This dude's job was to collect the sperm from the male falcons. He'd go in to their enclosures wearing a special hat with a very-anatomically-correct model of a female falcon on it.
6. Volcanologist
When the earth heats up, they head in
Volcanologist? Can't take the heat, get out of the crater? Sounds like a dream job, just
get my Indiana Jones get-up on and grow a good 5 o'clock shadow and the babes will be
swarming like deerflies! w00. "Danger is my middle name. Unfortunately my first name is Melvin and my last name is Blortman."
3. Kansas Biology Teacher
On the front lines of science's devolution
*snort* This has initiated so many flame-wars on USENET lately, yeah, that's gotta suck
having to face extremists and dum-dum board members. The irony is 'Intelligent Design' is an
Evolution of Creationism:)
2. Manure Inspector
The smell is just the start of the nastiness
Reminds me of Farley Mowat in his cabin in Never Cry Wolf. All those wolf turds and then the water came in...
1. Human Lab Rat Must read slashdot for research lab. aaiiiieeeee!!!
There were senate hearings or something a decade or so ago when Turner started colorizing old westerns. One of the directors warned that technology could approach the ability to do just that, and that safeguards needed to be in place to preserve the original work.
And Lucas certainly showed how to do that, editing out the actor who originally played Darth Vader, his face and likeness. I was rather disgusted by that tawdryness.
Now that Geoge Takei has
come out,
there will probably be some revision of Star Trek films for some Red States,
where it's still illegal to be a homosexual starship commander.
South Korea prepares a heart felt thank you letter.
Meanwhile, North Korea issued a Cease and Desist letter to Microsoft, claiming unlawful infringement of their strong arm and enigmatic negotiating policies.
it's probably been mentioned in a comment i missed, but there's no way they're pulling out... it's just FUD, trying to pressure SK into the ruling they want... if they don't get the ruling, they'll still seel in that country
Usually Microsoft just comes in with a sweet-heart deal, cutting prices. This doesn't appear that shape of deal at all.
Korea: "For a variety of reasons. First, Microsoft violated many of my anti-trust
regulations. Second, because it is foreign owned and controlled, even it their home
country is one of my allies. Third, TCO is very high. Fourth, I have had many
security and quality issues with their Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none operating system.
Fifth, Microsoft in response to the charges had threatened
to slow or not at all release new products. And finally, because they took their marbles
and went home."
"Their marbles?"
Korea: "Yes, I'm very disappointed, they had some very pretty catseyes and peeries."
"If the KFTC enters an order requiring Microsoft to remove code or redesign Windows uniquely for the Korean market, it might be necessary to withdraw Windows from the Korean market or delay offering new versions in Korea," Microsoft said in a U.S. regulatory filing on Thursday.
Man. Are these people lazy, greedy or what? An entire country, with a considerably strong economy that DEC, Pr1me, Unisys, etc. would absolutely have sold their souls for. Microsoft can't have it their way so they're going to pull out. Blimey.
Now, I may be the only one commenting here who thinks this sounds exactly like it was written by a staffer trying to get "the blog feeling." Somebody probably spent weeks researching blogs to copy the style, then wrote this for The Speaker.
It came across stilted and largely speech-like. One would be under the impression Republicans are the very salt of the earth and he's very concerned why the hugely profitalble oil companies aren't building new refineries (he can't be that stupid, can he? That with two oilmen in the whitehouse, it's almost something from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.)
I reallly hope they find these guys, for the sakes of their families. Sure, 60,000 is a lot of people, but losing people... wow, and Microsoft acts like it is nothing.
When Steve Ballmer threw his latest chair he tore a great rift in the space-time continuum and they were both sucked into it. I really hope they both had their towels.
Gagne: Undoubtably made very wealthy in his time at the big M and wants to blow his wad racing around in cars, outside the Microsoft
parking lot.
Partovi: Likely also found rolling around naked in money, wants to try another startup. (He probably noticed something
Microsoft will need in the future and wants to develop it on his own and then sell it for more biggie bucks.)
Neither of these will likely have much real impact so this is a Slow News Day article.
Also, at the back of the papers is something about Nemesis has been spotted, it's heading toward the Sun and will reach it in 11 years, when we'll all die horribly. Hmm. Guess I don't have to worry about Social Security after all.
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They may be gone, but their tech lives on!
