And when they do get there, they're actually pretty likely to arrest the victim.
THIS.
In the 1990's I worked for IT at a state agency. It was a large state agency and occasionally valuable IT supplies (memory, HDDs, etc. - stuff that cost real money in the 1990's) would disappear. My boss ALWAYS had me report the thefts/missing items instead of her. Why? I'm white, she was black. I don't blame her at all for doing this.
EVERY time I reported missing equipment I was escorted into a locked room and interrogated by state police for at least half an hour. Twice I was fingerprinted. Once they were going to fucking CUFF ME TO THE CHAIR, but I talked them out of it. Because I REPORTED the theft. Later I would be interrogated again and ANY tiny difference between my answers would be pounced on like they were Perry Mason and I was an accused murderer. For a few thousand bucks in missing equipment each time.
The worst part was I was pretty sure I KNEW who was behind most of the thefts. I told the cops to check the badge-in records from the affected areas at the affected times. I mentioned that this person would show up at work when it wasn't his shift. I mentioned his elaborate spending habits (on a $25K salary) and how he would suddenly have lots of money after we would lose $5000 worth of memory. And yes, they ASKED if I or anyone I knew had large debts or seemed to spend more than they earned. Did he even get questioned? Nope. Who always got the 3rd degree? Me. The person reporting the crime.
Law enforcement is fairly broken if these are the super geniuses running things.
Pfft. I learned in the 70's on BASIC, Pascal and other procedural languages that ruined me for years. Fortran on punch cards? Did it.
Now I have to learn new languages for nearly every new project. It's not so hard. If you have good basic logic skills all languages are pretty easy to learn.
Tip: Become a consultant/contractor when you are old and wise.
This is the same problem with the TSA: 75% of Americans only fly about once every 5 to 10 years. So they don't care about the groping. In fact, most haven't even been to an airport since the groping started.
Here is the real reason people go into specific careers, especially women: From TFA: I’d say I was able to make more friends through things like the dorm than in my Computer Science classes. But that means that I can’t really talk to my friends about the stuff I do for my classes, which is frustrating.
Women tend to value social activities and communication far more than men. Women want to be able to talk to other women about common interests. So if fewer women are in a field, fewer women will go into a field for lack of women to communicate with in that field.
You get a critical mass above a certain percentage, and the number of women increases rapidly, it drops below a certain percentage, and the number drops even faster. Simple social phenomenon.
Engineers are pretty much trained to have an end-of-life plan for everything they design and build nowadays. Doesn't mean it will happen that way. In my company we are still using equipment that we planned on scrapping years ago.
So you say because one poll said one thing and another poll said another, we should trust the first poll more? Had Kerry won under the same circumstances, what would you be saying?
The issue here isn't who won or lost, it's the fact that the system used is highly flawed.
So what people really need are finished projects from mechanical engineers Do you even know what a septic system is?
You can make one that will last hundreds of years with virtually no maintenance if you have a shovel and some clay to make a few pipes and some bricks to line a tank. I have built them (albeit with concrete and pvc pipe) in a couple of days by myself.
Water purification can be done with a solar still made from discarded plastic bottles.
A well is a hole in the ground.
I'm curious as to what you think requires a mechanical engineer for such things.
What most of the "needy" world needs is clean water and proper waste disposal. The fact is a proper septic system is very easy to construct and will eliminate 90% of the water contamination problems in many areas.
Study how to build simple septic systems, wells and water purification systems. That's what people really need.
Yes, these places really are "bad." Many years ago a female friend tried to rent a TV just for a month, and they scammed her into rent-to-own (she was only 20, not familiar with contract legalese) and even after she paid the last payment (after a year, coming out to 3X the price of the TV overall) they tried to claim she never paid all the payments and tried to take back the TV.
I intervened, got screamed at and threatened by the store manager, who even grabbed my arm roughly to throw me out. Had there not been several other customers in the store, my words "that looks like assault to me" might have been ignored as most of the sales people looked like ex-football players.
So yes, these places are designed to be bad, and commonly follow blatantly illegal practices.
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I've got some mockingbirds on my property that perfectly mimic my landline phone's ring.
Annoyed the crap out of me until I just learned to stop running back in the house to answer the phone when I heard it ring.
Spoken like a true engineer.
At the factory where I work we have hundreds of robots. We couldn't make semiconductors without them.
Can any human maneuver a silicon wafer within fractions of a micron of a target? Can they do this hundreds of times an hour, 24 hours a day?
No. This is what robots do, not humans.
And call it Slashdoc.org.
And when they do get there, they're actually pretty likely to arrest the victim.
THIS.
In the 1990's I worked for IT at a state agency. It was a large state agency and occasionally valuable IT supplies (memory, HDDs, etc. - stuff that cost real money in the 1990's) would disappear. My boss ALWAYS had me report the thefts/missing items instead of her. Why? I'm white, she was black. I don't blame her at all for doing this.
