I can second everything that the parent has said. And to add, many of the side effects that the drug company said happens to less than 1% of folks was a complete lie.
I had a specialist prescribe me Paxil and I wanted to go off it - it was making me gain weight (40+ lbs and I run and swim!). To make a long story short, I had horrible withdrawal symptoms. The "specialist" said that doesn't happen. On his recommendation, I went to my internist to be tested for MS. She did and found nothing. She then said it was the Paxil. She sees it all the time! WTF?! It was like that with every SSRI I was on: I always got the very rare side effects.
And another thing, come to find out, my exercise was just as effective as the meds. I didn't need them. And I read more and more studies that come out the old and generically available ant-depressants are just as effective and in some cases more effective than the new ones that have come out over the last decade.
I'm now on a yoga, weights, running, swimming, sex with wife anti-depressant plan that working much better and is much much cheaper.
Co-ops, condominiums, small towns, and civic centers are just a few examples of ideas which obtain their strength from the community rather than the individual.
You mean where everyone is in your business, if you deviate one bit from the rules (use a different color paint), do something the others do not approve of, ostracise you if you're in anyway a little too "different", or otherwise not conform, you're fucked.
Even if humans were never selfish and always worked for the betterment of everyone, communism/socialism doesn't adequately handle scarce resources.
Thank you!
The Tragedy of the Commons is a perfect example of what happens when everyone or no one owns a resource. Also, there hasn't been any economic system that has been as successful as Capitalism. And there hasn't been any country that has had a successful Communist political system.
But, the OP posted a brilliant hedge: he italicized "ideal"; which means, all of our posts disputing his claims are for naught.
No, I think the Indians need to offshore their blogging to the US where there is more freedoms of speech. What is it the economists call it? Comparative advantage?
If there is any discrepancy between data sets, those folks are going to use it as proof that Global Warming is a hoax. Like this businessman, well he is in the business of climate, I guess that makes him an "expert" to some people and qualifying him to call Global Warming a hoax.
Out of principle, I refuse to use any product with an exclamation point its name. Join me, and let's fight this marketing evil together.
I'm starting a movement to get rid of the _@_ symbol. This has worked with other symbols on products. Most notably the '*' with the Pentax' "*ist" line of cameras. Everybody hated that name!
I'd like to sign up as an ally organization for banning '@', '!' and the '&' in product names. We may get the guys who were against the '*' reactivated and the guys against '#'. Unfortunately, the cartoonists have will give us some grief because their livelihoods depend on "^%$*^&&@$&%". So expect them to give us a bit of a fight. Oh, and General Mills will come after us for the '&'.
In wake of the widespread disbelief expressed across the Chinese internet with regard to the official explanation that a 24-year-old man died from serious brain injuries while playing hide-and-seek in a detention center...
Um, a 24 year old playing a kid's game. That's believable? Did I misread TFA?
What, the next time they'll say a guy died from playing patty-cake in prison?
This is so disappointing! I mean, after the lawyers take their fees and after I spend a half hour filling out the forms, I was expecting that $1.87! Now, I'll have to return that bottle of Coke I bought with my expected winnings.
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...or do you want others to determine your identity?
I am a very private person and I do not share much information about myself. Anyway, one day, I showed up at a function with a girlfriend. Folks were a bit surprised because they all thought I was gay. Talk about folks determining your identity! I have also been accused of being an alcoholic because I do not like to talk about what I do between jobs.
I don't think a person should blab every minute detail about their life, but it is important to share a few things about yourself otherwise folks assume the worst. I have gone a bit far in preserving my privacy and as a result, it has hurt me because folks just assume I have a lot to hide.
Impulse buying! Kinda like that $999 "I'm rich" application or whatever it was. It's typical of...
Alrighty.
I'm stopping myself now because, to be honest, I really, really want to post something that's, well, "Flamebait" or "Troll" to Apple users. It's an issue of mine. I was an abused child.
