I was part of a 25% layoff in a company where most workers were remote. Many of us suspected ageism. The company refused to provide the list when I requested it, because I was the only person laid off in my state. This was a software company owned by an equity fund with a whole army of oily lawyers.
I still can't figure out the problem a Keurig machine is supposed to solve, but it damned sure creates one. You can buy pre-ground coffee, throw it into your French press and have good coffee in minutes without creating mountains of trash. And it will be great tasting coffee too. I see two problems: laziness and the appeal of brand new "gee whiz" technology that looks slicker and costs more without offering any real benefit. And it makes crappier coffee too.
I'm 62. It doesn't work for me to stand all day. I start to have fatigue from standing. So, I mix it up and that works very well for me. I also run five to six days a week. So, I feel like I'm doing the best I can do to avid being too sedentary.
I find it hard to believe that these guys escaped and then disappeared without a trace forever. Why didn't we ever hear anything from them after the escape?
This topic was being hotly debated when I entered graduate school about thirty years ago. I was at Ohio State and they were concerned that English Department resources were being redirected to teach remedial English to freshmen, who couldn't be turned down if they were from Ohio.
I bake bread on a regular basis. Unless you add lots of other food ingredients like egg or other perishable stuff, it will go dry long before it becomes moldy. So, this "discovery" doesn't solve a real problem.
You need to be clear on what he was charged with. The agency is saying he got transfusions of oxygen-doped blood before races. Since oxygen is not a "drug" there isn't a specific test that can say whether it's present in abnormally high levels. The ADA will tell you this frankly. But if that's what Armstrong did, it was real genius. Oxygen-enriched blood will supercharge any athlete. And oxygen is not a foreign substance.
Study up on marketing and PR before you spout off that crap.
There is no doubt that many behaviors can be addictive...including stroking a particular spot on the carpet. But when a professional organization like this announces a new threat, they are clearly seeking new customers by spreading a little FUD over a common behavior. Maybe you want to claim that the profession of psychology is above these base motives? Look back to the 80's, when it seemed a new afliction came out every year or so. How many people do you know today who are seriously worried that they are co-dependent or adult children of alcoholics? If you define mental illness down, you can create new business opportunties. Not that our good friends in the therapy biz are...cough!...consciously thinking of it this way.
That's my take on this report. Every time the psychology industry feels under-employed, they try to turn a common every-day behavior into an "illness" that needs to be cured. What else can they do? They don't have Madison Avenue drumming up business for them.
This could make a good legal test, since many people have questioned the legal validity of click-through EULA's. If you could successfully argue that this EULA wasn't valid, then the others would be on very shaky ground.
I was with a company where they paid big money to a consultant who came in and told us we had to adopt practices that had been abandoned less than a year ago. We could have told them the same stuff for just the cost of our regular salary, but we weren't charging them $100,000 for a month's work.
I worked for my last employer for nearly six years. In all of that time, everyone I knew of who accepted a counteroffer got fired in less than a month. This is not to say that every company is the same. But if you have tried to gently offer your objections first and that hasn't worked, I don't believe you should ever go to your employers and let them know you have another offer. It's just an invitation to get screwed.
Earlier, The Onion had a story saying that Congress was planning to impose limits on "incredibly stupid shit". Among the things that Congress was supposed to be upset about was thousands of left-over Jar Jar Binks dolls.
There was a Ren & Stimpy episode where they ended up on another planet and discovered that all of the lost socks were there. Science has not yet explained this.
The firm in question has an e-mail address. Let them know how you feel about their sleazy activity! Write them at:
rsw@isarpatent.com
I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from Slashdotters;-)
There are a number of people out there seklling their services as "illustrators". They clearly pirated this job description from the Adobe program of the same name. Please report this piracy to Adobe at:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/antipiracy/reportf orm.html
In the name of consistency, their lawyers should issue cease and desist letters to all of these people. Let's mount a campaign!
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I was part of a 25% layoff in a company where most workers were remote. Many of us suspected ageism. The company refused to provide the list when I requested it, because I was the only person laid off in my state. This was a software company owned by an equity fund with a whole army of oily lawyers.
