were smart, but worked their tail off and focused on life long learning. It made me reevaluate myself and how I viewed my role in IT and start focusing on those same principals so I could be on that level. I am now triple the computer professional I was, and still learning. That being said, I still keep the old Niagara Business card as an IT collector's item.
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Another angle...
I think we can fix that...
I have been with a company for 3+ years now. Before this job I had constantly made up job titles from DB Manager, to Network Admin, to Systems Admin, when in reality I was an IT generalist with a CIS degree running a 1-2 man operation for a company with less than 500 employees. Now I am at a new job and my role is basically a Manufacturing Systems Integrator/ .Net Developer, but my job title is a made up title specific to this company ending in Technician and it doesn't reflect what I really do day to day. I have started pushing to upper management that I would like an industry standard job title, because I don't feel that my title respects the work I do. I am getting push back. I just wanted to open a discussion on if this is just ego, and title doesn't matter, or does it? Is is fair that I want to be called a developer or integrator, because it is what I do. It is hard to determine if I am being compensated fairly when my title is made up, but does that matter? What say you all?
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I am religious, and these bill boards bug the hell out of me. They are threatening and accomplish absolutely no purpose.
I am a Christian. I can definitely imagine they bug folks who are athiests or non-Christians as well. But for me, they are reminders of what my purpose is on this earth.
(Aside from exorcising computers).
That's great it's reminding you of your purpose, but should that be done by threatening (real or perceived) the people you are trying to reach.
If your family was in a burning building, and you were the only one aware of the fire, what methods of warning them would you consider "too extreme"? Whether or not you agree with these people's views, understand the urgency, whether perceived or real.
Who hold on... you're comparing our lives to a burning building? That seems extreme!
Unless you think you're making it out of here alive, this life will consume you and you will die. If you (as the people who are bringing you these "threatening" messages) believe in such things as heaven and hell, well, not going to hell might be like getting saved from a fire.
So, if my family is in a burning building, I should get a billboard on the interstate and tell them about it? These billboards are a waste of time and an eye sore. I can't imagine anyone reading that and changing anything about themselves.
I think the idea is that every single life is precious. If your message reaches one single person, what is the value of that? If life is priceless, that's a lot of value.
If the the belief is that strong about life being important, Why not take the money that was spent on a eye sore billboard that could reach one person, and feed the hungry in your community for one day, buy kids a few coats, and a couple sleeping bags for a homeless man. Instead of blasting their opinion on deaf ears while people are driving.
I stumbled across this little gem on gem last week. NSFW language warning. http://www.wfplsiu.com/
Preston Lacy from Jackass is from my home town and comes back here all the time. I run into him at local bars. Super nice guy, but being the 1 celebrity in town, We try to leave him alone and not make stupid jokes while the guy is just trying to go out for a beer in peace.
@penguinwrangler As far as weight-loss goes you will typically get better results with weight-loss with strength training than cardio. When you do cardio, you burn more calories than sitting. When you lift weights you burn more calories, then your body will spend more calories rebuilding muscle the next day, then that new muscle now takes more calories to move, so you burn more in your day to day life. I am not saying you don't need cardio, but if your goal is weight loss at least consider doing a mix. I lift 3 days a week and ride my bike 6 miles round trip to and from work for my cardio. I started about where you were and I have slowly worked from 300lbs about 8 years ago down to 185, then back up to 200, and on a cut now to get to the 170's. Weight training is what took me from 220 to 185 and made a huge difference for me.
Also, you can not exercise off a bad diet. an 30min on the treadmill barely breaks even for a single bottle of soda.
Touch is gross IMHO. I don't understand why you would spend money on a High Def screen... then fingerprint the hell out of it trying to use it.
We left LMI in 2013 or 2014 (can't remember) because we were in the same boat. They more than doubled the price, and said take or leave it. So we left for other options.
This thread was great. Not often on the internet you hear great advice, and somone willing to listen to it.
Start with something like https://www.codecademy.com just to get your feet wet and understand what coding is.
This should be a lesson in filtering what you post online in a public setting, not a reason to lock away certian parts of a site so you can post what you want. If you have a private question, use a private message. If you have a public question, change the names of people and businesses. If you want to rant and use real names, prepare for a valueable life lesson. This is about the only community on the internet I do post in reguallry, simply because the quality of the people, and information.
I have had college level PC hardware and OS classes at 2 Universities, and that is the clearest, best explanation of CPU's I have ever read. Well done.