It might be that I'm jealous of folks with the discretionary income to buy those stylish electronic gizmos that really aren't necessary for everyday life or for life in general. Or for the fact that I have Back Turtle Neck envy. I wish I could look as good as Jobs in one of those.I wish I could look that good balding! unlike Jobs who looks cool balding, I look like a dog with bad mange.
Only if MS makes a sneak attack against/. in Hawaii. That's will get us into the war. Until then, most Slashdotters are isolationists. We're perfectly happy with Firefox, Opera, etc...
Guess I'm going back to Adobe 5.1 again. And yes, I still have the install.
Ewww! The older ones where such pigs! They took up more memory than they should and they took a long time to come up. I have 9.0 and it sure comes up so much faster than previous version!
I guess I'll just be careful about whose PDFs I open.
Shit, I forgot. Everything else you mentioned is out of control for most folks in this industry.
1. Your company is less likely to send managerial positions over seas.
2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold.
3. If you're in a managerial position, being fully trained on new technology is not necessary. You only need to know enough to properly manage your associates.
4. New college graduates do not have the experience needed to effectively and efficiently manage.
5. Ok, so you can't do too much about absurd deadline demands. This is not unique to IT by any means. But with higher levels of experience comes more bargaining power.
Nope.
Either you have had some great experiences or I have had some really shitty ones; either or, I completely disagree with you.
2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold.
Hahahaha. No. Most folks stay in tech and do nothing else. In the meantime, their management experience is nothing.
"Should". Who says? You? So what you're saying is, staying in tech is worthless? Experience in the tech world is meaningless. I have plenty of experience with distributed applications design, but now, who needs it when you can get an SOA app that does exactly what I used to develop - from scratch.
No sir. Experience only gets you so far in this industry.
I would even venture that you don't know what you're doing that you can't sustain your career on your skills alone and have to use methods like this to maintain your employment.
Wait till:
Your company decides to send the work you're doing overseas.
You get over 40.
Your company decides that it is switching technology and is unwilling to train you.
Your company decides that it needs new college graduates because they are the ones that are up to date with current technology.
You burn out after having to work 60 hours a week for several years straight. Not necessarily because you have to, but because the bosses equate time in the office with amount of work and the fact that they always give unreasonable deadlines.
You will change your tune.
Other than that, I agree with you. Competing in the Global economy, especially in IT, is extremely difficult and competitive. I don't care what you do or how good you are, one day, you will lose out to cheaper folks overseas - exception: defence work. It is inevitable.
Indoor rabbit ears and UHF doesn't propagate as well as the longer wave lengths.
Just as well.There isn't much good on TV these days anyway. Even the PBS stuff is getting kind of shitty - they take an hour to show and explain things that can be done in 10 minutes. Also, some of the nature shows are so depressing: shows loss of habitat, people in Third World countries who believe that Tiger Penis soup will give them a hard-on (when it's their cigarette smoking causing their impotence), catching and slicing off shark fins and throwing the poor things back in the water, poisoning reefs to catch stuff for Western reef aquariums, etc... all stuff that I can't do a damn thing about.
I'm in a spot were I'm at least 20 miles from any TV broadcast so nothing really comes in well - lots of the blocking, no sound and many times the "no signal" floating box. Oh, my microwave disrupts the TV signal.
So I don't have to install it. There are still too many websites or sections of those websites out there that will not work with anything but IE - Neflix's "Watch Instantly" for example. Microsoft's website isn't completely functional without IE - yeah, big surprise there.
I see a few posts above that say something to the affect of you don't want to work for a company that can't tell the difference or whatever. That's a nice sentiment to say but the reality is, considering the hundreds of resumes of qualified candidates that a HR department will get, they will NOT spend the time sorting it out. And most likely they outsource the pre-screening to a firm that pays shit to a bunch of clerks and gives them a completely unreasonable quota; meaning that the clerks googling you are going to throw your resume away at the first negative hit and move on. Don't fool yourself in thinking that you're so great that they'll give you a closer look - especially in this economy.
