Hmm... 70 dB is kind of high. I get less than 65 in my Supra, and barely over 60 in my Volvo S60R. Measured at 70mph (not that it changes much unless I'm over 3000rpm) with a sound meter, not a cellphone. And no, this is not a small difference. Your 70 db would be 10 times as intense, and sound to us twice as loud.
On top of that, I have ambient noise cancellation in both cars, although the one in the Supra works much better, probably because it is newer, and was installed by a friend's shop, as opposed to by the factory. Making everything super loud is not necessary.
This said, everyone says that I have a tin ear anyway, and my usual equalizer settings favor the vocal range. But when I let my passengers play with the controls, they seem pretty happy. My wife can definitely tell when a CD has been assembled from MP3s, so I won't argue that no one can tell... but I don't care.
Yes, the policies are poorly written. Did you expect something else from Facebook?
And I bet some specific populations are inflamed by "White men" being protected while "Black Children" are not.
But you know what? "Black females" are more protected than "Christian children". "Lesbian Iraqi" are protected, while "White Europeans" are not.
"Young Europeans are subhuman scum" is OK by the stated policies. "Muslim schizophrenics are dangerous" is to be censored.
I bet if the article was written by a Fox news reporter, he would have focused on one of the latter examples. Once you know the flawed rules, you can manipulate them to produce inflammatory results.
As for the slide? Who knows why they came up with such an example. Probably because they wanted the right answer to be reached through knowing the policy, as opposed to following one's gut feelings.
I've been watching a lot of Russian language media lately, because I have been trying to restore my language skills. Hackers in Russian movies are much more realistic than in American ones.
One gets asked whether he can get in a secure system? He does not boast, he answers "I will certainly try."
He does not mash the keyboard while he is getting a blowjob, he deploys an arsenal from 'Flashka' or from a alphabetical soup URL.
He examining an air-gapped system, looking for a way to get at the hardware, and mumbling about which patches seems not to have been applies.
He gets asked to get some video records? He asks "Do I have an hour and a half"?
Etc... And that is from police shows, where the staff hackers are not necessarily named characters, and definitely not the focus of the series.
This tells me that that the population at large has some idea about IT... you would not make a movie in the US where the driver will shift three times while driving backwards, would you? I mean... Uh, you get the point.
In my country of origin, Bulgaria, there is a drink called boza. It is a kids favorite, and I used to have it for breakfast every day. Its alcohol content is usually around 1%, although, of course, stronger versions exist.
In the 80s, I had a couple of business trips to Czechoslovakia, and they had beer fountains on the factory floor. Yup, low alcohol content, but unmetered and free.
In both Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, huge quantity of beer used to be consumed... and frankly, in my first year of college in the US, I saw more falling down drunk people that I had seen in my life before that, and that included three years of high school (beer becomes legal at 14 in Bulgaria) five years of military education, and two years of military service.
The article says that none of the people in the study had a drinking problem, but also that some of them had more than 30 units per week, i.e. more than four drinks per day. I have trouble reconciling the two statements.
This is hardly a new thing in the tech industry. It was certainly the case in the late Nineties. We do real work, even as interns, and get paid real money.
It's political (lobbyists, canvassers, whathaveyou...) interneships that were unpaid, and as far as I know still are. They learn vital skills like trading semi-legal favors, selling the common good to the highest bidder, etc. Paying them would be counterproductive - poor people may get in... better keep those open for people who have rich, connected parents, and can spend the Summer without income.
My wife is using my old (first) Windows Phone. Our daughter just impacted the volume control last week... which was the first physical damage, but won't be the last. My own phone is more than two years old.
Between my first comment and this one, I have been browsing the new Lumias... but I know that at some point, I may want newer technology, if only for processor power.
I'm replying to the post above because for some reason I cannot just 'Post'.
