...Running lamp cord through them (particularly the joints) is a giant PITA and really doesn't make any sense.
It's especially fun when you omit a spacer and shred the wire with the threads. Why does the circuit breaker trip every time I plug in this new lamp? Oh. Crap.
So, your commute was about a mile and a half each way? Would you even bother driving that kind of distance?
I used to commute half that distance.
Sure, it's only three quarters of a mile, why not break the American mold, get some exercise, and save money in the process? Because I always sucked at playing Frogger, that's why. There are no sidewalks, there are no crosswalks, and there is no respect for pedestrians between here and there. It's good exercise running like hell trying to avoid getting hit by cars going 20 mph over the speed limit, true enough, but running for your life tends to make you show up for work looking sweaty and haggard.
This phenomenon is one of the bigger things that I really wish America, or at least my corner of it, would fix. I actually like to walk, and I'd be happy to walk that distance and more every day if it weren't such a fundamentally suicidal undertaking.
I guess it's all moot now anyway. I lost that job, and now I have to drive 115 miles round trip.
I stand by my comment - "still" adds nothing to the sentence as used in the summary, which ends with "yet". There's no disagreement to state - it really is early days. "it's still early days, yet", "it's early days yet", "still, it's early days" and "it's still early days" all say the same thing, with varying economy. The third and fourth options say it most clearly, in my opinion, whereas the first seems clumsy.
I think I'd say something like, "Even so, it's early days yet." That's the sort of thing they were trying to accomplish with still, I think, and I agree it's a bit clumsy.
Anyway, isn't Oracle about to swallow the universe or something? We have more important things to worry about.
Months. When I had finally recovered, I discovered the surgeon had cut an incision in one quadrant of my mouth, sutured it back up, but failed to remove the tooth. I had to go back and do it all again.
I'm glad my wisdom teeth are finally gone. I have nightmares thinking about what they must have done in there, just based on the 1/2" tears in both corners of my mouth.
Most organizations do not understand the benefit of rigorous code reviews.
Or they do understand this benefit, but they realize that no matter how many hundreds or thousands of hours they spend improving their code quality, they're never going to make any money, get famous, or get laid, so they just say fuck it and stop caring.
The crap I gave you for free isn't good enough to suit your rigorous standards? Fuck you. Take a crowbar to your wallet and buy some of the commercial stuff, or go jump off a cliff. Or both, preferably. And fuck you.
Documentation.... This is the most needed thing in open source.
Documentation is a perennial problem that's just damn hard to solve. I spent years working my ass off just trying to get one single project documented properly, and I had help from several other people.
Trying to do a thorough and complete job of documenting something that changes continuously is a fool's errand. It's not impossible, it's just monumentally huge, and there just aren't enough decent writers in the world to volunteer enough hours to get it done properly. There are always plenty of eager volunteers, mind you, but almost none of them can ever write worth a damn, and everything they try to do basically winds up being this stupid exercise in trying to make people feel good for helping when they're really just making even more work for the decent writers.
What we're left with is a half-assed patchwork of partially complete docs mixed with all kinds of obsolete legacy cruft. It's a nightmare. Giving up on that was the smartest decision I ever made!
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Seriously a great idea. I'm sure the GPL crowd will step in momentarily to tell everyone why it's a bad one, though.
That reminds me of when I bought a Kinekt gear ring. It's totally me, but it sucks as delivered, because it has all kinds of sharp points. I rigged up a solution involving a Dremel tool and a drill press to grind the little gears in motion to remove all the little pokey things, and made it mine. I was thinking about posting the technique somewhere, and then I started to talk myself out of it, because I might be able to profit from this valuable intellectual property one day, and maybe I should patent the idea and guard it closely.
A friend, on hearing this, said, "What? You're going to go into business modifying these rings? Really?"
Indeed. My technique for altering Kinekt gear rings is a perfect candidate for the DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE. I really should release a lot more of, or maybe all of my stuff that way. What? I'm going to start a business? Right. Who really cares anyway?
The same could very well be said for most of, if not everything I've released under the GPL over the years. What do I really care if somebody takes my stuff and does whatever the fuck they want with it? It's not like I was going to make money or get famous or something if they hadn't taken my stuff.
