Bracers for sheets are not an invention, and certainly not patentable - unless the stuff kept your grand-dads pants up since before the first world war is worth a patent?
If I've jumped out of bed with some cool ideas still in my head it is the pen and paper sitting at all times on my desk. This is a habit from the days when it was taking 5 mins to boot into a working Windows 7 desktop and the ideas might slip away in that time.
After that I expand the ideas out and write them into markdown or text files and save them to a folder on my Google Drive. That way I know they are permanently backed up offsite immediately. It's free, available on every major platform and easy to copy around.
Finally, when time allows, I write them up properly into markdown and place them into the Git repo which the idea relates to. So now I have permanently offsite backed up thoughts / designs in a Git repo which I can diff at any time to see what changed and when.
I have Evernote and Google Notes and never use the damn things.
Do the people who use a Chromebook create anything or are they simply consuming web content? If they are consumers, there is literally no reason to create a Pro version of the device.
If they actually create lasting useful content that has meaning, then perhaps there is a reason to have a Pro version of the device. I'm doubtful.
A "hill-start" is part of the standard driving test over here in Australia. That means coming to a stop on a steep hill, pulling on the hand brake "emergency brake" and then pulling away cleanly without rolling backwards or riding the clutch. Maybe some other countries need to ensure their drivers can also do this simple manoeuvre.
I don't think anyone here is debating the fact that you need wheel chocks when launching a boat on a steep boat ramp. That's just common sense. At least, I hope no-one is debating it. But at least we agree, your vehicle is facing up the ramp, it's in first gear, the engine is off *and* you placed chocks under the wheels to stop the obvious from happening.
You probably don't ride a motorbike so you don't know that there are in fact a couple of different options for the gears, depending on the make of the bike.
Older British bikes have gear change on the right foot, Japanese and modern bikes have it on the left foot. Common is one down, 3-5 up. Your foot brake may be on the other side than you are used to, depending on the make of bike.
Most bike riders are aware of the differences and it doesn't take very long to adjust.
This guy was just oblivious to how his car worked and he paid the price for stupidity. Even just pulling on his handbrake would have saved his life.
OMG, have you been driving a car with no idea what he handbrake is used for? I drive a manual, and have for about 30 years now. It's a preference, but I still know that every single car I've ever driven, and this is hundreds of them of all sorts...all have a handbrake - which you might call an "emergency brake".
When you park your car you are meant to:
* turn off the ignition * drop it into first gear if a manual or park if an auto * pull on the handbrake
It's most likely the red haired guy. He left the unsatisfying relationship he was in and confessed his love for that other girl telling her he was ready to have children. The only thing more likely to get him killed is saying something about this being his last mission, he's getting out in two days to go home to his wife and two loving children.
Quite right, only the marketing...that and the general purpose CPU chips, often ARM based that run a variant of Linux / Android and are able to perform general purpose computing tasks. As a programmer that's quite an interesting proposition as I could run my own code on the TV set.
Most of the mid-high end TV sets are smart TVs, so if you want a decent 4K set with high colour depth, frame dimming, a selection of display modes, high fidelity rendering of scenes, etc...you're going to have to get a smart TV. I love watching films and even the modern TV shows, since some are really hitting the mark (it's a golden age for TV). To get the picture quality I want I need to buy a mid-range respected manufacturer's TV, and those were 100% smart TV models when I checked in mid 2015.
Sure, I could have bought a "store brand" one for 1/2 the cost and had no smart features, but they also have a shitty picture and don't integrate well with my other AV gear.
I could definitely put together an Android device which runs Kodi and handles nearly all of the features I want in a decent TV. I did exactly that right up till the day I bought my Sony Android TV. I still wouldn't buy the sets at half the price, even though I had all the "smart features" I wanted on an ODROID-C1+, because...the picture quality on those TVs is shit in comparison.
Not everyone with a smart TV is a sheep, and not everyone without a smart TV is NOT a sheep.
That may be right, and certainly is for 1080p H.264 playback. I think (but can't recall for sure) that it wasn't fast enough to handle 1080p HEVC (H.265) playback, which is how I get most my content these days. That said, an ODROID-C1+ is quite capable, and just as easy to set up as the RPi, and about the same price.