I have to admit, this makes me sad. I love my Windows Phone, because it is the easiest to program and configure of all the phones in my household (I have an Android for business, my wife has an iPhone from work, and we both have WIndows Phones for personal use)
I find the iPhone and Android very unfriendly unless reconfigured from the ground up. The Windows Phone leaves you the illusion you own it. It is an illusion, it still does things without asking, but I feel that I can disable the things I do not want... except for the bloody updates.
On my Android, I always have shit that I did not put there, and I have to figure out how to disable...
Now I am going to actually have to go and educate myself in the search of a new hardware that I will have to configure to my liking. The Nook is my favorite tablet... so I guess I will have to look for an Android that can be gracefully opened/jailbroken/whatever the kids call it nowadays.
And yes, I know I am a dinosaur for sticking with Windows Phone. It's just that I had so much C# software to talk to the CNC machines at work, the servers, the UPSs, the robot cells and the boxline... and even my cars.
To echo a previous poster who says people are a pain, wasn't it Satre who said "Hell is other people"?
Close, it's from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. By the way, "L'enfer, c'est les autres" is said by a character, and does not exactly mean that other people create Hell, or even that interacting with others is Hell.
Isn't a bit more complex than that, it has something to do with our self-knowledge being a product of the way we are reflected in the the eyes of others.
I'm not the one to try to explain it, I've always seen existentialism, phenomenology, and even philosophy as a whole as a victory of style over substance. Give me problems that need to be solved, and ways of measuring my progress in doing so. If I care about how someone sees me, I'll do something about it. As for how I see myself, it's mostly about what I can achieve.
I may have married a professor of Psychology, but I'll always be an Engineer at heart:-)
I've never fired the AK47, only the AK74 and the AK101, but they were both perfectly serviceable at 300m. As a matter of fact, missing the shoulder and head target at 300m was automatic kitchen duty back in basic training, in '88.
I've used much more precise assault rifles... but they all had their problems - too much kick, too high of a rate of fire, and not one was nearly as easy to disassemble and clean as the good ole Kalashnikov.
For its purpose, the Kalashnikov is hard to beat at thrice the price. Of course, when money is no object there are many weapons that are simply better... if you ignore reliability, about which I have little to say, given that I had never the need to use a gun hard and put it away dirty.
And you think that this is something of which to be proud? In '93, I started with $73,000 per year in South Carolina, as the 'computer guy' for a medium sized manufacturer (My card said IT Director, but it was years before that became more than a joke between me and the owner).
This was enough to rent an actual house on Lake Wylie, eat out 100% of the time, and in the best restaurants on the weekend, and have enough to build a house on a better lot, again on Lake Wylie. And yes, I had enough time for sex, and even more, for driving to Charlotte to make it actually worth having.
Having to get a roommate to live on your salary, in an entry position, when you are supposed to be proving yourself? What the fuck, man?! No wonder those guys are not getting sex, their ego must be too busy digging down at rock bottom.
Or maybe you are just making shit up. In Southern California, 100,000 is enough to have a comfortable life, married with kids, even if your wife does not work.
Bullshit. I'm a legal immigrant, i.e. a Green Card holder, I have had a valid California license since 1992, I own a house, I'm married to an American, and I have worked for the same company for more than 20 years.
I am not registered to vote, I do not get jury summons, and when I used to travel on business through the San Clemente checkpoint, the officers immediately knew I was not a citizen. The one time I did it with a brand new company truck, they wasted hours of my time making sure I was whom I was claiming to be.
Anyone who think that illegals get registered to vote when they get a license is delirious. The government knows who is a citizen and who is not, and only registers those who are.
Damn, missing 'was', 'were' instead of 'where'... It's funny how these things happen whenever I start thinking about the bad old times, when the only thing that was better was me.
I doing plenty in Assembly for the Bulgarian People's Army in the 80s. There was a time I could read and edit in hexadecimal, getting things right most of the time. After the fall of the so called Communist government, I went to college in the US. Nothing mythical about Assembly and college, they mix just fine.
