Everything you said about millennials is a myth (and for the record I'm not one, I'm nearing 50 years old). Yes there are some that are lazy and live at home and whine on social media all day, those people have always existed. You just get to see them more because of social media.
Um, no, I've worked with many and many have worked with me. I've had 2 that turned out well, most of the rest quit and went home to live with Mom and Dad, some teh grandparents.
And just the opposite, several studies have found that boomers are in fact the most entitled and spoiled generation alive today. The reason they go around complaining about millennials so much is precisely because they fear no longer being the top on the cultural totem pole.
My remarks are based on work experience and being around them.
Millenials do not have to worry though, the Boomers are dying off, and once they are gone, the world will enter a new level of problem free existence, and the millenials will have the last obstacle removed, and will become the perfenct force leading the world.
They were raised by well meaning but stupid parents wh othought that by submitting to their every whim whould create a generation of super people, and a society and school system that thought by inculcating them with high self esteem that was not balanced by acheivement would giver them the confidence to overcome everything.
And which generation were these "well meaning but stupid parents" from again? Boomers, you say? How interesting.
GenX. But then that doesn't fit your narrative, eh? Interesting.
Wow another old guy trying to tell the new generation and their problems off cause "he feels he had it rough".
Wow, another stupid fuck who does not get that I wrote thaty everyone has it rough. See, millenials can't even realte to anyone but themselves. If I write that it is your parents fault you are so fucked up, you whine and bale and pout. Make more excuses for your abject failure. One thing is true, excuses for failure is easier than the work it takes to be successful. but yeah - it's too hard.
Hey dude, either shit or get off the pot. Life is hard for most everyone, and it's harder when you wallow in self pity. If you want to be the eternal victim, get in mom's basement and cry your eyes out because life is so hard, and no one understands that you are the most mistreated person in the universe. And the only peopel not at fault, who can never be at fault, the target of everyone else are you and the millenials. Weakness as strength has never worked.
Then let us know how that works out for ya, snowflake.
Remember though, that with today's two income household model, and the willingness to spend stupid amounts of money for housing, that is what you end up with.
Nope. The cost of housing should be the cost to build additional housing. Which does not increase based on how many wives are in the workforce.
Sexist. Fascinating as well. So if I read you correctly, roughly doubling the available workforce has zero effect on the cost of living, or no effect on wages.
As well - if you are willing to pay a million bucks for a square inch of land to build a cocroach motel - someone will be willing to sell that to you. The real estate industry has bred people who willingly, happily become house poor. And brag about it. Meanwhile, I bought my place during a downturn, and paid it off in 15 years.
Yeah - my house cost less than it would today. I was also making less.
No. In real dollars, the average wage was higher. Maybe you are making more after inflation now than you were then, but many people are not. The minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation in over two decades. Back then, it was holding its own. Since then, it hasn't been. So yes, things absolutely are worse now. Wages are lower in real dollars.
Y'all are missing the point - the point is, every generation has had problems.
The young'uns who came before me had to worry about tuberculosis, the so called "greatest generation" had the great depression and WW2 to contend with. My father bought his house in 1960 for $8,000, I bought mine in 1994 for a lot higher of a price, but as I said, everyone has problems. Every generation has issues to face. And millenials manage to get pissed off at a person for saying that they don't have it worse than any other generation even when the person blames their parents for their problems. There is a valuable lesson in that if one cares to do some introspection.
What is amazing is that there has been no generation ever that has had it as bad as the poor millenials, Not ever I tell you!
They have a choice, realize what they need to do, or wallow in self pity. They were raised by well meaning but stupid parents wh othought that by submitting to their every whim whould create a generation of super people, and a society and school system that thought by inculcating them with high self esteem that was not balanced by acheivement would giver them the confidence to overcome everything.
When in fact, it inculcated them with an unrealistic sense of entitlement, coupled with an exxagerated self esteem that crumbled when they got into the real world and found that they couldn't be promoted to ultra boss, and momy and daddy could no longer prevent any and all problems from getting in their way.