I still can't figure out the problem a Keurig machine is supposed to solve, but it damned sure creates one. You can buy pre-ground coffee, throw it into your French press and have good coffee in minutes without creating mountains of trash. And it will be great tasting coffee too. I see two problems: laziness and the appeal of brand new "gee whiz" technology that looks slicker and costs more without offering any real benefit. And it makes crappier coffee too.
or we'll shoot you!
I'm 62. It doesn't work for me to stand all day. I start to have fatigue from standing. So, I mix it up and that works very well for me. I also run five to six days a week. So, I feel like I'm doing the best I can do to avid being too sedentary.
I find it hard to believe that these guys escaped and then disappeared without a trace forever. Why didn't we ever hear anything from them after the escape?
This topic was being hotly debated when I entered graduate school about thirty years ago. I was at Ohio State and they were concerned that English Department resources were being redirected to teach remedial English to freshmen, who couldn't be turned down if they were from Ohio.
I bake bread on a regular basis. Unless you add lots of other food ingredients like egg or other perishable stuff, it will go dry long before it becomes moldy. So, this "discovery" doesn't solve a real problem.
Seriously. Once a medium is past, you can't pump it up again.
Fort Knox had Goldfinger. Who is Quebec's Stickyfinger?
You need to be clear on what he was charged with. The agency is saying he got transfusions of oxygen-doped blood before races. Since oxygen is not a "drug" there isn't a specific test that can say whether it's present in abnormally high levels. The ADA will tell you this frankly. But if that's what Armstrong did, it was real genius. Oxygen-enriched blood will supercharge any athlete. And oxygen is not a foreign substance.
This reminds me of the long wait for Yahoo's new mail client. When it finally came out, it was such a dog that I gave up on them forever.
Study up on marketing and PR before you spout off that crap.
There is no doubt that many behaviors can be addictive...including stroking a particular spot on the carpet. But when a professional organization like this announces a new threat, they are clearly seeking new customers by spreading a little FUD over a common behavior. Maybe you want to claim that the profession of psychology is above these base motives? Look back to the 80's, when it seemed a new afliction came out every year or so. How many people do you know today who are seriously worried that they are co-dependent or adult children of alcoholics? If you define mental illness down, you can create new business opportunties. Not that our good friends in the therapy biz are...cough!...consciously thinking of it this way.
That's my take on this report. Every time the psychology industry feels under-employed, they try to turn a common every-day behavior into an "illness" that needs to be cured. What else can they do? They don't have Madison Avenue drumming up business for them.
It's Gnome. And since I have a long preference for KDE, UserLinux is an irrelevance for me.
I submitted this story back in February and it got rejected then. What changed?
Who cares? The originals were boring as hell.
This could make a good legal test, since many people have questioned the legal validity of click-through EULA's. If you could successfully argue that this EULA wasn't valid, then the others would be on very shaky ground.
I was with a company where they paid big money to a consultant who came in and told us we had to adopt practices that had been abandoned less than a year ago. We could have told them the same stuff for just the cost of our regular salary, but we weren't charging them $100,000 for a month's work.
I worked for my last employer for nearly six years. In all of that time, everyone I knew of who accepted a counteroffer got fired in less than a month. This is not to say that every company is the same. But if you have tried to gently offer your objections first and that hasn't worked, I don't believe you should ever go to your employers and let them know you have another offer. It's just an invitation to get screwed.
Check over at linuxprinting.org and you will see that they have a near perfect record for working with Linux.
If the report had been true, I think your life would have been in danger.
Earlier, The Onion had a story saying that Congress was planning to impose limits on "incredibly stupid shit". Among the things that Congress was supposed to be upset about was thousands of left-over Jar Jar Binks dolls.
There was a Ren & Stimpy episode where they ended up on another planet and discovered that all of the lost socks were there. Science has not yet explained this.
The firm in question has an e-mail address. Let them know how you feel about their sleazy activity! Write them at: rsw@isarpatent.com I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from Slashdotters ;-)
There are a number of people out there seklling their services as "illustrators". They clearly pirated this job description from the Adobe program of the same name. Please report this piracy to Adobe at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/antipiracy/reportf orm.html
In the name of consistency, their lawyers should issue cease and desist letters to all of these people. Let's mount a campaign!