I actually use my Sony Android TV these days, now that after a few patches it can actually play back the 1080p HEVC content (and 4K content, it was shit at doing this on release).
Hopefully, very soon, my Pine 64+ will arrive and I can test another device, one that can perhaps do 4K HEVC content...time will tell.
You're on the money though. If an RPi2 / ODROID C1+ / Pine64+ gets infected, you wipe the memory card, flash it again and are up and running in minutes. If your Smart TV gets infected, you might be waiting weeks on a "return to base" warranty to get it working again.
More or less. Nothing we do is going to be dire enough that the whole place falls apart if someone can't be reached. (Unless the whole place literally falls apart, but somehow I think that'd be more of a call to 911.) Worst case scenario we close down during normal business hours - not the end of the world. And yes, I trust whoever's in charge to make that decision.
So even your "emergencies" aren't dire enough that not getting through to someone will cause a big issue. They're not even likely or dire enough for you to perform any form of contingency planning. It's on the scale of "I sure hope someone can deal with this now, if not, it's fine, it can wait till tomorrow." It really doesn't sound like anything you expect might go wrong is worth putting any of your own resources towards managing. If it's not worth it for you, why should you expect it to be worth it for your workers.
You know, I really don't mind if an employer calls me up a few times a year and asks something reasonable that is dealt with in a minute. For a good employer I will even walk over to my machine, remote in and try and sort it out if it's a really quick fix like rebooting a server. That's someone who I have already built up trust and rapport with - not just anyone, but an employer I have a good working relationship with.
If there is an expectation that perhaps 4+ times a year I will need to go into work, dropping whatever I am doing and deal with emergencies (it doesn't happen generally, I'm a developer) then I want it in the contract that I get TOIL or similar compensation for those hours. If not the written contract then a verbal agreement reached during the interview phase with the employer. I am always upfront about what expectations they can make on me, and what expectations I might have for them.
When 9/11 hit I was in Venice on holiday with my wife. I called the office immediately and discussed whether they needed me to fly back straight away to deal with any issues and fallout from it. Lucky it was fine for the next two days, so I didn't have to cut my holiday short, but I would have if it was needed because that was the very definition of an emergency (I worked in finance).
Don't place vague or poorly defined expectations on your employees and hope they will rise to the occasion. If you need people "on-call" then contract that with them, create a rota, make sure they know exactly which hours / days they are on-call for and compensate them for constant possible interruption to their lives.
You sound like you think you don't need that, and maybe you don't - I don't know what your business is. At least you sound will to compensate people for when they do answer the calls.
I still think that allowing people or even vaguely imply it's a a good thing to deal with emails outside of business hours is a poor idea. There is always going to be some fool who thinks that slapping in another couple of hours per day is the way to promotion and this causes stress and pressure on the rest of the staff. People will start to check emails at times when they should be focused on family, friends and relaxation. It makes no sense to cause this stress in your employees personal life. Healthy relaxed people work much better, especially when there is a true balance between work and home and definite cut-off periods.
A long time ago I worked for a small software company (4 employees). The sort of small heartfelt mom-pop sort of operation that is meant to be so great for the economy and the worker.
I had been working there about 6 months, most of that time was building a brand new multi-media system capable of playing back video off a laser disk and placing interactive text on the screen, taking user response and moving on based on that. I built it from scratch in c++ after learning the language especially for that reason (very early 90s).
We were approaching a deadline to ship the first edition of this software along with the training program it ran. There was no consultation on when the deadline should be, or project planning to even show if it was possible. It was an arbitrary date set by the customer, a man well known for requesting stupid release dates (I worked for him later). I had been putting in 10-12 hour days 6 days a week for a month or so and was tired having just got home from a 16 hour day as we were close to release date.
I had literally just sat down in my armchair and was about to eat dinner when the phone rang. It was the boss telling me he needed me back in work to finish the coding. I explained I'd already done 16 hours that day and was about to eat. He said if I didn't get back into work in an hour (it was 30 mins drive) then he "wasn't sure there would be a job there in the morning."