So yeah - they can wallow in self pity, live at home, and deplete mommy and daddy's retirement funds. Or maybe they can learn what their parents and society wouldn't allow them to learn, just later in life.
More to the point the Stereotype is that “Nerds live in the parents basement.”
Most jobs for nerds pay well enough for them to live on their own and most do.
However conditions for younger adults are much harder today then the past generations in terms of home ownership.
I know it is fashionable to complain about the terrible injustices facing the millennials, and how badly they have it, but allow me to telll a story of how we privileged late boomers had it on our waltz to easy street.
Sarcasm off.
I entered the workforce in the early 1970's. One of the first issues of the times was that I might get drafted and sent to the Jungles of Vietnam. Then there was finding employment. As the job stimulus aspect of the war was winding down, we were in a bit of a funk. As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me. Beyond that, their rankings for employment were married Veterans, single veterans, Married men with children, Married men, and single men (fwiw, I'm not sure where females were in the mix because he didn't mention them)
Then after finally landing work, there was this double digit inflation. Many of my fellow young people simply didn't save for retirement or other things, a habit they have continued till today. But they did whine.
Anyhow, The problems of millennials is more that they have been raised with unrealistic expectations. The young ladies have been raised with the concept that they can "have it all", just like men. That conveniently ignores the fact that men don't have it all.
The males are largely sad cases. Oftentimes drugged into submission during their school years, and having been educated that they are not the ones who can have it all, many have simply given up.
Before the typical backlash that happens when someone dares express an opinion other than that no generation has ever had it worse - their problems are based on entirely fucked up ideas on our part.
In areas that have the better paying jobs also have outrageous housing costs. So that home your grandparents or parents got with an adjusted for inflation salary of 50k a year job now needs 80k a year to get a similar home in some cities that has inflated to closer to 120k..
Remember though, that with today's two income household model, and the willingness to spend stupid amounts of money for housing, that is what you end up with.
So many kids are staying at their parents house and help paying for their rent because their parents were able to get their home at a bargain compared to today.
So the fact that we terrible prents were making less money then is of no consequence? Yeah - my house cost less than it would today. I was also making less. I do not know if you are a millennial, or just play one on TV, but seriously, you should try having no job prospects, hyperinflation and the possibility of having an early death and/ornasty PTSD after being forced to fight.
The lesson of all of this is that the cards we are dealt are the cards we are dealt. Wanna whine and complain, piss and moan about how awful it all is? by all means do - its a free country. There were a few folks I grew up with that did that too. Now they are old pissers and moaners. Hope they enjoyed their lack of success. But if peop;le think that life is just too hard for them - well, I guess they might be right.
In Puerto Rico it's sunny about 65% of daylight hours
That's nice. But you still need to account for the other 35%, and cloudy days, etc. Batteries are expensive. Solar is expensive. Handling peak demand is expensive. Despite all the subsidies to solar, fossil fuels are still the most efficient and reliable methods for energy.
So tell me, if these batteries are simply too expensive, talk to us about the cost of transferring natgas to an island - is that free? If another hurricane tears into P Rico again, and another Republican is president, is the NatGas going to continue after it is gone? You might look into where Solar and wind are these days.
When we reach a point where disconnecting from the grid becomes feasible things will get interesting. Neighbors interconnecting, building micro grids with a single connection to the national one, and only wanting to pay one service fee for the whole group.
I don't know if there is any similar thing in GB, but there is a template here. In Mountainous PA, small villages pool money and build micro cable TV systems. The antenna system is on a local hill or mountaintop, and a few amplifiers get the signal to the valley, then distributed to the houses. I've seen some, and the quality ranges from very professional to amusing. But they can do it, and so can micropower grids.
Shipping more as a winning metric is reminiscent of Sarah Palin having a number 1 bestseller when the McCain/Palin Presidential campaign bought up most of the copies of the book.
