I think part of it is because women are smarter than men. Honestly, look at the work environments that we men in IT/programming have to put up with; there's another article here on/. just above about how shitty open offices are. Why would a woman want to go into this profession? The work environment sucks, the coworkers suck, the stability sucks, the tools and technology suck, etc. There's lots of better careers out there for them. These jobs are *especially* bad when you think about the demands of having children, as many women do.
My girlfriend, by contrast, works in legal. She has a (get this) *office*. Not an open-plan office, but a real office to herself so she can concentrate and get work done. Apparently, this is just beyond imagining for IT/programming companies. But in legal, it's perfectly normal. Other women I've dated in legal fields were the same; they all have offices. And they have lots of job stability too.
Face it, this industry just sucks, especially for women. It's no surprise women are avoiding it these days (it wasn't always this way). One female tech exec trying to bring in more women isn't going to make a dent, because she alone doesn't control the culture across companies in this industry, and reputation is something that takes forever to improve once it's been dragged through the mud, and here it's not just one company's reputation, it's the entire industry's.
Star Wars: ESB is the first thing that comes to mind there.
Some people might argue "Aliens", but I would argue against that, instead maintaining that both movies were excellent, for different reasons and shouldn't be compared too directly.
Some people might argue Terminator 2.
Superman 2 is a possibility.
Maybe X-men 2.
I can't think of any others offhand. Notice that most of these are well before 2000, just like all the ones in my movie re-make list (except BSG, but that wasn't a movie remake, it's TV) Personally, I think it's safe to say that in the last 15 years, there have been NO remakes or sequels better than the original, and really that Hollywood is going down the tubes.
Wow. Which location? I used to work there, and had a nice big cubicle (9x9 I think, or was it 8x9?). Towards the end of my stay though, they moved me into a "compressed cubicle (6x9 I think, with the entrance to the back of the seated inhabitant). It sucked. I'm guessing things have gone even farther downhill since I left...
In America, that won't work; someone will sue for sexual harassment or something, or someone else will complain because their religion forbids it, etc.
In Taiwan, you don't have people happy to sue for harassment, and you don't have conservative religious nuts.
Alternative way it might happen in an open office:
You go have a quiet discussion at someone's desk
You need to pull someone in, so you pull them over, and continue your discussion
You're now distracting a bunch of people around you, and stopping them working effectively
Someone overhears something out of context, and interjects, derailing the discussion
Everything spirals into an unproductive mess
Remakes are usually dimwitted rewrites of old classics, (I challenge anyone here to name a remake that was better than the original.)
That's easy, there's a bunch.
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). The first one in the 50s was interesting and not bad, but Donald Sutherland's version was excellent. Don't watch the 3rd one made around 1990 though. The 2000s one with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig isn't bad.
2. The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter. This was a remake of a cheesy 50s movie. JC's version is fantastic, and has amazing stop-motion effects.
3. Battlestar Galactica (2003). The 70s show it was a "re-imagining" of was rather cheesy, like most TV and sci-fi stuff in the 70s. The 2003 mini-series was fantastic, and the follow-up TV show was great too, for about 2 seasons. Unfortunately, it jumped the shark after that, somewhere around season 3.
4. The Fly (1986). Jeff Goldblum's version is much better than the 50s version.
Besides, the gang violence is going to come back when Jeff Sessions prosecutes marijuana like in the bad ol' days. Look for things to get much, much worse nationally, in many ways (crime, violence, economy, etc.) in the next 4 years.
> I have friends that I've known since the 90's who live in Sweden, I'll trust their word that things are far worse today then they were then.
That is foolish. People don't even have to intend to deceive to be wrong about how things are, the filter of time compromises a lot of views.
Perhaps, and while I really know nothing about how it is in Sweden now, or in the 90s, as an American I really do think things here are generally worse than they were in the 90s. For starters, we didn't have a right-wing white nationalist as President back then.... It also didn't cost as much to live back then, college was a lot cheaper, the economy was a lot better, and we didn't have Windows 10 or Facebook. I will say, however, that I really do not miss NTSC televisions and that horribly annoying whine they had.
