Except that civilization will have collapsed by then and their mea culpa posts will be scrawled in charcoal on the sides of the burned-out husks of buildings.
Fortunately, as long as I log in and do some work from home I still get paid as if I am working at the office and don't need to use sick leave. I just can't do it more than a day or two a month.
Unfortunately most managers still think if they cannot see you, you are not working. Yet here I am, in full view of management, goofing off on/.
The only way I get to work from home is if I am "sick", so my old "stomach problems" come back every now and then. And I get WAY more work done on those days. But the management still doesn't get a clue.
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True, but my RWOME (real-world old man experience) tells me that only about 10 to 15% of the populace has the ability to really understand basic logic, troubleshooting and decision structures. To us, coding and debugging is easy and natural, to most people it is a bunch of weird magic.
I have many intelligent friends who have taken classes on programming, classes on various aspects of computers, classes on networks, databases, etc. and they just don't "get it." They don't think like we do. Conversely, we don't think like they do. But then a world full of nothing but people like us would drive us all mad. That's the beauty of how we all get along.
And of course, the reason why we can make some good scratch doing easy crap like this.
I've also heard the same thing said about the Japanese. Hugely long work week, but totally shit productivity, but their society is so geared up to it that rebelling is nigh impossible.
Exactly. The company I work for had a large factory in Japan until we sold it because our US factories were so much more efficient.
I spent some time at the Japan facility working with the engineers. Yes, they work long hours. And yet very little productive work is done. But they all get overtime pay (the concept of "exempt employee" is laughable there) so of course they stretch out their work to as many hours as possible. In fact, the only time they seemed to actually work hard was the overtime hours between 6pm and 9pm. But they are all very good at LOOKING like they are working all day. Except between 5pm and 6pm. Apparently that is the universal "goof around, smile and joke with everyone" time over there.
When I worked for IT at the state we often had memory and hard drives (small and valuable back in the 90's) disappear. My boss always made me report it to the cops (state police, in this case) rather than having anyone else in the department do it.
Every single theft I reported I was hauled in for intense interrogation. The cops ALWAYS went with the assumption that I alone did the crime because I reported it, even though there were dozens or even hundreds of people in the department with the same access to the missing equipment. Once I was cuffed to a chair for an hour and questioned for reporting a theft. They will question you about every aspect of your life, financial, personal, professional, sexual, anything. Every time I felt like I was going to end up in prison for reporting the crime. But I did the reporting because my boss asked me to do it and she was a nice lady. She was also black, so I understood why she had me do the reporting. I was the most innocent looking, nerdy, white male in the department so they probably went easiest on me.
Another anecdote: My wife once reported a reckless driver who ran us off the road, license #, make, model, everything. Because she admitted driving onto the shoulder to avoid him, she got a ticket for unsafe driving.
So no, unless your life is in danger and you have no other options, do not talk to the cops.
Research is a tough game. I used to work at a research consortium that was funded by several large corporations. In their heyday in the 80's they made a ton of money inventing actual new things (Diamondvision was one) and spun off successful companies with each big commercial invention. But a lot of the research was pretty humdrum and just went to improved technology (and patents) for the funding companies. Some of the research was promising but still hasn't really paid off. Much of that has been transferred to other organizations since the demise of the organization.
<Rant> How did it die? Someone though it would be good to run it more like a corporation with a big name CEO who knew nothing about technology - seriously, the guy's secretary had to print out his e-mails for him to read, and she typed his handwritten responses back into the computer. He brought on more clueless fucktards at the executive level...and eventually they all bankrupted a well-funded non-profit organization with their huge salaries, perks, bonuses and some outright theft. I managed to leave just a few weeks before one of the executive staff just took several million and left. Because of the dirt he had on the other execs, he was never prosecuted. They are the 1%.
I have a theory that the rash of kids that were injected with HGH to make them taller (because their parents wanted them to be more successful) in the 1980's and 1990's will start dropping dead of heart attacks in about 10-15 years because their hearts did not grow large enough to support their increased height.
I knew several rich kids who's parents got them growth shots when I was a teacher in 1990, and I suspected then that it may not be a good idea. This may be a case where the meek do inherit the earth.
A small "splatter" of mud that changes a 3 into an 8 or a 1 into a 4 works better. And if you get caught...it's not your fault you drove through a puddle.
I doubt the plate scanners are so high-res they will detect such things. It's just OCR.
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Except that civilization will have collapsed by then and their mea culpa posts will be scrawled in charcoal on the sides of the burned-out husks of buildings.
Fortunately, as long as I log in and do some work from home I still get paid as if I am working at the office and don't need to use sick leave. I just can't do it more than a day or two a month.
Yes, because all oil & gas is consumed at low prices in the country where it is produced.
Look up the word "fungible", you may need it in future conversations.
Unfortunately most managers still think if they cannot see you, you are not working. Yet here I am, in full view of management, goofing off on /.