Seems like Amazon could take the instant lead by just making their shipments bigger without one sale.
I wonder when the chip implant version of Home and echo will come out?
Perhaps one day. Right now, fully off-grid solar is very expensive.
Try having the power company run a mile of utility poles or underground service to send grid power to your home if you don't live in a development or beside existing service
You've never seen a crab get cut open, have you? Crack open that shell and it's a nasty brownish goo.
If you stepped on a shrimp, it would also look like Elmer's glue.
DOOD! You don't eat the crab goo! The muscle meat is the treat, and you get crab crap from the goostuff. Jeebuz Christ, didn't they teach you anything when you went to Red Lobster?
And no, raw squished shrimp just look like squished shrimp meat, a little translucent because they weren't cooked yet. I fish with shrimp at times, and when you are using the dead ones, they often get squished. Just look like uncooked shrimp.
i could have never seen ending this summit very well, it would have been a massive failure for Trump and to cancel it was the best possible option for him.
One needs to look at a little bit of history to understand negotiating with North Korea. http://www.koreanwaronline.com... From early July to August 23rd the Negotiators simply stared at each other in silence. Then they broke off negotiations temporarily. https://history.army.mil/broch...
This is not a "normal" group to negotiate with. We often talk about America's relationship with Russia. Well, it hasn't always been bright and chipper, but we can work with each other. The Russians and US have had many productive negotiations over the years. Despite our differences, we understand each other and are more compatible than it would appear at first blush.
North Korea? What are we going to do - Nuc them? Shit, aside from starting WW3 as China and others are drawn into the radioactive cloud, and as South Korea is decimated - better check how close Seoul is to da north-once the nucs start flying they are toast. And Rocket boy will be in an underground bunker the whole time anyhow.
Whatever we think of Mr Trump, it is pretty obvious that any negotiations with that nutcase of a nation are not going to work with a person of his temperament tweeting out the tweets that he tweets. We are seeing the intellect of the man honestly in those tweets.
Also, this has a massive freaking stigma to overcome.
Perhaps in America, but in many other countries insects are commonly eaten. Eating a grub is no different than eating a shrimp.
So does the grub have the consistency of the lobster or shrimp? I've accidentally stepped on a few, and the results look like Elmer's glue. Except for the one's who's goo looks green.
The innards of a shrimp or lobster are muscle and look like white meat and eat like meat. The nice part is we can trim out the fecal matter. I know, some cultures eat fecal matter.(Bedouins) I'll avoid cultural appropriation in this instance.
The stigma is there for good reason. Bugs are only eaten in cultures which have no other dietary options.
Nope. Most people eat them because they like them.
They're certainly crunchier, tastier and a lot healthier than those Cheetos you're busy stuffing right now.
And some people drink their own urine and eat their own feces. Forgive me if i don't find that very appetizing as well as eating insects.
Coming over for the human placenta festival? This year we're enjoying it raw, so as to not destroy the superfood aspects of this wonderful food. People who eat placenta eat it because they really like it.
Also, this has a massive freaking stigma to overcome.
Insects are starvation food. Show someone a hundred pound box of cockroaches, a box of corn and wheat and bread, and a box of steaks, and see how many say "Yummie! Gimme that box of tasty cockroach goodness!"
As well, in a world where it is fashionable to claim gluten allergies we all need to talk about Chitin allergies.
Exactly why there is a push to get people to eat starvation food is a mystery
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Oh, I thought the point was "oh me, oh my, I'm a boomer, I had it so hard because millenials." Fuck off with your crying.
Hmm, no. Millenials dpn't affect me at all Relax there snowflake.
Everything you said about millennials is a myth (and for the record I'm not one, I'm nearing 50 years old). Yes there are some that are lazy and live at home and whine on social media all day, those people have always existed. You just get to see them more because of social media.
Um, no, I've worked with many and many have worked with me. I've had 2 that turned out well, most of the rest quit and went home to live with Mom and Dad, some teh grandparents.
