Different kind of telecommuter here. In this case, we've just been moved from cubes back into our own homes. No traveling, no customers. Just doing the work that would normally be done from the cube farm. Almost all communication is via email and IM, with the occasional conference call thrown in.
The team I've been working with lately is all based out of Poughkeepsie, and I live near RTP. A VPN connection is cheaper for my department than office rental, network port rental, and phone port rental, so it's encouraged
Every now and then I wake up and feel very disoriented (like those old dreams of being late for school, not knowing about what your homework was, or what classes you need to be in), and will have a sort of panic attack, because I'll feel like I've just forgotten to go to work. That's a bizarre feeling to have, and it's hard to shake.
Also, it's hard to separate where work stops and life begins. Especially if you spend a lot of time on the internet anyway. I'm always signed on to Sametime, 24/7, and check my work email as often as my regular email. I effectively live in my work now. That's got to be a great deal for IBM!
You're getting a hard-on while throwing around that "There is a choice here" crap, but it's a false dichotomy between cognizance and nature you're building on. Humans are still natural, and our cognizance as a race, combined with a significant amount of the waste processes of our biological processes (however many steps removed from actual biological significance), led to the death of a species.
Mankind is not supernatural. Where we live is nature, and we are of nature ourselves. The laws of nature define our interaction with nature, including thought and morality and manufacturing processes. A DVD player is not supernatural either, nor the process of creating it, nor the waste from said process.
Any living thing attempts to modify what it can of nature in order to survive, or in order to survive easier, or more conveniently. Humans have become very good at this, and other species have for the most part not. Your race evolved in how it interacts with nature, and it decided at some level that the White Dolphin was in the way (that what we put into the river was more important than keeping it clean). The White Dolphin could not compete with us on a scale of any success (even given our own conservation-driven members), and thus went away. That's natural selection.
You seem upset because you don't believe that you *wanted* the White Dolphin to go away. I think you helped to make the choice that led to the conflict between our interests and the White Dolphin's, but you just didn't realize it.
So what, you want to burn double bright for 66 years and you think you'll be in any condition to keep going on at all for another 33?
There are a lot of stresses you can put on your body, or important things you can leave out in order to make it seem like you've got more time right now. But I'm going to wager that most or all of them are going to be trimming time off of the end, either due to increased stress or decreased levels of health and fitness. Or maybe it's not your body that you'll burn out, maybe it'll be your brain. Maybe you can make it through 66 going like that, but then will you be a vegetable for the rest of it?
Personally, I'd rather have the opposite: I'd increase my daily downtime if it meant increasing my functional lifespan. Sleep twelve hours a day and have a functional (non-wheelchair-drooling) 100 years rather than 80? Heck yes, someone invent that!
I think the balance right now of sleep is pretty good, and making advances in health-care for mind and body longevity are worth more than pills that allow you to stress-out for longer linear periods of time. However with that said, there's room in science for both, so maybe we'll get lucky and you'll get your pills and I'll get mine, and we can both gain some further control over the extent of our lives
And finally: I like sleep. Sleep is comfortable, and warm, and nice. It's often got nice dreams and little insights and ideas.
And even then it's still vague enough to include telegraph, POTS (and fax), cellular telephones, VOIP, and any form of radio transmission as well (amateur, CB). Those are all methods and mediums for message transmission via electricity.
And really, what made "email" worthy of its own add-on penalties, beyond the existing penalties for solicitation of a minor?
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I hear it often as a sort of personal praise. "I'm going to hell, aren't I" or, "I know, I'm insane" or "I just say the craziest things." It's like a nervous tick, looking for an affectionate re-affirmation that they're being entertaining.
It's sort of like laughing at your own jokes. If you're not getting the attention and feedback that you wanted, you can just toss it in at the end! I think it's often unconscious, as I know at least four people who do/say that. Interestingly, the people who actually make me laugh or who say things which are actually unexpected and humorously awful very rarely do this.
However, I think in the context here, it serves the same purpose as a smiley; it's just letting you know that they do not actually think you should just shoot AIDS victims. Not really excusing the joke, just saying that it was, in fact, a joke.