The only way I get to work from home is if I am "sick", so my old "stomach problems" come back every now and then. And I get WAY more work done on those days. But the management still doesn't get a clue.
True, but my RWOME (real-world old man experience) tells me that only about 10 to 15% of the populace has the ability to really understand basic logic, troubleshooting and decision structures. To us, coding and debugging is easy and natural, to most people it is a bunch of weird magic.
I have many intelligent friends who have taken classes on programming, classes on various aspects of computers, classes on networks, databases, etc. and they just don't "get it." They don't think like we do. Conversely, we don't think like they do. But then a world full of nothing but people like us would drive us all mad. That's the beauty of how we all get along.
And of course, the reason why we can make some good scratch doing easy crap like this.
If blu-ray disks were $5 each I would have hundreds of them.
As it is, I have none.
given the online competition, the time of the casino may be over.
Yes, because sitting at your computer gambling alone in your underpants is exactly the same as going to Vegas.
I have a marketing degree with a minor in Astronomy.
I work as a programmer/DBA making over $100k/yr
So yeah, it can be done if you know your stuff.
I've also heard the same thing said about the Japanese. Hugely long work week, but totally shit productivity, but their society is so geared up to it that rebelling is nigh impossible.
Exactly. The company I work for had a large factory in Japan until we sold it because our US factories were so much more efficient.
I spent some time at the Japan facility working with the engineers. Yes, they work long hours. And yet very little productive work is done. But they all get overtime pay (the concept of "exempt employee" is laughable there) so of course they stretch out their work to as many hours as possible. In fact, the only time they seemed to actually work hard was the overtime hours between 6pm and 9pm. But they are all very good at LOOKING like they are working all day. Except between 5pm and 6pm. Apparently that is the universal "goof around, smile and joke with everyone" time over there.
When I worked for IT at the state we often had memory and hard drives (small and valuable back in the 90's) disappear. My boss always made me report it to the cops (state police, in this case) rather than having anyone else in the department do it.
Every single theft I reported I was hauled in for intense interrogation. The cops ALWAYS went with the assumption that I alone did the crime because I reported it, even though there were dozens or even hundreds of people in the department with the same access to the missing equipment. Once I was cuffed to a chair for an hour and questioned for reporting a theft. They will question you about every aspect of your life, financial, personal, professional, sexual, anything. Every time I felt like I was going to end up in prison for reporting the crime. But I did the reporting because my boss asked me to do it and she was a nice lady. She was also black, so I understood why she had me do the reporting. I was the most innocent looking, nerdy, white male in the department so they probably went easiest on me.
Another anecdote: My wife once reported a reckless driver who ran us off the road, license #, make, model, everything. Because she admitted driving onto the shoulder to avoid him, she got a ticket for unsafe driving.
So no, unless your life is in danger and you have no other options, do not talk to the cops.
Who knew Germans could smile so much? They seem almost like real people.
Was that Hymie?
Man, you make those NASA folks sound as smart as a bunch of rocket scientists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grampy
Actually, rollovers are some of the most survivable of crashes...providing the occupants are wearing seat belts.
With all the sites going dark tomorrow, my work production will see a marked rise.
I predict there will be unrest in the middle east.
Sir, your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Wasn't the transnister invented there?
Research is a tough game. I used to work at a research consortium that was funded by several large corporations. In their heyday in the 80's they made a ton of money inventing actual new things (Diamondvision was one) and spun off successful companies with each big commercial invention. But a lot of the research was pretty humdrum and just went to improved technology (and patents) for the funding companies. Some of the research was promising but still hasn't really paid off. Much of that has been transferred to other organizations since the demise of the organization.
<Rant>
How did it die? Someone though it would be good to run it more like a corporation with a big name CEO who knew nothing about technology - seriously, the guy's secretary had to print out his e-mails for him to read, and she typed his handwritten responses back into the computer. He brought on more clueless fucktards at the executive level...and eventually they all bankrupted a well-funded non-profit organization with their huge salaries, perks, bonuses and some outright theft. I managed to leave just a few weeks before one of the executive staff just took several million and left. Because of the dirt he had on the other execs, he was never prosecuted. They are the 1%.
</Rant>
I have a theory that the rash of kids that were injected with HGH to make them taller (because their parents wanted them to be more successful) in the 1980's and 1990's will start dropping dead of heart attacks in about 10-15 years because their hearts did not grow large enough to support their increased height.
I knew several rich kids who's parents got them growth shots when I was a teacher in 1990, and I suspected then that it may not be a good idea. This may be a case where the meek do inherit the earth.
But if we start paying them they'll just be wage slaves!
Can we just go ahead and take that 6 billion you offered earlier and call it squaresies?
This sounds like a preface from APPLE'S playbook.
FTFY.
A small "splatter" of mud that changes a 3 into an 8 or a 1 into a 4 works better. And if you get caught...it's not your fault you drove through a puddle.
I doubt the plate scanners are so high-res they will detect such things. It's just OCR.