Without bureaucracy how would you run an organization of more than 100 people?
Well, for starters, you could cull that 100 down to actual 15-20 or so maybe that are truly useful and sever a purpose other than perpetuating the bureaucracy itself, and it is then it becomes entirely manageable.
Then you should bury that infrastructure underground in a city like everyone else does and then it will not blow down nor will it flood if you design it sensibly. Trying to mitigate storm damage caused by sticking infrastructure on the top of wooden poles by sticking even more infrastructure on top of poles and roofs is stupid.
That's fine and dandy for when building NEW cities....but usually most old, established cities wouldn't have the money to dig up the whole town and bury everything. And in some cities, well, the water table is too high and you can't bury things.
Hell, were I live..we don't even bury the dead....they have above ground vaults here.
"However, I'm beginning to look into making money through various means on the side, one of them being pornography/videography. With these mediums, being seen is critically important"
Funny you should mention this....I have a friend that used to be a bouncer for many of the strip clubs in the Quarter...and he's lining me up a bunch of strippers that need publicity shots, that should make for some interesting shoots!!
Well, it is mostly that I want the Business to be known.....but my personal info, I'd prefer to keep in the shadows. Not for any evil reasons, just that I value my privacy as much as I can still have it these days...
They already have or can gain easy access to all that information. The govt already has a ton of info on you, tax records, dmv, etc. Business do also (you prolly get junk mail every day addressed to you.) It's a fact of life, it sucks, but thinking you can erase or hide your digital or paper trail is foolish. If you want to protect privacy spend your time fighting to protect it, don't waste it trying to hide.
Well, actually....after Katrina, I fell off a LOT of lists, and over the years, I've been pretty careful to not put my personal name out there again. I get very little junk snail mail. Over the past year, I've gotten a few. But moving around so much after the storm, addresses changed often, and I was lax in catching up most anything to those.
Heck, even now, my car registration says out Parish, my drivers license say another one and another address, from the parish I currently live in right now.
Registering for voting was a fun exercise, let me assure you that.
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No, I'm not invisible by any stretch of the imagination, but I also don't go out of my way to give information out to companies out there, I actually go out of my way to give disinfromaton whenever I can. Customer store cards, in some I'm a 98 yr old Hispanic lady name Sven, whose shopping habits HAVE to skew their system a bit, and most any time I fill out anything that isn't legal, I fudge the years and dates around, give out wrong or partially wrong names, etc. Anything that goes into a non-legal database usually has misguided information about me, but often to the correct address.
It is funny to see some junk mail that arrives here that comes from the fscked up data I give them.
Their little data bots are good enough that they already have information on you whether you have an account or not. You and your browser are traceable if you visit any websites with their widgets, whether you are signed in or not. Just bite the bullet and set up a business account already and stop worrying.
Well, my browsers have Ghostery, no script and adblock on them, I honestly don't usually notice seeing any FB links or 'likes' on most websites I visit...
Agreed... people are more likely to choose your business when they can connect the business with a face.
Well, actually, a lot of the photographers that are donig well, on some webinars on CreativeLive...have been saying they found that posting TOO many pics on the FB account was detrimental.
They mentioned to have your branding/logo stuff there, and a few of the high quality images, some of clients you've shot, but that the main thing you wanted to do with it, was to use the FB account to drive traffic to your main website.
As for the email address. Can you register FB with one email (say, made up only for that logong), but in your FB text about yourself, have your company email address there? Would that cause any 'confusion' with FB, or d they suck up and use ANY information in your descriptions and your registration info?
Are you basically saying IF I did set up the business account, to make sure I was not logged into that business FB account when browsing around from one of my computers?
On the other hand, some attorneys will become wealthy from the fact that this sort of income profiling is inherently racist.
Ok, you completely baffled me with this disconnect of thoughts. How exactly is income profiling racist exactly?