EVERY time I reported missing equipment I was escorted into a locked room and interrogated by state police for at least half an hour. Twice I was fingerprinted. Once they were going to fucking CUFF ME TO THE CHAIR, but I talked them out of it. Because I REPORTED the theft. Later I would be interrogated again and ANY tiny difference between my answers would be pounced on like they were Perry Mason and I was an accused murderer. For a few thousand bucks in missing equipment each time.
The worst part was I was pretty sure I KNEW who was behind most of the thefts. I told the cops to check the badge-in records from the affected areas at the affected times. I mentioned that this person would show up at work when it wasn't his shift. I mentioned his elaborate spending habits (on a $25K salary) and how he would suddenly have lots of money after we would lose $5000 worth of memory. And yes, they ASKED if I or anyone I knew had large debts or seemed to spend more than they earned. Did he even get questioned? Nope. Who always got the 3rd degree? Me. The person reporting the crime.
Law enforcement is fairly broken if these are the super geniuses running things.
I'm-a go out this evening and fire every damn laser pointer I gots into the air tonight...It may not work but it will drive the cats completely nuts.
When I told them I was going to be a poop scientist!
Until something DOES happen, and they call YOU to fix it. Because you're the "computer guy."
More like the Howard Hughes last will and testament of the 21st century.
This guy makes a good Melvin Dumar.
Come on folks, don't disappoint me.
Pfft. I learned in the 70's on BASIC, Pascal and other procedural languages that ruined me for years. Fortran on punch cards? Did it.
Now I have to learn new languages for nearly every new project. It's not so hard. If you have good basic logic skills all languages are pretty easy to learn.
Tip: Become a consultant/contractor when you are old and wise.
Exactly. Every desk in every office in the world generally has a PC on it. Granted, many are docked laptops, but they are PCs.
So someone could have been a real journalist last week with a small amount of Google skills. Got it.
'Nuff Said.
This is the same problem with the TSA: 75% of Americans only fly about once every 5 to 10 years. So they don't care about the groping. In fact, most haven't even been to an airport since the groping started.
Here is the real reason people go into specific careers, especially women:
From TFA:
I’d say I was able to make more friends through things like the dorm than in my Computer Science classes. But that means that I can’t really talk to my friends about the stuff I do for my classes, which is frustrating.
Women tend to value social activities and communication far more than men. Women want to be able to talk to other women about common interests.
So if fewer women are in a field, fewer women will go into a field for lack of women to communicate with in that field.
You get a critical mass above a certain percentage, and the number of women increases rapidly, it drops below a certain percentage, and the number drops even faster. Simple social phenomenon.
Engineers are pretty much trained to have an end-of-life plan for everything they design and build nowadays. Doesn't mean it will happen that way. In my company we are still using equipment that we planned on scrapping years ago.
So you say because one poll said one thing and another poll said another, we should trust the first poll more? Had Kerry won under the same circumstances, what would you be saying?
The issue here isn't who won or lost, it's the fact that the system used is highly flawed.
The secret word: LBJ
-oh all right, Julie Andrews.
So what people really need are finished projects from mechanical engineers
Do you even know what a septic system is?
You can make one that will last hundreds of years with virtually no maintenance if you have a shovel and some clay to make a few pipes and some bricks to line a tank. I have built them (albeit with concrete and pvc pipe) in a couple of days by myself.
Water purification can be done with a solar still made from discarded plastic bottles.
A well is a hole in the ground.
I'm curious as to what you think requires a mechanical engineer for such things.
YES, this.
What most of the "needy" world needs is clean water and proper waste disposal. The fact is a proper septic system is very easy to construct and will eliminate 90% of the water contamination problems in many areas.
Study how to build simple septic systems, wells and water purification systems. That's what people really need.
As long as I can get a cat that will tell me exactly what it wants instead of me having to figure it out, I'm good.
Then they can apply that gene to women.
Yep, us farmers should all move to the big city.
It's not like all this technology helps us farm more efficiently and keep your food prices down.
Yes, these places really are "bad." Many years ago a female friend tried to rent a TV just for a month, and they scammed her into rent-to-own (she was only 20, not familiar with contract legalese) and even after she paid the last payment (after a year, coming out to 3X the price of the TV overall) they tried to claim she never paid all the payments and tried to take back the TV.
I intervened, got screamed at and threatened by the store manager, who even grabbed my arm roughly to throw me out. Had there not been several other customers in the store, my words "that looks like assault to me" might have been ignored as most of the sales people looked like ex-football players.
So yes, these places are designed to be bad, and commonly follow blatantly illegal practices.
He wants his lightsaber practice sphere back.