Threatening me is about the worst way to get me to co-operate, but I needed the money so I had little choice. I went back in after quickly wolfing down my dinner and got it that much closer to completion. To this day that code still has a comment along the lines of "// I am working for scrooge. It's Christmas eve and I've spent 16 hours at work already..."
Yeh...it was Christmas eve.
The story does have a happy ending for our hero though. the software shipped and I was allowed a couple of days off (my own time, I was paid by the hour >.) to recoup. When the person we were shipping the software to realised that my boss didn't actually do any of the work and he could be cut out of the loop - he offered me a chance to compete on the next contracts. I won those and that was the beginning of the next 8 years or so of me running a business for myself building multimedia software.
Obviously it would be unethical to use the same code, so I re-wrote it from scratch to work for Windows 3.1 and run off CDROMS. I employed 3-4 people for the next 8 years. I'm still friends with all those people to this day, because I provided them with a friendly, well managed and fun place to work and never called them late at night demanding they come in or be fired.
Since I said I never expect the email to be checked or responded to until the next work day, I'm not sure what your issue here is?
If there is no expectation of the email being attended to, then why are you posting it to the employee during outside of work hours. It's reasonable if you're working late or early and are taking care of your unattended business and posting it to the work email address. It's a whole other kettle of fish when you post it to my personal email at home. I don't check work emails from home, I never have and never will. Email by definition is work that can wait until it's attended to.
Work having the ability to just contact me at any time causes stress and devalues my free time. I've experienced it first hand from when I ran a business and customers thought it was fine to ring my home number at 9pm and ask for help. Thankfully, I found that billing them slowly stopped this from happening.
If I'm constantly on the clock, expected to take note of work emails and phone calls - or even if as you claim you just "hope" that I will - that places undue pressure on me. It's hard to relax, sink a few beers, whatever, if you're always wondering if that damn phone will ring and you need to try and sound sober and possibly drive somewhere...which you won't be able to do after only 2-3 beers.
Want to spend a romantic night out with your significant other? Sorry dear, I have to cancel plans, work has an emergency. No, it's not a real emergency, but the micro-managing panic stricken rule loving turd who manages me thinks it's important enough to cancel my plans for the evening.
You "wouldn't allow" a boss to call you if an emergency came up?
This is not an emergency. It never has been and it never will be. Call one of the other workers who are on-call for that shift. Maybe don't staff things so poorly that being a single person down is "an emergency". Besides, I don't do shift work - I am salaried, and like everyone else in my office it doesn't matter at all if we miss a few days here and there. Meetings can be rescheduled. Work will wait, deadlines should never be so tight that missing a single day is catastrophic.
You seem to be a passive-aggressive person who wants it both ways. You want to be casual and say "it's cool, just do it tomorrow" but then are still putting mental pressure on your workers to get it done in their own free time.
I have worked in IT for 30 years so I've seen my fair share of death marches, weekend work to practice deployments, after hours support for mission critical systems, etc. I watched one team spend six months on a death march that never seemed likely to end. They worked 6 days a week, 12+ hours each day and at the end still shipped a truly execrable product. Possibly because they were all so dog tired the whole time and couldn't think straight.
I protect both my team and my employer by not allowing such conditions to arise for my team members. I set realistic deadlines, tracked the project diligently and made sure they had their free time as uninterrupted as possible. We hit every deadline and shipped high quality products each time. Tired IT workers are crappy IT workers.
It's also about having agency in your own life. Work shouldn't be able to dictate all the terms of your life, both work and leisure. Do I need to leave my phone on during this play I'm watching in case work decides it needs me? Should I sit down and eat dinner first or am I meant to check the last emails from work first. Should I have already done that on the train / bus home like I see so many others do? Do I need to do that to compete, and if so, is that a competition I want to enter and have even a remote chance of winning?