As a matter of fact, at least in the 90s, MIT had plenty of courses that used Assembly... and a few were you would actually design both a processor (with a very simple instruction set) and write the assembler (the program going from Assembly to binary code) for it.
This said, I have used (embedded) Assembly twice in the last twenty years, for the same reason both times: to wring a little bit more performance for data crunching that had to be performed in real time. Neither was for my day job. Then again, I'm not a hacker for the Russian government, the only government that's eeeeevil enough to employ *gasp* hackers.
Do you have any idea how much surveillance teams cost?
Furthermore, jailing someone can be very cheap in countries that do not have the US's hangups about slavery. In the bad old days, Bulgaria made its prisoners work, paid them a full salary, then charged them for room, board and guard salaries. The plant in which my father worked had a production hall staffed 90% with low security prisoners. Some were being released with sizable savings... others ended up in higher security prisons - the last of these being "heavy punitive labour" which usually killed inmates within an year or two - raising pigs in a swamp, mining uranium in 18th century conditions, etc...
This is just stupid. The Russians are not Republicans, they simply think that the US will be weakened if Trump takes power. There is a saying I keep seeing in Eastern European publications: "Not all Trump supporters hate the United States, but all those who oppose the US hopes he gets elected." Or in simpler language "Not all who love Trump hate the US, but all those who hate the US wish him luck." Russia, North Korea, ISIS, etc... certainly do.
I don't know whether those who think that a Trump presidency will polarize, weaken and isolate the US are correct. But I do know that almost every foreigner I've talked to believes it. I have no doubt Putin believes it, and thus would not be surprised if he does everything he can to make it happen.
Putin doesn't need to like Trump to support is candidacy. It is enough that Putin thinks Trump's presidency will isolate, fragment and eventually weaken the United States. I see variations of the same phrase in the Eastern European press: "Not everyone who supports Trump hates the US, but all who hate the US hope he wins." Judging from how Putin, Kim Jong-un, ISIS, etc. act, thre may be some truth in it.
In windows, set the group policy so that USB devices are not automatically installed. Of course, you could also simply disable your USB hubs, but that may reduce the functionality of your PC beyond what you'd consider acceptable.
No, but having the axe will. Not as much as having an AK-74, a SSG 82 and a few hundred 5.45Ã--39mm rounds.
But you know what? Actually living in a close knit community with nearby farming land and no large cities nearby is even better... And yet, somehow, I have no desire to leave Southern California which is a death trap if civilization goes to shit, for South Carolina, where I own property in an area which is perfect for survival (and where my firearms and bows are stored, since my wife does not want them around our infant daughter. When she is ten or so, we will have that conversation again, though)
I'm afraid that I will be like most other people here - my head firmly in the sand until it is too late to do anything about anything.
One hundred years ago, it took actually two months to fly across the US. From September 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911, to be precise.
As for supersonic jets that cross the Atlantic today... Are you sure? The Concord no longer flies, and its predecessor, the Ty-144 has been retired for even longer. I know of a few projects to build a private supersonic jet, but none are close to completion, and as for militaries, I do not think they fly their supersonic aircraft across the Atlantic regularly.
All of this is to say that the reason we do not see life is the same reason that we no longer hear Concords. Life does not stay around long enough. It may be likely, but its lifespan may be too short considering the time periods and distances involved.
I know you are being facetious, but you are still halfway right - it is not true, or at least, it is not the reason for the imbalance.
The people surveyed are between 20 and 24 years of age. At that point, men have relatively low earnings, especially those in the relevant categories (whites without college education) At the same time, women are at their most desirable... and both sexes has been just rudely awakened to the financial reality, which is quite a bit harsher than what was facing those born in the 60s.
Those women are dating older men, it's as simple as that.
