Well, yeah, but unlike more developed countries citizens, my fall will be way shorter. The closer you are to the bottom, the lesser the pain.
I've had shitty jobs in the past and I don't shy away from taking a shitty job again and heavily decreasing my (and my family's) quality of life. It's something I expect to happen, and unlike others, I won't uselessly protest the change, rather understand its inevitability and go with the flow, trying to stay on top of it.
Time shall tell. For now, the difference between us is attitude towards the changing life style.
Oh yeah, me too. As it is right now, it's overly simplistic. I wouldn't mind paying royalties for a few songs which are worth it. but you can't. Oh well...
Youtube also has checks in place to figure out whether the soundtrack matches a copyrighted one. Of course, it's relatively easy to fool (change tone a bit or alter the soundtrack just a tiny fraction), but unaltered songs get automatically silenced. I know because I tried uploading a World of Tanks Clan Parade video I made which had "Diesel Power" by Prodigy as soundtrack. As soon as the upload finished, I received a notification that the soundtrack was copyrighted and bang, movie with no sound.
Interestingly, the same algorythm they use made me stop uploading Audiosurf captures; Audiosurf is a game allowing you to "race" a track uniquely generated from a song you choose. After ending up with a few nice captures which were muted, I said screw it and stopped.
Well get this: - You say McJobs are not an acceptable employment solution for an American. Maybe it's true. This is exactly why corporations move various types of jobs abroad: because you don't want them. - I'd take a McJob employment in the US, because I don't mind living with 3 other people in a 2-room flat for a few months (years, if needed) and in the meantime apply for jobs I'm actually qualified for. You wouldn't. - That's why you feel "invaded" by foreigners: because that McJob you loathe is a gold mine for someone else.
Understandably, this scared people to death, what with mortgages and all.
See, that's the key word. Mortgages and debts. There's been this "assumption" that you can buy know and pay later without considering the possibility that the economy might go south and you might end up losing your job. It happened before ('29-'33) but people forgot. Now they face pretty bad times; but those times wouldn't be that bad if they wouldn't have gone deep in debt.
Globalization, whether you like it or not, has thrown in another factor that people could barely comprehend 20 years ago: cheap, active, efficient laborers who can do what US citizens could do, but faster, with less complaints and for a 5th (maybe even a 10th) of a regular US salary. It's nobody's fault, really; it's just the world opening up.
Sure, you could blame it on greedy corporations, but it's just like you being offered a house just like the one you have, but for a 5th/10th of its regular price. It's a no-brainer: "sure, I'll get one!". Companies go where they can produce the same shit for less dough, just like you would go where you could buy the same shit for less dough. Morality ain't nothing to do with it. It's economy, commerce, capitalism. Wild but very, very real. Also, if you deny its trends you'll only get hit harder when it's going to hit you, and it will do so.
We've all (1st world countries) lived on borrowed money. Now people who we despised (3rd world countries) and pitied come and gladly take whatever we frowned upon (dirty jobs, low wages, ugly neighborhoods); not only that, but they are happy with them, because those mean more to them than what's been available before this or that corporation opened offices in their countries and started outsourcing stuff.
Not only that, but many of those people have the same brain size and learning capacity; they have the same skills and if not, are willing to learn them (and they learn them faster than you'd expect!); they accept what you'd consider petty payments and they sometimes end up outsmarting their trainers and US-based colleagues. How do you compete with that? Except for making fun of their MTI (http://dhanyasn.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/mother-tongue-influence-the-disease/), nothing really. Maybe it's time to realize hard times are coming; maybe not now, maybe not in 5 or 10 years, but during your lifetime, yes (unless you're really, REALLY old). You'll get "invaded" by foreigners accepting lower payments but doing the same job, and successfully. Your jobs will be "stolen" by them. And they're many.
Don't blame any of them. Blame the times, blame technology (oh yes!), because it made supersonic planes available, and huge, HUGE transport ships, and instantaneous communication anywhere in the world. Its advantages are balanced by the sheer amount of 3rd world country people who now have a shot at "the american dream", and, dear oh dear, they throw themselves over it, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Disclaimer: I'm one of those people. And funnily enough, in my country, there are people coming from poorer countries who already take some of our jobs as well. But they're not going to catch me pants down!
It's not a felony in my country; electronic messaging is not really well covered by law. As long as you have obtained the credentials from someone else, as a passive recipient, you don't break any laws. I would have, if I altered anything (the country law covers that), but as far as reading electronic data if you have the credentials, that's no felony whatsoever around here.