Western Electric made telephones you could drive nails with. Most of the phones you get today would break if you dropped them only once, phone cable dialectric craps out after a few months. Stuff that was built to hold up for decades will probably still be around when the cockroaches are all that's left roaming the earth.
"Ma Bell" is a nickname for AT&T... like "Mother Bell" because it split into severl smaller "Baby Bells"...
Back when A T & T was split up we had Michigan Bell in Michigan, then it was Ameritech and last time I looked it was SBC, the same service as the Pacific Coast has, which used to be calls Pacific Bell.
Sure looks like T 2000, gathering all its bits back together again.
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What reference of cost-of-living, yours?
Feds. The poverty line in Silicon Valley is ~65,000 annual household income. Before you choke and spit your Jolt all over your keyboard, you might check the cost of housing in the area. Teachers, Police, civil workers and many who work the jobs that keep the cities humming find they can't even afford to live in them. That wasn't too traumatic, some would live several miles away in agricultural communities (thus driving up costs for the people who already lived in those), but the doubling of the price of a gallon of gas has put the hurt on many. You can't look only at the $200-300/mo. these people pay for gas to get to work, but the gross earnings they must make for which $200-300/mo. is net income.
Because if they don't need it Social Security, schools, etc, it's not below theirs. And then I doubt yours is higher than the mexican guy next door and it 6 children working at McDonalds paid a $8/h.
Many of these mexican guys who were born south of the border live more efficiently than the typical american. Nuclear families, home cooking and self-made entertainment in the manner of music in the park and socializing with their neighbors rather than watching TV. Quite a few send money back to families in the home country and several return there after saving up a fair chunk of money. They're not really so much different from H-1B people who come in from Asia.
Unless you can't find a job paid well enough that you can buy food and shelter (and I don't mean caviar and 6 bedrooms house in the hills with a Mercedes), you're just complaining you can't be as rich as before.
I'm complaining because I can scarcely make ends meet. I've certainly changed my living habits and do a lot more cooking at home. Amazing how far $10 goes when you use it to buy 20 pounds of rice. I rarely see movies now. I rarely travel and usually only when it's very, very cheap. I don't buy much clothing. In short, I make do. I don't have very much breathing room between paycheck and expenses. Then I broke my collar bone and it put me in a world of hardship. Don't preach to me about being rich.
And I know what I'm talking about. After I left school, I was hired at $50,000 to work at Menlo Park, right in the middle of the Silicon Valley. I could still live.
Where are you living? At home or sharing rent with housemates? I know what rent is like in that area. You'll never be able to buy a house on $50K/yr in the bay area.
What's more, it's not so much that IT people are now underpaid rather than the cost-of-living being too high, which is actually due to overpaid people.
Nothing to do with overpaid people. Get that idea out of your head. Have you looked at the Bay Area? It's packed. There's not much left to build and yet more people keep coming into the area, driving primarily the cost of housing up. In 1997 I could have picked up a tidy little house for $300,000. I can't even get a shack for $600,000 now. All these retirees moving into the area and clubbing each over every scrap of land.
To carry an analogy... the only roadkill I see on the convergence highway will be the consumers.
Which reminds me, where's our A La Carte Cable/Satellite?
I don't foot the bill for Cable or Satellite as they rarely offer me what I want. I'm not going to pay $50/mo or more for content I won't sit still for. Give me a half dozen channels and all the football (soccer) I can watch and I'll be happy. So far it's not an offering so the providers are effectively roadkill to me.
I've had no problems with a single tuner on a A7V with an Athlon 2600+ (tuned down to 1800 MHz) and onboard audio.
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I would agree with you if the H1-B hire were underpaid (like the outsourcing of some clothes/shoes factories) but AFAIK that's not the case.
You're a newcomer, I take it.
Back in the late 90's California IT companies, Sun, HP, Intel, Cisco and on and on, lobbied for a large increase in H-1B visas, based upon the lack of job candidate US citizens. Not many complained because it was true and wages were going through the roof to keep people from jumping ship, or luring them to jump another ship to another employer. Then the bubble burst and nobody has done anything about repealing the limit. Now wages plummet because employers can establish below-cost-of-living jobs and H-1B visa holders will snap them up, as many are only in the US for the short haul and could care less about Social Security, schools, infrastructure, etc.
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Welcome to the IT industry.
Why is the IT industry unique in this respect?