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By the way, the above is just a dumb ass theory, just like most of what you will find in this thread. It may be true, it may not, but I am happily married, so my days of empirical testing are over:-)
Damn, I should have previewed what I wrote before I posted it. I have trouble taking myself seriously, what with the "back" instead of "bad", the incorrect use of "whom", etc... I'm too old to be posting from something without a keyboard.
I have done it, literally, multiple times. I am the IT director of a privately owned manufacturing company. I report directly to the owner, and "this will be back for the company" is my trump card. Of course, I do not use it all that often, and of course, before I play it, I write page long arguments why I think so.
So, yes, a IT head duty is exactly to explain to his boss why something is a bad idea. Of course, I will obey an order from the owners to do something - it is their company, and they will bear the losses. But as I have explained to them, maaaaybe in not these exact words, if they think I don't know how to do my job, maybe they should hire someone whom they think know how to do it better.
Has my career ground to a halt? Well, I've had the position since 1997. So I guess it is technically halted. But I honestly do not mind where I am.
I'd say they have too much of it, for being bothered by such things.
This is something that is simply outside of my frame of reference. Speaking for myself: 1) I cannot fathom why anyone would be interested in a picture of me, naked, and I do not think that I am particularly unattractive. 2) I do not remember a time where I would have been bothered by people seeing a naked picture of mine, especially one as demure as standing there and holding an ID card. There was a time, after breaking a few ribs, and gaining 15 pounds really quickly, I actually took a picture of myself, bare chested, or rather bare bellied... I still keep it, to remind myself what happens when I get out of shape. But I make no secret of it, my wife knew of it before she married me, and she's been telling the story... 3) It is beyond trivial to take a picture of yourself, holding your ID, naked or clothed, and combine it with a picture of a naked body that no one who knows you will think is yours. Sure, you have to mess with the image afterwards to erase the most common telltales... a google or two will teach you enough. 4) I know models who get paid less for photoshoots I find more embarrassing than a simple naked picture.
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Hmm... 70 dB is kind of high. I get less than 65 in my Supra, and barely over 60 in my Volvo S60R. Measured at 70mph (not that it changes much unless I'm over 3000rpm) with a sound meter, not a cellphone. And no, this is not a small difference. Your 70 db would be 10 times as intense, and sound to us twice as loud.
On top of that, I have ambient noise cancellation in both cars, although the one in the Supra works much better, probably because it is newer, and was installed by a friend's shop, as opposed to by the factory. Making everything super loud is not necessary.
This said, everyone says that I have a tin ear anyway, and my usual equalizer settings favor the vocal range. But when I let my passengers play with the controls, they seem pretty happy. My wife can definitely tell when a CD has been assembled from MP3s, so I won't argue that no one can tell... but I don't care.
Yes, the policies are poorly written. Did you expect something else from Facebook?
And I bet some specific populations are inflamed by "White men" being protected while "Black Children" are not.
But you know what? "Black females" are more protected than "Christian children". "Lesbian Iraqi" are protected, while "White Europeans" are not.
"Young Europeans are subhuman scum" is OK by the stated policies. "Muslim schizophrenics are dangerous" is to be censored.
I bet if the article was written by a Fox news reporter, he would have focused on one of the latter examples. Once you know the flawed rules, you can manipulate them to produce inflammatory results.
As for the slide? Who knows why they came up with such an example. Probably because they wanted the right answer to be reached through knowing the policy, as opposed to following one's gut feelings.
I've been watching a lot of Russian language media lately, because I have been trying to restore my language skills. Hackers in Russian movies are much more realistic than in American ones.
One gets asked whether he can get in a secure system? He does not boast, he answers "I will certainly try."
He does not mash the keyboard while he is getting a blowjob, he deploys an arsenal from 'Flashka' or from a alphabetical soup URL.
He examining an air-gapped system, looking for a way to get at the hardware, and mumbling about which patches seems not to have been applies.
He gets asked to get some video records? He asks "Do I have an hour and a half"?