Personally, I would have been down with it if he'd have just said, "yeah we fooled around a bit. Not that it's any of your business," but that would have been suicide politically. So he tried to cover up his personal dealings to protect his political ones, then botched it and everything came out.
The best solution would have of course been not to get sucked off by Monica, but once you've passed that point... the only option left to him politically was to try and hide it, then deny it.
Really, how can anyone be trusted? Everyone will lie at some point or another. Or worse, obscure the truth by selectively stating just the parts they want. A lie can be detected by its contradiction with evidence. Selectively obscuring truth will not be as detectable because there's technically no contradiction!
I guess we have to weigh in at what we will allow ourselves to be lied-to about. I'd put sex and blowjobs on the "I don't care" list. Things that lead to war, death, violence and that sort of thing, I'd put on the "I care bunches" list.
Upon re-reading, it does seem that I'm saying that "trees and hippies" is the intentional and actual message of the Democratic party, which is a mistake. I was attempting to state that the perceived emotional basis for the Democratic party as seen by those fed by the Republican party was as such.
Gut instinct *is* to do what you're told. You're raised with biases and pressures from the authorities of your childhood, which end up hanging around in your brain all throughout your life. These become the basis for your "instinctual reaction" to other people's life-styles ("I feel it is wrong"), etc. In other words, you're going to react the way you've been trained to. A Republican (and conservative) can prey off of those initial reactions and those who will follow them. Note that such initial feedback is actually fine, so long as it's the beginning of the evaluation process, not the end.
Don't be confused by projecting your own learned individuality on everyone else, as you are an outlier in that respect. Whatever events transpired to help you to gain that attribute are apparently uncommon (and possibly made so deliberately).
The Democratic party (or any other, really) needs to learn to manipulate people who will follow those instincts as well. Those are practically free votes! Project the image to get people to be emotionally associated with you, and it doesn't matter what you actually do! Even if they start to get wise, just distract them with something else and they'll fall back to their original safety net, which is right where you got them in the first place.
They're terrified of appearing weak or intellectual, and that's what they believe the Democratic party represents. The Republican party represents football, strength, large cars, waving flags, and apple pie. Truth from the gut and all that jazz. First instinct reaction over observation.
The Republican party is much better at playing the emotional game with the tough-guy images right now. The Democratic emotional message is trees and hippies, which doesn't resonate with a lot of people.
What the heck does that even mean? As best I can tell from context in TFA, it's a typographical error, and they meant "board-based," which makes sense when paired with the idea of simple defacement. But I could also see it being corporate-speak for "a broad range of attacks" or something.
"Broad-based" sounds like a pornographic term, as opposed to "dude-based" I suppose. Which also makes some sense, since pornographic sites seemed like high-profile targets for defacement.
Because Cary has the highest rude-children-in-adult-bodies to pleasant-will-hold-the-door-open ratio in the region. Every time I venture into the area I'm reminded of this.
If you like people walking into you, or slamming doors behind them (and on you) then it's paradise. If you enjoy being polite and having it be ignored, you'll love it. Doped-up soccer moms in enormous SUVs, over-allowanced teens pretending to be subversive while just being annoying shits, and middle-management hacks in sock-less loafers and a pink polo-shirt: It's the perfect model of a burbclave hell.
And why? Because Cary, NC was voted the best town in America for a number of years by some magazine, so all of these fantastic people moved there.
If you want to move (which it doesn't sound like you really do) try Garner, NC. Housing prices are nice, it's just south of Raleigh. You can commute to RTP if you want to, or if you snag a job at IBM (not that hard) you can probably telecommute. My wife and I have the house you described. Granted, we both work full-time, but we're also not terribly thrifty. Just avoid Cary, NC like it's the plague.
Most of your post can be summed up as, "I cannot figure out a way to make it work, therefore Apple cannot figure out a way to make it work. Hence, the only way for it to work is badly." They have a lot at stake, and a lot of fantastically smart people working behind this, let's see what they have to offer.