Also, that version of Tetris is about the most fun I've ever had playing the game. It's easy, and very much my speed. I was on a great roll until it accelerated wildly out of control and killed me. Alas.
Lazy? Stupid in most case. except sports car and large trucks.
It's getting harder to find either one with a stick shift without special ordering it. I don't really like having an automatic in a truck, although I do have to admit to having taken a certain pleasure driving an 18-wheeler through a bunch of stop-and-go traffic while eating a slice of pizza.
There is NO shortage of women out there who would be more than happy to be with you. You probably just don't think they're attractive enough, so your own expectations are 50% of the problem.
Truer words were never spoken. What it comes down to for me is women fall into two categories: attractive, and accessible to me.
I ended up marrying an unattractive one, who turned out to be an excellent wife and mother, but it has been difficult over the years to choke down the fact that I've never really found her appealing. I'm not sure if guys are better off to lower their expectations or not. It will get you laid, but is it worth it?
I think we'd care much more about Global Warming if our lifespan were measured in 1,000+ years.
I think there would be a lot more war if our natural lifespan were measured in 1,000+ years. Children are a big part of the human experience, and while it would certainly be possible to try to institute some controls á la China's one child policy, I think it's pretty safe to estimate that people, on the whole, would tend to have at least one new generation of children every 100 years or so. The couple that has two kids now would have 20 kids in their lifetime, and those kids would have 20 kids, and so on. It doesn't take long for the wold population to grow wildly out of control.
Sure, having eleventy trillion people around and a long lifespan would give us both the incentive and some new measure of means to go forth and populate the rest of the universe, but I don't really think we'd get that far. When resources get scarce, people pick up sticks and stones, and break each other's bones.
Lord knows there is no shortage of clinics and outreach groups providing free condoms.
I don't really disagree with the spirit of your post there, but dumping it all on free condoms as the solution to every reproductive mishap is pretty naive. Ever had a condom break, even though it was fresh, and you stored and used it correctly? I have. The result of that unplanned event is 18 years old now. Did you ever read the fine print where they say The Pill is only 90-something-percent effective? I think it's 98% or maybe even 99%, but we fell into that 1-2% margin of error, and the result of that one is 14 years old now.
Birth control isn't completely reliable. They even made us sign a disclaimer that the sterilization surgery could spontaneously reverse itself, and basically after the first 10 years it's a crap shoot all over again. There was no question in our mind 18 years ago that we would get married and raise the baby, and abortion never even entered the discussion. Now that we have gray hair, bad joints, and we've been broke for almost 20 years, what would we do if we fell into the margin of error again, and she turned up pregnant?
It may be hard for kids today to believe, but there was a time when home computers were WAY out of the price range of anyone below the HIGH upper middle class.
How depressing. I apparently grew up in the HIGH upper middle class.
On the one hand, it's depressing to reflect on how I've struggled my whole life to earn as much in real dollars as Dad did in 1980, without ever quite achieving it. On the other, it's depressing to look at what Dad made then vs. now, and realize that while the fact that he makes less in real dollars today is sad, the fact that he makes 90% less after adjusting for inflation is just downright deflating.
What kind of pep talk am I supposed to give our kids, exactly? Hey kids, we had a pretty good life when I was your age, but your life sucks. Don't worry though, it's going to suck even worse for your children! In a few more generations, this family will be back to making dirt soup the way our ancestors did! Maybe we can move to China one day, and become part of a rich and prosperous society again.
yes, stupid speed/traffic light cameras - how dare they catch you speeding* and/or running the lights**
It's harder to avoid than it sounds when you drive an 18-wheeler.
Scenario 1: You're traveling about 5 mph below the speed limit, easing through the intersection while anticipating and trying to prepare for an abrupt light change. You pass the point of no return, the point after which if you try to stop suddenly you're going to wind up stopped in the middle of the intersection (and probably no longer in line with your trailer.) The light turns yellow. You floor it and go all in, achieving a final speed that's maybe 3 mph below the speed limit. The light turns red. You should have stopped on the green, driver. You should have known.