Etc... And that is from police shows, where the staff hackers are not necessarily named characters, and definitely not the focus of the series.
This tells me that that the population at large has some idea about IT... you would not make a movie in the US where the driver will shift three times while driving backwards, would you? I mean... Uh, you get the point.
Some Aqua? You mean they have songs besides 'Barbie Girl'? :-)
In medieval times?
In my country of origin, Bulgaria, there is a drink called boza. It is a kids favorite, and I used to have it for breakfast every day. Its alcohol content is usually around 1%, although, of course, stronger versions exist.
In the 80s, I had a couple of business trips to Czechoslovakia, and they had beer fountains on the factory floor. Yup, low alcohol content, but unmetered and free.
In both Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, huge quantity of beer used to be consumed... and frankly, in my first year of college in the US, I saw more falling down drunk people that I had seen in my life before that, and that included three years of high school (beer becomes legal at 14 in Bulgaria) five years of military education, and two years of military service.
The article says that none of the people in the study had a drinking problem, but also that some of them had more than 30 units per week, i.e. more than four drinks per day. I have trouble reconciling the two statements.
This is hardly a new thing in the tech industry. It was certainly the case in the late Nineties. We do real work, even as interns, and get paid real money.
It's political (lobbyists, canvassers, whathaveyou...) interneships that were unpaid, and as far as I know still are. They learn vital skills like trading semi-legal favors, selling the common good to the highest bidder, etc. Paying them would be counterproductive - poor people may get in... better keep those open for people who have rich, connected parents, and can spend the Summer without income.
My wife is using my old (first) Windows Phone. Our daughter just impacted the volume control last week... which was the first physical damage, but won't be the last. My own phone is more than two years old.
Between my first comment and this one, I have been browsing the new Lumias... but I know that at some point, I may want newer technology, if only for processor power.
I'm replying to the post above because for some reason I cannot just 'Post'.
I have to admit, this makes me sad. I love my Windows Phone, because it is the easiest to program and configure of all the phones in my household (I have an Android for business, my wife has an iPhone from work, and we both have WIndows Phones for personal use)
I find the iPhone and Android very unfriendly unless reconfigured from the ground up. The Windows Phone leaves you the illusion you own it. It is an illusion, it still does things without asking, but I feel that I can disable the things I do not want... except for the bloody updates.
On my Android, I always have shit that I did not put there, and I have to figure out how to disable...
Now I am going to actually have to go and educate myself in the search of a new hardware that I will have to configure to my liking. The Nook is my favorite tablet... so I guess I will have to look for an Android that can be gracefully opened/jailbroken/whatever the kids call it nowadays.
And yes, I know I am a dinosaur for sticking with Windows Phone. It's just that I had so much C# software to talk to the CNC machines at work, the servers, the UPSs, the robot cells and the boxline... and even my cars.
I even managed to learn to like the bloody tiles.
To echo a previous poster who says people are a pain, wasn't it Satre who said "Hell is other people"?
Close, it's from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. By the way, "L'enfer, c'est les autres" is said by a character, and does not exactly mean that other people create Hell, or even that interacting with others is Hell.
Isn't a bit more complex than that, it has something to do with our self-knowledge being a product of the way we are reflected in the the eyes of others.
I'm not the one to try to explain it, I've always seen existentialism, phenomenology, and even philosophy as a whole as a victory of style over substance. Give me problems that need to be solved, and ways of measuring my progress in doing so. If I care about how someone sees me, I'll do something about it. As for how I see myself, it's mostly about what I can achieve.
I may have married a professor of Psychology, but I'll always be an Engineer at heart :-)
I've never fired the AK47, only the AK74 and the AK101, but they were both perfectly serviceable at 300m. As a matter of fact, missing the shoulder and head target at 300m was automatic kitchen duty back in basic training, in '88.
I've used much more precise assault rifles... but they all had their problems - too much kick, too high of a rate of fire, and not one was nearly as easy to disassemble and clean as the good ole Kalashnikov.