And it's because of bosses like you that I don't give work my home email, nor would I EVER check work emails from home. I don't get paid to do that. I wouldn't allow a boss to call me after work hours unless I was specifically contracted to provide after hours service and to be on call. If I'm on call, you're paying me for that service for every hour I'm on call. I promise not to masturbate at work during work hours, if you promise not to call me with business shit during my rest hours.
We have that already, it's called tariffs and countries get very upset when you start to impose large import / export tariffs on them. Upset to the point of refusing to trade with you or using their economic power to force you to change those tariffs. Push the tariffs high enough and you've just created a strong black market for smugglers to take advantage of.
It's a really difficult problem to tackle it seems; every time I think I've found a way to stop these awful corporations from depriving the communities of their well deserved tax dollars, I find a way around it. Some are legal, like the current batch of tax dodges (too many to even name), and others give rise to black markets, mis-reporting of profits and other scams.
Nothing will change so long as our governments, all of them, are still full of such absolute corruption.
Maybe the time is coming for Kickstarter campaigns to raise lobbyists and bribe money...err...campaign contributions...to allow the public to buy back their own governments.
While the how might be in doubt, the actual benefits, at least for me, are in no doubt. I take 3000mg of it per day to help ease joint pain from spending too many years at a mouse and keyboard. This tends to keep it all down to an acceptable amount of pain.
If I go without it for a week or more I start to feel aches and pains not only in my wrists and knuckles, but my back, knees and other major joints. It actually becomes quite unpleasant for me.
Hard to say anything definite about the skin claims, other than my skin is now almost 50 years old and I still look like a 30 something. I do however religiously stay out of direct sunlight and have almost never used anything to wash my face other than cold running tap water and my hands. I apply a moderate priced moisturiser most days as it can get quite dry here in winter.
Given that's a massive proportion of all the markets I ever wish to program for, I will accept this terrible stricture and forge on in terrible silence.
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Is that the CPU and instruction set we are all using, or is that some specious reference to a bygone era with no actual current value?
No it's not. C is also an option, given a good optimising compiler.
Bracers for sheets are not an invention, and certainly not patentable - unless the stuff kept your grand-dads pants up since before the first world war is worth a patent?
If I've jumped out of bed with some cool ideas still in my head it is the pen and paper sitting at all times on my desk. This is a habit from the days when it was taking 5 mins to boot into a working Windows 7 desktop and the ideas might slip away in that time.
After that I expand the ideas out and write them into markdown or text files and save them to a folder on my Google Drive. That way I know they are permanently backed up offsite immediately. It's free, available on every major platform and easy to copy around.
Finally, when time allows, I write them up properly into markdown and place them into the Git repo which the idea relates to. So now I have permanently offsite backed up thoughts / designs in a Git repo which I can diff at any time to see what changed and when.
I have Evernote and Google Notes and never use the damn things.
Do the people who use a Chromebook create anything or are they simply consuming web content? If they are consumers, there is literally no reason to create a Pro version of the device.
If they actually create lasting useful content that has meaning, then perhaps there is a reason to have a Pro version of the device. I'm doubtful.
True this. Leave it in first gear for slight leans downhill and reverse for the opposite of that.
A "hill-start" is part of the standard driving test over here in Australia. That means coming to a stop on a steep hill, pulling on the hand brake "emergency brake" and then pulling away cleanly without rolling backwards or riding the clutch. Maybe some other countries need to ensure their drivers can also do this simple manoeuvre.
I don't think anyone here is debating the fact that you need wheel chocks when launching a boat on a steep boat ramp. That's just common sense. At least, I hope no-one is debating it. But at least we agree, your vehicle is facing up the ramp, it's in first gear, the engine is off *and* you placed chocks under the wheels to stop the obvious from happening.
You probably don't ride a motorbike so you don't know that there are in fact a couple of different options for the gears, depending on the make of the bike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Older British bikes have gear change on the right foot, Japanese and modern bikes have it on the left foot. Common is one down, 3-5 up. Your foot brake may be on the other side than you are used to, depending on the make of bike.
Most bike riders are aware of the differences and it doesn't take very long to adjust.
This guy was just oblivious to how his car worked and he paid the price for stupidity. Even just pulling on his handbrake would have saved his life.