You're projecting your own attitude onto them. They're refunding orders like a responsible company (while they still can, before being sued into oblivion). Their future would consist almost entirely of lawsuits based on this precedent.
Also, powerful vanity on your part as a member of the "slashdot crowd" to believe that a profitable company would go out of business just to get an emotional response from you.
I think you've misused the terms arbitrary and pointless. The reasoning for the topic rule is fairly well laid out.
As someone who occasionally enjoys creating truly arbitrary rules (though their point is to entertain me) with which to subject patrons (Rocky Horror shift), I have gleaned a bit of insight into just what that means. You have to be able to find no real reason for the rule, even if it appears to be misguided. If I say that you aren't allowed to stand at the back of the theatre just because I wandered in and decided you looked like an annoying little shit, that's plenty arbitrary. If you were kicking at the wall to the amusement of a bunch of friends or in any other way causing damage or harm, then it's not.
I'd go so far as to say that the GP poster's inability to "sell sell sell" reflects inexperience in the stock market (in that he's not playing it at all). In other words, he's just making shit up about it. I'm certain when he heard they don't have to wear suits he was also pretty perturbed, because don't all successfull businesses have their employees wear suits? But luckily there were on-the-ball moderators to rate his garbage exposition up as insightful.
What do you mean by "tool to keep third parties from selling songs to iPod users?" The iPod plays non-DRM'd MP3 (and other formats, though as we all know, not Ogg, grr) just fine.
Now, the bit about iTunes-bought music being playable only on an iPod (unless you want to throw away a CDR) is a big pain. However, I believe that if Apple could get away with selling the music without the encryption (which is apparently a step applied in iTunes), they would.
Hah, who's paranoid now? My apologies, I saw your post as a reply to mine, not to the actual parent post. I'm glad you're not actually a raving lunatic:)
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Different kind of telecommuter here. In this case, we've just been moved from cubes back into our own homes. No traveling, no customers. Just doing the work that would normally be done from the cube farm. Almost all communication is via email and IM, with the occasional conference call thrown in.
The team I've been working with lately is all based out of Poughkeepsie, and I live near RTP. A VPN connection is cheaper for my department than office rental, network port rental, and phone port rental, so it's encouraged
Every now and then I wake up and feel very disoriented (like those old dreams of being late for school, not knowing about what your homework was, or what classes you need to be in), and will have a sort of panic attack, because I'll feel like I've just forgotten to go to work. That's a bizarre feeling to have, and it's hard to shake.
Also, it's hard to separate where work stops and life begins. Especially if you spend a lot of time on the internet anyway. I'm always signed on to Sametime, 24/7, and check my work email as often as my regular email. I effectively live in my work now. That's got to be a great deal for IBM!
seconded. Also, the gp falsely assumes that posting on slashdot and other forms of creativity are mutually exclusive.
You're getting a hard-on while throwing around that "There is a choice here" crap, but it's a false dichotomy between cognizance and nature you're building on. Humans are still natural, and our cognizance as a race, combined with a significant amount of the waste processes of our biological processes (however many steps removed from actual biological significance), led to the death of a species.
Mankind is not supernatural. Where we live is nature, and we are of nature ourselves. The laws of nature define our interaction with nature, including thought and morality and manufacturing processes. A DVD player is not supernatural either, nor the process of creating it, nor the waste from said process.
Any living thing attempts to modify what it can of nature in order to survive, or in order to survive easier, or more conveniently. Humans have become very good at this, and other species have for the most part not. Your race evolved in how it interacts with nature, and it decided at some level that the White Dolphin was in the way (that what we put into the river was more important than keeping it clean). The White Dolphin could not compete with us on a scale of any success (even given our own conservation-driven members), and thus went away. That's natural selection.
You seem upset because you don't believe that you *wanted* the White Dolphin to go away. I think you helped to make the choice that led to the conflict between our interests and the White Dolphin's, but you just didn't realize it.
Yes, push your cheap drugs, cube slave. Sports teams and daytime television!
So what, you want to burn double bright for 66 years and you think you'll be in any condition to keep going on at all for another 33?