Religious people are all in favor of *their* religion being dominant and oppressing everyone else. There's nothing hypocritical here; American Christians (i.e. Protestants) don't believe in Catholicism, and most don't even believe that Catholics are "true Christians". What the pope says is irrelevant to them and their theology.
Historically speaking, we Americans fled from such a system
This isn't really true. Yes, *some* of the founders were in favor of a separation of church and state, most famously Jefferson. However, many of the initial colonists who came here, especially the infamous Puritans in Massachusetts, were religious extremists who left Europe because Europe wouldn't let them have the theocracy they wanted so much. America was a favorite place for religious nuts, "fleeing" from Europe to find a place where they could be as oppressive as they wanted, where they could set up colonies with official religions and laws based on their religion. It was later that these colonies banded together to counter the mother country, but the roots of America really lie with religious extremists.
Anyone who wants to mix religion and government is foolish because it goes both ways. Do you really want the GOVERNMENT having a say in how you worship? Or telling you what your clergy must do to be Official Government Church Clergy?
That's not what these people want; they want it to be the other way around, where the government is beholden to their church.
As long as they get to impose their will on others, it's fine but they won't stand for anyone else doing the same to them.
Yes, of course. That's what religion is all about: promoting your nonsensical belief system and forcing it on others, and resisting any attempts by outsiders to do the same.
The similarity doesn't stop there. Hitler and his Nazis were big fans of genocide, obviously. Well, the Turks are too, since they refuse to admit that their murder of millions of Armenians was genocide.
Turks are looking more like Nazi-era Germans every day.
I live in Germany and don't have to suffer through the crazy that is common in some splinter groups of "christianity" ( prosperity gospel - wtf?? )
That's not a "splinter group". Here in America, the Prosperity Gospel megachurches are now the mainstream in the suburban areas. You're probably thinking they're "splinter groups" because their rise has been so quick; that whole theology really didn't exist over 30 years ago I think. But they've become the dominant form of Christianity here in the US now, especially in suburban areas.
Perhaps, but (moving the goalposts here) that's probably still rather different from the more-organized religions we have here in the US, with churches demanding 10% of your income and acting as a full-time social club. It's like people who maintain there's a difference between the terms "spiritual" and "religious". It's one thing to have some non-scientific beliefs about an afterlife or whatever, it's another thing to form these into an organized set of tenets and dogma, and create a big organization around them with a clear hierarchy. Some people having some vague beliefs and traditions aren't going to have the organizational ability to assert any force against other people or groups, or even to effectively lobby or petition the government for anything such as laws restricting the activities of everyone according to their beliefs; people in an actual organization are.
You're exactly right about the theaters' competition. But as for pissing off people by being right on time (15 mins late), that's easy to solve: go to a matinee (or maybe a weekday night), and only when the movie has been playing for a few weeks. There'll hardly be anyone in the room. Don't ever go to a movie when it's brand-new.
Yeah, stay away from the "smart TVs". But if the "dumb TVs" become unavailable, and you're worried about being recorded, the video part at least is pretty easy to disable, using a small piece of electrical tape. The audio would be more difficult, but taking it apart and cutting the microphone wires should do the trick. Even better would be to connect to those wires with your own custom audio circuit that pipes in some horrible noises, or random trash, or something. Let them record that. Has anyone done any IP traffic analysis to see what these smart TVs really are "phoning home"?
Either your location is very different from mine, or you arrived late to the movie.
I came right on time, or maybe slightly late, I forget exactly. I wasn't early.
Yes, I've been to movies in the past where if you got there pretty early, you had to sit though a bunch of stupid ads. The lesson here: don't get there early. If you're going there early to get better seats, the problem is that there's too many people, which is a big problem all by itself; you need to wait until the movie has been out a while and isn't going to be in the theater much longer. And go during a matinee. Then there won't be many people there at all. That's a much better way to watch a movie, if you really feel you must go to a theater.
