I dunno, as someone in tech I care about Right to Repair, and I care about farmer's costs, which affect my food costs, and I generally care about farmers. Just because I'm not a farmer doesn't mean I wouldn't support a politician who's doing good work for the country.
Between gerrymandered districts, incredibly huge amounts of corporate cash going into PACs to run ads and way voter opinion, poor education and the like, is it really only the fault of the voters that the USA is seeing such huge problems.
I think a lot of us enjoy gaming rather than watching a show because we're directly involved in the action, rather then being passive. Throw in some voice chat with people that you know, and it's pretty damn fun.
Are you sure? Considering that most lottery winners report the same happiness levels 2 years after winning lottery (if in fact it hasn't ruined their lives), perhaps an ISS trip wouldn't be the worst way to actually spend your money.
Yes, I remember how hard Obama fought the GOP when they wanted to cut Gov subsidies to companies with offshored factories...
Oh wait, I got that backwards
If someone who has mod points comments in a thread (last I checked), any mods on that story get dropped. So they have to make a choice, whether their mod points or comment will have a greater impact.
Yay, Poison Pill Defence!
It would be Hard to get rid of all of the dodgy people in line for succession for US President, the ones behind him are generally more dodgy in their goals and viewpoints, not as easy to get rid off because of their dodgy practices, like Trump is.
I'd say keep working on that, but really focus on the November elections, if Trump can't get bills through the House and Senate, he's going to struggle.
Also people trying to get into the industry, and anyone wanting to stave of wage slavery without having to keep dancing the tune for bosses who have no industry experience.
Sadly, the TSA haven't shown themselves to be any good at their job, repeatedly. It's hard to get good help when the work is shite, the 'customers' range from sullen to hating you, and the pay is peanuts.
I'd invite you to visit us in Australia, where we have the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), a non-partisan (not bi-partisan) body of people who are collectively considered the Platinum Standard of running elections around the world. We actually send people to the USA to train election staff. We don't have party reps in the voting area until the polls close, then the parties can send in scrutineers who check that the paper ballots are being counted as per the regulations (when I did this I actually noted some of the staff short-cutting the preferential voting process, which I pointed out to their team leader, who corrected the person's work). The Scrutineers are also there to get the latest voting trends back to their parties faster.
While paper ballots do take a lot of manual counting, it's a pretty robust system. I hear Hawai'i is doing interesting things with paper verification.
A key feature of a non-partisan group has to be the culture, my USA-living father got a half hour lecture from his cousin (who's an AEC staffer) about how serious elections are and that my Dad joking about fiddling the ballots wasn't funny. They take it Very seriously, and that's awesome. And while we may argue about whether the people who Did win are any chop at all, or the media coverage, very few people in Australia question whether the outcome was rigged at the ballot box.
I forwarded out a warning from the Australian Federal Police's Stay Smart Online service, a teacher printed it out and put it in front of their husband, who was on the phone with a 'Microsoft Gold Partner' who was doing the bloatware/scareware scam thing. They refused to believe it and ended up signing up for some (hopefully just useless) software. Human psychology is a strange thing.
I think they want to show that they have Some level of knowledge about something that they probably guess we're already Really good at, and they get frustrated when it becomes clear how huge the gap in knowledge is.
Perhaps we need an IT version of 'yes and', where we say "yes, that's interesting, and here's something else cool to know and tell your friends" so they know we appreciate their gesture, and we also give them something really accurate they can tell their friends: "Remember what that guy on Fox said? Well my kid told me this thing as well (meaning: aren't they smart, haven't I done well as a parent?)"
"But I can See everyone and I know that they're working" - Manager
If someone doesn't know enough about their direct report's job that they don't know whether they're working or not without seeing them at their desk, there's a problem. Not all jobs are reduced in efficiency by a cubicle farm, but if your job is primarily about mental focus for the time-intensive tasks, then most people will benefit from having their own room. And the employer will probably benefit enough that an actual room is a worthwhile investment.
Not everyone can have one of those fancy early-Pixar fancy houses in a big room (I'm pretty sure Pixar doesn't have them these days either), but a cubicle farm reduces focus and productivity.
The spike in crown of thorns starfish numbers is largely related to warming waters and increased sediment runoff from farms. Good luck fixing either of those quickly.
Except in Australia where a really advanced solar panel manufacturing tech came out of the CSIRO, the Conservative Prime Minister refused to spend Any money developing it for domestic markets, so the scientist took his patents to South Korea, helping them cut Australia largely out of the solar panel manufacturing industry.
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I dunno, as someone in tech I care about Right to Repair, and I care about farmer's costs, which affect my food costs, and I generally care about farmers. Just because I'm not a farmer doesn't mean I wouldn't support a politician who's doing good work for the country.
Between gerrymandered districts, incredibly huge amounts of corporate cash going into PACs to run ads and way voter opinion, poor education and the like, is it really only the fault of the voters that the USA is seeing such huge problems.