There are a lot of stresses you can put on your body, or important things you can leave out in order to make it seem like you've got more time right now. But I'm going to wager that most or all of them are going to be trimming time off of the end, either due to increased stress or decreased levels of health and fitness. Or maybe it's not your body that you'll burn out, maybe it'll be your brain. Maybe you can make it through 66 going like that, but then will you be a vegetable for the rest of it?
Personally, I'd rather have the opposite: I'd increase my daily downtime if it meant increasing my functional lifespan. Sleep twelve hours a day and have a functional (non-wheelchair-drooling) 100 years rather than 80? Heck yes, someone invent that!
I think the balance right now of sleep is pretty good, and making advances in health-care for mind and body longevity are worth more than pills that allow you to stress-out for longer linear periods of time. However with that said, there's room in science for both, so maybe we'll get lucky and you'll get your pills and I'll get mine, and we can both gain some further control over the extent of our lives
And finally: I like sleep. Sleep is comfortable, and warm, and nice. It's often got nice dreams and little insights and ideas.
And even then it's still vague enough to include telegraph, POTS (and fax), cellular telephones, VOIP, and any form of radio transmission as well (amateur, CB). Those are all methods and mediums for message transmission via electricity.
And really, what made "email" worthy of its own add-on penalties, beyond the existing penalties for solicitation of a minor?
Ok see, THAT is what the funny mod is for.
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I hear it often as a sort of personal praise. "I'm going to hell, aren't I" or, "I know, I'm insane" or "I just say the craziest things." It's like a nervous tick, looking for an affectionate re-affirmation that they're being entertaining.
It's sort of like laughing at your own jokes. If you're not getting the attention and feedback that you wanted, you can just toss it in at the end! I think it's often unconscious, as I know at least four people who do/say that. Interestingly, the people who actually make me laugh or who say things which are actually unexpected and humorously awful very rarely do this.
However, I think in the context here, it serves the same purpose as a smiley; it's just letting you know that they do not actually think you should just shoot AIDS victims. Not really excusing the joke, just saying that it was, in fact, a joke.
The "that's HARDCORE" reply is awesome though.
Personally, I would have been down with it if he'd have just said, "yeah we fooled around a bit. Not that it's any of your business," but that would have been suicide politically. So he tried to cover up his personal dealings to protect his political ones, then botched it and everything came out.
The best solution would have of course been not to get sucked off by Monica, but once you've passed that point... the only option left to him politically was to try and hide it, then deny it.
Really, how can anyone be trusted? Everyone will lie at some point or another. Or worse, obscure the truth by selectively stating just the parts they want. A lie can be detected by its contradiction with evidence. Selectively obscuring truth will not be as detectable because there's technically no contradiction!
I guess we have to weigh in at what we will allow ourselves to be lied-to about. I'd put sex and blowjobs on the "I don't care" list. Things that lead to war, death, violence and that sort of thing, I'd put on the "I care bunches" list.
Upon re-reading, it does seem that I'm saying that "trees and hippies" is the intentional and actual message of the Democratic party, which is a mistake. I was attempting to state that the perceived emotional basis for the Democratic party as seen by those fed by the Republican party was as such.
Gut instinct *is* to do what you're told. You're raised with biases and pressures from the authorities of your childhood, which end up hanging around in your brain all throughout your life. These become the basis for your "instinctual reaction" to other people's life-styles ("I feel it is wrong"), etc. In other words, you're going to react the way you've been trained to. A Republican (and conservative) can prey off of those initial reactions and those who will follow them. Note that such initial feedback is actually fine, so long as it's the beginning of the evaluation process, not the end.
Don't be confused by projecting your own learned individuality on everyone else, as you are an outlier in that respect. Whatever events transpired to help you to gain that attribute are apparently uncommon (and possibly made so deliberately).
The Democratic party (or any other, really) needs to learn to manipulate people who will follow those instincts as well. Those are practically free votes! Project the image to get people to be emotionally associated with you, and it doesn't matter what you actually do! Even if they start to get wise, just distract them with something else and they'll fall back to their original safety net, which is right where you got them in the first place.