And just the opposite, several studies have found that boomers are in fact the most entitled and spoiled generation alive today. The reason they go around complaining about millennials so much is precisely because they fear no longer being the top on the cultural totem pole.
My remarks are based on work experience and being around them.
Millenials do not have to worry though, the Boomers are dying off, and once they are gone, the world will enter a new level of problem free existence, and the millenials will have the last obstacle removed, and will become the perfenct force leading the world.
Sounds like the ending of a Scooby Doo cartoon.
They were raised by well meaning but stupid parents wh othought that by submitting to their every whim whould create a generation of super people, and a society and school system that thought by inculcating them with high self esteem that was not balanced by acheivement would giver them the confidence to overcome everything.
And which generation were these "well meaning but stupid parents" from again? Boomers, you say? How interesting.
GenX. But then that doesn't fit your narrative, eh? Interesting.
Wow another old guy trying to tell the new generation and their problems off cause "he feels he had it rough".
Wow, another stupid fuck who does not get that I wrote thaty everyone has it rough. See, millenials can't even realte to anyone but themselves. If I write that it is your parents fault you are so fucked up, you whine and bale and pout. Make more excuses for your abject failure. One thing is true, excuses for failure is easier than the work it takes to be successful. but yeah - it's too hard.
Hey dude, either shit or get off the pot. Life is hard for most everyone, and it's harder when you wallow in self pity. If you want to be the eternal victim, get in mom's basement and cry your eyes out because life is so hard, and no one understands that you are the most mistreated person in the universe. And the only peopel not at fault, who can never be at fault, the target of everyone else are you and the millenials. Weakness as strength has never worked.
Then let us know how that works out for ya, snowflake.
Remember though, that with today's two income household model, and the willingness to spend stupid amounts of money for housing, that is what you end up with.
Nope. The cost of housing should be the cost to build additional housing. Which does not increase based on how many wives are in the workforce.
Sexist. Fascinating as well. So if I read you correctly, roughly doubling the available workforce has zero effect on the cost of living, or no effect on wages.
As well - if you are willing to pay a million bucks for a square inch of land to build a cocroach motel - someone will be willing to sell that to you. The real estate industry has bred people who willingly, happily become house poor. And brag about it. Meanwhile, I bought my place during a downturn, and paid it off in 15 years.
To take a cue from the adjacent article, a spaying program for millennials would minimize their threat to endangered species.
Brutal! And I laughed - now I feel bad.....
I can relate.
But the most important thing is to apply yourself
That is very true. The world does not owe us a living, we must make it ourselves.
Yeah - my house cost less than it would today. I was also making less.
No. In real dollars, the average wage was higher. Maybe you are making more after inflation now than you were then, but many people are not. The minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation in over two decades. Back then, it was holding its own. Since then, it hasn't been. So yes, things absolutely are worse now. Wages are lower in real dollars.
Y'all are missing the point - the point is, every generation has had problems.
The young'uns who came before me had to worry about tuberculosis, the so called "greatest generation" had the great depression and WW2 to contend with. My father bought his house in 1960 for $8,000, I bought mine in 1994 for a lot higher of a price, but as I said, everyone has problems. Every generation has issues to face. And millenials manage to get pissed off at a person for saying that they don't have it worse than any other generation even when the person blames their parents for their problems. There is a valuable lesson in that if one cares to do some introspection.
They have a choice, realize what they need to do, or wallow in self pity. They were raised by well meaning but stupid parents wh othought that by submitting to their every whim whould create a generation of super people, and a society and school system that thought by inculcating them with high self esteem that was not balanced by acheivement would giver them the confidence to overcome everything.
When in fact, it inculcated them with an unrealistic sense of entitlement, coupled with an exxagerated self esteem that crumbled when they got into the real world and found that they couldn't be promoted to ultra boss, and momy and daddy could no longer prevent any and all problems from getting in their way.
