Out-of-pocket expenses that were once the domain of the employer are not only the employee's responsibility now, but they're also at an all-time high. Health insurance for yourself and your family? You have got to be kidding. Too bad I can't tolerate the cold, I'd move to Canada. Or maybe I should move to Mexico, get my Mexican citizenship, and then sneak back in. Then I'd have healthcare.
I haven't read any of his crap in a long time. I discovered ages ago he was either an idiot or a liar. And that choice is not mutually exclusive when it comes to Lyons.
Well, that remark revived a few stagnant brain cells. I was hooked on UNIX Review - but especially, on Stan Kelley-Bootle's acerbic writings. You do remember him, right? Anyway, when UNIX Review morphed itself into UNIX Review's Performance Computing (UR/PC) Magazine, SK-B's "Devil's Advocate" column was relegated to a single page. Shortly therafter appeared the first of many full-page Microsoft adverts, which created quite a ruckus in the "letters to the editor" section. Then SK-B was dropped completely, and the editorial quality went into the sewer. I - along with countless others - cancelled my subscription. It wasn't because we were anti-Microsoftish, but we had paid for a UNIX magazine, and there were already dozens of other slick Microsoft titles on the racks. And I was already getting most of those for free.
I read SysAdmin once or twice in the years following, when I saw something specific on the cover that caught my eye, but I never subscribed again.
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Out-of-pocket expenses that were once the domain of the employer are not only the employee's responsibility now, but they're also at an all-time high. Health insurance for yourself and your family? You have got to be kidding. Too bad I can't tolerate the cold, I'd move to Canada. Or maybe I should move to Mexico, get my Mexican citizenship, and then sneak back in. Then I'd have healthcare.
I haven't read any of his crap in a long time. I discovered ages ago he was either an idiot or a liar. And that choice is not mutually exclusive when it comes to Lyons.
Well, that remark revived a few stagnant brain cells. I was hooked on UNIX Review - but especially, on Stan Kelley-Bootle's acerbic writings. You do remember him, right? Anyway, when UNIX Review morphed itself into UNIX Review's Performance Computing (UR/PC) Magazine, SK-B's "Devil's Advocate" column was relegated to a single page. Shortly therafter appeared the first of many full-page Microsoft adverts, which created quite a ruckus in the "letters to the editor" section. Then SK-B was dropped completely, and the editorial quality went into the sewer. I - along with countless others - cancelled my subscription. It wasn't because we were anti-Microsoftish, but we had paid for a UNIX magazine, and there were already dozens of other slick Microsoft titles on the racks. And I was already getting most of those for free.
I read SysAdmin once or twice in the years following, when I saw something specific on the cover that caught my eye, but I never subscribed again.