Is it legal? I have no idea, but let's say it is; prove you've been wronged.
But I don't think that they can legally use somebody else's actions against a prospective employee.
Let's say you're correct and they do use it. How do you prove it? They can always find a reason not to hire you. My favourite: your skills don't match.
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I had a specialist prescribe me Paxil and I wanted to go off it - it was making me gain weight (40+ lbs and I run and swim!). To make a long story short, I had horrible withdrawal symptoms. The "specialist" said that doesn't happen. On his recommendation, I went to my internist to be tested for MS. She did and found nothing. She then said it was the Paxil. She sees it all the time! WTF?! It was like that with every SSRI I was on: I always got the very rare side effects.
And another thing, come to find out, my exercise was just as effective as the meds. I didn't need them. And I read more and more studies that come out the old and generically available ant-depressants are just as effective and in some cases more effective than the new ones that have come out over the last decade.
I'm now on a yoga, weights, running, swimming, sex with wife anti-depressant plan that working much better and is much much cheaper.
Co-ops, condominiums, small towns, and civic centers are just a few examples of ideas which obtain their strength from the community rather than the individual.
You mean where everyone is in your business, if you deviate one bit from the rules (use a different color paint), do something the others do not approve of, ostracise you if you're in anyway a little too "different", or otherwise not conform, you're fucked.
People are cruel, shallow, and small minded.
What do you mean "understanding"? They have no idea of the existence of F/OSS, let alone understand it.
Even if humans were never selfish and always worked for the betterment of everyone, communism/socialism doesn't adequately handle scarce resources.
Thank you! The Tragedy of the Commons is a perfect example of what happens when everyone or no one owns a resource. Also, there hasn't been any economic system that has been as successful as Capitalism. And there hasn't been any country that has had a successful Communist political system.
But, the OP posted a brilliant hedge: he italicized "ideal"; which means, all of our posts disputing his claims are for naught.
Portable assembly language: I think it's called 'Forth'.
For the Libertarians:
No, I think the Indians need to offshore their blogging to the US where there is more freedoms of speech. What is it the economists call it? Comparative advantage?
If there is any discrepancy between data sets, those folks are going to use it as proof that Global Warming is a hoax. Like this businessman, well he is in the business of climate, I guess that makes him an "expert" to some people and qualifying him to call Global Warming a hoax.
Out of principle, I refuse to use any product with an exclamation point its name. Join me, and let's fight this marketing evil together.
I'm starting a movement to get rid of the _@_ symbol. This has worked with other symbols on products. Most notably the '*' with the Pentax' "*ist" line of cameras. Everybody hated that name! I'd like to sign up as an ally organization for banning '@', '!' and the '&' in product names. We may get the guys who were against the '*' reactivated and the guys against '#'. Unfortunately, the cartoonists have will give us some grief because their livelihoods depend on "^%$*^&&@$&%". So expect them to give us a bit of a fight. Oh, and General Mills will come after us for the '&'.
In wake of the widespread disbelief expressed across the Chinese internet with regard to the official explanation that a 24-year-old man died from serious brain injuries while playing hide-and-seek in a detention center...
Um, a 24 year old playing a kid's game. That's believable? Did I misread TFA?
What, the next time they'll say a guy died from playing patty-cake in prison?
This is so disappointing! I mean, after the lawyers take their fees and after I spend a half hour filling out the forms, I was expecting that $1.87! Now, I'll have to return that bottle of Coke I bought with my expected winnings.
...or do you want others to determine your identity?
I am a very private person and I do not share much information about myself. Anyway, one day, I showed up at a function with a girlfriend. Folks were a bit surprised because they all thought I was gay. Talk about folks determining your identity! I have also been accused of being an alcoholic because I do not like to talk about what I do between jobs.
