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Let me guess you are young and naive? Call me again after having worked at least 20 years in the business.

No you guess wrong. What's your phone number?

What I am not is American. What I don't do is overwork or stress out. Companies don't care about me as an employee, and I don't care about the company as an employer. I will work what I'm asked to. If the result is a trend towards a mental breakdown then the legal system protects me in the process, up to 2 years leave a full pay during my recovery. When I am sick, I go home with legal protection.

The net result is that companies realise that destroying their employees isn't just something they can do and that they caring for employees is actually the best possible financial outcome for them. When you live in a country that values not working their citizens to death you'll find not only that companies don't work their citizens to death but actually pull all stops to keep them healthy, e.g. free physio, doctors, gym, flexible work hours where appropriate, additional leave, automatic bridge days, etc.

In many parts of the world companies are forced to care. https://www.cartoonstock.com/c...

... of this technology

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/dms/lowres/dmsn47l.jpg

I google-imaged "caveman sex". I expected Raquel Welch. I didn't get Raquel Welch. TIL.

Yeah. Everything depends on how far down it goes :)

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jdi/lowres/jdin551l.jpg

Is that what they used to do before the makeover - back when it was called "personnel"?

Sounds like a fuckton of work to me. I mean, that's what computers were invented to avoid, isn't it?
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jmo0663l.jpg

I prefer this one http://abstrusegoose.com/118 .......... http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/directory/H/Higgs.asp

The particle accelerator is not aimed for the Higgs Boson only, that's only the start.

You're thinking too hard.

Here's another hint if you still need it.

Flash a mac?

... I never did the club hunting thing ...

You mean like this, right?

What, this is illegal now?!

But if I let the work fall into public domain $EVIL_CORPORATION* could use it to advertise their new product.

Umm... so fucking what? You think the Brothers Grimm ever wanted to see their stories turned into this crap?. Or Michelangelo wanted his painting on the Sistine Chapel used as a base for all kinds of stupid stuff?

The point of creating art is to contribute to culture, not to control who sees what in your art, or uses it for whatever purpose. Copyright gives you an opportunity to profit immediately after the creation of it, and after that, it goes to the public domain, for the public to use however they see fit, because that's how culture is created. Your own works are based on many, many hundreds of other people's work... what gives you the right to control how others use your work if you already use so much culture without attribution or paying someone? If you don't get that, you have no business calling yourself an artist.

What about Clown cars??? For example:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/msi/lowres/msin139l.jpg
http://www.break.com/pictures/bark-banger-clown-car514174.html
http://www.skooogle.com/content/binary/motivation_clown_car.jpg

language evolves over time

It's evolved in my own time, and I argued that with someone else in this thread that was doing a very poor immitation of Carlin (Carlin's rants were funny).

But sometimes it devolves, like using the verb "loose" when you mean "lose", or using an apostrophe when it isn't warranted. That's not evolution, that's illiteracy. Here's another Bob cartoon about the apostrophe.

And Here's a roll model. Here's another. another... hell, google has pages of roll models.

Punctuation aids communication. Its misuse aids obfuscation.

language evolves over time

It's evolved in my own time, and I argued that with someone else in this thread that was doing a very poor immitation of Carlin (Carlin's rants were funny).

But sometimes it devolves, like using the verb "loose" when you mean "lose", or using an apostrophe when it isn't warranted. That's not evolution, that's illiteracy. Here's another Bob cartoon about the apostrophe.

And Here's a roll model. Here's another. another... hell, google has pages of roll models.

Punctuation aids communication. Its misuse aids obfuscation.

Romans also had the same problem with slaves. For some reason they couldn't exercise as much influence over their slaves when they worked from home. Of course, instead of whips and chains, HP has employee surveillance and the threat of outsourcing to keep their staff in line.

Maybe it was the wrong aproach angle

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/swr0047l.jpg

'Not only is this the shortest runway I've ever seen it's also the widest!'

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/hsc0905l.jpg

Health Foods: New! For the corporate executive - "moral fibre" supplements.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/f/fungus_inf ections.asp

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/rma0061l.jpg

I know that Carlsberg brewery gives it's higher level employees ONE cartoon [sic] of beer per month

You mean something like this?
;-)

A helpful summary of the logic behind the EV1 decision can be found here, and a historical perspective is here.

"with a penguin dressed up as a lawyer"

Close enough? Or a penguin next to a lawyer

Or is a smoking a closer match? Or This one?

Uh oh, He took off the head.

Shouldn't someone make a tuxpictures.org?

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/sbo0313l.jpg

dont you already don your hitec penguin suits at your lan parties?

I'm waiting for "Chicken Soup for Dummies" to come out.
How about When Chicken Soup Books Go Bad