Couldn't empathize more. I think it is somehow culture, but I am not sure from where. When I try to teach people to just, "come to class" prepared, they act like I am mean and crazy. I got bug today that indicated they did all of the work to find out it was me causing the problem, but then didn't tell me what the error actualy was or show any of their research, just hey you did this fix "it"
One thing I do know, there is a culture of the short email, the higher up you go in the food chain, the shorter the email should be. It doesn't matter how complex the issue is, it should be like 100 words or less. I wonder if that ends up being pushed down to the point where people feel like a short word count is more important that practical substance.
There are a lot of negative aspects to Unions that force membership, excessively protect incompetent workers, raise the cost of doing business to the point where companies die or move. I think these are real and not unreasonable drawbacks. However, to me the major point of a Union, the base reason for it existing, the one last straw that no one should give up, is simply to force companies to pay a *living wage* We have come to expect as a given that health and safety are not compromised and I think that is largely due to a change in our society rather as much a change in law, although the two parallel each other. So I wonder, if the definition of employee, any employee is someone who can do work which is worth a living wage, what changes? Do jobs suddenly dry up? Or can the compromise between extremes allow all who work to just plain feed and cloth their children, maybe hope to have the same in retirement? Fear is a great modivator it is true, but is it the best? If so, then why not threaten kids in school, don't learn don't eat? It is the subtile undertone of our society now.
This is a great post. I do wish there was a more clear public distiction between the traditional union, and the base right to collectively bargin. Many people I know spit at the idea of unions, but they don't seem to realize that without some form of collective power, most of us, get hammered by divide and conquer. The other thing to realize is that now days, it does no good unless this collective power is global. Pockets of resistence just get stepped over.
It might illustrate things better for some readers, if we take out the high tech, and replace it with a plain cloths nobody, like the did in the old days. Maybe you want to share some of your picnic with him? Oh you will.. He won't come inside when you get home, but he might be looking in the windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cassin
It is a nice spit in the face of other Canadians like Rene Cassin. Who were principle authors of the UDHR. On CBC Canada they show little commercials about how great we Canadians are for being a part of that. Did you American's know Canada now has what amounts to a dictator, worse and more powerful that Bush ever was?
One thing I can never understand is this idea that if you give a kid anything remotely sharp, they will suddenly start cutting off limbs.
I cut myself WAY more often as an adult then when I was 10.
As I entered my post, I was thinking, man someone is going to complain about my mispelling and feel superior because of it.. Good job!:)
As to the Gene crap, uh yeah right. The system didn't last because the kids didn't have the same ideals, so the idea of wealth for 20 generations was only potential, in practice it is a hell of a lot harder to stay in control, of anything.
With a gun, you can shoot absolutly anyone not in a tank, there just are not that many tanks. But thanks for playing and including a great example of some rhetoric that many governements would love for their populations to swallow.
The people who make things happen already have enough wealth to secure a high standard of living for the next 20 generations of their descendants. They have wealth in effectively limitless quantities.
That didn't work out so well for Genghis Khan. Ok there was a the golden hord, but...
They should have to return all the Money they made the last 3 years to the stock holders. Otherwise, it is nothing but rewarding failure yet again. Yay so called capitalism.
At first I thought your post was just the standard./ guy being picky, but yeah totaly agree. To me, even worst than the dates, I don't see a single thing about this guy's equipment or methods, to me in a "tech" article that would almost be first thing.
btw, this BS term, its real meaning, has been true since back in the pocket protector days. Just more of stupid infowadd trying to come up with something that sounds new out of the same old.. Ah duh I need to know about the business to program and build systems for it. YES like as it ALWAYS has been.
You gave a good example, but TFA is littered with generalizations that cancel out to being meanlingless, it is clear it was written to be as long as possible with maybe 5 lines of actual info, which taken out of context don't mean anything, still. I really wish people would stop posting infoworld and I am totaly sick of the popups AND on top of it a div hover add, the another popup on the next page. Gee I wonder why the word count was so important??
Brilliant, so really low paid legislators then become just another reason only a really rich person can seek office. GOOD THINKING! How about instead force them to have no corp ties(board members, significate stock holdings) at the time of running for election and 10 YEARS after? This crap of retiring from government to take consulting, or board positions at the compaines that they helped benifit while in office, is well kind of a conflict no brainer. A HIGH salary(make it 300,000 or more) combined with strong no conflict rules would actually do something like what you are suggesting. The absolutely piddly amount of money you would save otherwise would pale in comparision with cutting off any hope of office for a normal person. This goes down to state and city positions as well.
yeah, I get the funny, haha on me. Why I picked a diffrent date? Don't know, I was just irriated to start with on the question being asked yet again. Yes, they did the "right" thing, except my birthday is none of their business to start with. They could just as easily ask, are you over 18/21 whatever and I was a little shocked that it wasn't an error message! Instead it was a full account block at first click. So yeah, that pissed me off..
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Couldn't empathize more. I think it is somehow culture, but I am not sure from where. When I try to teach people to just, "come to class" prepared, they act like I am mean and crazy. I got bug today that indicated they did all of the work to find out it was me causing the problem, but then didn't tell me what the error actualy was or show any of their research, just hey you did this fix "it" One thing I do know, there is a culture of the short email, the higher up you go in the food chain, the shorter the email should be. It doesn't matter how complex the issue is, it should be like 100 words or less. I wonder if that ends up being pushed down to the point where people feel like a short word count is more important that practical substance.
