The employer forgets one thing regularly. They forget that in true capitalism the employee also has a role to play using the same rules. The employee's personnal job is to do the least amount of work for the highest amount of pay.
When my last 'pay rise' was 4% less than inflation, I surfed Slashdot 4% more, answered 4% less emails, and generally put in 4% less effort.
It's not as if I have a stake in the company's wellbeing, as Mr Marx has also pointed out.
You'd think that by now I'd learn not to C&P my text from Outlook to Slashdot. If only this shitty browser (you know the one) had a spell checker.
I said:
No, no. We have that as well on the BBC. It's on their third channel which, coincidently, is third-rate.
From 22:00 every night they show two Family Guys and two American Dads. I liked both programmes the first time, but you can imagine how quickly they get repeated, and now I find myself knowing all the words before they're spoken. They should turn it off before turning me off.
Then there's the BBC News 24 hour channel where they tell you no news for 55 minutes in each hour. We're expected to put up with the 'expert' in order for him to tell us our opinions.
Even the new David Attenborough show 'Frozen Planet' is the same tired old format, with extra spin from Sir David trying to make us all feel guilty.
Don''t even get me started on their can't-be-controversial sports programmes. Just tell it as it is FFS.
The BBC have just enough content to fill one channel and yet I have to pay for six for fear of gaol.
No, no. We have that as well on the BBC. It's on their third channel which, coincidently, is third-rate.
From 22:00 every night they show two Family Guys and two American Dads. I liked both programmes the first time, but you can imagine how quickly they get repeated, and now I find myself knowing all the words before theyâ€(TM)re spoken. They should turn it off before turning me off.
Then thereâ€(TM)s the BBC News 24 hour channel where they tell you no news for 55 minutes in each hour. Weâ€(TM)re expected to put up with the ‘expertâ€(TM) in order for him to tell us our opinions.
Even the new David Attenborough show â€oeFrozen Planet†is the same tired old format, with extra spin from Sir David trying to make us all feel guilty.
Donâ€(TM)t even get me started on their canâ€(TM)t-be-controversial sports programmes. Just tell it as it is FFS.
The BBC have just enough content to fill one channel and yet I have to pay for six for fear of gaol.
I've never understood people paying 30% interest on their credit cards.
Never let your credit card debt be more than your monthly wage. Pay it off in full monthly and get charged 0% interest. It's that easy.
1. You are always one month ahead. You basically have a free month's wages until the day you die.
2. Many cards, like mine, offer 1-2% "cash back". I actually get supermarket points on mine which can be doubled or quadrupled at certain times of the year. It's like getting paid to use the card. Up to 7% sometimes.
I have 5 mod points today and I'll probably waste them by not using them.
On my own, I can steer the next story's comments if I get in quick enough. There are mods browsing at +3 who won't go to -1 in order to mod. They'll only mod up the 5 I've already done.
I've done it more than once over the years. I'm sorry but it is too easy to game.
I worked in a large bakery; it was a school job I did on a Sunday, 20 years ago.
1 person cracking the eggs, two handed, and mixing the flour. 4 people to fold and roll the Danish pastry. It was heavy. 1 person to cut the shapes, roll or fold the pastry, and possibly add nut toppings, raisins, etc 1 person manned the walk-in ovens.
Then it was my job to add the fondant icing. 10,000 cakes I'd do in 6 hours. Possibly some butterscotch dipping.
1 person packing 1 person in the warehouse. 1 person in the delivery van.
Like everything in life, it's the labour costs that add up.
We also have police sat in cars with ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition). Their buddy will sit in another car 500m down the road.
We also have places like Bath and Bristol where all entrances and exits have ANPR. If you drive in one of these cities, make sure you are fully legal. If the camera spots you, you'll get pulled over further down the road.
We also have them in London. Drive into London, make sure you pay your fee, or expect a nasty letter.
The DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) also have mobile cameras. Expect a letter and fine if you drive past one and you don't have car tax.
The police also have ANPR facing forward in their cars. If they drive pass you, and you are not legal, expect to be pulled over and fined. Even if you are parked, expect the fine.
I welcome all the above. If you want to drive your car on the road in the UK, make sure you've fucking paid like the rest of us.
