God I hate anyone who says if you dont like something just don't buy it. That works for pizzas (man you'll never see me eat at a Papa Johns) but not GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED MONOPOLIES like telephone services.
Ok, when I was 17 (long ago, but not too long) I went on a band trip to Hawaii (you laugh now, but did you school send you to hawaii?:). The school gave us packs of junk, chewing gum, deck of cards, and disposable cameras as a goodwill gesture (I gather). I was the section leader for the tenor sax players -- if you've ever met any tenor sax players you know they are the bigest screwoffs in the world (I've often wondered -- does being a screwoff make you choose the tenor sax as an instrument, or do you become a screwoff after choosing it?).
Anyways, I was responsible for 4 complete goobers and one gorgeous blonde (who really dosent have anyhting to with the story, but I just want to mention her), which was not an enviable task. They got bored on the plane to hawaii and took apart their disposable camera... well low and behold they figured out about the only thing you can do with a broken disposable camera is shock shit or get shocked. After some dumb luck (getting shocked in the first place) and some trial and error, they figure out if you touched these leads and pressed that button youd get shocked... so the next step was to walk around the plane getting people to hold the leads so they could shock them (someday Id like to know why you would hold two leads a 14 year old asked you to).
So one afternoon our scheduled activity was to hang out in this park because thats damn cheap:) and well now you have to know about the director... he was this big fat, raunchy, disgusting fat fuck who happened to be one of the best directors in the nation, and he had this even fatter and even rauncher wife their two skinny (but soon to be fat kids). The wife was horrible annoying and the kids were even worse, the whole band was sick of them. Meanwhile in the park, the band was getting pretty restless, shocking eachother with cameras actually became entertainment:) So these guys I am responsible for are shocking eathother, Im hitting on the blonde (amy hays if you're out there...;-) ), and oie of the directors sons walks up and he says "Hey what are you guys doing?" (the kid couldn't have been more then 6 or 7) One of the worst jerkoffs in my section gets this HUGE grin on his face and he says, "I'll show you. you touch this and this, and then press this button" Meanwhile I look over and see whats going on, as Im screaming "nooooooooooooooooooooo!!" in slow motion like the matrix, the kid shocks the crap out of himself and I swear he almost pissed his pants as he took off running. We never got in trouble so I dont suppose he told his father:) but we were paranoid the whole rest of the trip.
on an unrelated topic, couldn't this guy just buy a couple 1 farad capacitors? Those are pretty popular with car audio buffs, they run maybe between 100 - 200$ a piece, I think that would be so much easier then getting UV burns like this guy is describing:D
No offense man, but grow some cajones. If they fire you, they fire you
One thing that was disturbingly true at my last place of employment
I know it's subtle, but "was" and "last" are past tense, indicating I am no longer working there:)
That story is actually more like enron meets office space. I had wanted to quit for about a year, but I had debts to pay and I wanted to stay at the job for atleast two years to look good on a resume. My boss and a official from accounting approached me one day telling me they were going to have the university write me a check and I was going to write most of the check back to them and that they needed to do this because they had paid me out of the wrong account:) Long story short I dont believe shit my boss tells me and the plan would have gotten me in *UBER* hot water with the IRS and NSF both whom the plan defrauded.
So I went to the universities Judicial Director (the university interface to the legal system), who hooked me up with a detective and a deputy district attorney, for whom I agreed to setup my boss for prosecution by completing the fraud under the supervision of the police. On two occasions I wore a wire to document the planning of the crime for the police... and now that my boss is either going to be fired, sentured, or jailed, I quit.
Is that enuf "cajones" for you? You really shouldn't use your +2 bonus for stupid comments.