They're terrified of appearing weak or intellectual, and that's what they believe the Democratic party represents. The Republican party represents football, strength, large cars, waving flags, and apple pie. Truth from the gut and all that jazz. First instinct reaction over observation.
The Republican party is much better at playing the emotional game with the tough-guy images right now. The Democratic emotional message is trees and hippies, which doesn't resonate with a lot of people.
This is just me spreading the hate.
What the heck does that even mean? As best I can tell from context in TFA, it's a typographical error, and they meant "board-based," which makes sense when paired with the idea of simple defacement. But I could also see it being corporate-speak for "a broad range of attacks" or something.
"Broad-based" sounds like a pornographic term, as opposed to "dude-based" I suppose. Which also makes some sense, since pornographic sites seemed like high-profile targets for defacement.
Because Cary has the highest rude-children-in-adult-bodies to pleasant-will-hold-the-door-open ratio in the region. Every time I venture into the area I'm reminded of this.
If you like people walking into you, or slamming doors behind them (and on you) then it's paradise. If you enjoy being polite and having it be ignored, you'll love it. Doped-up soccer moms in enormous SUVs, over-allowanced teens pretending to be subversive while just being annoying shits, and middle-management hacks in sock-less loafers and a pink polo-shirt: It's the perfect model of a burbclave hell.
And why? Because Cary, NC was voted the best town in America for a number of years by some magazine, so all of these fantastic people moved there.
If you want to move (which it doesn't sound like you really do) try Garner, NC. Housing prices are nice, it's just south of Raleigh. You can commute to RTP if you want to, or if you snag a job at IBM (not that hard) you can probably telecommute. My wife and I have the house you described. Granted, we both work full-time, but we're also not terribly thrifty. Just avoid Cary, NC like it's the plague.
Most of your post can be summed up as, "I cannot figure out a way to make it work, therefore Apple cannot figure out a way to make it work. Hence, the only way for it to work is badly." They have a lot at stake, and a lot of fantastically smart people working behind this, let's see what they have to offer.
You're projecting your own attitude onto them. They're refunding orders like a responsible company (while they still can, before being sued into oblivion). Their future would consist almost entirely of lawsuits based on this precedent.
Also, powerful vanity on your part as a member of the "slashdot crowd" to believe that a profitable company would go out of business just to get an emotional response from you.
I think you've misused the terms arbitrary and pointless. The reasoning for the topic rule is fairly well laid out.
As someone who occasionally enjoys creating truly arbitrary rules (though their point is to entertain me) with which to subject patrons (Rocky Horror shift), I have gleaned a bit of insight into just what that means. You have to be able to find no real reason for the rule, even if it appears to be misguided. If I say that you aren't allowed to stand at the back of the theatre just because I wandered in and decided you looked like an annoying little shit, that's plenty arbitrary. If you were kicking at the wall to the amusement of a bunch of friends or in any other way causing damage or harm, then it's not.
I'd go so far as to say that the GP poster's inability to "sell sell sell" reflects inexperience in the stock market (in that he's not playing it at all). In other words, he's just making shit up about it. I'm certain when he heard they don't have to wear suits he was also pretty perturbed, because don't all successfull businesses have their employees wear suits? But luckily there were on-the-ball moderators to rate his garbage exposition up as insightful.
Where's this leak the post mentions? I want to find out about Hunters, which are left out of the linked page.
What do you mean by "tool to keep third parties from selling songs to iPod users?" The iPod plays non-DRM'd MP3 (and other formats, though as we all know, not Ogg, grr) just fine.
Now, the bit about iTunes-bought music being playable only on an iPod (unless you want to throw away a CDR) is a big pain. However, I believe that if Apple could get away with selling the music without the encryption (which is apparently a step applied in iTunes), they would.
Well I do now. +5 Insightful!
Hah, who's paranoid now? My apologies, I saw your post as a reply to mine, not to the actual parent post. I'm glad you're not actually a raving lunatic :)
What's this, scared to come out?
Got-it, "nonchalant"