This is my 30mbit with Virgin Media: http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/5010/networx.png
The constant 9mbit is a torrent The 30mbit spike at the beginning is the "What's hot" page on G+ The 30mbit minute section towards the end is a 720p video on YouTube + the torrent
There are three people sharing the internet in my house.
When I can get a good deal from VM (no one pays the asking price with them), I will upgrade to 50mbit.
When I was pre-teen, I had a pet bee. Yes, a single pet bee.
I was trying to grow sugar crystals in a jam jar. Water saturated with dissolved sugar, cotton thread, match stick on the top, sunny summer window... We all know how it's done.
Every 53 seconds, my bee came for a drink. Not 52 or 54, always 53 seconds. He did this all day from dawn 'til disk.
Then he stopped coming back. He probably went to live with another family, just like our dog did, as Mum told me time and time again.
Slashdot Mirror
>> They probably love the idea
We honestly couldn't give a fuck.
No, you are wrong. Call yourself an expert? I have 50 years of Javascript experience, two monitors and a low 6-figure Slashdot user ID.
That will be my reply if I feel like trolling. Actually it wont, but I imagine a lot of posts along those lines.
Modding the expert down will also happen more often than not.
"You must be new here" will make a great comeback.
It'll be fun until it's cancelled.
In the UK, you can get Android phones on pay-as-you-go for fifty quid. Some even come with ten quid credit.
$70 sounds about right.
The employer forgets one thing regularly. They forget that in true capitalism the employee also has a role to play using the same rules. The employee's personnal job is to do the least amount of work for the highest amount of pay.
When my last 'pay rise' was 4% less than inflation, I surfed Slashdot 4% more, answered 4% less emails, and generally put in 4% less effort.
It's not as if I have a stake in the company's wellbeing, as Mr Marx has also pointed out.
I have to ask:
:)
Toad farm? Really? Why farm toads? To eat?
I too grew up in a farming village. Sheep, cows, pigs - all the normal animals.
A toad farm? Really?
You'd think that by now I'd learn not to C&P my text from Outlook to Slashdot. If only this shitty browser (you know the one) had a spell checker.
I said:
No, no. We have that as well on the BBC. It's on their third channel which, coincidently, is third-rate.
From 22:00 every night they show two Family Guys and two American Dads. I liked both programmes the first time, but you can imagine how quickly they get repeated, and now I find myself knowing all the words before theyâ€(TM)re spoken. They should turn it off before turning me off.
Then thereâ€(TM)s the BBC News 24 hour channel where they tell you no news for 55 minutes in each hour. Weâ€(TM)re expected to put up with the ‘expertâ€(TM) in order for him to tell us our opinions.
Even the new David Attenborough show â€oeFrozen Planet†is the same tired old format, with extra spin from Sir David trying to make us all feel guilty.
Donâ€(TM)t even get me started on their canâ€(TM)t-be-controversial sports programmes. Just tell it as it is FFS.
The BBC have just enough content to fill one channel and yet I have to pay for six for fear of gaol.
Spiders. You have to pick them up and resist the urge to tease the women with them.
"arrgh, arrgh, it's biting me" - that's a big no, no.
"whooooooaaa" in their face - another big no, no.
Throwing them out the window gets me strange looks as if I should have stamped on it.
PS I work with windmills, I mean wind turbines. The risk to birds and bats is far, far less than glass buildings, cars and domestic cats.
I've never understood people paying 30% interest on their credit cards.
Never let your credit card debt be more than your monthly wage. Pay it off in full monthly and get charged 0% interest. It's that easy.
1. You are always one month ahead. You basically have a free month's wages until the day you die.
2. Many cards, like mine, offer 1-2% "cash back". I actually get supermarket points on mine which can be doubled or quadrupled at certain times of the year. It's like getting paid to use the card. Up to 7% sometimes.
3. Profit.
I dunno.
I have 5 mod points today and I'll probably waste them by not using them.
On my own, I can steer the next story's comments if I get in quick enough. There are mods browsing at +3 who won't go to -1 in order to mod. They'll only mod up the 5 I've already done.
I've done it more than once over the years. I'm sorry but it is too easy to game.
I bet Breton's PA has sent emails on his behalf over teh past 3 years - I know my own director rarely clicks the send button himself.
In the UK, they let me read my own meter. I often text it back to the energy supplier or just leave the card in the window.
