It's not completely one-sided. I, as an individual and indie author and game publisher, have also benefited from copyright laws. It keeps other people and corporations from being able to sell my stuff as their own, gives people a bit more incentive to pay me for my work, and because of those payments, gives me some more incentive to keep creating.
That said, corporations probably benefit in more ways and certainly by more dollars than I do, and the current ridiculously long durations are to the detriment of everyone. There's a lot to be fixed.
Shortly before he passed he'd told me that he couldn't even start up that company in the current environment due to the time and expense required to simply follow the regulations.
Genuine question: what kind of regulations are these? When I hear regulations on business, I tend to thing about health and safety, proper accounting rules, worker's rights... things that seem like they would protect the worker from the potential greed of the company, which was historically a big deal. What other kinds of hoops are companies jumping through that are unnecessarily burdensome, and that aren't providing benefits? Most of the anti-regulation folks just say "regulations" and leave it at that, as if it's obvious and universal, but it isn't to me.
Yeah. I'm going to assume $135k is the mean. It would be really easy for 60% of workers to make less than that median, and have most of them feel underpaid, while the remaining 40% over that median don't.
No kidding. Scanning the first 2/3, it's almost all more money or bad work environments. Very little health, no family, no changing life plans, no dreams, none of that other stuff.
I quit my last job because my wife and I decided to move. She'd just finished grad school and didn't want to stay in the same town where she'd been studying for the past 6 years (undergrad + Master's). She had a lead and then an offer in a town that we both liked when we visited, so we decided to move. I didn't mind my old job, and did take advantage of the move to get a moderate raise, but those were more incidental to the greater plan.
Not saving is always self-destructive behavior. There's no excuse for that. Bluescreens are rarer than they used to be, but they still happen. Power outages, bumped cables, other people in the house, who knows. Just save. Even if it's a temp thing.
But there's plenty of other valid reasons for being in the middle of something and not wanting it interrupted. Web pages you're reading, stuff that's saved but open as a to-do reminder, or just the delay of the reboot/login/relaunch everything process, which isn't always ideal.
The system should ask. Always. If it's urgent, it should get more demanding, but it should still always ask.
Stocks are weird. The daily report on the radio will talk about them being "up" or "down" but then often explain it's only a tiny fraction of a percent, sometimes even a single point, which in my mind ought to be "essentially unchanged."
Sometime this week I heard "markets were mixed. The Dow was up $x, or roughly.8%. The NASDAQ was down one point." All I could think was, you really call that *mixed*?
At my company Network Administrator meant "server admin" and Network Engineer meant "does Cisco stuff". Didn't make a lot of sense. We also had SAN and LAN Administrators and some other odd titles. It's definitely a random mishmash, composed of history, changing management, HR policies, and the path of least resistance.
We do have Support Analysts, though - both Tier I and Tier II, for helpdesk and site-visit type support.
Agreed. A lot of movies are really imbalanced between their quiet and loud moments, and I hate fiddling with the controls to keep it reasonable. I want to hear it. I don't want to wake the kids or annoy the neighbors.
Funnily enough, both things can be true. I agree, I've experienced weird, hilarious, and heartbreaking things that were all too improbable or too convoluted to put in a story and have anyone enjoy them. That definitely happens.
But the person I'd responded to suggested that since "real" space is slow and boring, it's appropriate to be slow and boring trying to tell a story about it, and for the most part that's not true. (Though plenty of people seem to have liked 2001, so obviously there's some market for it.)
Main point being, as a justification, "it's like real life" doesn't make a good excuse for a bad story, the only exception maybe being a memoir, where adherence to the truth probably trumps the narrative flow. Even there you'd better have *some* good stuff, or there's no point in writing the memoir, either.
You have a very weird and unrepresentative work situation.
shmlco already made some sensible suggestions. I would add: can't you wait by the station for a minute or two until a co-worker comes through and picks you up?
I think you're right, that's the sensible angle, leaving Yelp out of an interpersonal dispute. That should have been part of the decision. Failure to comply would result in contempt of court, and further penalties.
Assuming the user can retract a review, and also assuming the user can ever be found - since they didn't show for court, maybe they're out of state/country, or possibly even deceased. I don't know what happens in those cases, but given enough time, I'm sure someone will bring that to court, too.
Slashdot Mirror
to hard?
Look, I'll bother counting to 24 when you can count out the proper number of O's in "too". :P
I'm mad. You're mad. We're all mad, here.
Ironically, I had a t-shirt with this phrase on it, along with a picture of the cheshire cat.
So, unlike a stopped clock, which is only right twice per day, this invective against clocks is good for all time?
Might as well get the tattoo, then.
It's not completely one-sided. I, as an individual and indie author and game publisher, have also benefited from copyright laws. It keeps other people and corporations from being able to sell my stuff as their own, gives people a bit more incentive to pay me for my work, and because of those payments, gives me some more incentive to keep creating.
That said, corporations probably benefit in more ways and certainly by more dollars than I do, and the current ridiculously long durations are to the detriment of everyone. There's a lot to be fixed.