OMG, have you been driving a car with no idea what he handbrake is used for? I drive a manual, and have for about 30 years now. It's a preference, but I still know that every single car I've ever driven, and this is hundreds of them of all sorts...all have a handbrake - which you might call an "emergency brake".
When you park your car you are meant to:
* turn off the ignition
* drop it into first gear if a manual or park if an auto
* pull on the handbrake
None of those steps are optional.
It's most likely the red haired guy. He left the unsatisfying relationship he was in and confessed his love for that other girl telling her he was ready to have children. The only thing more likely to get him killed is saying something about this being his last mission, he's getting out in two days to go home to his wife and two loving children.
And that's just what's happening in the writer's room!
Quite right, only the marketing...that and the general purpose CPU chips, often ARM based that run a variant of Linux / Android and are able to perform general purpose computing tasks. As a programmer that's quite an interesting proposition as I could run my own code on the TV set.
Most of the mid-high end TV sets are smart TVs, so if you want a decent 4K set with high colour depth, frame dimming, a selection of display modes, high fidelity rendering of scenes, etc...you're going to have to get a smart TV. I love watching films and even the modern TV shows, since some are really hitting the mark (it's a golden age for TV). To get the picture quality I want I need to buy a mid-range respected manufacturer's TV, and those were 100% smart TV models when I checked in mid 2015.
Sure, I could have bought a "store brand" one for 1/2 the cost and had no smart features, but they also have a shitty picture and don't integrate well with my other AV gear.
I could definitely put together an Android device which runs Kodi and handles nearly all of the features I want in a decent TV. I did exactly that right up till the day I bought my Sony Android TV. I still wouldn't buy the sets at half the price, even though I had all the "smart features" I wanted on an ODROID-C1+, because...the picture quality on those TVs is shit in comparison.
Not everyone with a smart TV is a sheep, and not everyone without a smart TV is NOT a sheep.
That may be right, and certainly is for 1080p H.264 playback. I think (but can't recall for sure) that it wasn't fast enough to handle 1080p HEVC (H.265) playback, which is how I get most my content these days. That said, an ODROID-C1+ is quite capable, and just as easy to set up as the RPi, and about the same price.
I actually use my Sony Android TV these days, now that after a few patches it can actually play back the 1080p HEVC content (and 4K content, it was shit at doing this on release).
Hopefully, very soon, my Pine 64+ will arrive and I can test another device, one that can perhaps do 4K HEVC content...time will tell.
You're on the money though. If an RPi2 / ODROID C1+ / Pine64+ gets infected, you wipe the memory card, flash it again and are up and running in minutes. If your Smart TV gets infected, you might be waiting weeks on a "return to base" warranty to get it working again.
More or less. Nothing we do is going to be dire enough that the whole place falls apart if someone can't be reached. (Unless the whole place literally falls apart, but somehow I think that'd be more of a call to 911.) Worst case scenario we close down during normal business hours - not the end of the world. And yes, I trust whoever's in charge to make that decision.
So even your "emergencies" aren't dire enough that not getting through to someone will cause a big issue. They're not even likely or dire enough for you to perform any form of contingency planning. It's on the scale of "I sure hope someone can deal with this now, if not, it's fine, it can wait till tomorrow." It really doesn't sound like anything you expect might go wrong is worth putting any of your own resources towards managing. If it's not worth it for you, why should you expect it to be worth it for your workers.
You know, I really don't mind if an employer calls me up a few times a year and asks something reasonable that is dealt with in a minute. For a good employer I will even walk over to my machine, remote in and try and sort it out if it's a really quick fix like rebooting a server. That's someone who I have already built up trust and rapport with - not just anyone, but an employer I have a good working relationship with.
If there is an expectation that perhaps 4+ times a year I will need to go into work, dropping whatever I am doing and deal with emergencies (it doesn't happen generally, I'm a developer) then I want it in the contract that I get TOIL or similar compensation for those hours. If not the written contract then a verbal agreement reached during the interview phase with the employer. I am always upfront about what expectations they can make on me, and what expectations I might have for them.