Scenario 2: You're turning. The light you're at allows three cars to turn before it's red again. You wait patiently for 15 minutes, three cars, five minute wait, three cars, five minute wait, three cars, five minute wait... You're up, you're all the way at the edge of the line, in gear, your foot barely off the clutch, staring at the light, forcing yourself to avoid distractions and avoid even blinking. You stay wound up and ready to spring for an excruciating five minutes, it turns green, and you leap into action as fast as human reaction time permits. After you've changed one gear, the light is yellow, and by your second gear, it's red. You're running the red light in full balls on view of the camera, and there ain't a damn thing in the world you can do about it but smile while your picture is taken.
It's not like the short yellow cycle of such intersections forces trucks to run every red light 100% of the time, but it does make it impossible to avoid running red lights 100% of the time. Red light cameras suck. I think it should be mandatory that intersections with red light cameras also have those advance warning "Prepare to Stop When Flashing" signs that are basically the real yellow light for big rigs. Even that would do nothing to fix the problem with turns. I've run plenty of red lights, and I hate that. The system is broken.
Rather, they care about who you know and whether that $20,000 in unsecured debt makes you easy to blackmail.
Why would $20,000 in debt make you easy to blackmail when every day there's a new offer from a new prince in Nigeria offering a ton of money? All you have to do is pick an offer, then comes PROFIT!!!
Have you read the post from rosegarden's author (wish I could find it) talking about moving from gtkmm to qt?
The irony is that Guillaume left Rosegarden years ago, and abandoned Qt and Linux in favor of Cocoa and OS-X. He found true bliss from what I heard, and basically thought Cocoa was everything Qt ever tried to be, and failed at.
You can buy gift cards for iTunes, but you cannot for Android store, so you're out of luck if you don't have credit card.
Back when I had a regular dumb phone, I got bored waiting in the ER or something, and I went shopping for some momentary amusement. Here's a crappy game that ought to be just barely playable for long enough to serve its purpose... It's $7. Oh well, I'm bored, and I need instant gratification, so I authorize my carrier to add $7 to my bill. I'll deal with it a couple weeks from now when I pay the bill.
Now that I have a fancy miniature laptop in my pocket, I could really do stuff with this thing, and they're offering stuff that's vastly more useful and powerful for $2 or less; making those $7 apps for those crappy feature phones sound like highway robbery in comparison. You'd think I'd stock up on apps, but I have yet to purchase the first one. I can't just say "Yes, I agree, give me the damn thing now," but instead I have to go through this laborious process. It doesn't matter if it's a credit card or a gift card, it's still a bunch of tedious crap, and I have to actually invest effort in the process of paying for something I don't really need. I've never bothered, and probably never will.
Eh, I know it's supposed to be 'cute', but I still call it 'kyoo-tee', and probably always will. It's a deliberate refusal. I don't think I'm alone in that.
You're not. It's just too humiliating.
On the other hand, I do honor the creator's wishes in the case of.gif files, and pronounce it 'jiff.'
Next is to toss out the current screwy science of reality that says we can't get there and start looking at science repressed ideas to design an engine that is practical to get there.
Don't worry, Zefram Cochrane won't be born for another few years yet. Then he'll build a warp drive, and the snotty Vulcans will finally start talking to us.
Before the century is over, we'll be able to fly to this Kepler-22b in 15 minutes or so. It will probably be populated by very thick-legged blond women who have bee-hive hairdos, and have developed special muscles to hold their boobs high and proud in the high gravity. These women won't mind you staring at their boobs, because that's where their eyes are, but they will get pissed off if they catch you staring at their heads, where their unmentionables are. They will wave their boobs at you and say "Hey, asshole, my eyes are down here!"
how is this legal? They are specifically targeting IT.... this doesnt seem right.
Congratulations, geekery has become as critical to the functioning of society as transportation. I guess you'll need to start forming a union like the Teamsters or the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. I guess the fly boys and sailors have one too. Unions are pretty toothless and almost totally irrelevant today, but if you want guarantees of overtime in transportation, unions are the ticket. It sounds like IT could be heading down the same road.
It's not that bad. You get used to working a million hours a week for less than minimum wage.
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...Running lamp cord through them (particularly the joints) is a giant PITA and really doesn't make any sense.
It's especially fun when you omit a spacer and shred the wire with the threads. Why does the circuit breaker trip every time I plug in this new lamp? Oh. Crap.
... starts now.
Step 1: Put as many brown people as possible in prison.
Step 2: Fix climate change!
That's how the war on drugs works anyway. Using the same technique against climate change should be no less effective. It's sheer genius!