I haven't accessed that e-mail in a good year now, and frankly don't see why I would get back there.
And yeah, messing with someone else's life brings nothing but trouble. I have warned a good friend once about his girlfriend being very slutty, he never talked to me ever since (not even after they divorced because she fucked pretty much everyone she could). Not worth the hassle. If they find out, they better find out themselves, and if not, again, not my problem.
Well it's simple really. I don't know the guy. Also, maybe she has changed ever since, it's been 11 years; people change. Your mentality is "once a criminal, always a criminal". I believe in second chances. Besides, why would I ruin a possibly perfect marriage? Out of spite? Maybe a good couple months after she messed my life I would have had that. Now, it's all bleak, but distant memories. As for her current husband exposed to whatever, not my problem. Me and her have been strangers for so many years.
As for "wife training", I simply have told her that my machine holds stuff I worked hard for (lots of various work that I've accomplished) and that I wouldn't want that data to disappear. I'm not touching her netbook (unless she asks me to fix stuff), she ain't touching my PC. I also backed up her data to my PC, including her personal diary, which I'm not going to ever read because I think she is entitled to have personal, private, her-eyes-only data.
Years ago, a girl I loved dumped me after 7 years of relationship and a few months later, her sister's ex-boyfriend contacted me and gave me her e-mail address password. Reading her e-mails was... informative. I found out that she'd been cheating on me and her other boyfriend with some other men (complicated, I know!), and other nice things related to her present job. She and her sister shared lots of... amazing things in e-mail exchanges.
It was an informative reading because it basically opened a somewhat secret world to me: the mind of a woman (two, actually), transferred electronically into Yahoo Mail.
I was smart enough to not alter the account at all, but print out those e-mail exchanges and log in every now and then to find out what's new. Her current husband would LOVE to see those. But I've gotten over the hurt; I came to realize it won't really help anyone.
Still, I sometimes log in to see what's new. Interesting reads, I tell ya.
But as far as me and my wife go, I know her e-mail credentials but she doesn't know mine (not that I kept them secret but she never remembers them). Also I admit I leave my home computer on, with my GMail e-mail tab open, so she doesn't even need a password. I trust her enough to let her browse my e-mail if she feels the urge. She never feels the urge though because she ain't touching my computer with a 10-foot pole (proper wife training does that). But leaving my e-mail open helped me in a couple situations, e.g. when that damned Blackberry outage occurred and I had no way to access the Internet but urgently needed some info from my e-mail account.
Well, I guess what I'm saying doesn't apply to teens, but then again, I figured from experience that their e-mail/Facebook accounts are full of crap anyway, so really, nothing of value is lost if their accounts go FUBAR because of shared passwords:)
I agree on the ribbon though - it is a menu, just one that stays open all of the time and presents larger targets. I'm not totally convinced that it's better than menus + toolbar, because the hierarchical nature of it means that you need more mouse clicks and movement to use two actions that are on different menus. The only real complaint about it I have is the amount of screen real-estate it takes up - this is not a problem on a desktop, but Word on a laptop with a smallish screen ends up with less than 50% of the screen usable for actually displaying the document...
Um... position your mouse over the ribbon and start scrolling, you don't even have to click to go through different tabs. And you can hide it with one click as well. Point is... UIs can be well designed and badly designed; this is not equal with simple versus complex; I've seen great complex UIs and badly designed simple UIs, as well as pretty much everything in between.
People believe they're special, but they evolved something that they narcissitically believe is "intelligence". Do they treat their little planet with care? I don't think so. And they kill each other with glee, and deny the world around them, waiting for magical-thinking to become real.
Um... Intelligence does not equate Wisdom. So yeah, humans are intelligent. Are they wise enough? Hell no.
Um, nothing conventional would move over thawed tundra, indeed. If you think trucks and the like. But if you think about other means of transportation (and there are plenty) it suddenly becomes possible.
That's because both politicians AND industrialists just see lots of fast profit from permafrost thawing, namely more usable land (and whatever might reside beneath). What would happen with the planet 100 years from now is irrelevant to them; they will be all dead at that time.
