Nah, this is good. As soon as someone other than the US is getting the most benefit from patent and copyright, you just watch the US agitate for a change....
Actually I don't think you do understand correctly. The poster is saying that the US has lots of things to be ashamed of so those in the US shouldn't be denigrating Chinese business practice as it comes across as hypocritical.
Just for the record, from the comments I have read a fair amount of slashdotters are Aussie. But that may just be because they come out of the woodwork when you talk about our great southern land in some way.
Actually it probably helps when networking to stay in the same place. I have lived in 36 different places (across 7 different major cities in the UK and Australia) in my life, across many different cities. As I said, it doesn't bother me whether I have a network or not, which is probably why I have been happy to live in 36 different places.
I do invoices for both me and the missus. She is far to cavalier for my liking, despite having an obsessively detailed technical job:o).
It shouldn't, but it is. I have been turned down for roles due to age (I am nearing 50) even though I am quite happy to move cities and technologies, and love new tech etc. We all get tarred with the same brush it would seem, even if my KDR on BF3 is better than yours and I can pull an all-nighter coding my latest game or simulation.
Great to hear a success story. And it is very sage advice to ALWAYS leave on good terms regardless of the circumstances. A word of caution though. This path probably only works for natural networkers, or at least people who are able to also work as salespeople.
If you run your own businsess, whatever it is, you have to be a salesperson unless you hire one.
For the record I am not. In fact I rarely remember peoples names, and don't really care either way.
But is it that ridiculous? The guy is living in fear of losing his job, and the fact that he is hating the office politics means that he is not cut out for management.
Fuck me. If he is the only breadwinner in the family they should damn well do what they are told and bathe in the creek if that is what is required. Or get some gumption and get work for themselves.
He is 40 and doesn't own his own home, despite working as a white collar worker his whole life. Let's face it, unless he changes his life path it is not looking too rosy is it?
I have worked in IT my whole life and am approaching 50 with an expensive divorce behind me. I have land and a house in the country and am working to be able to get the fuck out of society within ten years. It seems like the only sensible thing to me.
This is true of any enterprise over a certain size. The only way to avoid it is to work in an organisation small enough that fuckwittedness cannot go unnoticed.
Specialised knowledge is not limited to your sector. I have worked for government for the last 10 years and that is pretty much all I get any interest for nowadays. I have previously worked in retail and found it pretty much the same (although poorer paid).
I have worked in low latency (or zero latency as Tandem liked to call it), but it was online financial transactions - I thin you will find that the telco sector are also very interested in those skills as well, particularly if you have exposure to billing systems. Not sure that the tech is super-cool though - you may just be showing your age:o)
Moving into management can just make you the first out of the door when the next range of cuts come, unless you know how to climb over the corpses of your line managers.
When a 40+ family man has to stay up til 4am writing code just to stay employed to feed his family it makes you wonder why we ever got down from the trees doesn't it?
Remember that next time you use your democratic vote for your billionaire-funded candidate of your choice.
Then you haven't read what I have read, or haven't taken it in. There has been quite a bit of useful advice: 1) The wife should get work - more than one income = greater security 2) Get into an area of the bank that is high value and obscure 3) Go contracting. 4) Drastically reduce costs
I have no idea why your post has been modded interesting, but all of the above are worth a go, even if 3) is high risk without 1), but as you say in this economic climate things are uncertain.
My golden rule has always been: Spend what you need, not what you earn. This means that as you earn more money, don't just upgrade the car/house/family/holidays etc as if your new income is the norm. Work out what you need. The rest goes into assets. For a rainy day, or for retirement, which ever comes first.
Not such a good move when he is the sole breadwinner. Which is his biggest problem - choosing to have a partner not working in this day and age is like having a servant. A bloody luxury, and one that makes you so much more dependent on your employer. And you should never let yourselve be in an unequal power relationship for long because you are gonna get yourself rogered big time.
Actually the poorest countries have large families because the women are uneducated and there is a high mortality rate. Solve those two problems in any society and the birth rate plummets.
What I don't understand is why operating systems should even care about a second here or there. Surely it is sufficient for them ignore the fact that a leap second is going to occur and just set their clocks to the correct time next time they synch to their time source?
You get six strikes and you will see that they ARE doing something to the internet, or at least your access to it.
Ask yourself, why does the RIAA get special powers of guilty until prove innocent on the internet. Do they get the same powers over the postal service, or the highways?
If you are breaking the law, the correct procedure is to go through the legal process.
This law may well have the (un)intended consequence of shutting down free wi-fi as well.
This is mod-ed insightful? Where is the insight in what was posted. It is just ranting.
Any student of South America will know full well that the US and other western powers have meddled in South America for a very long time, and ensured that they never formed a unified block like the USA.Had they done so they may well have ended up as rich and powerful as the northern powers - they certainly have the resources.
Given all this I would stay that the current South American crop of leaders are well within reason when they blame the west for many, if not most, of their problems.
Maybe in your eyes mate. I, and a lot of other Australians I know, still hold him in the highest regard. He has been sticking it to the man (not just the US interestingly, Wiki-leaks have and will publish leaks from wherever they get them) and I hope he continues to do so from Ecuador.
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Nah, this is good. As soon as someone other than the US is getting the most benefit from patent and copyright, you just watch the US agitate for a change....
Maybe he meant that he wanted to get sniper sights on them.
Actually I don't think you do understand correctly. The poster is saying that the US has lots of things to be ashamed of so those in the US shouldn't be denigrating Chinese business practice as it comes across as hypocritical.
Just for the record, from the comments I have read a fair amount of slashdotters are Aussie. But that may just be because they come out of the woodwork when you talk about our great southern land in some way.