I don't think a person should blab every minute detail about their life, but it is important to share a few things about yourself otherwise folks assume the worst. I have gone a bit far in preserving my privacy and as a result, it has hurt me because folks just assume I have a lot to hide.
Alrighty.
I'm stopping myself now because, to be honest, I really, really want to post something that's, well, "Flamebait" or "Troll" to Apple users. It's an issue of mine. I was an abused child.
It might be that I'm jealous of folks with the discretionary income to buy those stylish electronic gizmos that really aren't necessary for everyday life or for life in general. Or for the fact that I have Back Turtle Neck envy. I wish I could look as good as Jobs in one of those.I wish I could look that good balding! unlike Jobs who looks cool balding, I look like a dog with bad mange.
Oh, never mind!
Only if MS makes a sneak attack against /. in Hawaii. That's will get us into the war. Until then, most Slashdotters are isolationists. We're perfectly happy with Firefox, Opera, etc...
Guess I'm going back to Adobe 5.1 again. And yes, I still have the install.
Ewww! The older ones where such pigs! They took up more memory than they should and they took a long time to come up. I have 9.0 and it sure comes up so much faster than previous version!
I guess I'll just be careful about whose PDFs I open.
1. Your company is less likely to send managerial positions over seas. 2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold. 3. If you're in a managerial position, being fully trained on new technology is not necessary. You only need to know enough to properly manage your associates. 4. New college graduates do not have the experience needed to effectively and efficiently manage. 5. Ok, so you can't do too much about absurd deadline demands. This is not unique to IT by any means. But with higher levels of experience comes more bargaining power.
Nope.
Either you have had some great experiences or I have had some really shitty ones; either or, I completely disagree with you.
2. At age 40, you should have aquired experience that makes your time more valuable than gold.
Hahahaha. No. Most folks stay in tech and do nothing else. In the meantime, their management experience is nothing.
"Should". Who says? You? So what you're saying is, staying in tech is worthless? Experience in the tech world is meaningless. I have plenty of experience with distributed applications design, but now, who needs it when you can get an SOA app that does exactly what I used to develop - from scratch.
No sir. Experience only gets you so far in this industry.
You are replaceable - no exceptions.
I would even venture that you don't know what you're doing that you can't sustain your career on your skills alone and have to use methods like this to maintain your employment.
Wait till:
You will change your tune.
Other than that, I agree with you. Competing in the Global economy, especially in IT, is extremely difficult and competitive. I don't care what you do or how good you are, one day, you will lose out to cheaper folks overseas - exception: defence work. It is inevitable.
Just as well.There isn't much good on TV these days anyway. Even the PBS stuff is getting kind of shitty - they take an hour to show and explain things that can be done in 10 minutes. Also, some of the nature shows are so depressing: shows loss of habitat, people in Third World countries who believe that Tiger Penis soup will give them a hard-on (when it's their cigarette smoking causing their impotence), catching and slicing off shark fins and throwing the poor things back in the water, poisoning reefs to catch stuff for Western reef aquariums, etc... all stuff that I can't do a damn thing about.
I'm in a spot were I'm at least 20 miles from any TV broadcast so nothing really comes in well - lots of the blocking, no sound and many times the "no signal" floating box. Oh, my microwave disrupts the TV signal.
Grandma has cable - no worries.
Somebody fucked with you. They mapped port 587 on that machine to port 666.
why is it a good idea?
So I don't have to install it. There are still too many websites or sections of those websites out there that will not work with anything but IE - Neflix's "Watch Instantly" for example. Microsoft's website isn't completely functional without IE - yeah, big surprise there.
Is it legal? I have no idea, but let's say it is; prove you've been wronged.
Something has to be done. You can't let it lie.
But I don't think that they can legally use somebody else's actions against a prospective employee.
Let's say you're correct and they do use it. How do you prove it? They can always find a reason not to hire you. My favourite: your skills don't match.