This happens in organizations that have technical staff and management staff mixed together in the same evaluation pool.
Both groups need to be evaluated on different criteria and not compete for the same positions in the organization.
That said, I know I have been held back because someone with better people skills than me was actively sabotaging my accomplishments. When I found out (BCCed by someone who had integrity) I left the organization and did much better at the new company than the old.
I have since sharpened my people skills to at least recognized that sort of undermining and counter it rather than try to be like them.
The only way I have found to beat them at their own game is to be impeccably honest and have the reputation and integrity that their backstabbing is immediately clear for what it is.
Despite the many other issues it has, IBM at least has a Business Track and a Technical Track.
While the Business rank usually surpasses an equivalent technical rank, it is nice to see a senior Distinguished Engineer tell a VP to stop interfering in the technical decisions, and have the rank to make it stick.
While I rarely have to do it, I outrank many of the PMs I work with these days. Most are perfectly willing to accept my technical expertise and leadership. Those rare times they don't, I can pull rank and stop tech people from carrying out bad ideas until we can sort it out.
Even if I ultimate end up losing the fight based on business requirements, it is usually a more sustainable solution and I have never been taken to task for my actions.
Even if it is truly 1000x faster, the rest of the architecture is not designed to make full use of it. No way any any of the current bus technologies could handle even a 10X improvement to its full extent.
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"Another resident -- a retired science teacher, no less "
Umm, about that public education
Maybe, but they hardly hold a candle to the murderous animals that claimed to be atheists and killed millions in the name of "science"
Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc..
The leopard never changes his shorts.
And what were they against?
Oh yes, technology and government overreach.
Sounds like if we crack down and add more surveillance, we get more domestic terrorists.
I'd rather just keep foreign ones out than create conditions for more very effective homegrown terrorists.
McVeigh did not kill people with a gun.
Yes, a bomb is a weapon. But so is an axe, a rock, or a point stick.
So your categorization is meaninglessly broad.
I was not aware any of the people listed were policemen.
Why are you commenting again?
it is important to the living if they want to continue living.
Only in your flawed logic.
Absurd reduct
ISIL accepted it, so I am still not sure what you are on about.
Maybe you should read more before commenting?
They claimed allegiance to ISIL, so what are you on about?
I did not bother checking the others. One example of the group not being Christian refutes your claim.
No they were not all Christians.
McVeigh specifically said "Science is my religion".
So he was agnostic, if not atheist.
"Robert Dear, Allen Lawrence Scarsella, Nathan Gustavsson, Daniel Macey, Joseph Backman, and Timothy McVeigh"
What organized group did they all belong to other than Crackpot?
We are not a muslim country, yet.
Especially since "rifle" refers to the groves in the barrel, not the size of the weapon.
This happens in organizations that have technical staff and management staff mixed together in the same evaluation pool.
Both groups need to be evaluated on different criteria and not compete for the same positions in the organization.
That said, I know I have been held back because someone with better people skills than me was actively sabotaging my accomplishments. When I found out (BCCed by someone who had integrity) I left the organization and did much better at the new company than the old.
I have since sharpened my people skills to at least recognized that sort of undermining and counter it rather than try to be like them.
The only way I have found to beat them at their own game is to be impeccably honest and have the reputation and integrity that their backstabbing is immediately clear for what it is.
Despite the many other issues it has, IBM at least has a Business Track and a Technical Track.
While the Business rank usually surpasses an equivalent technical rank, it is nice to see a senior Distinguished Engineer tell a VP to stop interfering in the technical decisions, and have the rank to make it stick.
While I rarely have to do it, I outrank many of the PMs I work with these days. Most are perfectly willing to accept my technical expertise and leadership. Those rare times they don't, I can pull rank and stop tech people from carrying out bad ideas until we can sort it out.
Even if I ultimate end up losing the fight based on business requirements, it is usually a more sustainable solution and I have never been taken to task for my actions.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Because you find snow here in cones, not on the ground.
Oh, and California girls. =)
Sacramento has the central location so that almost anything you want to do it is 2 to 3 hrs away, or less:
Tahoe/Reno
Yosemite
Napa
San Fran
Lost Coast (Point Reyes/Ft. Bragg/Mendocino)
Shasta
Delta
Davis
Santa Cruz
etc...
Housing is pretty cheap here, you can find good housing for $2 to $3K a month for an older home, and newer homes are still reasonable.
Or don't have separate input for each system and use Synergy to control them all from one PC.
Even if it is truly 1000x faster, the rest of the architecture is not designed to make full use of it.
No way any any of the current bus technologies could handle even a 10X improvement to its full extent.
Not sure you can, they are tied to the Treaties with the Tribes.
Unless you are going to renegotiate those too.
He should definitely be warned about a room containing loud discordant sounds.
Unless he is hungry, of course.
More than a Nike superstore.
Any scientist would apply Occam's Razor and look for a simpler natural explanation and not an Alien Species building a Dyson Sphere.
Besides, Ringworlds are much more efficient.