How far back do we want to rewind the clock to "normal"? New York, Boston and Chicago not too long ago used to be under sheets of ice a mile or more thick. Is that "normal"? Should we arbitrarily pick 1950 as the "normal" to rewind the ice clock? Maybe pre-industrial revolution? Who is say having glaciers is "normal" at all?
You probably want to have it at some point where humans can work live and feed themselves. We -very likely, but the jury is still out - had a condition called "snowball Earth" long ago. We also had another age of coal forming with high CO2 and O2 levels. Not likely we'd want to go back to either of those ages.
Sounds like you are of the mind that "Oh well, we'll all be raptured in my lifetime, so what, me Worry?"
Pumping >0C water onto the remaining ice will accelerate the melting
Not in the winter. As a real world example, Canadians will pour water over outside skating rinks during the winter, and it refreshes the ice surface. No Zamboni needed. I read somewhere they heat the water as well. Can any of our Canadian friends let us know - if you are still talking to the crazy Americans?
For every company like that there is a Dave (not his real name).
Whenever he drank, he had a bizarre rap: 'Always shit at work, last year I got paid $15k for shiting. I'm always holding it on the drive to work. I punch the clock and head for the head, every day.'
You knew he was getting drunk when he started those lines on whatever girl he was chasing/annoying that day.
Hehe, reminds me of the old poem.....
"My boss gets paid a dollar,
I get paid a dime.
That's why I shit,
On company time.
I've always had a different approach - and yes, it has pissed some people off.
Someone who is pulling some stunt gets told personally, not punish the entire crew.
Oh yes, when in the company of the easily offended, where the true suffering is the folks trying to be reasonable, I propose that the most polite thing to do is to offend the offendees as soon as possible and get it out of the way. The intent being, of course, to provide perspective for the honest innocents who were trying to be rational.
Background - my family is Catholic. All of us have a pretty good sense of humor. Sooo on facebook I posted a picture of a pomeranian dog dressed in a Pope outfit. My relatives all thought it was both cute as all gitout, and funny as well. And it was.
Well, an old GF posted how she found it really offensive.
This pretty much sums up the snowflakes issue. They spend too much time being offended for other people. I have some discretion - I'm not going to tell dead baby jokes to pregnant women, but seriously! I can listen to Louis CK and gasp at some of the stuff he says. But somehow that doesn't translate into me having the right to demand an apology. Besides, after I think "Jeezuz K Rist, he actually said that?", I laugh.
But when a PPP (Pomeranian Puppy Pope) offends people, it ain't the dog's fault.
Six whole minutes is quite luxurious, we have two minutes a day to empty our catheter bags and we get are only allowed to buy the official company issues bags from the company store at special discount employee rates.
Is it blocking the ad blocking that AdBlock tries to implement? So you have ads? Or is it blocking people who were trying to block AdBlock? Which means you are back to no ads? Too many negations, cannot parse!
It's great to see that people who cannot abide a little bit of anything "not quite right" are making certain to fire and otherwise ostracize all non-politically correct and offensive others. Good work snowflakes.
Two thoughts. When you cater to whims of the easily offended, they do not become less offended, they find more things to be offended about.
Y'all easily offended just clean up your little corner of the room, arranging everything meticulously and making it perfect and pure - while other people elect the people you like the least.
Now I'm going to go to Youtube and watch some Bill Maher and Louis CK.
Those that are quite horrifying. I'm thinking call center jobs or any such service level position. Ones where you are not measured by how well you resolve the customer's issue but how many calls you get through and how quickly you do it.
These are jobs which devalue and degrade you fast if you don't buy into their antisocial focus.
Jeebuz. I've been pretty lucky in that I had to be all over the place. With my low threshold for boredom I probably would become suicidal pretty quickly in that sort of job.
And then there's the whole being valued by what work you do. That whole thing where your personal worth and wealth is directly tied to how "good" you're viewed as. Wealth as a virtue signaling! How sickening is that? How messed up as a society to you have to become to think that way?
Fight this sort of bullshit. Fight it hard.
I just don't know how many occupations there are that the normal job state is being in one place the entire day. Sounds horrifying.
Barring absolutely needing the job not to be on the street, I would not work at such a place.
And How! I had three separate offices, and was in constant movement. I even wonder how many employees this could even be useful for. No way I would work for these tools both in a job that required being tethered to a desk, and distrusted that much.
This sort of thing will get to the point where even the rabid anti-union types will be rethinking that opinion, and maybe companies who would like to remain union-free should think about such things.
The problem with all the secession talk is all of the rural farmland areas in all three off those states are heavily Republican, and hate the liberal parts of the state.
Then they can give up their land and move across the border to Trumpmerica. Can't imagine why they wouldn't jump at the chance to leave a state that doesn't have the same values as they do. New America, on it's way to greatness, should be well worth any land they lose. I can't imagine why New America would mind losing a reliable Democrat voting state either.
That was my thought too, but I was thinking lock away the supposed scientist that just let some oaf bully him into giving up access to a JPL phone that might have had important security related information on it. The oaf will never learn and will continue to enjoy playing the bully, but people need to learn not to give in to them.