So yeah - they can wallow in self pity, live at home, and deplete mommy and daddy's retirement funds. Or maybe they can learn what their parents and society wouldn't allow them to learn, just later in life.
More to the point the Stereotype is that “Nerds live in the parents basement.” Most jobs for nerds pay well enough for them to live on their own and most do. However conditions for younger adults are much harder today then the past generations in terms of home ownership.
I know it is fashionable to complain about the terrible injustices facing the millennials, and how badly they have it, but allow me to telll a story of how we privileged late boomers had it on our waltz to easy street.
Sarcasm off.
I entered the workforce in the early 1970's. One of the first issues of the times was that I might get drafted and sent to the Jungles of Vietnam. Then there was finding employment. As the job stimulus aspect of the war was winding down, we were in a bit of a funk. As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me. Beyond that, their rankings for employment were married Veterans, single veterans, Married men with children, Married men, and single men (fwiw, I'm not sure where females were in the mix because he didn't mention them)
Then after finally landing work, there was this double digit inflation. Many of my fellow young people simply didn't save for retirement or other things, a habit they have continued till today. But they did whine.
Anyhow, The problems of millennials is more that they have been raised with unrealistic expectations. The young ladies have been raised with the concept that they can "have it all", just like men. That conveniently ignores the fact that men don't have it all.
The males are largely sad cases. Oftentimes drugged into submission during their school years, and having been educated that they are not the ones who can have it all, many have simply given up.
Before the typical backlash that happens when someone dares express an opinion other than that no generation has ever had it worse - their problems are based on entirely fucked up ideas on our part.
In areas that have the better paying jobs also have outrageous housing costs. So that home your grandparents or parents got with an adjusted for inflation salary of 50k a year job now needs 80k a year to get a similar home in some cities that has inflated to closer to 120k..
Remember though, that with today's two income household model, and the willingness to spend stupid amounts of money for housing, that is what you end up with.
So many kids are staying at their parents house and help paying for their rent because their parents were able to get their home at a bargain compared to today.
So the fact that we terrible prents were making less money then is of no consequence? Yeah - my house cost less than it would today. I was also making less. I do not know if you are a millennial, or just play one on TV, but seriously, you should try having no job prospects, hyperinflation and the possibility of having an early death and/ornasty PTSD after being forced to fight.
The lesson of all of this is that the cards we are dealt are the cards we are dealt. Wanna whine and complain, piss and moan about how awful it all is? by all means do - its a free country. There were a few folks I grew up with that did that too. Now they are old pissers and moaners. Hope they enjoyed their lack of success. But if peop;le think that life is just too hard for them - well, I guess they might be right.
In Puerto Rico it's sunny about 65% of daylight hours
That's nice. But you still need to account for the other 35%, and cloudy days, etc. Batteries are expensive. Solar is expensive. Handling peak demand is expensive. Despite all the subsidies to solar, fossil fuels are still the most efficient and reliable methods for energy.
So tell me, if these batteries are simply too expensive, talk to us about the cost of transferring natgas to an island - is that free? If another hurricane tears into P Rico again, and another Republican is president, is the NatGas going to continue after it is gone? You might look into where Solar and wind are these days.
When we reach a point where disconnecting from the grid becomes feasible things will get interesting. Neighbors interconnecting, building micro grids with a single connection to the national one, and only wanting to pay one service fee for the whole group.
I don't know if there is any similar thing in GB, but there is a template here. In Mountainous PA, small villages pool money and build micro cable TV systems. The antenna system is on a local hill or mountaintop, and a few amplifiers get the signal to the valley, then distributed to the houses. I've seen some, and the quality ranges from very professional to amusing. But they can do it, and so can micropower grids.
Our UPS driver is a little squirrely.
Those squirrels died for your computer security! Bless 'em all.
Thanks for that. Doing the work OP didn't bother to in the article
I know this is Slashdot, and the style is to post based on the headline, but are y'all inconvenienced by making clicky clicky on the link?