For its purpose, the Kalashnikov is hard to beat at thrice the price. Of course, when money is no object there are many weapons that are simply better... if you ignore reliability, about which I have little to say, given that I had never the need to use a gun hard and put it away dirty.
And you think that this is something of which to be proud? In '93, I started with $73,000 per year in South Carolina, as the 'computer guy' for a medium sized manufacturer (My card said IT Director, but it was years before that became more than a joke between me and the owner).
This was enough to rent an actual house on Lake Wylie, eat out 100% of the time, and in the best restaurants on the weekend, and have enough to build a house on a better lot, again on Lake Wylie. And yes, I had enough time for sex, and even more, for driving to Charlotte to make it actually worth having.
Having to get a roommate to live on your salary, in an entry position, when you are supposed to be proving yourself? What the fuck, man?! No wonder those guys are not getting sex, their ego must be too busy digging down at rock bottom.
Or maybe you are just making shit up. In Southern California, 100,000 is enough to have a comfortable life, married with kids, even if your wife does not work.
Bullshit. I'm a legal immigrant, i.e. a Green Card holder, I have had a valid California license since 1992, I own a house, I'm married to an American, and I have worked for the same company for more than 20 years.
I am not registered to vote, I do not get jury summons, and when I used to travel on business through the San Clemente checkpoint, the officers immediately knew I was not a citizen. The one time I did it with a brand new company truck, they wasted hours of my time making sure I was whom I was claiming to be.
Anyone who think that illegals get registered to vote when they get a license is delirious. The government knows who is a citizen and who is not, and only registers those who are.
Damn, missing 'was', 'were' instead of 'where'... It's funny how these things happen whenever I start thinking about the bad old times, when the only thing that was better was me.
I doing plenty in Assembly for the Bulgarian People's Army in the 80s. There was a time I could read and edit in hexadecimal, getting things right most of the time. After the fall of the so called Communist government, I went to college in the US. Nothing mythical about Assembly and college, they mix just fine.
As a matter of fact, at least in the 90s, MIT had plenty of courses that used Assembly... and a few were you would actually design both a processor (with a very simple instruction set) and write the assembler (the program going from Assembly to binary code) for it.
This said, I have used (embedded) Assembly twice in the last twenty years, for the same reason both times: to wring a little bit more performance for data crunching that had to be performed in real time. Neither was for my day job. Then again, I'm not a hacker for the Russian government, the only government that's eeeeevil enough to employ *gasp* hackers.
Do you have any idea how much surveillance teams cost?
Furthermore, jailing someone can be very cheap in countries that do not have the US's hangups about slavery. In the bad old days, Bulgaria made its prisoners work, paid them a full salary, then charged them for room, board and guard salaries. The plant in which my father worked had a production hall staffed 90% with low security prisoners. Some were being released with sizable savings... others ended up in higher security prisons - the last of these being "heavy punitive labour" which usually killed inmates within an year or two - raising pigs in a swamp, mining uranium in 18th century conditions, etc...
This is just stupid. The Russians are not Republicans, they simply think that the US will be weakened if Trump takes power. There is a saying I keep seeing in Eastern European publications: "Not all Trump supporters hate the United States, but all those who oppose the US hopes he gets elected." Or in simpler language "Not all who love Trump hate the US, but all those who hate the US wish him luck." Russia, North Korea, ISIS, etc... certainly do.
I don't know whether those who think that a Trump presidency will polarize, weaken and isolate the US are correct. But I do know that almost every foreigner I've talked to believes it. I have no doubt Putin believes it, and thus would not be surprised if he does everything he can to make it happen.
Putin doesn't need to like Trump to support is candidacy. It is enough that Putin thinks Trump's presidency will isolate, fragment and eventually weaken the United States. I see variations of the same phrase in the Eastern European press: "Not everyone who supports Trump hates the US, but all who hate the US hope he wins." Judging from how Putin, Kim Jong-un, ISIS, etc. act, thre may be some truth in it.