Seems the garment industry had this worked out a long time ago. A few years ago you could still find sweatshops in the United States with imigrant workers chained to their work tables. Wasn't that Kathy Lee's undoing?
Re:Missing the forrest for the trees
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When two people negotiate an agreement, the only swindler is the government who forces itself between them.
You forgot about the Lawyers who insinuate themsevles here and there, much the same ways fleas attach to a passing animal.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably the cache of it, but look for Rebecca Loos and a pig mentioned together.
Ha! There was something like this in the news earlier this year.
My sister had a job for a while cleaning cages of lab animals. She didn't like it much.
6. Volcanologist When the earth heats up, they head in
Volcanologist? Can't take the heat, get out of the crater? Sounds like a dream job, just get my Indiana Jones get-up on and grow a good 5 o'clock shadow and the babes will be swarming like deerflies! w00. "Danger is my middle name. Unfortunately my first name is Melvin and my last name is Blortman."
3. Kansas Biology Teacher On the front lines of science's devolution
*snort* This has initiated so many flame-wars on USENET lately, yeah, that's gotta suck having to face extremists and dum-dum board members. The irony is 'Intelligent Design' is an Evolution of Creationism :)
2. Manure Inspector The smell is just the start of the nastiness
Reminds me of Farley Mowat in his cabin in Never Cry Wolf. All those wolf turds and then the water came in...
1. Human Lab Rat Must read slashdot for research lab. aaiiiieeeee!!!
James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader.
David Prowse was the actor in the suit
Sebastian Shaw was the face of Darth Vader before the re-edit.
And Lucas certainly showed how to do that, editing out the actor who originally played Darth Vader, his face and likeness. I was rather disgusted by that tawdryness.
But as we saw, it was followed by a reunion of Gilmour and Waters.
I used to say the same thing about software.
An application is Beta until it's retired.
Now that Geoge Takei has come out, there will probably be some revision of Star Trek films for some Red States, where it's still illegal to be a homosexual starship commander.
"Make it the commander Ronald Reagan."
Meanwhile, North Korea issued a Cease and Desist letter to Microsoft, claiming unlawful infringement of their strong arm and enigmatic negotiating policies.
Usually Microsoft just comes in with a sweet-heart deal, cutting prices. This doesn't appear that shape of deal at all.
"So Korea, why did you switch to Linux?"
Korea: "For a variety of reasons. First, Microsoft violated many of my anti-trust regulations. Second, because it is foreign owned and controlled, even it their home country is one of my allies. Third, TCO is very high. Fourth, I have had many security and quality issues with their Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none operating system. Fifth, Microsoft in response to the charges had threatened to slow or not at all release new products. And finally, because they took their marbles and went home."
"Their marbles?"
Korea: "Yes, I'm very disappointed, they had some very pretty catseyes and peeries."
Man. Are these people lazy, greedy or what? An entire country, with a considerably strong economy that DEC, Pr1me, Unisys, etc. would absolutely have sold their souls for. Microsoft can't have it their way so they're going to pull out. Blimey.It came across stilted and largely speech-like. One would be under the impression Republicans are the very salt of the earth and he's very concerned why the hugely profitalble oil companies aren't building new refineries (he can't be that stupid, can he? That with two oilmen in the whitehouse, it's almost something from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.)
His server is holding up under teh attempted slashdotting. Your tax bux at work, eh?
And to think I believed he saved all his "no comments" for the press...
admit it, you thirst to moderate messages on his blog
Blogosphere... sounds like a planet the enemies of Popeye would come from.
Looks OK, Sir, I just editted out the part about letting all those filthy stinking liberals in New Orleans rot in their own stew.
ohh noes111 its teh chair1 rnu gagme1 run partomi1
rumor hazzit both executives were caught on IM by presidente Ballmer
When Steve Ballmer threw his latest chair he tore a great rift in the space-time continuum and they were both sucked into it. I really hope they both had their towels.
Gagne: Undoubtably made very wealthy in his time at the big M and wants to blow his wad racing around in cars, outside the Microsoft parking lot.
Partovi: Likely also found rolling around naked in money, wants to try another startup. (He probably noticed something Microsoft will need in the future and wants to develop it on his own and then sell it for more biggie bucks.)
Neither of these will likely have much real impact so this is a Slow News Day article.