I think a lot of us enjoy gaming rather than watching a show because we're directly involved in the action, rather then being passive. Throw in some voice chat with people that you know, and it's pretty damn fun.
Are you sure? Considering that most lottery winners report the same happiness levels 2 years after winning lottery (if in fact it hasn't ruined their lives), perhaps an ISS trip wouldn't be the worst way to actually spend your money.
The comment above really needs to be modded up, it's accurate and informative.
Yes, I remember how hard Obama fought the GOP when they wanted to cut Gov subsidies to companies with offshored factories... Oh wait, I got that backwards
If someone who has mod points comments in a thread (last I checked), any mods on that story get dropped. So they have to make a choice, whether their mod points or comment will have a greater impact.
Yay, Poison Pill Defence! It would be Hard to get rid of all of the dodgy people in line for succession for US President, the ones behind him are generally more dodgy in their goals and viewpoints, not as easy to get rid off because of their dodgy practices, like Trump is. I'd say keep working on that, but really focus on the November elections, if Trump can't get bills through the House and Senate, he's going to struggle.
I think you mean Extreme Left, the Progressive Left wants free education and cheap healthcare.
Also people trying to get into the industry, and anyone wanting to stave of wage slavery without having to keep dancing the tune for bosses who have no industry experience.
I Dearly hope that this isn't accurate!
Dodgy as all hell!
Exactly, 'for the greater good' is Actually a good argument (sometimes) for doing something. Especially when you can buy in bulk to drive down prices.
Sadly, the TSA haven't shown themselves to be any good at their job, repeatedly. It's hard to get good help when the work is shite, the 'customers' range from sullen to hating you, and the pay is peanuts.
I'd invite you to visit us in Australia, where we have the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), a non-partisan (not bi-partisan) body of people who are collectively considered the Platinum Standard of running elections around the world. We actually send people to the USA to train election staff. We don't have party reps in the voting area until the polls close, then the parties can send in scrutineers who check that the paper ballots are being counted as per the regulations (when I did this I actually noted some of the staff short-cutting the preferential voting process, which I pointed out to their team leader, who corrected the person's work). The Scrutineers are also there to get the latest voting trends back to their parties faster. While paper ballots do take a lot of manual counting, it's a pretty robust system. I hear Hawai'i is doing interesting things with paper verification. A key feature of a non-partisan group has to be the culture, my USA-living father got a half hour lecture from his cousin (who's an AEC staffer) about how serious elections are and that my Dad joking about fiddling the ballots wasn't funny. They take it Very seriously, and that's awesome. And while we may argue about whether the people who Did win are any chop at all, or the media coverage, very few people in Australia question whether the outcome was rigged at the ballot box.
I forwarded out a warning from the Australian Federal Police's Stay Smart Online service, a teacher printed it out and put it in front of their husband, who was on the phone with a 'Microsoft Gold Partner' who was doing the bloatware/scareware scam thing. They refused to believe it and ended up signing up for some (hopefully just useless) software. Human psychology is a strange thing.
I think they want to show that they have Some level of knowledge about something that they probably guess we're already Really good at, and they get frustrated when it becomes clear how huge the gap in knowledge is. Perhaps we need an IT version of 'yes and', where we say "yes, that's interesting, and here's something else cool to know and tell your friends" so they know we appreciate their gesture, and we also give them something really accurate they can tell their friends: "Remember what that guy on Fox said? Well my kid told me this thing as well (meaning: aren't they smart, haven't I done well as a parent?)"
Now That's a sneaky way of using their conspiracy beliefs against them! :D
A pity that new features aren't separated from security patches to allow users to keep their old platform secure without feature changes.
How do we re-invent Unions without calling them Unions and avoid the very real baggage that the term has in the USA? Guilds?
Your post is probably at zero rep because it was posted AC, but you make good points.
"But I can See everyone and I know that they're working" - Manager If someone doesn't know enough about their direct report's job that they don't know whether they're working or not without seeing them at their desk, there's a problem. Not all jobs are reduced in efficiency by a cubicle farm, but if your job is primarily about mental focus for the time-intensive tasks, then most people will benefit from having their own room. And the employer will probably benefit enough that an actual room is a worthwhile investment. Not everyone can have one of those fancy early-Pixar fancy houses in a big room (I'm pretty sure Pixar doesn't have them these days either), but a cubicle farm reduces focus and productivity.
The planet is going to be fine. Humans? Huge swathes of species currently in existence? Dunno...
The spike in crown of thorns starfish numbers is largely related to warming waters and increased sediment runoff from farms. Good luck fixing either of those quickly.
Except in Australia where a really advanced solar panel manufacturing tech came out of the CSIRO, the Conservative Prime Minister refused to spend Any money developing it for domestic markets, so the scientist took his patents to South Korea, helping them cut Australia largely out of the solar panel manufacturing industry.