All of the books he co-wrote with CM Kornbluth were great -
The Space Merchants Gladiator at Law Wolfbane Search the Sky (the least good IMHO)
Remember the conversation between Green, Charleworth and Mundin:...
Charlesworth: "She wants to free the slaves, she says. Talks about Mr Lincoln!" Green: "We Fixed Mr Lincoln's Wagon, Mr Charlesworth" C: "We did, Mrs Green. And we will Fix Her Wagon too."...
C: "We hate you, Mundin. You said we were not God Almighty." G: "Atheist!"
Is this guy delusional? Work to live, don't live to work.
"We've received some worrying reviews on your performance. We have arrived to the conclusion that you aren't compromised with the project nor the enterprise. We're afraid your kind of profile isn't in sync with our current needs and we will be forced to let you go. Thank you for your years of work and dedication."
Or, if you have a closer relationship with your HR department: "There's no need for you to come on Monday. I hope you'll find somewhere else to work to live."
Fuck no. Use email for work - we want a trace for fucks sake.
Return email etiquette: When you receive an email from a Baby Boomer, reply using a similar format. If they begin with “Hi Joe” in every email, then you return every email with “Hello Eric”. If they end every email with a letter-like ending such as “Best wishes”, “Best”, “Thanks”, or another equivalent, return your emails with the same courtesy.
Oh fuck, I bet this guy top-posts.
Discuss technology at an appropriate level: As you read this, note that it’s coming from a life-long techie, former CIO and current CTO of a company I started. It’s easy for Gen X’ers and Gen Y’ers that grew up using technology to technically overpower those who did not grow up on technology. We are digital immigrants and you are digital natives. There is a difference.
WTF? People older than me invented all this shit! I don't have to be worried abot some kid blinding me with anything other than bullshit.
Work hard: Baby Boomers have an extremely strong work ethic.
Is this guy delusional? Work to live, don't live to work.
And who do you think the UK trusts more, France or China?
[Hacker and Sir Humphrey are taling about the bomb...]
Hacker: Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they?
Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?
Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.
Sir Humphrey: It's to protect us against the French!
Hacker: The French?! But that's astounding!
Sir Humphrey: Why?
Hacker: Well they're our allies, our partners.
Sir Humphrey: Well, they are now, but they've been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years. If they've got the bomb, we must have the bomb!
Hacker: If it's for the French, of course, that's different. Makes a lot of sense.
Sir Humphrey: Yes. Can't trust the Frogs.
Hacker: You can say that again!
The minor problem being that the UK has no nukes (bombs) of it's own.
Back in the '70s they demonstrated that they could make one, then made a deal with the US not to do it again in return for getting US designed ones built for them.
With the tiny string attached that they can only be used with US agreement. ("Dual key").
Trying to be a sovereign power on the cheap - often doesn't work out how you'd want it to.
In Australia we had one corrupt idiot, in charge of an ethics commitee no less, go the extra mile there. He posted a shot of the head of his penis flopping in a glass of red wine.
And this is a problem how?
Wait - the wine was Australian wasn't it? If it was something good I could see where the problem lies.
wark International, USA, 2011: Had a half-metre ethernet cable confiscated as a potential weapon. Me: "Weapon? Huh?" Bitchy old TSA lady: "You could strangle somebody with that thing." Me: "That would have never occurred to me in a million years, until you suggested it just now. Well done."
Were you wearing a tie?
I assume you had to take of your belt to pass the metal detector, but did they give it back to you after?
President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from D.C. public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School.
Owner of MacDonalds refuses to let his children eat there.
Frankly I think elected representatives should be forced by law to only use publicly provided education, health care and so on (and I don't mean the sick US system where Congressmen and Senators get top level health care provided for free by the government then vote against providing the same facilities for everyone else).
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All of the books he co-wrote with CM Kornbluth were great -
The Space Merchants
Gladiator at Law
Wolfbane
Search the Sky (the least good IMHO)
Remember the conversation between Green, Charleworth and Mundin: ...
Charlesworth: "She wants to free the slaves, she says. Talks about Mr Lincoln!" ...
Green: "We Fixed Mr Lincoln's Wagon, Mr Charlesworth"
C: "We did, Mrs Green. And we will Fix Her Wagon too."
C: "We hate you, Mundin. You said we were not God Almighty."
G: "Atheist!"
The point about current idiot speak usage of "fag" and "gay" is that they don't mean "homosexual".
"That's so gay" means :"that is crappy/stupid"
and "you fag" means "you loser" not "you homosexual".
That's what's offensive.
Is this guy delusional? Work to live, don't live to work.
"We've received some worrying reviews on your performance. We have arrived to the conclusion that you aren't compromised with the project nor the enterprise. We're afraid your kind of profile isn't in sync with our current needs and we will be forced to let you go. Thank you for your years of work and dedication."