Is lack of empathy correlated with better enjoyment of life?
Probably. The less you're worried about others, the more likely you are to be enjoying yourself.
Not that that's admirable or anything, but from a purely functional standpoint it's likely true.
Shortly before he passed he'd told me that he couldn't even start up that company in the current environment due to the time and expense required to simply follow the regulations.
Genuine question: what kind of regulations are these? When I hear regulations on business, I tend to thing about health and safety, proper accounting rules, worker's rights ... things that seem like they would protect the worker from the potential greed of the company, which was historically a big deal. What other kinds of hoops are companies jumping through that are unnecessarily burdensome, and that aren't providing benefits? Most of the anti-regulation folks just say "regulations" and leave it at that, as if it's obvious and universal, but it isn't to me.
Yes, I botched that. I said mean first, and then for some reason typed median later when I should have kept saying mean.
Yeah. I'm going to assume $135k is the mean. It would be really easy for 60% of workers to make less than that median, and have most of them feel underpaid, while the remaining 40% over that median don't.
No kidding. Scanning the first 2/3, it's almost all more money or bad work environments. Very little health, no family, no changing life plans, no dreams, none of that other stuff.
I quit my last job because my wife and I decided to move. She'd just finished grad school and didn't want to stay in the same town where she'd been studying for the past 6 years (undergrad + Master's). She had a lead and then an offer in a town that we both liked when we visited, so we decided to move. I didn't mind my old job, and did take advantage of the move to get a moderate raise, but those were more incidental to the greater plan.
I'm not sure why you posted this in response to me. I clearly said the system should ask first.
Not saving is always self-destructive behavior. There's no excuse for that. Bluescreens are rarer than they used to be, but they still happen. Power outages, bumped cables, other people in the house, who knows. Just save. Even if it's a temp thing.
But there's plenty of other valid reasons for being in the middle of something and not wanting it interrupted. Web pages you're reading, stuff that's saved but open as a to-do reminder, or just the delay of the reboot/login/relaunch everything process, which isn't always ideal.
The system should ask. Always. If it's urgent, it should get more demanding, but it should still always ask.
Stocks are weird. The daily report on the radio will talk about them being "up" or "down" but then often explain it's only a tiny fraction of a percent, sometimes even a single point, which in my mind ought to be "essentially unchanged."
Sometime this week I heard "markets were mixed. The Dow was up $x, or roughly .8%. The NASDAQ was down one point." All I could think was, you really call that *mixed*?
Now that's cool. I would go to that kind of thing regularly if it was available.
At my company Network Administrator meant "server admin" and Network Engineer meant "does Cisco stuff". Didn't make a lot of sense. We also had SAN and LAN Administrators and some other odd titles. It's definitely a random mishmash, composed of history, changing management, HR policies, and the path of least resistance.
We do have Support Analysts, though - both Tier I and Tier II, for helpdesk and site-visit type support.
The average household size is 2.58 people, so that's a lot closer to "everyone has it" than only 1/3 of the market.
Agreed. A lot of movies are really imbalanced between their quiet and loud moments, and I hate fiddling with the controls to keep it reasonable. I want to hear it. I don't want to wake the kids or annoy the neighbors.
SQIABMTA? Doesn't roll off the tongue.
I've only got 42 as it is. I'm pretty sure 10-15 of them are real people, but if the rest are bots ... frankly, I don't wanna know.
Honestly - what is is there to do?
A laser import system that lets you go into Tron's world might be nice.
Funnily enough, both things can be true. I agree, I've experienced weird, hilarious, and heartbreaking things that were all too improbable or too convoluted to put in a story and have anyone enjoy them. That definitely happens.
But the person I'd responded to suggested that since "real" space is slow and boring, it's appropriate to be slow and boring trying to tell a story about it, and for the most part that's not true. (Though plenty of people seem to have liked 2001, so obviously there's some market for it.)
Main point being, as a justification, "it's like real life" doesn't make a good excuse for a bad story, the only exception maybe being a memoir, where adherence to the truth probably trumps the narrative flow. Even there you'd better have *some* good stuff, or there's no point in writing the memoir, either.
Real life often makes the poorest of stories. That's why we have writers and directors, to let the audience enjoy the good stuff.
Trying to imagine a "Voyage to Mars" movie that runs for 3.5 years, most of it just people eating and jogging on treadmills.
You have a very weird and unrepresentative work situation.
shmlco already made some sensible suggestions. I would add: can't you wait by the station for a minute or two until a co-worker comes through and picks you up?
I think you're right, that's the sensible angle, leaving Yelp out of an interpersonal dispute. That should have been part of the decision. Failure to comply would result in contempt of court, and further penalties.
Assuming the user can retract a review, and also assuming the user can ever be found - since they didn't show for court, maybe they're out of state/country, or possibly even deceased. I don't know what happens in those cases, but given enough time, I'm sure someone will bring that to court, too.
This is why, when I get a soda from a fountain, I take care to get 50% Diet Coke and 50% regular Dr. Pepper.
Aw, thought you were going to link to Queen's song from the A Kind of Magic album.