Better yet, just stay at home. Today's movies suck anyway. You can get a giant TV now cheaply, and play Blu-Rays on it or streaming video.
The last time I went to a theater, it was only ads for other upcoming movies. That's a little different from typical TV commercials.
Regardless, if Netflix does bring back commercials, look for torrenting to rise again, perhaps in a slightly different, harder-to-track form. The cat's out of the bag now; people are putting up with the paid stuff (Netflix, streaming music services) now because it's very convenient and ad-free for a comparatively low monthly price. Stick ads back in it and that's going to fall apart.
Most of the civilized world work that way. Because we understand the necessity.
What do you mean, "most of the civilized world"? What parts of "the civilized world" don't work that way? And what makes you think they're "civilized"?
you are only hearing one side of this tale at this point. maybe he is 100% correct and she was being a megabitch and backed by pure evil or more likely it was a bit of both with him exaggerating what was actually said
I doubt it. I don't need to hear more than one side here; the other side is HR, so it's perfectly safe to assume she was "being a megabitch and backed by pure evil", because people who run HR departments in large companies are, with very few exceptions, pure evil.
However, some narcissistic sweat shop mentality person probably thinking only in terms of their needs to a fault threw Don and his dying wife under a bus
Yep, that sounds exactly like the typical HR person. Everyone who works in HR in a big company is exactly like this.
This doesn't surprise me one bit. Remember, this came from HR. Human Resources departments are staffed with the most vile, evil people you will ever meet; it seems to be a universal rule. If you ever meet someone who works in HR, make sure to rudely tell them off, tell them you'd spit in their face if it wasn't illegal, and leave. These people are monsters and deserve no respect at all.
Maybe, but I would argue that Catholicism is like very loose brown shit, whereas today's mega-church Prosperity doctrine sects are like dark black shit (the kind indicating bleeding in your GI tract and requiring prompt medical attention).
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I think part of it is because women are smarter than men. Honestly, look at the work environments that we men in IT/programming have to put up with; there's another article here on /. just above about how shitty open offices are. Why would a woman want to go into this profession? The work environment sucks, the coworkers suck, the stability sucks, the tools and technology suck, etc. There's lots of better careers out there for them. These jobs are *especially* bad when you think about the demands of having children, as many women do.
My girlfriend, by contrast, works in legal. She has a (get this) *office*. Not an open-plan office, but a real office to herself so she can concentrate and get work done. Apparently, this is just beyond imagining for IT/programming companies. But in legal, it's perfectly normal. Other women I've dated in legal fields were the same; they all have offices. And they have lots of job stability too.
Face it, this industry just sucks, especially for women. It's no surprise women are avoiding it these days (it wasn't always this way). One female tech exec trying to bring in more women isn't going to make a dent, because she alone doesn't control the culture across companies in this industry, and reputation is something that takes forever to improve once it's been dragged through the mud, and here it's not just one company's reputation, it's the entire industry's.
Star Wars: ESB is the first thing that comes to mind there.
Some people might argue "Aliens", but I would argue against that, instead maintaining that both movies were excellent, for different reasons and shouldn't be compared too directly.
Some people might argue Terminator 2.
Superman 2 is a possibility.
Maybe X-men 2.
I can't think of any others offhand. Notice that most of these are well before 2000, just like all the ones in my movie re-make list (except BSG, but that wasn't a movie remake, it's TV) Personally, I think it's safe to say that in the last 15 years, there have been NO remakes or sequels better than the original, and really that Hollywood is going down the tubes.
Wow. Which location? I used to work there, and had a nice big cubicle (9x9 I think, or was it 8x9?). Towards the end of my stay though, they moved me into a "compressed cubicle (6x9 I think, with the entrance to the back of the seated inhabitant). It sucked. I'm guessing things have gone even farther downhill since I left...
In America, that won't work; someone will sue for sexual harassment or something, or someone else will complain because their religion forbids it, etc.
In Taiwan, you don't have people happy to sue for harassment, and you don't have conservative religious nuts.