Nancy Reagan says: "SAY NO TO CARBON DIOXIDE!!!!"
So, your commute was about a mile and a half each way? Would you even bother driving that kind of distance?
I used to commute half that distance.
Sure, it's only three quarters of a mile, why not break the American mold, get some exercise, and save money in the process? Because I always sucked at playing Frogger, that's why. There are no sidewalks, there are no crosswalks, and there is no respect for pedestrians between here and there. It's good exercise running like hell trying to avoid getting hit by cars going 20 mph over the speed limit, true enough, but running for your life tends to make you show up for work looking sweaty and haggard.
This phenomenon is one of the bigger things that I really wish America, or at least my corner of it, would fix. I actually like to walk, and I'd be happy to walk that distance and more every day if it weren't such a fundamentally suicidal undertaking.
I guess it's all moot now anyway. I lost that job, and now I have to drive 115 miles round trip.
I stand by my comment - "still" adds nothing to the sentence as used in the summary, which ends with "yet". There's no disagreement to state - it really is early days. "it's still early days, yet", "it's early days yet", "still, it's early days" and "it's still early days" all say the same thing, with varying economy. The third and fourth options say it most clearly, in my opinion, whereas the first seems clumsy.
I think I'd say something like, "Even so, it's early days yet." That's the sort of thing they were trying to accomplish with still, I think, and I agree it's a bit clumsy.
Anyway, isn't Oracle about to swallow the universe or something? We have more important things to worry about.
That graph is freaking cool!
(or in some cases, a couple weeks).
Months. When I had finally recovered, I discovered the surgeon had cut an incision in one quadrant of my mouth, sutured it back up, but failed to remove the tooth. I had to go back and do it all again.
I'm glad my wisdom teeth are finally gone. I have nightmares thinking about what they must have done in there, just based on the 1/2" tears in both corners of my mouth.
Most organizations do not understand the benefit of rigorous code reviews.
Or they do understand this benefit, but they realize that no matter how many hundreds or thousands of hours they spend improving their code quality, they're never going to make any money, get famous, or get laid, so they just say fuck it and stop caring.
The crap I gave you for free isn't good enough to suit your rigorous standards? Fuck you. Take a crowbar to your wallet and buy some of the commercial stuff, or go jump off a cliff. Or both, preferably. And fuck you.
--10-year open source burnout victim
Documentation.... This is the most needed thing in open source.
Documentation is a perennial problem that's just damn hard to solve. I spent years working my ass off just trying to get one single project documented properly, and I had help from several other people.
Trying to do a thorough and complete job of documenting something that changes continuously is a fool's errand. It's not impossible, it's just monumentally huge, and there just aren't enough decent writers in the world to volunteer enough hours to get it done properly. There are always plenty of eager volunteers, mind you, but almost none of them can ever write worth a damn, and everything they try to do basically winds up being this stupid exercise in trying to make people feel good for helping when they're really just making even more work for the decent writers.
What we're left with is a half-assed patchwork of partially complete docs mixed with all kinds of obsolete legacy cruft. It's a nightmare. Giving up on that was the smartest decision I ever made!
Seriously a great idea. I'm sure the GPL crowd will step in momentarily to tell everyone why it's a bad one, though.
That reminds me of when I bought a Kinekt gear ring. It's totally me, but it sucks as delivered, because it has all kinds of sharp points. I rigged up a solution involving a Dremel tool and a drill press to grind the little gears in motion to remove all the little pokey things, and made it mine. I was thinking about posting the technique somewhere, and then I started to talk myself out of it, because I might be able to profit from this valuable intellectual property one day, and maybe I should patent the idea and guard it closely.
A friend, on hearing this, said, "What? You're going to go into business modifying these rings? Really?"
Indeed. My technique for altering Kinekt gear rings is a perfect candidate for the DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE. I really should release a lot more of, or maybe all of my stuff that way. What? I'm going to start a business? Right. Who really cares anyway?
The same could very well be said for most of, if not everything I've released under the GPL over the years. What do I really care if somebody takes my stuff and does whatever the fuck they want with it? It's not like I was going to make money or get famous or something if they hadn't taken my stuff.
Also, that version of Tetris is about the most fun I've ever had playing the game. It's easy, and very much my speed. I was on a great roll until it accelerated wildly out of control and killed me. Alas.