In windows, set the group policy so that USB devices are not automatically installed. Of course, you could also simply disable your USB hubs, but that may reduce the functionality of your PC beyond what you'd consider acceptable.
No, but having the axe will. Not as much as having an AK-74, a SSG 82 and a few hundred 5.45Ã--39mm rounds.
But you know what? Actually living in a close knit community with nearby farming land and no large cities nearby is even better... And yet, somehow, I have no desire to leave Southern California which is a death trap if civilization goes to shit, for South Carolina, where I own property in an area which is perfect for survival (and where my firearms and bows are stored, since my wife does not want them around our infant daughter. When she is ten or so, we will have that conversation again, though)
I'm afraid that I will be like most other people here - my head firmly in the sand until it is too late to do anything about anything.
I know they can, I said so in the previous post. But do they?
One hundred years ago, it took actually two months to fly across the US. From September 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911, to be precise.
As for supersonic jets that cross the Atlantic today... Are you sure? The Concord no longer flies, and its predecessor, the Ty-144 has been retired for even longer. I know of a few projects to build a private supersonic jet, but none are close to completion, and as for militaries, I do not think they fly their supersonic aircraft across the Atlantic regularly.
All of this is to say that the reason we do not see life is the same reason that we no longer hear Concords. Life does not stay around long enough. It may be likely, but its lifespan may be too short considering the time periods and distances involved.
I know you are being facetious, but you are still halfway right - it is not true, or at least, it is not the reason for the imbalance.
The people surveyed are between 20 and 24 years of age. At that point, men have relatively low earnings, especially those in the relevant categories (whites without college education) At the same time, women are at their most desirable... and both sexes has been just rudely awakened to the financial reality, which is quite a bit harsher than what was facing those born in the 60s.
Those women are dating older men, it's as simple as that.
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By the way, the above is just a dumb ass theory, just like most of what you will find in this thread. It may be true, it may not, but I am happily married, so my days of empirical testing are over :-)
Damn, I should have previewed what I wrote before I posted it. I have trouble taking myself seriously, what with the "back" instead of "bad", the incorrect use of "whom", etc... I'm too old to be posting from something without a keyboard.
I have done it, literally, multiple times. I am the IT director of a privately owned manufacturing company. I report directly to the owner, and "this will be back for the company" is my trump card. Of course, I do not use it all that often, and of course, before I play it, I write page long arguments why I think so.
So, yes, a IT head duty is exactly to explain to his boss why something is a bad idea. Of course, I will obey an order from the owners to do something - it is their company, and they will bear the losses. But as I have explained to them, maaaaybe in not these exact words, if they think I don't know how to do my job, maybe they should hire someone whom they think know how to do it better.
Has my career ground to a halt? Well, I've had the position since 1997. So I guess it is technically halted. But I honestly do not mind where I am.
I'd say they have too much of it, for being bothered by such things.
This is something that is simply outside of my frame of reference. Speaking for myself:
1) I cannot fathom why anyone would be interested in a picture of me, naked, and I do not think that I am particularly unattractive.
2) I do not remember a time where I would have been bothered by people seeing a naked picture of mine, especially one as demure as standing there and holding an ID card. There was a time, after breaking a few ribs, and gaining 15 pounds really quickly, I actually took a picture of myself, bare chested, or rather bare bellied... I still keep it, to remind myself what happens when I get out of shape. But I make no secret of it, my wife knew of it before she married me, and she's been telling the story...
3) It is beyond trivial to take a picture of yourself, holding your ID, naked or clothed, and combine it with a picture of a naked body that no one who knows you will think is yours. Sure, you have to mess with the image afterwards to erase the most common telltales... a google or two will teach you enough.
4) I know models who get paid less for photoshoots I find more embarrassing than a simple naked picture.