Office Space is really an indictment of corporate culture and to a much lesser extent capitalism. One thing that was disturbingly true at my last place of employment [systems admin] was always the "staying late." My fucking boss would walk in at 1:00pm for his first meeting, get out of that at 2:00, catch up on some work, maybe teach a class, then at 4:30 he'd wander in and ask you "how late can you stay tonight? "
To quote brain candy I said, "fucker I've been here for 8 hours already!" but then out loud I said "How late do you need me?" Another just criminal thing they would do to me is, at noon they would they would tell me, "I need to see you at 4:00 its important." And then I'd spin my wheels for 4 hours, and finally they'd drop some shit on me like "I need a webmail system running before you leave tonight."(not exadurating, this was said to me). But most of the time it was shit that wasn't even my job "I need you to convert this journal paper into a PDF" (hardcopy only). One day I had worked 17 hours with no lunck/breaks to help meet a deadline created by my boss not starting a proposal until 24 hours before it had to be fedexed. By the end I had a crushing headache and was having trouble seeing from exhaustion, and at 3:00am my boss had the balls to ask me "What time can you be here in the morning? 10:00? We need you at 10" (knowing full well I had a 35 mile commute each way)... which brings me to the real problem - respect. Most managers have no respect for their employees.
They are small like cats, but friendly like dogs. They dont eat much, and they are lots of fun. Once we accidently dropped a table on one of our chihuahuas and I had to take it to get a cast. A chiahuahua with a cast is an *unstopable* chick magnet. I kept the cast even after the dog was better;)
Downsides: chihuahuas are pretty dang stupid, they bark alot and have bad eyesight, plus one just pooped in my bedroom .
Ummm, apparently you've never worked in a research facility. I worked in one for two years, and let me tell you, if someone paid us to prove the moon was made of green cheese we could have done it and wouldn't have thought twice. *ANYTIME* you see a "university study" a "medical trial" or the words "research indicates" ask *WHO PAID FOR THE RESEARCH*, because thats who it will support. This is science for sale my friend.
But its actually "femputer" from episode 5 season 3, "Amazon Women in the Mood" where the crew travels to a world ruled by 10 foot tall women and hilarity ensues:)
put yes FEMputer was the first thing I thought of.:)
Oh man thats exactly the shit my physics professor would do to us, he really loved dimensional analysis.
I remember on one midterm being asked to convert a measurement in miles per gallon into "furlongs per fortnight" which is pretty easy if you know that a god damn furlong is 220 yards, and a fortnight is 2 weeks. Needless to say furlong was *not* among the unit conversions I had choosen to memorize.
Bonus points if you can convert furlongs per fornight into granpa simpsons "rods per hoghead" (40 rods in one furlong):)
Although to this day I still remember the conversion for furlongs, I think what I really learned in that course is not to take classes from assholes:)
I have a better idea...I havent been in school in, almost 10 years now, but, they should let the kids decide individually to participate in the pledge on the days they are proud to be an american.
Sept 11, I was pround to be an american... when the pres declares he can jail whoever he wants, FBI blows chunks, Enron colapses... I'm ashamed.
And thats really the problem nowadays... so much more to be ashamed of then proud of
So I have to pay money for extra hardware so Sony can sell me movies and music... and because MS can't secure an OS without it? (It's perfectly possible - BSD).
I'm sure a MS's execs reply would be, "Of course you dont have to pay extra for a pc... [ you dont have to use a pc at all ]
Which might be just what I do -- move to mac.
I'm *really* sick of the adversarial attitude held by alot of companies latley -- "the customers are our enemies, we will dog them to do what *we* want." If you dont like this (and I sure dont), vote with your $$ and dont buy it.
ok, instead of insisting your boss is lame and you are right, how about compromising -- write two vesions of the code -- one that uses lookups (which you generate at runtime), and one that uses no lookups but saves ram. Switch between the two as necessary:)
the starting position for wrestling pretty much looks like a gay buttfuck
or in your case, a visit with grandpa.
Don't attach your negative perceptions to a group. I'm sure you feel equally offended by my imagery.
No, I'm not offended by the imagery... Im not that think skinned, and neither should you be. I think I will continue to speak my mind even if I'm not PC. I have plenty of karma to burn and I know everyone should have a better sense of humor.
keep trying though, I almost chuckled at your joke:)
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umm, you did it to yourself, seeing as you submitted the article :)
God I hate anyone who says if you dont like something just don't buy it. That works for pizzas (man you'll never see me eat at a Papa Johns) but not GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED MONOPOLIES like telephone services.
