After slouching in front of a computer for 15
years, and being able to sleep only 4 hours a night due to pain, my king size intellect came to an amazing decision: maybe I should see a doctor! He said I had scoliosis and suggested stretching. Here was the silver bullet to cure it!
Stretching turned out to be a total waste of time. I became fairly flexible. I could even toe-touch palms to the floor as long -- as I didn't pass out from the pain. Ponderously my great intellegence came to another conclusion, after several more years of time, that I wasn't a 16 year old anemic hacker anymore and should stop trying to treat my body like it was.
In the end, the following helped a lot: strength training, a better bed (select comfort), a better diet, and laying off pain killers. A better chair (~$1000) didn't help a whole lot though I was sure it would at the time I got it.
I work at a DOE lab. It's pretty similar in that we take oncall for 7 days about once every 8 weeks. We get a fixed $40/day whether we are paged or not. This isn't too bad for an average week. On really tough ones, other folks on our team willingly swap a day so the stuckee can get some rest.
They are probably worried about paying us on a "per page" basis. We'd probably start getting a lot more "pages".
The only solution is for the global working class to declare "enough", revolt against capitalism and live with that day's level of technical progress.
Revolting against capitalism is pointless. People need to revolt against the pathetic "Woe is me! I'm trapped in this crummy job!" attitude. They can still vote with their feet and go back to school or find another job. Employers only get away with this stuff because employees become willing sheep.
Still as true as ever it was. All that Karl did was misestimate by an order of magnitude the level of technology needed for worldwide revolution (and end of progress) to be worthwhile.
Karl misestimated the depravity of people. He had the bankrupt notion that people are basically good, but misguided. They just needed some retraining so that eventually government would no longer be needed because the people would eventually always work for the common good. Has marxism *ever* produced this? Lenin dropped this garbage like a hot potato and invented something that suited *him* rather than his people better. He decided that the people needed government to hang around for a lot longer to "train" them better. He and a few other guys at the top did pretty well (sounds worse than the complaints against capitalism), while most everybody else sufferred, and let them get away with it. So much for Utopia...
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Stretching turned out to be a total waste of time. I became fairly flexible. I could even toe-touch palms to the floor as long -- as I didn't pass out from the pain. Ponderously my great intellegence came to another conclusion, after several more years of time, that I wasn't a 16 year old anemic hacker anymore and should stop trying to treat my body like it was.
In the end, the following helped a lot: strength training, a better bed (select comfort), a better diet, and laying off pain killers. A better chair (~$1000) didn't help a whole lot though I was sure it would at the time I got it.
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I work at a DOE lab. It's pretty similar in that we take oncall for 7 days about once every 8 weeks. We get a fixed $40/day whether we are paged or not. This isn't too bad for an average week. On really tough ones, other folks on our team willingly swap a day so the stuckee can get some rest. They are probably worried about paying us on a "per page" basis. We'd probably start getting a lot more "pages".