When they knock, I tell them I'm busy and they should have really made an appoinment. They don't care.
Been living in the same house 15 years. They've been in my house three times, and one of those times was to replace said meter.
I'd be happier if they let me choose the on-hold music!
Continuing the whistle the tune (badly) after a human finally picks up the call is my favourite.
I worked in a large bakery; it was a school job I did on a Sunday, 20 years ago.
1 person cracking the eggs, two handed, and mixing the flour.
4 people to fold and roll the Danish pastry. It was heavy.
1 person to cut the shapes, roll or fold the pastry, and possibly add nut toppings, raisins, etc
1 person manned the walk-in ovens.
Then it was my job to add the fondant icing. 10,000 cakes I'd do in 6 hours. Possibly some butterscotch dipping.
1 person packing
1 person in the warehouse.
1 person in the delivery van.
Like everything in life, it's the labour costs that add up.
In the UK...
We also have police sat in cars with ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition). Their buddy will sit in another car 500m down the road.
We also have places like Bath and Bristol where all entrances and exits have ANPR. If you drive in one of these cities, make sure you are fully legal. If the camera spots you, you'll get pulled over further down the road.
We also have them in London. Drive into London, make sure you pay your fee, or expect a nasty letter.
The DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) also have mobile cameras. Expect a letter and fine if you drive past one and you don't have car tax.
The police also have ANPR facing forward in their cars. If they drive pass you, and you are not legal, expect to be pulled over and fined. Even if you are parked, expect the fine.
I welcome all the above. If you want to drive your car on the road in the UK, make sure you've fucking paid like the rest of us.
In the past, yeah.
These days I wake up on the sofa at 3am, stiff neck, all my lives are gone, all my weapons and all my cash.
I live close to Oxford; the next large town over; population 120,000.
There was a girl murdered in a taxi a few months back. Unheard of in this area. The taxi driver admitted to one other murder too.
It shocked everyone here. Scared all us parents shitless. I'd even met him ten years back.
A week after the murder, all taxis SMS you the car licence plate number, colour of the car and make as the taxi arrives.
CCTV seems like the next step. I welcome it.
Late to the game but here goes anyway.
Apple trees are easy to prune. Any branches growing towards the centre of the tree are pruned. Any branches touching another branch also go.
Pruning for growth and prung for crop methods are also well established.
Twice a year.
Job done.
And yet they took the poll off the front page ages ago... I've now forgotten it exists.
./ version one is use.
Old school
This is my 30mbit with Virgin Media: http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/5010/networx.png
The constant 9mbit is a torrent
The 30mbit spike at the beginning is the "What's hot" page on G+
The 30mbit minute section towards the end is a 720p video on YouTube + the torrent
There are three people sharing the internet in my house.
When I can get a good deal from VM (no one pays the asking price with them), I will upgrade to 50mbit.
More reasons to stay, and I cut my teeth on Unix and Solaris.
Family use W7 - probably a dozen PCs.
Friends use W7 - probably half a dozen.
Work...
Actually, maybe that is a reason to switch.
"Sorry, I can't help you. I haven't used Windows in years"
I didn't get mod points for a few years.
I put it down to trolling Taco about his dress sense on a TV interview.
Did you do something similar?
Someone will always want a bigger molecule. The longer, the better. Huge chains of atoms that demand more and more electric.
Why can't people be happy with what they've got?!?
When I was pre-teen, I had a pet bee. Yes, a single pet bee.
;)
I was trying to grow sugar crystals in a jam jar. Water saturated with dissolved sugar, cotton thread, match stick on the top, sunny summer window... We all know how it's done.
Every 53 seconds, my bee came for a drink. Not 52 or 54, always 53 seconds. He did this all day from dawn 'til disk.
Then he stopped coming back. He probably went to live with another family, just like our dog did, as Mum told me time and time again.
I didn't name him.
"proxy, VPN, or special client"
Or a 64gb micro-SD card, in a smart phone, acting as a WiFi access point. Who needs the internet when you have your own network?
The kids are already doing this. It only takes one person to obtain the naughty files.
Files will become hot-property, school currency, and the kids with the most on offer will become the most popular.
Well done UK Gov. With this and your Channel Islands Tax Loophole closure, you'll have Hollywood making election winning donations for years to come.