I am not so sure. The choice provides some great clues for advertisers. Real money value.
There are a lot of negative aspects to Unions that force membership, excessively protect incompetent workers, raise the cost of doing business to the point where companies die or move. I think these are real and not unreasonable drawbacks. However, to me the major point of a Union, the base reason for it existing, the one last straw that no one should give up, is simply to force companies to pay a *living wage* We have come to expect as a given that health and safety are not compromised and I think that is largely due to a change in our society rather as much a change in law, although the two parallel each other. So I wonder, if the definition of employee, any employee is someone who can do work which is worth a living wage, what changes? Do jobs suddenly dry up? Or can the compromise between extremes allow all who work to just plain feed and cloth their children, maybe hope to have the same in retirement? Fear is a great modivator it is true, but is it the best? If so, then why not threaten kids in school, don't learn don't eat? It is the subtile undertone of our society now.
This is a great post. I do wish there was a more clear public distiction between the traditional union, and the base right to collectively bargin. Many people I know spit at the idea of unions, but they don't seem to realize that without some form of collective power, most of us, get hammered by divide and conquer. The other thing to realize is that now days, it does no good unless this collective power is global. Pockets of resistence just get stepped over.
It might illustrate things better for some readers, if we take out the high tech, and replace it with a plain cloths nobody, like the did in the old days. Maybe you want to share some of your picnic with him? Oh you will.. He won't come inside when you get home, but he might be looking in the windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cassin It is a nice spit in the face of other Canadians like Rene Cassin. Who were principle authors of the UDHR. On CBC Canada they show little commercials about how great we Canadians are for being a part of that. Did you American's know Canada now has what amounts to a dictator, worse and more powerful that Bush ever was?
One thing I can never understand is this idea that if you give a kid anything remotely sharp, they will suddenly start cutting off limbs. I cut myself WAY more often as an adult then when I was 10.
The sort of cheapy scope I had was great, as long as I used my desktop lamp instead of the built in light source which was way too weak.
If naked I am sure someone will knock on your door.
If JavaScript was so great, there won't be so many libs trying to fix it.. But the guy who likes JavaScript probably thinks Jquery is JavaScript.
As I entered my post, I was thinking, man someone is going to complain about my mispelling and feel superior because of it.. Good job! :)
As to the Gene crap, uh yeah right. The system didn't last because the kids didn't have the same ideals, so the idea of wealth for 20 generations was only potential, in practice it is a hell of a lot harder to stay in control, of anything.
With a gun, you can shoot absolutly anyone not in a tank, there just are not that many tanks. But thanks for playing and including a great example of some rhetoric that many governements would love for their populations to swallow.
The people who make things happen already have enough wealth to secure a high standard of living for the next 20 generations of their descendants. They have wealth in effectively limitless quantities.
That didn't work out so well for Genghis Khan. Ok there was a the golden hord, but...
They should have to return all the Money they made the last 3 years to the stock holders. Otherwise, it is nothing but rewarding failure yet again. Yay so called capitalism.
At first I thought your post was just the standard ./ guy being picky, but yeah totaly agree. To me, even worst than the dates, I don't see a single thing about this guy's equipment or methods, to me in a "tech" article that would almost be first thing.
What on earth can you say in a standup that you can't say in an email or a PM tool?
yay! Thank you!
BS, it makes it easy to skip important details and miss whole major topics and looming problems, thanks to brevity.
btw, this BS term, its real meaning, has been true since back in the pocket protector days. Just more of stupid infowadd trying to come up with something that sounds new out of the same old.. Ah duh I need to know about the business to program and build systems for it. YES like as it ALWAYS has been.
You gave a good example, but TFA is littered with generalizations that cancel out to being meanlingless, it is clear it was written to be as long as possible with maybe 5 lines of actual info, which taken out of context don't mean anything, still. I really wish people would stop posting infoworld and I am totaly sick of the popups AND on top of it a div hover add, the another popup on the next page. Gee I wonder why the word count was so important??
Who the hell do you think builds space telescope and space shuttles?
Wealthy corporations.
Funny, I thought it was my dad and a bunch of other guys just like him.. Will let him know I am onto his game now..
USB backups make baby Jesus cry. What a slow, stupid way to backup, anything.
heh, you beat me to it!!
Brilliant, so really low paid legislators then become just another reason only a really rich person can seek office. GOOD THINKING! How about instead force them to have no corp ties(board members, significate stock holdings) at the time of running for election and 10 YEARS after? This crap of retiring from government to take consulting, or board positions at the compaines that they helped benifit while in office, is well kind of a conflict no brainer. A HIGH salary(make it 300,000 or more) combined with strong no conflict rules would actually do something like what you are suggesting. The absolutely piddly amount of money you would save otherwise would pale in comparision with cutting off any hope of office for a normal person. This goes down to state and city positions as well.
yeah, I get the funny, haha on me. Why I picked a diffrent date? Don't know, I was just irriated to start with on the question being asked yet again. Yes, they did the "right" thing, except my birthday is none of their business to start with. They could just as easily ask, are you over 18/21 whatever and I was a little shocked that it wasn't an error message! Instead it was a full account block at first click. So yeah, that pissed me off..