Alternative way it might happen in an open office:
You go have a quiet discussion at someone's desk
You need to pull someone in, so you pull them over, and continue your discussion
You're now distracting a bunch of people around you, and stopping them working effectively
Someone overhears something out of context, and interjects, derailing the discussion
Everything spirals into an unproductive mess
This is my experience with open offices.
Remakes are usually dimwitted rewrites of old classics, (I challenge anyone here to name a remake that was better than the original.)
That's easy, there's a bunch.
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). The first one in the 50s was interesting and not bad, but Donald Sutherland's version was excellent. Don't watch the 3rd one made around 1990 though. The 2000s one with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig isn't bad.
2. The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter. This was a remake of a cheesy 50s movie. JC's version is fantastic, and has amazing stop-motion effects.
3. Battlestar Galactica (2003). The 70s show it was a "re-imagining" of was rather cheesy, like most TV and sci-fi stuff in the 70s. The 2003 mini-series was fantastic, and the follow-up TV show was great too, for about 2 seasons. Unfortunately, it jumped the shark after that, somewhere around season 3.
4. The Fly (1986). Jeff Goldblum's version is much better than the 50s version.
Here's an article that lists some more.
Not in the neighborhoods I lived in.
Besides, the gang violence is going to come back when Jeff Sessions prosecutes marijuana like in the bad ol' days. Look for things to get much, much worse nationally, in many ways (crime, violence, economy, etc.) in the next 4 years.
> I have friends that I've known since the 90's who live in Sweden, I'll trust their word that things are far worse today then they were then.
That is foolish. People don't even have to intend to deceive to be wrong about how things are, the filter of time compromises a lot of views.
Perhaps, and while I really know nothing about how it is in Sweden now, or in the 90s, as an American I really do think things here are generally worse than they were in the 90s. For starters, we didn't have a right-wing white nationalist as President back then.... It also didn't cost as much to live back then, college was a lot cheaper, the economy was a lot better, and we didn't have Windows 10 or Facebook. I will say, however, that I really do not miss NTSC televisions and that horribly annoying whine they had.
GMOs aren't natural, it's true.
Selective breeding isn't natural either, but that doesn't make the above statement untrue.
Religious people are all in favor of *their* religion being dominant and oppressing everyone else. There's nothing hypocritical here; American Christians (i.e. Protestants) don't believe in Catholicism, and most don't even believe that Catholics are "true Christians". What the pope says is irrelevant to them and their theology.
Historically speaking, we Americans fled from such a system
This isn't really true. Yes, *some* of the founders were in favor of a separation of church and state, most famously Jefferson. However, many of the initial colonists who came here, especially the infamous Puritans in Massachusetts, were religious extremists who left Europe because Europe wouldn't let them have the theocracy they wanted so much. America was a favorite place for religious nuts, "fleeing" from Europe to find a place where they could be as oppressive as they wanted, where they could set up colonies with official religions and laws based on their religion. It was later that these colonies banded together to counter the mother country, but the roots of America really lie with religious extremists.
Anyone who wants to mix religion and government is foolish because it goes both ways. Do you really want the GOVERNMENT having a say in how you worship? Or telling you what your clergy must do to be Official Government Church Clergy?
That's not what these people want; they want it to be the other way around, where the government is beholden to their church.
As long as they get to impose their will on others, it's fine but they won't stand for anyone else doing the same to them.
Yes, of course. That's what religion is all about: promoting your nonsensical belief system and forcing it on others, and resisting any attempts by outsiders to do the same.
The similarity doesn't stop there. Hitler and his Nazis were big fans of genocide, obviously. Well, the Turks are too, since they refuse to admit that their murder of millions of Armenians was genocide.
Turks are looking more like Nazi-era Germans every day.
I live in Germany and don't have to suffer through the crazy that is common in some splinter groups of "christianity" ( prosperity gospel - wtf?? )
That's not a "splinter group". Here in America, the Prosperity Gospel megachurches are now the mainstream in the suburban areas. You're probably thinking they're "splinter groups" because their rise has been so quick; that whole theology really didn't exist over 30 years ago I think. But they've become the dominant form of Christianity here in the US now, especially in suburban areas.