Not how it works. If you are under threats of violence or imprisonment by a border guard, you merely need to remind him that you will accept a properly identified FBI agent to review the data.
IF you had classified data on a secure device, and IF you are being strongarmed by some border guard and IF he forces you to reveal your passcodes, well then afterwards you call the FBI and he will be an extremely unhappy ex-border guard, awaiting trial on theft of sensitive data. You do not have to give your life or health to protect the data. The guy that has you in a headlock is the one committing the crime.
The story is bollocks anyhow. Perhaps the person submitting might be willing to tell us how much of this sort of data he stores on his Smartphone. Or maybe not.
Personally i think this methodology would be unethical. Besides, if someone is ever expected to carry any material that sensitive, precautions should be taken that preclude one agent caving in from releasing the sensitive data. I would buy 2 or 3 microSD cards, copy the data onto them in a hidden encrypted partition, hide them in the strap of my carry-on luggage, and never let it out of my sight.
If you are carrying classified information and the border guard demands to see it - or TSA for that matter - you tell them that they will need to call the local FBI and have someone with a clearance to review what they are demanding to see. They need to comply or be in violation of the law, putting themselves at risk of imprisonment.
Regardless, an inherently insecure device like a smartphone is no place to be stowing data like that.
Said scientist is not allowed to reveal the pass code to anyone. Scientist did reveal the pass code to someone. Thus scientist has shown themselves as incapable of handling sensitive documents.
He caved after being to US border control and handed over the information because they threatened to detain him for a while if he didn't. Do you think he might cave if some other country made much more serious threats while he was outside of the US?
A temper tantrum has nothing to do with anything.
If the scientist had sensitive data on his phone, the Border Patrol is the least of his worries.
And by him I mean the CBP officer guilty of breach of national security.
It was a fucking scientist for God's sake. These agents of Satan have led us down a primrose path of evolution, vaccines, and global warming. If the leave th eUS they should not be allowed back in. Only when we get rid of this sciency bullshit and return to the infallible book of science, will America be great again.
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Let's see how quickly the Trumpanzees can blame this on Obama somehow, or call it all fake news :)
Trump voters are more patriotic toward an adversary than they are to America. This will not do. Good work comrades.
Big difference between a dog dressed as the Pope and "Death to all Jews".
If you can't see the difference, you're the one with the problem.
Couldn't agree more. Which is why the perpetually offended are just offended to start with, and have to find a reason.
Ha - don't got the bathroom, take a dump in the boss's desk drawer ;-)
Sounds legit, as long as i have a good charge number
This pretty much sums up the snowflakes issue.
You seem to be rather offended by GF offence. Let it go.
Are you triggered?
Seems like one or two scientists can say something that doesn't happen, and your math skills are so bad you think that they all did.
How far back do we want to rewind the clock to "normal"? New York, Boston and Chicago not too long ago used to be under sheets of ice a mile or more thick. Is that "normal"? Should we arbitrarily pick 1950 as the "normal" to rewind the ice clock? Maybe pre-industrial revolution? Who is say having glaciers is "normal" at all?
You probably want to have it at some point where humans can work live and feed themselves. We -very likely, but the jury is still out - had a condition called "snowball Earth" long ago. We also had another age of coal forming with high CO2 and O2 levels. Not likely we'd want to go back to either of those ages.
Sounds like you are of the mind that "Oh well, we'll all be raptured in my lifetime, so what, me Worry?"
Pumping >0C water onto the remaining ice will accelerate the melting
Not in the winter. As a real world example, Canadians will pour water over outside skating rinks during the winter, and it refreshes the ice surface. No Zamboni needed. I read somewhere they heat the water as well. Can any of our Canadian friends let us know - if you are still talking to the crazy Americans?
The Ice level in the arctic is a symptom, not the cause. Otherwise, is this story from the Onion or something?
For every company like that there is a Dave (not his real name).
Whenever he drank, he had a bizarre rap: 'Always shit at work, last year I got paid $15k for shiting. I'm always holding it on the drive to work. I punch the clock and head for the head, every day.'
You knew he was getting drunk when he started those lines on whatever girl he was chasing/annoying that day.
Hehe, reminds me of the old poem.....
"My boss gets paid a dollar,
I get paid a dime.
That's why I shit,
On company time.
I've always had a different approach - and yes, it has pissed some people off.
Someone who is pulling some stunt gets told personally, not punish the entire crew.
Bill Maher and Louis CK.
old Jews who kvetch about old people's problems and how socialism is the solution to everything but stupid people don't want it for some reason
As long as you are offended, that's fine by me.
Oh yes, when in the company of the easily offended, where the true suffering is the folks trying to be reasonable, I propose that the most polite thing to do is to offend the offendees as soon as possible and get it out of the way. The intent being, of course, to provide perspective for the honest innocents who were trying to be rational.
Background - my family is Catholic. All of us have a pretty good sense of humor. Sooo on facebook I posted a picture of a pomeranian dog dressed in a Pope outfit. My relatives all thought it was both cute as all gitout, and funny as well. And it was.
Well, an old GF posted how she found it really offensive.