That kind of steganography is called "hidden channel." Although in your case, its not that hidden :)
Anyways, I was responsible for 4 complete goobers and one gorgeous blonde (who really dosent have anyhting to with the story, but I just want to mention her), which was not an enviable task. They got bored on the plane to hawaii and took apart their disposable camera ... well low and behold they figured out about the only thing you can do with a broken disposable camera is shock shit or get shocked. After some dumb luck (getting shocked in the first place) and some trial and error, they figure out if you touched these leads and pressed that button youd get shocked ... so the next step was to walk around the plane getting people to hold the leads so they could shock them (someday Id like to know why you would hold two leads a 14 year old asked you to).
So one afternoon our scheduled activity was to hang out in this park because thats damn cheap :) and well now you have to know about the director ... he was this big fat, raunchy, disgusting fat fuck who happened to be one of the best directors in the nation, and he had this even fatter and even rauncher wife their two skinny (but soon to be fat kids). The wife was horrible annoying and the kids were even worse, the whole band was sick of them. Meanwhile in the park, the band was getting pretty restless, shocking eachother with cameras actually became entertainment :) So these guys I am responsible for are shocking eathother, Im hitting on the blonde (amy hays if you're out there... ;-) ), and oie of the directors sons walks up and he says "Hey what are you guys doing?" (the kid couldn't have been more then 6 or 7) One of the worst jerkoffs in my section gets this HUGE grin on his face and he says, "I'll show you. you touch this and this, and then press this button" Meanwhile I look over and see whats going on, as Im screaming "nooooooooooooooooooooo!!" in slow motion like the matrix, the kid shocks the crap out of himself and I swear he almost pissed his pants as he took off running. We never got in trouble so I dont suppose he told his father :) but we were paranoid the whole rest of the trip.
on an unrelated topic, couldn't this guy just buy a couple 1 farad capacitors? Those are pretty popular with car audio buffs, they run maybe between 100 - 200$ a piece, I think that would be so much easier then getting UV burns like this guy is describing :D
No offense man, but grow some cajones. If they fire you, they fire you
One thing that was disturbingly true at my last place of employment
I know it's subtle, but "was" and "last" are past tense, indicating I am no longer working there :)
That story is actually more like enron meets office space. I had wanted to quit for about a year, but I had debts to pay and I wanted to stay at the job for atleast two years to look good on a resume. My boss and a official from accounting approached me one day telling me they were going to have the university write me a check and I was going to write most of the check back to them and that they needed to do this because they had paid me out of the wrong account :) Long story short I dont believe shit my boss tells me and the plan would have gotten me in *UBER* hot water with the IRS and NSF both whom the plan defrauded.
So I went to the universities Judicial Director (the university interface to the legal system), who hooked me up with a detective and a deputy district attorney, for whom I agreed to setup my boss for prosecution by completing the fraud under the supervision of the police. On two occasions I wore a wire to document the planning of the crime for the police... and now that my boss is either going to be fired, sentured, or jailed, I quit.
Is that enuf "cajones" for you? You really shouldn't use your +2 bonus for stupid comments.
Office Space is really an indictment of corporate culture and to a much lesser extent capitalism. One thing that was disturbingly true at my last place of employment [systems admin] was always the "staying late." My fucking boss would walk in at 1:00pm for his first meeting, get out of that at 2:00, catch up on some work, maybe teach a class, then at 4:30 he'd wander in and ask you "how late can you stay tonight? " To quote brain candy I said, "fucker I've been here for 8 hours already!" but then out loud I said "How late do you need me?" Another just criminal thing they would do to me is, at noon they would they would tell me, "I need to see you at 4:00 its important." And then I'd spin my wheels for 4 hours, and finally they'd drop some shit on me like "I need a webmail system running before you leave tonight."(not exadurating, this was said to me). But most of the time it was shit that wasn't even my job "I need you to convert this journal paper into a PDF" (hardcopy only). One day I had worked 17 hours with no lunck/breaks to help meet a deadline created by my boss not starting a proposal until 24 hours before it had to be fedexed. By the end I had a crushing headache and was having trouble seeing from exhaustion, and at 3:00am my boss had the balls to ask me "What time can you be here in the morning? 10:00? We need you at 10" (knowing full well I had a 35 mile commute each way) ... which brings me to the real problem - respect. Most managers have no respect for their employees.
