The problem is that Europe introduced American economic conditions without first replacing the European mentality of a need for financial security with the "what could go wrong" happy-go-lucky mentality of the Americans.
We only reproduce when we can afford it, ya know...
Meetings can be done right, but it needs work. Just inviting people and hoping for the best is going to waste a lot of time.
1) Meetings without a WRITTEN(!!!) agenda are useless. Write an agenda so people know what's going to be discussed and (this is the important bit here) STICK WITH IT! No tangents. No "but can we also". This is what we're talking here and now, if you want to talk about something else, invite for a meeting yourself.
2) Make sure everything is important to everyone at the table Security does not care whether the webpage is in green or lime. Marketing does not care about whether the database is Postgres or Oracle. Make sure that everyone at the table is involved in what is being discussed.
3) Invite to the time table This ties into 2), most of the time you can't invite for singular topics, but you can create a time table and stick to it. Anything that cannot be discussed in the time allotted needs to be taken into a separate meeting instead of being discussed broadly while everyone else at the table is bored and wishes they brought their laptop so they could do some meaningful work. Invite to the minute, if necessary, in my experience, inviting to 15 minutes intervals works well. That way people know to be on time if they want to have a say in what affects them and they know that their time is being used well.
Yes, this is met with INSANE resistance. Especially by the "I'm meeting, thus I exist" people and those that love to spend hours in meeting so they can avoid doing any meaningful work (i.e. managers), but you get results.
Thanks for the compliment, no, English is actually my third language. I just have a pretty good spellchecker, I guess.
The "we" in that signature is mostly owed to the space limitation of signatures on/.. "we" is shorter than "people in the US and by extension on the rest of the planet because, well, you see, what the US does eventually has some sort of effect on how governments all over the globe behave".
Take a step back and ponder for a moment: How much of this do you really want?
I happen to have Amazon Prime, mostly for my shipping needs (in my country, without you can expect your stuff to arrive within 2-3 weeks). So I use this on the side for video. Do I get everything I want? Probably not. But then again, I'm not someone who MUST see "his" show. I watch what's offered. So I don't get to see, I don't know, Game of Thrones or Star Trek. Ok. Accepted. Whatever. If I really feel like it, I'll get the DVD box after the season is done. And I'll get that DVD box within 2-3 days of ordering it.
I don't even mind the ones that tell their audience that they get paid for a certain statement. At least they get paid and not YouTube (after demonetizing the video, so they don't have to share with the one doing the actual work).
There are quite a few channels with about 100k, maybe 300k subscribers that do produce decent quality that are far from being save from demonetization (quite the opposite).
This. It's quite odd to heard this when you're living in Europe where this is pretty much unheard of. Mostly because it's illegal to cold call people and con them.
That's at least what keeps me teethered to Windows.
With games, it gets better. Especially with indie games that rely on development tools like UE or Unity that can easily compile for either platform usually see release for many platforms. But gaming hardware is still a huge problem. Drivers for gaming keyboards or mice are rare, and the few that do exist are mostly half-assed afterthoughts that barely deliver the basic function of the device. If you're looking at anything more specialized like steering wheels or head tracking devices, you're SOL.
This ranking compares apples with oranges. In a country with a higher tax rate you will of course have a lower disposable income, but at the same time also lower expenses that gobble up that disposable income. How much do you pay for an operation? Probably more than the zero I pay for one. Do you have to put some of that disposable money aside for retirement? I don't.
We're not talking about the depression, we're talking about the 60s. Because until the 60s, things were actually improving for the average family in the US. From then on it went downhill.
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The problem is that Europe introduced American economic conditions without first replacing the European mentality of a need for financial security with the "what could go wrong" happy-go-lucky mentality of the Americans.
We only reproduce when we can afford it, ya know...
What? If you genetically engineer out immoral and unethical mentality, how do you plan to fill the C-Levels of corporations?
Won't somebody please think of the corporations!
This. This consequence is far from "unintended".
Patreon works for me, so I stopped looking...
If you bothered to follow the subthread, you might notice that I responded to a person asking what good it is if you can't make calls.
But thanks for providing once again that slashdot readers prefer knee-jerk reactions to actually following a thread.