This pretty much sums up the snowflakes issue. They spend too much time being offended for other people. I have some discretion - I'm not going to tell dead baby jokes to pregnant women, but seriously! I can listen to Louis CK and gasp at some of the stuff he says. But somehow that doesn't translate into me having the right to demand an apology. Besides, after I think "Jeezuz K Rist, he actually said that?", I laugh.
But when a PPP (Pomeranian Puppy Pope) offends people, it ain't the dog's fault.
Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
Six whole minutes is quite luxurious, we have two minutes a day to empty our catheter bags and we get are only allowed to buy the official company issues bags from the company store at special discount employee rates.
shudder....
Is it blocking the ad blocking that AdBlock tries to implement? So you have ads? Or is it blocking people who were trying to block AdBlock? Which means you are back to no ads? Too many negations, cannot parse!
Careful - App guy will show up!
Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
I'd really be pissed about that!
Gotta be a lotta prolapses in that place.
Two thoughts. When you cater to whims of the easily offended, they do not become less offended, they find more things to be offended about.
Y'all easily offended just clean up your little corner of the room, arranging everything meticulously and making it perfect and pure - while other people elect the people you like the least.
Now I'm going to go to Youtube and watch some Bill Maher and Louis CK.
Those that are quite horrifying. I'm thinking call center jobs or any such service level position. Ones where you are not measured by how well you resolve the customer's issue but how many calls you get through and how quickly you do it.
These are jobs which devalue and degrade you fast if you don't buy into their antisocial focus.
Jeebuz. I've been pretty lucky in that I had to be all over the place. With my low threshold for boredom I probably would become suicidal pretty quickly in that sort of job.
And then there's the whole being valued by what work you do. That whole thing where your personal worth and wealth is directly tied to how "good" you're viewed as. Wealth as a virtue signaling! How sickening is that? How messed up as a society to you have to become to think that way?
Fight this sort of bullshit. Fight it hard.
I just don't know how many occupations there are that the normal job state is being in one place the entire day. Sounds horrifying.
Please somebody let me know if they report when you fart.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
Barring absolutely needing the job not to be on the street, I would not work at such a place.
And How! I had three separate offices, and was in constant movement. I even wonder how many employees this could even be useful for. No way I would work for these tools both in a job that required being tethered to a desk, and distrusted that much.
This sort of thing will get to the point where even the rabid anti-union types will be rethinking that opinion, and maybe companies who would like to remain union-free should think about such things.
Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
The problem with all the secession talk is all of the rural farmland areas in all three off those states are heavily Republican, and hate the liberal parts of the state.
Then they can give up their land and move across the border to Trumpmerica. Can't imagine why they wouldn't jump at the chance to leave a state that doesn't have the same values as they do. New America, on it's way to greatness, should be well worth any land they lose. I can't imagine why New America would mind losing a reliable Democrat voting state either.
Or they can stay.
That was my thought too, but I was thinking lock away the supposed scientist that just let some oaf bully him into giving up access to a JPL phone that might have had important security related information on it. The oaf will never learn and will continue to enjoy playing the bully, but people need to learn not to give in to them.
Not how it works. If you are under threats of violence or imprisonment by a border guard, you merely need to remind him that you will accept a properly identified FBI agent to review the data.
IF you had classified data on a secure device, and IF you are being strongarmed by some border guard and IF he forces you to reveal your passcodes, well then afterwards you call the FBI and he will be an extremely unhappy ex-border guard, awaiting trial on theft of sensitive data. You do not have to give your life or health to protect the data. The guy that has you in a headlock is the one committing the crime.
The story is bollocks anyhow. Perhaps the person submitting might be willing to tell us how much of this sort of data he stores on his Smartphone. Or maybe not.
Personally i think this methodology would be unethical. Besides, if someone is ever expected to carry any material that sensitive, precautions should be taken that preclude one agent caving in from releasing the sensitive data. I would buy 2 or 3 microSD cards, copy the data onto them in a hidden encrypted partition, hide them in the strap of my carry-on luggage, and never let it out of my sight.
If you are carrying classified information and the border guard demands to see it - or TSA for that matter - you tell them that they will need to call the local FBI and have someone with a clearance to review what they are demanding to see. They need to comply or be in violation of the law, putting themselves at risk of imprisonment.
Regardless, an inherently insecure device like a smartphone is no place to be stowing data like that.
Said scientist is not allowed to reveal the pass code to anyone. Scientist did reveal the pass code to someone. Thus scientist has shown themselves as incapable of handling sensitive documents.
He caved after being to US border control and handed over the information because they threatened to detain him for a while if he didn't. Do you think he might cave if some other country made much more serious threats while he was outside of the US?
A temper tantrum has nothing to do with anything.
If the scientist had sensitive data on his phone, the Border Patrol is the least of his worries.
And by him I mean the CBP officer guilty of breach of national security.
It was a fucking scientist for God's sake. These agents of Satan have led us down a primrose path of evolution, vaccines, and global warming. If the leave th eUS they should not be allowed back in. Only when we get rid of this sciency bullshit and return to the infallible book of science, will America be great again.
No thanks.