Actually it probably helps when networking to stay in the same place. I have lived in 36 different places (across 7 different major cities in the UK and Australia) in my life, across many different cities. As I said, it doesn't bother me whether I have a network or not, which is probably why I have been happy to live in 36 different places.
I do invoices for both me and the missus. She is far to cavalier for my liking, despite having an obsessively detailed technical job :o).
Is the universe made of particles?
It shouldn't, but it is. I have been turned down for roles due to age (I am nearing 50) even though I am quite happy to move cities and technologies, and love new tech etc. We all get tarred with the same brush it would seem, even if my KDR on BF3 is better than yours and I can pull an all-nighter coding my latest game or simulation.
I would have thought a depressed market is exactly the time to buy a house. Can always rent it out if he has to move.
And it is not so easy to "roll where the cash is" when you have a family and schooling to consider.
Great to hear a success story. And it is very sage advice to ALWAYS leave on good terms regardless of the circumstances. A word of caution though. This path probably only works for natural networkers, or at least people who are able to also work as salespeople.
If you run your own businsess, whatever it is, you have to be a salesperson unless you hire one.
For the record I am not. In fact I rarely remember peoples names, and don't really care either way.
But is it that ridiculous? The guy is living in fear of losing his job, and the fact that he is hating the office politics means that he is not cut out for management.
Fuck me. If he is the only breadwinner in the family they should damn well do what they are told and bathe in the creek if that is what is required. Or get some gumption and get work for themselves.
He is 40 and doesn't own his own home, despite working as a white collar worker his whole life. Let's face it, unless he changes his life path it is not looking too rosy is it?
I have worked in IT my whole life and am approaching 50 with an expensive divorce behind me. I have land and a house in the country and am working to be able to get the fuck out of society within ten years. It seems like the only sensible thing to me.
Wish I had ++ mod points.
The world would be a much better place if people didn't think income = expenditure
Because then the people doing the employing would have less power, and we would ALL be better off.
This is true of any enterprise over a certain size. The only way to avoid it is to work in an organisation small enough that fuckwittedness cannot go unnoticed.
Specialised knowledge is not limited to your sector. I have worked for government for the last 10 years and that is pretty much all I get any interest for nowadays. I have previously worked in retail and found it pretty much the same (although poorer paid).
I have worked in low latency (or zero latency as Tandem liked to call it), but it was online financial transactions - I thin you will find that the telco sector are also very interested in those skills as well, particularly if you have exposure to billing systems. Not sure that the tech is super-cool though - you may just be showing your age :o)
Moving into management can just make you the first out of the door when the next range of cuts come, unless you know how to climb over the corpses of your line managers.
When a 40+ family man has to stay up til 4am writing code just to stay employed to feed his family it makes you wonder why we ever got down from the trees doesn't it?
Remember that next time you use your democratic vote for your billionaire-funded candidate of your choice.
Then you haven't read what I have read, or haven't taken it in. There has been quite a bit of useful advice:
1) The wife should get work - more than one income = greater security
2) Get into an area of the bank that is high value and obscure
3) Go contracting.
4) Drastically reduce costs
I have no idea why your post has been modded interesting, but all of the above are worth a go, even if 3) is high risk without 1), but as you say in this economic climate things are uncertain.
My golden rule has always been: Spend what you need, not what you earn. This means that as you earn more money, don't just upgrade the car/house/family/holidays etc as if your new income is the norm. Work out what you need. The rest goes into assets. For a rainy day, or for retirement, which ever comes first.
Not such a good move when he is the sole breadwinner. Which is his biggest problem - choosing to have a partner not working in this day and age is like having a servant. A bloody luxury, and one that makes you so much more dependent on your employer. And you should never let yourselve be in an unequal power relationship for long because you are gonna get yourself rogered big time.
Just because she is enjoying it does not mean that she is a hottie.
Actually the poorest countries have large families because the women are uneducated and there is a high mortality rate. Solve those two problems in any society and the birth rate plummets.
What I don't understand is why operating systems should even care about a second here or there. Surely it is sufficient for them ignore the fact that a leap second is going to occur and just set their clocks to the correct time next time they synch to their time source?
95% of bands aren't making money because the supply side of the equation is larger than the demand side.
I love playing computer games. People won't pay to watch me play. Life is so unfair; why won't society subsidise something I willingly do for free?
So why not do away with the courts all together and apply the same rules to all crimes?
Maybe the legal system is flawed and needs fixing, not bypassing.
You get six strikes and you will see that they ARE doing something to the internet, or at least your access to it.
Ask yourself, why does the RIAA get special powers of guilty until prove innocent on the internet. Do they get the same powers over the postal service, or the highways?
If you are breaking the law, the correct procedure is to go through the legal process.
This law may well have the (un)intended consequence of shutting down free wi-fi as well.
The US want him for a crime that was not committed within what the UK would recognise as their jurisdiction.
He is not a US citizen, the wiki-leaks servers are not in the US, and what they want him for did not occur in the US.
This is mod-ed insightful? Where is the insight in what was posted. It is just ranting.
Any student of South America will know full well that the US and other western powers have meddled in South America for a very long time, and ensured that they never formed a unified block like the USA.Had they done so they may well have ended up as rich and powerful as the northern powers - they certainly have the resources.
Given all this I would stay that the current South American crop of leaders are well within reason when they blame the west for many, if not most, of their problems.
"has reduced Assange's credibility to zero"
Maybe in your eyes mate. I, and a lot of other Australians I know, still hold him in the highest regard. He has been sticking it to the man (not just the US interestingly, Wiki-leaks have and will publish leaks from wherever they get them) and I hope he continues to do so from Ecuador.