When 9/11 hit I was in Venice on holiday with my wife. I called the office immediately and discussed whether they needed me to fly back straight away to deal with any issues and fallout from it. Lucky it was fine for the next two days, so I didn't have to cut my holiday short, but I would have if it was needed because that was the very definition of an emergency (I worked in finance).
Don't place vague or poorly defined expectations on your employees and hope they will rise to the occasion. If you need people "on-call" then contract that with them, create a rota, make sure they know exactly which hours / days they are on-call for and compensate them for constant possible interruption to their lives.
You sound like you think you don't need that, and maybe you don't - I don't know what your business is. At least you sound will to compensate people for when they do answer the calls.
I still think that allowing people or even vaguely imply it's a a good thing to deal with emails outside of business hours is a poor idea. There is always going to be some fool who thinks that slapping in another couple of hours per day is the way to promotion and this causes stress and pressure on the rest of the staff. People will start to check emails at times when they should be focused on family, friends and relaxation. It makes no sense to cause this stress in your employees personal life. Healthy relaxed people work much better, especially when there is a true balance between work and home and definite cut-off periods.
Time to share a horror boss story.
A long time ago I worked for a small software company (4 employees). The sort of small heartfelt mom-pop sort of operation that is meant to be so great for the economy and the worker.
I had been working there about 6 months, most of that time was building a brand new multi-media system capable of playing back video off a laser disk and placing interactive text on the screen, taking user response and moving on based on that. I built it from scratch in c++ after learning the language especially for that reason (very early 90s).
We were approaching a deadline to ship the first edition of this software along with the training program it ran. There was no consultation on when the deadline should be, or project planning to even show if it was possible. It was an arbitrary date set by the customer, a man well known for requesting stupid release dates (I worked for him later). I had been putting in 10-12 hour days 6 days a week for a month or so and was tired having just got home from a 16 hour day as we were close to release date.
I had literally just sat down in my armchair and was about to eat dinner when the phone rang. It was the boss telling me he needed me back in work to finish the coding. I explained I'd already done 16 hours that day and was about to eat. He said if I didn't get back into work in an hour (it was 30 mins drive) then he "wasn't sure there would be a job there in the morning."
Threatening me is about the worst way to get me to co-operate, but I needed the money so I had little choice. I went back in after quickly wolfing down my dinner and got it that much closer to completion. To this day that code still has a comment along the lines of "// I am working for scrooge. It's Christmas eve and I've spent 16 hours at work already..."
Yeh...it was Christmas eve.
The story does have a happy ending for our hero though. the software shipped and I was allowed a couple of days off (my own time, I was paid by the hour >.) to recoup. When the person we were shipping the software to realised that my boss didn't actually do any of the work and he could be cut out of the loop - he offered me a chance to compete on the next contracts. I won those and that was the beginning of the next 8 years or so of me running a business for myself building multimedia software.
Obviously it would be unethical to use the same code, so I re-wrote it from scratch to work for Windows 3.1 and run off CDROMS. I employed 3-4 people for the next 8 years. I'm still friends with all those people to this day, because I provided them with a friendly, well managed and fun place to work and never called them late at night demanding they come in or be fired.
Since I said I never expect the email to be checked or responded to until the next work day, I'm not sure what your issue here is?
If there is no expectation of the email being attended to, then why are you posting it to the employee during outside of work hours. It's reasonable if you're working late or early and are taking care of your unattended business and posting it to the work email address. It's a whole other kettle of fish when you post it to my personal email at home. I don't check work emails from home, I never have and never will. Email by definition is work that can wait until it's attended to.
Work having the ability to just contact me at any time causes stress and devalues my free time. I've experienced it first hand from when I ran a business and customers thought it was fine to ring my home number at 9pm and ask for help. Thankfully, I found that billing them slowly stopped this from happening.
If I'm constantly on the clock, expected to take note of work emails and phone calls - or even if as you claim you just "hope" that I will - that places undue pressure on me. It's hard to relax, sink a few beers, whatever, if you're always wondering if that damn phone will ring and you need to try and sound sober and possibly drive somewhere...which you won't be able to do after only 2-3 beers.