How about, batman vs. Judge Judy ? I can see it now, "Young man! young man!!! Dont get guano on my shoes and tell me im not in the batcave!"
(one of her famous sayings is, "dont pee on my shoes and tell me its raining)
http://www.vislab.ucr.edu http://www.cris.ucr.edu (same facility, two names) thank you very much
Read it in your best yoda impression and it makes sense -- common -- I know you have one!
Downsides: chihuahuas are pretty dang stupid, they bark alot and have bad eyesight, plus one just pooped in my bedroom .
IQ = A / C
IQ drop of poster = Avg Intelligence of Poster / Complexity of problem
As you can see as C rises A is quickly overwhelmed :)
(yes I have an EE midterm next week and yes Ive been studying way too hard)
Ummm, apparently you've never worked in a research facility. I worked in one for two years, and let me tell you, if someone paid us to prove the moon was made of green cheese we could have done it and wouldn't have thought twice. *ANYTIME* you see a "university study" a "medical trial" or the words "research indicates" ask *WHO PAID FOR THE RESEARCH*, because thats who it will support. This is science for sale my friend.
Then again, when the "offical" star wars plot includes shit like thiswho can blame them?
thanks for pointing that out ...
put yes FEMputer was the first thing I thought of. :)
Yeah thats exactly what I meant :) this is why i barely passed the course :) thanks
Oh man thats exactly the shit my physics professor would do to us, he really loved dimensional analysis.
:)
:)
I remember on one midterm being asked to convert a measurement in miles per gallon into "furlongs per fortnight" which is pretty easy if you know that a god damn furlong is 220 yards, and a fortnight is 2 weeks. Needless to say furlong was *not* among the unit conversions I had choosen to memorize.
Bonus points if you can convert furlongs per fornight into granpa simpsons "rods per hoghead" (40 rods in one furlong)
Although to this day I still remember the conversion for furlongs, I think what I really learned in that course is not to take classes from assholes
[you@someterminal you]# cd pgp-source
[you@someterminal you]# grep -c -r -i "nsa"
27
Oh wait this is Slashdot, no one will get that.
ummm its called a fruit rollup and I been eatin them since I was 7. :)
Sept 11, I was pround to be an american ... when the pres declares he can jail whoever he wants, FBI blows chunks, Enron colapses ... I'm ashamed.
And thats really the problem nowadays ... so much more to be ashamed of then proud of
VAG-COM, My girl friend got that once. Some Cephlexin cleared it right up.
I'm sure a MS's execs reply would be, "Of course you dont have to pay extra for a pc... [ you dont have to use a pc at all ]
Which might be just what I do -- move to mac.
I'm *really* sick of the adversarial attitude held by alot of companies latley -- "the customers are our enemies, we will dog them to do what *we* want." If you dont like this (and I sure dont), vote with your $$ and dont buy it.
ok, instead of insisting your boss is lame and you are right, how about compromising -- write two vesions of the code -- one that uses lookups (which you generate at runtime), and one that uses no lookups but saves ram. Switch between the two as necessary :)
or in your case, a visit with grandpa.
Don't attach your negative perceptions to a group. I'm sure you feel equally offended by my imagery.
No, I'm not offended by the imagery ... Im not that think skinned, and neither should you be. I think I will continue to speak my mind even if I'm not PC. I have plenty of karma to burn and I know everyone should have a better sense of humor.
keep trying though, I almost chuckled at your joke :)