Perhaps, but (moving the goalposts here) that's probably still rather different from the more-organized religions we have here in the US, with churches demanding 10% of your income and acting as a full-time social club. It's like people who maintain there's a difference between the terms "spiritual" and "religious". It's one thing to have some non-scientific beliefs about an afterlife or whatever, it's another thing to form these into an organized set of tenets and dogma, and create a big organization around them with a clear hierarchy. Some people having some vague beliefs and traditions aren't going to have the organizational ability to assert any force against other people or groups, or even to effectively lobby or petition the government for anything such as laws restricting the activities of everyone according to their beliefs; people in an actual organization are.
You're exactly right about the theaters' competition. But as for pissing off people by being right on time (15 mins late), that's easy to solve: go to a matinee (or maybe a weekday night), and only when the movie has been playing for a few weeks. There'll hardly be anyone in the room. Don't ever go to a movie when it's brand-new.
Yeah, stay away from the "smart TVs". But if the "dumb TVs" become unavailable, and you're worried about being recorded, the video part at least is pretty easy to disable, using a small piece of electrical tape. The audio would be more difficult, but taking it apart and cutting the microphone wires should do the trick. Even better would be to connect to those wires with your own custom audio circuit that pipes in some horrible noises, or random trash, or something. Let them record that. Has anyone done any IP traffic analysis to see what these smart TVs really are "phoning home"?
Either your location is very different from mine, or you arrived late to the movie.
I came right on time, or maybe slightly late, I forget exactly. I wasn't early.
Yes, I've been to movies in the past where if you got there pretty early, you had to sit though a bunch of stupid ads. The lesson here: don't get there early. If you're going there early to get better seats, the problem is that there's too many people, which is a big problem all by itself; you need to wait until the movie has been out a while and isn't going to be in the theater much longer. And go during a matinee. Then there won't be many people there at all. That's a much better way to watch a movie, if you really feel you must go to a theater.
Better yet, just stay at home. Today's movies suck anyway. You can get a giant TV now cheaply, and play Blu-Rays on it or streaming video.
The last time I went to a theater, it was only ads for other upcoming movies. That's a little different from typical TV commercials.
Regardless, if Netflix does bring back commercials, look for torrenting to rise again, perhaps in a slightly different, harder-to-track form. The cat's out of the bag now; people are putting up with the paid stuff (Netflix, streaming music services) now because it's very convenient and ad-free for a comparatively low monthly price. Stick ads back in it and that's going to fall apart.
Most of the civilized world work that way. Because we understand the necessity.
What do you mean, "most of the civilized world"? What parts of "the civilized world" don't work that way? And what makes you think they're "civilized"?
you are only hearing one side of this tale at this point. maybe he is 100% correct and she was being a megabitch and backed by pure evil or more likely it was a bit of both with him exaggerating what was actually said
I doubt it. I don't need to hear more than one side here; the other side is HR, so it's perfectly safe to assume she was "being a megabitch and backed by pure evil", because people who run HR departments in large companies are, with very few exceptions, pure evil.
People who work in HR may look like human females, but they're not human at all.
However, some narcissistic sweat shop mentality person probably thinking only in terms of their needs to a fault threw Don and his dying wife under a bus
Yep, that sounds exactly like the typical HR person. Everyone who works in HR in a big company is exactly like this.
This doesn't surprise me one bit. Remember, this came from HR. Human Resources departments are staffed with the most vile, evil people you will ever meet; it seems to be a universal rule. If you ever meet someone who works in HR, make sure to rudely tell them off, tell them you'd spit in their face if it wasn't illegal, and leave. These people are monsters and deserve no respect at all.
Maybe, but I would argue that Catholicism is like very loose brown shit, whereas today's mega-church Prosperity doctrine sects are like dark black shit (the kind indicating bleeding in your GI tract and requiring prompt medical attention).
It's not just her that's made women executives look bad; just look at Carly Fiorina.