Lazy? Stupid in most case. except sports car and large trucks.
It's getting harder to find either one with a stick shift without special ordering it. I don't really like having an automatic in a truck, although I do have to admit to having taken a certain pleasure driving an 18-wheeler through a bunch of stop-and-go traffic while eating a slice of pizza.
And nothing of value would be lost.
Hold on a sec... Where would they hold the Punkin' Chunkin'?
There is NO shortage of women out there who would be more than happy to be with you. You probably just don't think they're attractive enough, so your own expectations are 50% of the problem.
Truer words were never spoken. What it comes down to for me is women fall into two categories: attractive, and accessible to me.
I ended up marrying an unattractive one, who turned out to be an excellent wife and mother, but it has been difficult over the years to choke down the fact that I've never really found her appealing. I'm not sure if guys are better off to lower their expectations or not. It will get you laid, but is it worth it?
Maybe.
I think we'd care much more about Global Warming if our lifespan were measured in 1,000+ years.
I think there would be a lot more war if our natural lifespan were measured in 1,000+ years. Children are a big part of the human experience, and while it would certainly be possible to try to institute some controls á la China's one child policy, I think it's pretty safe to estimate that people, on the whole, would tend to have at least one new generation of children every 100 years or so. The couple that has two kids now would have 20 kids in their lifetime, and those kids would have 20 kids, and so on. It doesn't take long for the wold population to grow wildly out of control.
Sure, having eleventy trillion people around and a long lifespan would give us both the incentive and some new measure of means to go forth and populate the rest of the universe, but I don't really think we'd get that far. When resources get scarce, people pick up sticks and stones, and break each other's bones.
Lord knows there is no shortage of clinics and outreach groups providing free condoms.
I don't really disagree with the spirit of your post there, but dumping it all on free condoms as the solution to every reproductive mishap is pretty naive. Ever had a condom break, even though it was fresh, and you stored and used it correctly? I have. The result of that unplanned event is 18 years old now. Did you ever read the fine print where they say The Pill is only 90-something-percent effective? I think it's 98% or maybe even 99%, but we fell into that 1-2% margin of error, and the result of that one is 14 years old now.
Birth control isn't completely reliable. They even made us sign a disclaimer that the sterilization surgery could spontaneously reverse itself, and basically after the first 10 years it's a crap shoot all over again. There was no question in our mind 18 years ago that we would get married and raise the baby, and abortion never even entered the discussion. Now that we have gray hair, bad joints, and we've been broke for almost 20 years, what would we do if we fell into the margin of error again, and she turned up pregnant?
I hope I never have to face that question.
It may be hard for kids today to believe, but there was a time when home computers were WAY out of the price range of anyone below the HIGH upper middle class.
How depressing. I apparently grew up in the HIGH upper middle class.
On the one hand, it's depressing to reflect on how I've struggled my whole life to earn as much in real dollars as Dad did in 1980, without ever quite achieving it. On the other, it's depressing to look at what Dad made then vs. now, and realize that while the fact that he makes less in real dollars today is sad, the fact that he makes 90% less after adjusting for inflation is just downright deflating.
What kind of pep talk am I supposed to give our kids, exactly? Hey kids, we had a pretty good life when I was your age, but your life sucks. Don't worry though, it's going to suck even worse for your children! In a few more generations, this family will be back to making dirt soup the way our ancestors did! Maybe we can move to China one day, and become part of a rich and prosperous society again.
yes, stupid speed/traffic light cameras - how dare they catch you speeding* and/or running the lights**
It's harder to avoid than it sounds when you drive an 18-wheeler.
Scenario 1: You're traveling about 5 mph below the speed limit, easing through the intersection while anticipating and trying to prepare for an abrupt light change. You pass the point of no return, the point after which if you try to stop suddenly you're going to wind up stopped in the middle of the intersection (and probably no longer in line with your trailer.) The light turns yellow. You floor it and go all in, achieving a final speed that's maybe 3 mph below the speed limit. The light turns red. You should have stopped on the green, driver. You should have known.