What is posted here is a summary, just like it is supposed to summarize. The routers affected are listed in the link that the summary references.
Y'all can't be afraid to do the work you're supposed to do.
Seems like Amazon could take the instant lead by just making their shipments bigger without one sale.
I wonder when the chip implant version of Home and echo will come out?
Perhaps one day. Right now, fully off-grid solar is very expensive.
Try having the power company run a mile of utility poles or underground service to send grid power to your home if you don't live in a development or beside existing service
You've never seen a crab get cut open, have you? Crack open that shell and it's a nasty brownish goo.
If you stepped on a shrimp, it would also look like Elmer's glue.
DOOD! You don't eat the crab goo! The muscle meat is the treat, and you get crab crap from the goostuff. Jeebuz Christ, didn't they teach you anything when you went to Red Lobster?
And no, raw squished shrimp just look like squished shrimp meat, a little translucent because they weren't cooked yet. I fish with shrimp at times, and when you are using the dead ones, they often get squished. Just look like uncooked shrimp.
i could have never seen ending this summit very well, it would have been a massive failure for Trump and to cancel it was the best possible option for him.
One needs to look at a little bit of history to understand negotiating with North Korea. http://www.koreanwaronline.com... From early July to August 23rd the Negotiators simply stared at each other in silence. Then they broke off negotiations temporarily. https://history.army.mil/broch...
This is not a "normal" group to negotiate with. We often talk about America's relationship with Russia. Well, it hasn't always been bright and chipper, but we can work with each other. The Russians and US have had many productive negotiations over the years. Despite our differences, we understand each other and are more compatible than it would appear at first blush.
North Korea? What are we going to do - Nuc them? Shit, aside from starting WW3 as China and others are drawn into the radioactive cloud, and as South Korea is decimated - better check how close Seoul is to da north-once the nucs start flying they are toast. And Rocket boy will be in an underground bunker the whole time anyhow.
Whatever we think of Mr Trump, it is pretty obvious that any negotiations with that nutcase of a nation are not going to work with a person of his temperament tweeting out the tweets that he tweets. We are seeing the intellect of the man honestly in those tweets.
Forgive me if i don't find that very appetizing
A hell of a Viking you'd make...
Hey - if they need some extra, I could ship them some.
Also, this has a massive freaking stigma to overcome.
Perhaps in America, but in many other countries insects are commonly eaten. Eating a grub is no different than eating a shrimp.
So does the grub have the consistency of the lobster or shrimp? I've accidentally stepped on a few, and the results look like Elmer's glue. Except for the one's who's goo looks green.
The innards of a shrimp or lobster are muscle and look like white meat and eat like meat. The nice part is we can trim out the fecal matter. I know, some cultures eat fecal matter.(Bedouins) I'll avoid cultural appropriation in this instance.
The stigma is there for good reason. Bugs are only eaten in cultures which have no other dietary options.
Nope. Most people eat them because they like them.
They're certainly crunchier, tastier and a lot healthier than those Cheetos you're busy stuffing right now.
And some people drink their own urine and eat their own feces. Forgive me if i don't find that very appetizing as well as eating insects.
Coming over for the human placenta festival? This year we're enjoying it raw, so as to not destroy the superfood aspects of this wonderful food. People who eat placenta eat it because they really like it.
The point is this: There's no such thing as a superfood.
This statement alone should have this post cruising at +5.
Also, this has a massive freaking stigma to overcome.
Insects are starvation food. Show someone a hundred pound box of cockroaches, a box of corn and wheat and bread, and a box of steaks, and see how many say "Yummie! Gimme that box of tasty cockroach goodness!"
As well, in a world where it is fashionable to claim gluten allergies we all need to talk about Chitin allergies.
Exactly why there is a push to get people to eat starvation food is a mystery
The summary sounds like something Paula Poundstone would recite on "Wait wait... Don't tell me!"
I'll bet it is one of the articles they use on the guess the right story segment tomorrow.