Want to spend a romantic night out with your significant other? Sorry dear, I have to cancel plans, work has an emergency. No, it's not a real emergency, but the micro-managing panic stricken rule loving turd who manages me thinks it's important enough to cancel my plans for the evening.
You "wouldn't allow" a boss to call you if an emergency came up?
This is not an emergency. It never has been and it never will be. Call one of the other workers who are on-call for that shift. Maybe don't staff things so poorly that being a single person down is "an emergency". Besides, I don't do shift work - I am salaried, and like everyone else in my office it doesn't matter at all if we miss a few days here and there. Meetings can be rescheduled. Work will wait, deadlines should never be so tight that missing a single day is catastrophic.
You seem to be a passive-aggressive person who wants it both ways. You want to be casual and say "it's cool, just do it tomorrow" but then are still putting mental pressure on your workers to get it done in their own free time.
I have worked in IT for 30 years so I've seen my fair share of death marches, weekend work to practice deployments, after hours support for mission critical systems, etc. I watched one team spend six months on a death march that never seemed likely to end. They worked 6 days a week, 12+ hours each day and at the end still shipped a truly execrable product. Possibly because they were all so dog tired the whole time and couldn't think straight.
I protect both my team and my employer by not allowing such conditions to arise for my team members. I set realistic deadlines, tracked the project diligently and made sure they had their free time as uninterrupted as possible. We hit every deadline and shipped high quality products each time. Tired IT workers are crappy IT workers.
It's also about having agency in your own life. Work shouldn't be able to dictate all the terms of your life, both work and leisure. Do I need to leave my phone on during this play I'm watching in case work decides it needs me? Should I sit down and eat dinner first or am I meant to check the last emails from work first. Should I have already done that on the train / bus home like I see so many others do? Do I need to do that to compete, and if so, is that a competition I want to enter and have even a remote chance of winning?
And it's because of bosses like you that I don't give work my home email, nor would I EVER check work emails from home. I don't get paid to do that. I wouldn't allow a boss to call me after work hours unless I was specifically contracted to provide after hours service and to be on call. If I'm on call, you're paying me for that service for every hour I'm on call. I promise not to masturbate at work during work hours, if you promise not to call me with business shit during my rest hours.
Donkey Kong's dank meme posting cousin.
It seems you've never written a four chord song...
Axis of Awesome - Four Chord Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We have that already, it's called tariffs and countries get very upset when you start to impose large import / export tariffs on them. Upset to the point of refusing to trade with you or using their economic power to force you to change those tariffs. Push the tariffs high enough and you've just created a strong black market for smugglers to take advantage of.
It's a really difficult problem to tackle it seems; every time I think I've found a way to stop these awful corporations from depriving the communities of their well deserved tax dollars, I find a way around it. Some are legal, like the current batch of tax dodges (too many to even name), and others give rise to black markets, mis-reporting of profits and other scams.
Nothing will change so long as our governments, all of them, are still full of such absolute corruption.
Maybe the time is coming for Kickstarter campaigns to raise lobbyists and bribe money...err...campaign contributions...to allow the public to buy back their own governments.
While the how might be in doubt, the actual benefits, at least for me, are in no doubt. I take 3000mg of it per day to help ease joint pain from spending too many years at a mouse and keyboard. This tends to keep it all down to an acceptable amount of pain.
If I go without it for a week or more I start to feel aches and pains not only in my wrists and knuckles, but my back, knees and other major joints. It actually becomes quite unpleasant for me.
Hard to say anything definite about the skin claims, other than my skin is now almost 50 years old and I still look like a 30 something. I do however religiously stay out of direct sunlight and have almost never used anything to wash my face other than cold running tap water and my hands. I apply a moderate priced moisturiser most days as it can get quite dry here in winter.
That might not be as true as you imagine. It looks like banks and credit card companies are selling your purchase information to third parties now.
SHL and SHR...been a long time since I used them, but pretty sure they will still be around.
Given that's a massive proportion of all the markets I ever wish to program for, I will accept this terrible stricture and forge on in terrible silence.