Meetings can be done right, but it needs work. Just inviting people and hoping for the best is going to waste a lot of time.
1) Meetings without a WRITTEN(!!!) agenda are useless.
Write an agenda so people know what's going to be discussed and (this is the important bit here) STICK WITH IT! No tangents. No "but can we also". This is what we're talking here and now, if you want to talk about something else, invite for a meeting yourself.
2) Make sure everything is important to everyone at the table
Security does not care whether the webpage is in green or lime. Marketing does not care about whether the database is Postgres or Oracle. Make sure that everyone at the table is involved in what is being discussed.
3) Invite to the time table
This ties into 2), most of the time you can't invite for singular topics, but you can create a time table and stick to it. Anything that cannot be discussed in the time allotted needs to be taken into a separate meeting instead of being discussed broadly while everyone else at the table is bored and wishes they brought their laptop so they could do some meaningful work. Invite to the minute, if necessary, in my experience, inviting to 15 minutes intervals works well. That way people know to be on time if they want to have a say in what affects them and they know that their time is being used well.
Yes, this is met with INSANE resistance. Especially by the "I'm meeting, thus I exist" people and those that love to spend hours in meeting so they can avoid doing any meaningful work (i.e. managers), but you get results.
Nah, any old nuke would do, I ain't picky.
Thanks for the compliment, no, English is actually my third language. I just have a pretty good spellchecker, I guess.
The "we" in that signature is mostly owed to the space limitation of signatures on /.. "we" is shorter than "people in the US and by extension on the rest of the planet because, well, you see, what the US does eventually has some sort of effect on how governments all over the globe behave".
Do you really want telemarketers to have yet another way to get a "local" number so Bob from Bangalore can inform you that you owe money to the IRS?
Take a step back and ponder for a moment: How much of this do you really want?
I happen to have Amazon Prime, mostly for my shipping needs (in my country, without you can expect your stuff to arrive within 2-3 weeks). So I use this on the side for video. Do I get everything I want? Probably not. But then again, I'm not someone who MUST see "his" show. I watch what's offered. So I don't get to see, I don't know, Game of Thrones or Star Trek. Ok. Accepted. Whatever. If I really feel like it, I'll get the DVD box after the season is done. And I'll get that DVD box within 2-3 days of ordering it.
The only way to get rid of Comcast, I guess.
Now when has that become relevant again?
It's a matter of magnitude.
I vote nukes.
You can't show tits! Imagine, kids might see it! Tits ain't for kids!
I've been there. It is a shithole. No interest in coming back any time soon, don't worry.
That's what Patreon and similar services are for. Pay for the content you enjoy. I can very well support such a system.
Of course that means that I have exactly zero problems with my consciousness anymore when using an adblocker for YouTube.
I don't even mind the ones that tell their audience that they get paid for a certain statement. At least they get paid and not YouTube (after demonetizing the video, so they don't have to share with the one doing the actual work).
There are quite a few channels with about 100k, maybe 300k subscribers that do produce decent quality that are far from being save from demonetization (quite the opposite).
This. It's quite odd to heard this when you're living in Europe where this is pretty much unheard of. Mostly because it's illegal to cold call people and con them.
In other words, it's the second best solution to simply nuking the call centers.
Next step, getting a 1-900 number. Here, tthey can call me any time, and talk with me for as long as they want to.
That's at least what keeps me teethered to Windows.
With games, it gets better. Especially with indie games that rely on development tools like UE or Unity that can easily compile for either platform usually see release for many platforms. But gaming hardware is still a huge problem. Drivers for gaming keyboards or mice are rare, and the few that do exist are mostly half-assed afterthoughts that barely deliver the basic function of the device. If you're looking at anything more specialized like steering wheels or head tracking devices, you're SOL.
For anything important, Windows has long expired.
This ranking compares apples with oranges. In a country with a higher tax rate you will of course have a lower disposable income, but at the same time also lower expenses that gobble up that disposable income. How much do you pay for an operation? Probably more than the zero I pay for one. Do you have to put some of that disposable money aside for retirement? I don't.
We're not talking about the depression, we're talking about the 60s. Because until the 60s, things were actually improving for the average family in the US. From then on it went downhill.