Also, at the back of the papers is something about Nemesis has been spotted, it's heading toward the Sun and will reach it in 11 years, when we'll all die horribly. Hmm. Guess I don't have to worry about Social Security after all.
Western Electric made telephones you could drive nails with. Most of the phones you get today would break if you dropped them only once, phone cable dialectric craps out after a few months. Stuff that was built to hold up for decades will probably still be around when the cockroaches are all that's left roaming the earth.
Back when A T & T was split up we had Michigan Bell in Michigan, then it was Ameritech and last time I looked it was SBC, the same service as the Pacific Coast has, which used to be calls Pacific Bell.
Sure looks like T 2000, gathering all its bits back together again.
Feds. The poverty line in Silicon Valley is ~65,000 annual household income. Before you choke and spit your Jolt all over your keyboard, you might check the cost of housing in the area. Teachers, Police, civil workers and many who work the jobs that keep the cities humming find they can't even afford to live in them. That wasn't too traumatic, some would live several miles away in agricultural communities (thus driving up costs for the people who already lived in those), but the doubling of the price of a gallon of gas has put the hurt on many. You can't look only at the $200-300/mo. these people pay for gas to get to work, but the gross earnings they must make for which $200-300/mo. is net income.
Because if they don't need it Social Security, schools, etc, it's not below theirs. And then I doubt yours is higher than the mexican guy next door and it 6 children working at McDonalds paid a $8/h.
Many of these mexican guys who were born south of the border live more efficiently than the typical american. Nuclear families, home cooking and self-made entertainment in the manner of music in the park and socializing with their neighbors rather than watching TV. Quite a few send money back to families in the home country and several return there after saving up a fair chunk of money. They're not really so much different from H-1B people who come in from Asia.
Unless you can't find a job paid well enough that you can buy food and shelter (and I don't mean caviar and 6 bedrooms house in the hills with a Mercedes), you're just complaining you can't be as rich as before.
I'm complaining because I can scarcely make ends meet. I've certainly changed my living habits and do a lot more cooking at home. Amazing how far $10 goes when you use it to buy 20 pounds of rice. I rarely see movies now. I rarely travel and usually only when it's very, very cheap. I don't buy much clothing. In short, I make do. I don't have very much breathing room between paycheck and expenses. Then I broke my collar bone and it put me in a world of hardship. Don't preach to me about being rich.
And I know what I'm talking about. After I left school, I was hired at $50,000 to work at Menlo Park, right in the middle of the Silicon Valley. I could still live.
Where are you living? At home or sharing rent with housemates? I know what rent is like in that area. You'll never be able to buy a house on $50K/yr in the bay area.
What's more, it's not so much that IT people are now underpaid rather than the cost-of-living being too high, which is actually due to overpaid people.
Nothing to do with overpaid people. Get that idea out of your head. Have you looked at the Bay Area? It's packed. There's not much left to build and yet more people keep coming into the area, driving primarily the cost of housing up. In 1997 I could have picked up a tidy little house for $300,000. I can't even get a shack for $600,000 now. All these retirees moving into the area and clubbing each over every scrap of land.
Which reminds me, where's our A La Carte Cable/Satellite?
I don't foot the bill for Cable or Satellite as they rarely offer me what I want. I'm not going to pay $50/mo or more for content I won't sit still for. Give me a half dozen channels and all the football (soccer) I can watch and I'll be happy. So far it's not an offering so the providers are effectively roadkill to me.
I've had no problems with a single tuner on a A7V with an Athlon 2600+ (tuned down to 1800 MHz) and onboard audio.
You're a newcomer, I take it.
Back in the late 90's California IT companies, Sun, HP, Intel, Cisco and on and on, lobbied for a large increase in H-1B visas, based upon the lack of job candidate US citizens. Not many complained because it was true and wages were going through the roof to keep people from jumping ship, or luring them to jump another ship to another employer. Then the bubble burst and nobody has done anything about repealing the limit. Now wages plummet because employers can establish below-cost-of-living jobs and H-1B visa holders will snap them up, as many are only in the US for the short haul and could care less about Social Security, schools, infrastructure, etc.
Why is the IT industry unique in this respect?
Seems the garment industry had this worked out a long time ago. A few years ago you could still find sweatshops in the United States with imigrant workers chained to their work tables. Wasn't that Kathy Lee's undoing?
You forgot about the Lawyers who insinuate themsevles here and there, much the same ways fleas attach to a passing animal.
You need