Same here. Kinda. I've never owned a tv and rarely watched it at other people's houses. I am out of the loop on many cultural themes of the day for things like Mad Men or Lost. This goes way back to popular television when I was a kid like The Newhart Show and only remain marginal contact with society from reading headlines from which you can follow who did what to whom and what character came back to life in a dream sequence.
You know what? Who cares? Will I look back at the end of my life and think it was wasted because I missed five years (2hrs/day * 60 years) of not being entertained? It took me far less time to learn to program or even get a college degree. If you add up all the hours of study and every class I've ever taken it's likely less than most people will spend over their life doing nothing while at the same time complaining about how the don't have enough time.
Long before this became a big (ie, internet/social media) issue, my girlfriend who teaches bilingual immigrant students in a poor area told me these stories. She felt very bad for the parents, many of whom were here illegally. Anyway it went something like this: Parents leave crappy homeland because they know how crappy life is there and want nothing else in life other than to see their kid be able to grow up and succeed.
They come here, work 16 hour days often living with 5 other families living in a studio apartment. They work hard, they learn a skill, they learn a new language and are succeeding beyond anything that could have been hoped for in their homeland. They know what hard work is and to get things they must work for them through adversity.
Now their precious snowflake knows none of these things. She watches tv and sees people driving in Lamborghinis and living in beachfront houses Malibu and knows nothing about their background, but thinks her parents are losers for not having a car and living with other losers. She knows she deserves something better. All of her friends are in exactly the same position.
Meanwhile, she isn't doing her homework and when my girlfriend would talk to the parents at conferences it usually went:we try to make her study, but snowflake threatens to report us and have us deported.
Snowflake and her friend knows they'll never have to work as hard as their parents but deserve a lot more because everyone else.
All organizations have to worry about sabotage, it's part of the organizational process that must be in place and part of the reason why things are so expensive.
The reason aerospace is possible is not the cad drawings of the rockets or manufacturing capabilities (the parts that everyone sees), but the organization behind them.
Sun City, AZ (retirement community) has had this going back to at least the 1970's. About 15-20 years ago, AZ had a program that would pay for alternative fuel vehicles. Through some loophole, golf carts qualified and so a lot of retirees got free golf carts and cost the state billions through much greater than expected demand. My friend's dad got one that was worth almost $10k.
Neil Postman wrote an excellent book on this subject back in the 1980's about how television was, inherently by its very nature and not through conspiracy of actors, incapable of supporting and encouraging the rational thought required to sustain a modern democratic civilization.
I'm building four "drones" in my bedroom right now (taking a break waiting for the glue to dry). $10 of balsa and tissue, $20 motor $8 battery and $14 arduino and sensors. I've been building these for nearly 40 years.
You really should read them. Everyone should. It's some of the most thoughtful and intelligent writing that has ever been done. Even non-US citizens who've read it have told me this. Sadly, it's beyond most people with a lowest common denominator education.
Save enough money for 25 years of insurance, debt free, own my own house and car, live modestly. We'll have free health care in a few years anyway, so i'll have a free ride on that. Own a couple income properties.
The details were that I graduated during a recession and the company had a hiring freeze, but they really wanted me as I had worked for them as an intern and knew the system in great detail. Anyway, the dept manager called me (I decide to go to grad school at the time) and explained that they couldn't hire me, but I could go in as a contractor (no idea what this was at the time).
Talked to a few people who'd done this including a job shop and a fellow student who'd set up his own job shop (and was making $100k+ back in the 90's). I've met quite a few people over the years who've done the same thing.
I'm out of the business now, but last I talked to someone who was doing this a few years ago, he was making $250k+/year ($125/hr) living in some low cost podunk town. You save an awful lot like that.
Domestic partnerships aren't always treated the same as marriage. My girlfriend tried to get insurance for me as it was cheaper than me paying my own and they said no.
Slashdot Mirror
it's cool.
What ever happened to an the an anecdote is not data commenters?
fopen(..) is now fjopen(...)
fclose(..) becomes jfclose(..), etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The burden of proof is on you.
Don't argue with people who can't do math or know basic science at a secondary level and they eventually go away
But where does that electricity come from, other batteries?
There was a time when people were very pronuclear, but the environmentalists fixed this problem. Why would they want to put themselves out of a job?
I don't know why google ultimately dominated altavista.
Simple white page, not covered in *blink> and other crap. That's all there is to it. Kinda like the old /.
It's really very simple, sometimes good enough can be the best, but people don't often see this and must improve.
You know what? Who cares? Will I look back at the end of my life and think it was wasted because I missed five years (2hrs/day * 60 years) of not being entertained? It took me far less time to learn to program or even get a college degree. If you add up all the hours of study and every class I've ever taken it's likely less than most people will spend over their life doing nothing while at the same time complaining about how the don't have enough time.
I'd think the same demographics would apply
I won't be satisfied with my phone until I can shave with it.
You seem like someone informed. You don't belong here is more like it.
suitable candidates
Why not hire unsuitable candidates like my company?
They come here, work 16 hour days often living with 5 other families living in a studio apartment. They work hard, they learn a skill, they learn a new language and are succeeding beyond anything that could have been hoped for in their homeland. They know what hard work is and to get things they must work for them through adversity.
Now their precious snowflake knows none of these things. She watches tv and sees people driving in Lamborghinis and living in beachfront houses Malibu and knows nothing about their background, but thinks her parents are losers for not having a car and living with other losers. She knows she deserves something better. All of her friends are in exactly the same position.
Meanwhile, she isn't doing her homework and when my girlfriend would talk to the parents at conferences it usually went:we try to make her study, but snowflake threatens to report us and have us deported. Snowflake and her friend knows they'll never have to work as hard as their parents but deserve a lot more because everyone else.
All organizations have to worry about sabotage, it's part of the organizational process that must be in place and part of the reason why things are so expensive. The reason aerospace is possible is not the cad drawings of the rockets or manufacturing capabilities (the parts that everyone sees), but the organization behind them.
Sun City, AZ (retirement community) has had this going back to at least the 1970's. About 15-20 years ago, AZ had a program that would pay for alternative fuel vehicles. Through some loophole, golf carts qualified and so a lot of retirees got free golf carts and cost the state billions through much greater than expected demand. My friend's dad got one that was worth almost $10k.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
offensensitivity
I'm building four "drones" in my bedroom right now (taking a break waiting for the glue to dry). $10 of balsa and tissue, $20 motor $8 battery and $14 arduino and sensors. I've been building these for nearly 40 years.
You know what? You throw a stick in the air around here it falls on some sacred fern.
You really should read them. Everyone should. It's some of the most thoughtful and intelligent writing that has ever been done. Even non-US citizens who've read it have told me this. Sadly, it's beyond most people with a lowest common denominator education.
No, I'm American and pay $5k/year insurance. I never checked, but think I qualify for fee medicare.
Save enough money for 25 years of insurance, debt free, own my own house and car, live modestly. We'll have free health care in a few years anyway, so i'll have a free ride on that. Own a couple income properties.
Talked to a few people who'd done this including a job shop and a fellow student who'd set up his own job shop (and was making $100k+ back in the 90's). I've met quite a few people over the years who've done the same thing.
I'm out of the business now, but last I talked to someone who was doing this a few years ago, he was making $250k+/year ($125/hr) living in some low cost podunk town. You save an awful lot like that.
Domestic partnerships aren't always treated the same as marriage. My girlfriend tried to get insurance for me as it was cheaper than me paying my own and they said no.