Your comment raises another interesting question: when does someone cease to be a child? At 21, when they are allowed to drink alcohol? At 18, like in Europe? At 16, when they are allowed to drive a car? At 14, when they get their ID card (at least here in RO)? Or are these all, um, I don't know, standard ages that don't really reflect anything? I remember being more mature at 14 than most of my school mates; I was interested in the same things and activities people aged 20-24 were usually performing (except sex, that was still blurry to me, of course). I was rather lonely at school because of that. Even now, in my low 30s, I would rather spend time with people aged 40+ because they better fit my areas of interest and I have more productive discussions with them. So please... I was perfectly able to function as an adult at 16. On the other hand, some people can't properly function as adults even after reaching 40. It's down to the human being itself; so when a government applies a blanket law like this I call bullshit. "Everyone under age of 16 shouldn't play games after midnight" - probably holds true up to some extent. But actually forbidding it - that's dangerously close to dictatorship.
So you're aiming for sports for the sake of sports? So if I like football but I'm not really good at it, I should consider switching to boxing because it's a niche in my school? Good job. Why not actually offer your kids alternatives without pushing them into one direction or other?
Well there's one thing that never worked for me: Using UbuntuOne from behind a transparent HTTP proxy. Which means none of my Ubuntu work machines could use UbuntuOne. Last time I checked (granted, a while back), they said it's a "known issue" and will be "addresed". Or maybe it's something entirely different. I don't care what's happening in the background. All I need is for the damn solution to work:)
Funny thing is: I live in what many people call a 3rd world country (Romania) and I have no data caps on my Internet; and nobody I know has any data cap on their Internet line. Of course, mobile data is capped, but everything else isn't.
Avira has this bad habit of detecting some files as malware (e.g. scene game cracks) although they don't exhibit infection. I personally submitted a few of these files to Avira for review and they confirmed no infection is found, but it's an "illegal" modification of a legit file so it stays as flagged for warnings in their VDTs. Now I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this reeks of shady deals to "reduce" piracy. I should change my Avira Free antivirus but I'm too lazy to go through a couple restarts and installing something else. Maybe Avast, which I gave up because it had this voice update notification enabled by default and scared me to death one night by yelling at me "VIRUS DEFINITIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED!". Also, they don't understand that "Always Ignore" should NOT mean "Ignore for the duration of THIS session only".
Slashdot Mirror
Well, yeah, but unlike more developed countries citizens, my fall will be way shorter. The closer you are to the bottom, the lesser the pain.
I've had shitty jobs in the past and I don't shy away from taking a shitty job again and heavily decreasing my (and my family's) quality of life. It's something I expect to happen, and unlike others, I won't uselessly protest the change, rather understand its inevitability and go with the flow, trying to stay on top of it.
Time shall tell. For now, the difference between us is attitude towards the changing life style.
Oh yeah, me too. As it is right now, it's overly simplistic. I wouldn't mind paying royalties for a few songs which are worth it. but you can't.
Oh well...
Youtube also has checks in place to figure out whether the soundtrack matches a copyrighted one. Of course, it's relatively easy to fool (change tone a bit or alter the soundtrack just a tiny fraction), but unaltered songs get automatically silenced. I know because I tried uploading a World of Tanks Clan Parade video I made which had "Diesel Power" by Prodigy as soundtrack. As soon as the upload finished, I received a notification that the soundtrack was copyrighted and bang, movie with no sound.
Interestingly, the same algorythm they use made me stop uploading Audiosurf captures; Audiosurf is a game allowing you to "race" a track uniquely generated from a song you choose. After ending up with a few nice captures which were muted, I said screw it and stopped.
Well get this:
- You say McJobs are not an acceptable employment solution for an American. Maybe it's true. This is exactly why corporations move various types of jobs abroad: because you don't want them.
- I'd take a McJob employment in the US, because I don't mind living with 3 other people in a 2-room flat for a few months (years, if needed) and in the meantime apply for jobs I'm actually qualified for. You wouldn't.
- That's why you feel "invaded" by foreigners: because that McJob you loathe is a gold mine for someone else.
So true.
Here's three more "brain freakers" for the GP:
- I don't own a car;
- I don't have a driver's license;
- I don't watch, own or need a TV.
Understandably, this scared people to death, what with mortgages and all.
See, that's the key word. Mortgages and debts.
There's been this "assumption" that you can buy know and pay later without considering the possibility that the economy might go south and you might end up losing your job. It happened before ('29-'33) but people forgot. Now they face pretty bad times; but those times wouldn't be that bad if they wouldn't have gone deep in debt.
Globalization, whether you like it or not, has thrown in another factor that people could barely comprehend 20 years ago: cheap, active, efficient laborers who can do what US citizens could do, but faster, with less complaints and for a 5th (maybe even a 10th) of a regular US salary. It's nobody's fault, really; it's just the world opening up.