Or, if you have a closer relationship with your HR department:
"There's no need for you to come on Monday. I hope you'll find somewhere else to work to live."
Nice try, but I''m the boss :-)
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know people of sane mind and body, that are preparing by stocking up on canned goods. And it's the American government that they're scared of,
No you don't.
Even if you're crazy enough to imagine the feds are out to get you stocking up canned goods cannot be regarded as a sane response.
So those people aren't "of sane mind and body".
Yup, it's those old fags who keep using the offensive language - it's so gay.
I do miss some of the perqs of the past: private offices, beer at lunch...
Beer?
Bottle of Bordeaux.
And yes, I do have a private office.
Every generation says to their children: "we were better mannered, we didn't have premarital sex, we didn't have teenage sex,
My parents were married at 18. I was born 7 months after the marriage.
bloody irresponsable I call it.
I was born in 1959 and this article is shit.
Use the phone
Fuck no. Use email for work - we want a trace for fucks sake.
Return email etiquette: When you receive an email from a Baby Boomer, reply using a similar format. If they begin with “Hi Joe” in every email, then you return every email with “Hello Eric”. If they end every email with a letter-like ending such as “Best wishes”, “Best”, “Thanks”, or another equivalent, return your emails with the same courtesy.
Oh fuck, I bet this guy top-posts.
Discuss technology at an appropriate level: As you read this, note that it’s coming from a life-long techie, former CIO and current CTO of a company I started. It’s easy for Gen X’ers and Gen Y’ers that grew up using technology to technically overpower those who did not grow up on technology. We are digital immigrants and you are digital natives. There is a difference.
WTF? People older than me invented all this shit! I don't have to be worried abot some kid blinding me with anything other than bullshit.
Work hard: Baby Boomers have an extremely strong work ethic.
Is this guy delusional? Work to live, don't live to work.
Yeah, sorry, fucked the date up.
That would be the Civil Nuclear Constabulary
And who do you think the UK trusts more, France or China?
[Hacker and Sir Humphrey are taling about the bomb ...]
Hacker: Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they?
Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?
Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.
Sir Humphrey: It's to protect us against the French!
Hacker: The French?! But that's astounding!
Sir Humphrey: Why?
Hacker: Well they're our allies, our partners.
Sir Humphrey: Well, they are now, but they've been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years. If they've got the bomb, we must have the bomb!
Hacker: If it's for the French, of course, that's different. Makes a lot of sense.
Sir Humphrey: Yes. Can't trust the Frogs.
Hacker: You can say that again!
The minor problem being that the UK has no nukes (bombs) of it's own.
Back in the '70s they demonstrated that they could make one, then made a deal with the US not to do it again in return for getting US designed ones built for them.
With the tiny string attached that they can only be used with US agreement. ("Dual key").
Trying to be a sovereign power on the cheap - often doesn't work out how you'd want it to.
Unfortunately, I am British (English to be more specific).
Yup, that's unfortunate.
My comisserations.
In Australia we had one corrupt idiot, in charge of an ethics commitee no less, go the extra mile there. He posted a shot of the head of his penis flopping in a glass of red wine.
And this is a problem how?
Wait - the wine was Australian wasn't it? If it was something good I could see where the problem lies.
Come to think of it, what kind of shoes do you have? Some of them have pretty long laces.
wark International, USA, 2011: Had a half-metre ethernet cable confiscated as a potential weapon. Me: "Weapon? Huh?" Bitchy old TSA lady: "You could strangle somebody with that thing." Me: "That would have never occurred to me in a million years, until you suggested it just now. Well done."
Were you wearing a tie?
I assume you had to take of your belt to pass the metal detector, but did they give it back to you after?
The problem is that one of the rights you do not have is the right to go wherever you please.
Sez who?
+++someone has a clue.
There is a correlation between land area and population? You mean the population of Russia is larger than the US?
But Sir, I am transporting one way path encryption keys.
One time pad?
What is "one way path"? Sounds Budhist?
Ugh, simplistic a-historical bollocks.
You'll find better definitions on Wikipedia.
President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from D.C. public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School.
Owner of MacDonalds refuses to let his children eat there.
Frankly I think elected representatives should be forced by law to only use publicly provided education, health care and so on (and I don't mean the sick US system where Congressmen and Senators get top level health care provided for free by the government then vote against providing the same facilities for everyone else).
But if you have only one school system, then it's a monopoly, and the lack of competition leads to bad schooling.
Only true in the absence of other corrective mechanisms - the market is not the only way you know.
Some of us have this funny system called "democracy".
(Public schooled, child of public schooled parents and grandparents, parent of public schooled children).
As long as a no dead salmon ever asks for a government job.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
Nearly as much pseudoscience as a poliygraph.