Scenario 2: You're turning. The light you're at allows three cars to turn before it's red again. You wait patiently for 15 minutes, three cars, five minute wait, three cars, five minute wait, three cars, five minute wait... You're up, you're all the way at the edge of the line, in gear, your foot barely off the clutch, staring at the light, forcing yourself to avoid distractions and avoid even blinking. You stay wound up and ready to spring for an excruciating five minutes, it turns green, and you leap into action as fast as human reaction time permits. After you've changed one gear, the light is yellow, and by your second gear, it's red. You're running the red light in full balls on view of the camera, and there ain't a damn thing in the world you can do about it but smile while your picture is taken.
It's not like the short yellow cycle of such intersections forces trucks to run every red light 100% of the time, but it does make it impossible to avoid running red lights 100% of the time. Red light cameras suck. I think it should be mandatory that intersections with red light cameras also have those advance warning "Prepare to Stop When Flashing" signs that are basically the real yellow light for big rigs. Even that would do nothing to fix the problem with turns. I've run plenty of red lights, and I hate that. The system is broken.
Rather, they care about who you know and whether that $20,000 in unsecured debt makes you easy to blackmail.
Why would $20,000 in debt make you easy to blackmail when every day there's a new offer from a new prince in Nigeria offering a ton of money? All you have to do is pick an offer, then comes PROFIT!!!
For all intensive purposes, I could care less.
Supposively, their all the same thing anyway.
Have you read the post from rosegarden's author (wish I could find it) talking about moving from gtkmm to qt?
The irony is that Guillaume left Rosegarden years ago, and abandoned Qt and Linux in favor of Cocoa and OS-X. He found true bliss from what I heard, and basically thought Cocoa was everything Qt ever tried to be, and failed at.
You can buy gift cards for iTunes, but you cannot for Android store, so you're out of luck if you don't have credit card.
Back when I had a regular dumb phone, I got bored waiting in the ER or something, and I went shopping for some momentary amusement. Here's a crappy game that ought to be just barely playable for long enough to serve its purpose... It's $7. Oh well, I'm bored, and I need instant gratification, so I authorize my carrier to add $7 to my bill. I'll deal with it a couple weeks from now when I pay the bill.
Now that I have a fancy miniature laptop in my pocket, I could really do stuff with this thing, and they're offering stuff that's vastly more useful and powerful for $2 or less; making those $7 apps for those crappy feature phones sound like highway robbery in comparison. You'd think I'd stock up on apps, but I have yet to purchase the first one. I can't just say "Yes, I agree, give me the damn thing now," but instead I have to go through this laborious process. It doesn't matter if it's a credit card or a gift card, it's still a bunch of tedious crap, and I have to actually invest effort in the process of paying for something I don't really need. I've never bothered, and probably never will.
Eh, I know it's supposed to be 'cute', but I still call it 'kyoo-tee', and probably always will. It's a deliberate refusal. I don't think I'm alone in that.
You're not. It's just too humiliating.
On the other hand, I do honor the creator's wishes in the case of .gif files, and pronounce it 'jiff.'
You're weak, Grasshopper.
Slashdot has decided that they don't like Apple anymore...
Hey, in fairness, I've consistently disliked Apple my entire life.
Next is to toss out the current screwy science of reality that says we can't get there and start looking at science repressed ideas to design an engine that is practical to get there.
Don't worry, Zefram Cochrane won't be born for another few years yet. Then he'll build a warp drive, and the snotty Vulcans will finally start talking to us.
Before the century is over, we'll be able to fly to this Kepler-22b in 15 minutes or so. It will probably be populated by very thick-legged blond women who have bee-hive hairdos, and have developed special muscles to hold their boobs high and proud in the high gravity. These women won't mind you staring at their boobs, because that's where their eyes are, but they will get pissed off if they catch you staring at their heads, where their unmentionables are. They will wave their boobs at you and say "Hey, asshole, my eyes are down here!"
$ du -hs ~/Mail /home/spugglefink/Mail
1.9G
how is this legal? They are specifically targeting IT.... this doesnt seem right.
Congratulations, geekery has become as critical to the functioning of society as transportation. I guess you'll need to start forming a union like the Teamsters or the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. I guess the fly boys and sailors have one too. Unions are pretty toothless and almost totally irrelevant today, but if you want guarantees of overtime in transportation, unions are the ticket. It sounds like IT could be heading down the same road.
It's not that bad. You get used to working a million hours a week for less than minimum wage.