Sure, you could blame it on greedy corporations, but it's just like you being offered a house just like the one you have, but for a 5th/10th of its regular price. It's a no-brainer: "sure, I'll get one!". Companies go where they can produce the same shit for less dough, just like you would go where you could buy the same shit for less dough. Morality ain't nothing to do with it. It's economy, commerce, capitalism. Wild but very, very real. Also, if you deny its trends you'll only get hit harder when it's going to hit you, and it will do so.
We've all (1st world countries) lived on borrowed money. Now people who we despised (3rd world countries) and pitied come and gladly take whatever we frowned upon (dirty jobs, low wages, ugly neighborhoods); not only that, but they are happy with them, because those mean more to them than what's been available before this or that corporation opened offices in their countries and started outsourcing stuff.
Not only that, but many of those people have the same brain size and learning capacity; they have the same skills and if not, are willing to learn them (and they learn them faster than you'd expect!); they accept what you'd consider petty payments and they sometimes end up outsmarting their trainers and US-based colleagues. How do you compete with that? Except for making fun of their MTI (http://dhanyasn.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/mother-tongue-influence-the-disease/), nothing really. Maybe it's time to realize hard times are coming; maybe not now, maybe not in 5 or 10 years, but during your lifetime, yes (unless you're really, REALLY old). You'll get "invaded" by foreigners accepting lower payments but doing the same job, and successfully. Your jobs will be "stolen" by them. And they're many.
Don't blame any of them. Blame the times, blame technology (oh yes!), because it made supersonic planes available, and huge, HUGE transport ships, and instantaneous communication anywhere in the world. Its advantages are balanced by the sheer amount of 3rd world country people who now have a shot at "the american dream", and, dear oh dear, they throw themselves over it, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Disclaimer: I'm one of those people. And funnily enough, in my country, there are people coming from poorer countries who already take some of our jobs as well. But they're not going to catch me pants down!
Have you checked your word definition generator lately? It's clearly defective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking
Ah. Sounds legit now :D
It's not a felony in my country; electronic messaging is not really well covered by law. As long as you have obtained the credentials from someone else, as a passive recipient, you don't break any laws. I would have, if I altered anything (the country law covers that), but as far as reading electronic data if you have the credentials, that's no felony whatsoever around here.
I haven't accessed that e-mail in a good year now, and frankly don't see why I would get back there.
And yeah, messing with someone else's life brings nothing but trouble. I have warned a good friend once about his girlfriend being very slutty, he never talked to me ever since (not even after they divorced because she fucked pretty much everyone she could). Not worth the hassle. If they find out, they better find out themselves, and if not, again, not my problem.
Well it's simple really.
I don't know the guy. Also, maybe she has changed ever since, it's been 11 years; people change. Your mentality is "once a criminal, always a criminal". I believe in second chances. Besides, why would I ruin a possibly perfect marriage? Out of spite? Maybe a good couple months after she messed my life I would have had that. Now, it's all bleak, but distant memories.
As for her current husband exposed to whatever, not my problem. Me and her have been strangers for so many years.
As for "wife training", I simply have told her that my machine holds stuff I worked hard for (lots of various work that I've accomplished) and that I wouldn't want that data to disappear. I'm not touching her netbook (unless she asks me to fix stuff), she ain't touching my PC. I also backed up her data to my PC, including her personal diary, which I'm not going to ever read because I think she is entitled to have personal, private, her-eyes-only data.
And nope, no trolling whatsoever.
Years ago, a girl I loved dumped me after 7 years of relationship and a few months later, her sister's ex-boyfriend contacted me and gave me her e-mail address password.
Reading her e-mails was... informative. I found out that she'd been cheating on me and her other boyfriend with some other men (complicated, I know!), and other nice things related to her present job. She and her sister shared lots of... amazing things in e-mail exchanges.
It was an informative reading because it basically opened a somewhat secret world to me: the mind of a woman (two, actually), transferred electronically into Yahoo Mail.
I was smart enough to not alter the account at all, but print out those e-mail exchanges and log in every now and then to find out what's new. Her current husband would LOVE to see those. But I've gotten over the hurt; I came to realize it won't really help anyone.
Still, I sometimes log in to see what's new. Interesting reads, I tell ya.
But as far as me and my wife go, I know her e-mail credentials but she doesn't know mine (not that I kept them secret but she never remembers them). Also I admit I leave my home computer on, with my GMail e-mail tab open, so she doesn't even need a password. I trust her enough to let her browse my e-mail if she feels the urge. She never feels the urge though because she ain't touching my computer with a 10-foot pole (proper wife training does that). But leaving my e-mail open helped me in a couple situations, e.g. when that damned Blackberry outage occurred and I had no way to access the Internet but urgently needed some info from my e-mail account.
