Perhaps divert some of that bailout money/warmongering money to your education system?
Haven't you heard? Helping out regular folks is socialism. The only way to fund universities now days would be to offer security/loans on their endowment investments so they could play the market with a bit more risk.
Same thing happens for outdoor and even indoor gun ranges. Gun range has been in use for decades, developer chops up land next to it, sells homes and then HOA breaks out the lawyers. Kinda' sucks.
I miss my full auto Tec-22 with 100 round mags and micro-explosive bullets (didn't do a lot of damage individually but if you could keep a bunch of them on target...
In college, I worked at a small instrument shop that made dashboard gauges for GM and Ford. We had less than 50 people, weren't based in Detroit, and paid decent wages at the time. This was back in the 80's; no idea if such small parts shops are still around today.
I currently work at a place that does research and small run manufacturing and there's several blocks of small shops and support business around us. 'Course, this is a gov't sponsored shop and as we're all aware, gov't spending doesn't really help the economy. If they'd just give enough tax breaks and relax regulations, all this work would be done just the same as now only it wouldn't be dirty gov't money making it happen.
Increase pay but reduce working hours? If most jobs are set for 20 hours a week but pay twice what they are now, can employ more people but then employment costs go up twice as much for businesses.
This! Got a nice, easy going Mac support job at a college where I was quickly able to help the Sun admin and the network admin. Afterwards, they had no problem putting assistant network admin/system admin on resume. Sure, didn't pay great and no chance of promotion but was most laid back work environment I've seen. Oh yeah, most places offer free tuition in place of decent pay. Can finish up a degree if you have time or at least pick up some free certs.
Oh yeah, just about every job I got came from knowing someone already working in the industry (Honeywell job came about when I got to talking computers with a couple of guys at a funeral. Go figure). Other jobs came from knowing folks in SCA. If you're into any hobby that tends to attract geeks (re-enactment, cosplay, SF, gaming, etc.) put the word out that you're looking for a job. Will be surprised at doors a personal recommendation can open.
Hate to tell you this but if you want to do corporate/employee based work, you'll likely have to start at the bottom and get something solid on your resume. I'm in same boat; futzing with computers since late 70's, no degree, free lance work in 90's. I finally took a 1 year contract job with Honeywell (email support) and once that was on resume, was able to get more contract/corporate gigs and now, after 15 years, am finally doing work I like (cluster server admin). So, should I have finished up my degree back in early '90's instead of taking the (at the time) easy money? Yeah, probably. But hey, it's all about Journey, right?
My workplace seems to be moving away from printers. Anecdotal: just moved offices and all files fit in one box and that's after 6 years in original office. All our training, HR stuff, etc is all online now.
'Course, everyone's picking up iPads so wonder what the footprint of those devices are vs printers/paper/toner.
Yup, my HP LJ1200 is still humming along. I've replaced the paper tray twice and torn it down to clean off rollers and touch up the initial paper grabber thing with some of that secretary finger sticky stuff they use to flip through papers. And have only used 3 cartridges since I got this in early Oughts.
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FTFY
Use some nuke pumped x-ray lasers mounted on the nose and point her downward? Hot Needle of Inquiry indeed!
Maybe they'll roll out an auto-update of XP to Win7? I wonder how they'll handle the auto-debiting of bank accounts.
*golf clap*
Perhaps divert some of that bailout money/warmongering money to your education system?
Haven't you heard? Helping out regular folks is socialism. The only way to fund universities now days would be to offer security/loans on their endowment investments so they could play the market with a bit more risk.
Shouldn't cars be fusion powered in 20 years?
A total looser!
Same thing happens for outdoor and even indoor gun ranges. Gun range has been in use for decades, developer chops up land next to it, sells homes and then HOA breaks out the lawyers. Kinda' sucks.
Not to mention crossing the T behind an enemy ship and being able to shoot up it's relatively unprotected backside. That could be messy.
I don't want a truck stuck to mah head!
I bought my first Kensington Turbo Trackball for Marathon. Having four programable buttons and pool ball instead of the trackball was nice.
I miss my full auto Tec-22 with 100 round mags and micro-explosive bullets (didn't do a lot of damage individually but if you could keep a bunch of them on target...
Get your filthy hands off mah desert!
(or dessert for you USian holiday types)
In college, I worked at a small instrument shop that made dashboard gauges for GM and Ford. We had less than 50 people, weren't based in Detroit, and paid decent wages at the time. This was back in the 80's; no idea if such small parts shops are still around today.
I currently work at a place that does research and small run manufacturing and there's several blocks of small shops and support business around us. 'Course, this is a gov't sponsored shop and as we're all aware, gov't spending doesn't really help the economy. If they'd just give enough tax breaks and relax regulations, all this work would be done just the same as now only it wouldn't be dirty gov't money making it happen.
Increase pay but reduce working hours? If most jobs are set for 20 hours a week but pay twice what they are now, can employ more people but then employment costs go up twice as much for businesses.
Yup, same here; want to be on a jury. 'Course, I'm a veteran, NRA member, and a democrat. No one will ever allow me on one.
It could let the dinosaurs out and then they'd be in the surface world... 6000M underwater... um... What was the problem?
Not to mention getting all that radiation out into space. Why can't Earthlings keep their pollution on Earth?
This! Got a nice, easy going Mac support job at a college where I was quickly able to help the Sun admin and the network admin. Afterwards, they had no problem putting assistant network admin/system admin on resume. Sure, didn't pay great and no chance of promotion but was most laid back work environment I've seen. Oh yeah, most places offer free tuition in place of decent pay. Can finish up a degree if you have time or at least pick up some free certs.
Oh yeah, just about every job I got came from knowing someone already working in the industry (Honeywell job came about when I got to talking computers with a couple of guys at a funeral. Go figure). Other jobs came from knowing folks in SCA. If you're into any hobby that tends to attract geeks (re-enactment, cosplay, SF, gaming, etc.) put the word out that you're looking for a job. Will be surprised at doors a personal recommendation can open.
Hate to tell you this but if you want to do corporate/employee based work, you'll likely have to start at the bottom and get something solid on your resume. I'm in same boat; futzing with computers since late 70's, no degree, free lance work in 90's. I finally took a 1 year contract job with Honeywell (email support) and once that was on resume, was able to get more contract/corporate gigs and now, after 15 years, am finally doing work I like (cluster server admin). So, should I have finished up my degree back in early '90's instead of taking the (at the time) easy money? Yeah, probably. But hey, it's all about Journey, right?
My workplace seems to be moving away from printers. Anecdotal: just moved offices and all files fit in one box and that's after 6 years in original office. All our training, HR stuff, etc is all online now.
'Course, everyone's picking up iPads so wonder what the footprint of those devices are vs printers/paper/toner.
CLJ2500 series? I remember when those first came out and were total dogs.
Yup, my HP LJ1200 is still humming along. I've replaced the paper tray twice and torn it down to clean off rollers and touch up the initial paper grabber thing with some of that secretary finger sticky stuff they use to flip through papers. And have only used 3 cartridges since I got this in early Oughts.
But, but, I have well water. What's the frequency?