Well, I guess what I'm saying doesn't apply to teens, but then again, I figured from experience that their e-mail/Facebook accounts are full of crap anyway, so really, nothing of value is lost if their accounts go FUBAR because of shared passwords :)
What, between themselves? :)
PERV!
...but... isn't beer enough already?
I agree on the ribbon though - it is a menu, just one that stays open all of the time and presents larger targets. I'm not totally convinced that it's better than menus + toolbar, because the hierarchical nature of it means that you need more mouse clicks and movement to use two actions that are on different menus. The only real complaint about it I have is the amount of screen real-estate it takes up - this is not a problem on a desktop, but Word on a laptop with a smallish screen ends up with less than 50% of the screen usable for actually displaying the document...
Um... position your mouse over the ribbon and start scrolling, you don't even have to click to go through different tabs. And you can hide it with one click as well.
Point is... UIs can be well designed and badly designed; this is not equal with simple versus complex; I've seen great complex UIs and badly designed simple UIs, as well as pretty much everything in between.
People believe they're special, but they evolved something that they narcissitically believe is "intelligence". Do they treat their little planet with care? I don't think so. And they kill each other with glee, and deny the world around them, waiting for magical-thinking to become real.
Um... Intelligence does not equate Wisdom.
So yeah, humans are intelligent. Are they wise enough? Hell no.
Um, nothing conventional would move over thawed tundra, indeed. If you think trucks and the like.
But if you think about other means of transportation (and there are plenty) it suddenly becomes possible.
That's because both politicians AND industrialists just see lots of fast profit from permafrost thawing, namely more usable land (and whatever might reside beneath).
What would happen with the planet 100 years from now is irrelevant to them; they will be all dead at that time.
Your comment raises another interesting question: when does someone cease to be a child? At 21, when they are allowed to drink alcohol? At 18, like in Europe? At 16, when they are allowed to drive a car? At 14, when they get their ID card (at least here in RO)? Or are these all, um, I don't know, standard ages that don't really reflect anything?
I remember being more mature at 14 than most of my school mates; I was interested in the same things and activities people aged 20-24 were usually performing (except sex, that was still blurry to me, of course). I was rather lonely at school because of that. Even now, in my low 30s, I would rather spend time with people aged 40+ because they better fit my areas of interest and I have more productive discussions with them.
So please... I was perfectly able to function as an adult at 16. On the other hand, some people can't properly function as adults even after reaching 40.
It's down to the human being itself; so when a government applies a blanket law like this I call bullshit.
"Everyone under age of 16 shouldn't play games after midnight" - probably holds true up to some extent. But actually forbidding it - that's dangerously close to dictatorship.
So you're aiming for sports for the sake of sports? So if I like football but I'm not really good at it, I should consider switching to boxing because it's a niche in my school?
Good job.
Why not actually offer your kids alternatives without pushing them into one direction or other?
Well there's one thing that never worked for me: Using UbuntuOne from behind a transparent HTTP proxy. Which means none of my Ubuntu work machines could use UbuntuOne. :)
Last time I checked (granted, a while back), they said it's a "known issue" and will be "addresed".
Or maybe it's something entirely different. I don't care what's happening in the background. All I need is for the damn solution to work
Thanks :) :)
I knew who both Georges are, but wasn+t aware that people track currency bills.
Good info
Sorry for living in another country, but what's a WheresGeorge?
Funny thing is: I live in what many people call a 3rd world country (Romania) and I have no data caps on my Internet; and nobody I know has any data cap on their Internet line.
Of course, mobile data is capped, but everything else isn't.
Avira has this bad habit of detecting some files as malware (e.g. scene game cracks) although they don't exhibit infection. I personally submitted a few of these files to Avira for review and they confirmed no infection is found, but it's an "illegal" modification of a legit file so it stays as flagged for warnings in their VDTs.
Now I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this reeks of shady deals to "reduce" piracy.
I should change my Avira Free antivirus but I'm too lazy to go through a couple restarts and installing something else. Maybe Avast, which I gave up because it had this voice update notification enabled by default and scared me to death one night by yelling at me "VIRUS DEFINITIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED!".
Also, they don't understand that "Always Ignore" should NOT mean "Ignore for the duration of THIS session only".
Hello, anonymous colleague!