I'd not have even thought of mixing race with income profiling till you tried to associate the two concepts, but If thinking about it, I'd dare say there are MANY more poor white people than poor white people in the USA. I mean, there are more whites on welfare than blacks, no?
And some don't value their privacy too much. I don't. You might say this is foolish, but that's just a personal choice - I prefer price discount over hiding with what I like to eat / buy.
Well, just wait till the insurance industry, and govt healthcare (it seems to still be coming) get more interested in using this information to build a profile on your for if nothing else the cost of your health risk? Do you buy cigarettes? Much alcohol? Wow...lots of junk food on your bill, not much in the way of healthy veggies, yep, you're a health risk and may be treated as such for either treatment, or maybe insurance costs.
That's just one scenario, but enough to scare the heebie jeebies out of me.
Oh, if part of a full degree, then I'd agree with you...I was under the impression he was going to try to use this as his sole college credentials for applying for first job 'out of school'......and in that case, IMHO, it is worthless to most HR folks culling resumes.
You might as well have spent the money on hookers and blow. As it is, you've just wasted $3000.
Yeah..sadly, I have to agree with you.
This 'degree' on your resume...will likely get your application directly filed in the circular filesystem by the HR person who will rapidly go to the next resume with a more 'real' degree....
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Boy, I'm glad I've never had to live anywhere that had a HOA.....sounds like a royal PITA.
LOL....
Oh man, I gotta work that into a signature line somehow....that's great!!!
Well, for starters, you could cull that 100 down to actual 15-20 or so maybe that are truly useful and sever a purpose other than perpetuating the bureaucracy itself, and it is then it becomes entirely manageable.
That's fine and dandy for when building NEW cities....but usually most old, established cities wouldn't have the money to dig up the whole town and bury everything. And in some cities, well, the water table is too high and you can't bury things.
Hell, were I live..we don't even bury the dead....they have above ground vaults here.
The VAST majority do not.
Hell, I'd posit that the majority of people likely never leave their state....maybe not a majority, but likely a high number!
Funny you should mention this....I have a friend that used to be a bouncer for many of the strip clubs in the Quarter...and he's lining me up a bunch of strippers that need publicity shots, that should make for some interesting shoots!!
Well, it is mostly that I want the Business to be known.....but my personal info, I'd prefer to keep in the shadows. Not for any evil reasons, just that I value my privacy as much as I can still have it these days...
That dedicated PC idea is fantastic!! I'll definitely use that one!
Well, actually....after Katrina, I fell off a LOT of lists, and over the years, I've been pretty careful to not put my personal name out there again. I get very little junk snail mail. Over the past year, I've gotten a few. But moving around so much after the storm, addresses changed often, and I was lax in catching up most anything to those.
Heck, even now, my car registration says out Parish, my drivers license say another one and another address, from the parish I currently live in right now.
Registering for voting was a fun exercise, let me assure you that.
No, I'm not invisible by any stretch of the imagination, but I also don't go out of my way to give information out to companies out there, I actually go out of my way to give disinfromaton whenever I can. Customer store cards, in some I'm a 98 yr old Hispanic lady name Sven, whose shopping habits HAVE to skew their system a bit, and most any time I fill out anything that isn't legal, I fudge the years and dates around, give out wrong or partially wrong names, etc. Anything that goes into a non-legal database usually has misguided information about me, but often to the correct address.
It is funny to see some junk mail that arrives here that comes from the fscked up data I give them.
Well, my browsers have Ghostery, no script and adblock on them, I honestly don't usually notice seeing any FB links or 'likes' on most websites I visit...
Well, actually, a lot of the photographers that are donig well, on some webinars on CreativeLive...have been saying they found that posting TOO many pics on the FB account was detrimental.
They mentioned to have your branding/logo stuff there, and a few of the high quality images, some of clients you've shot, but that the main thing you wanted to do with it, was to use the FB account to drive traffic to your main website.
As for the email address. Can you register FB with one email (say, made up only for that logong), but in your FB text about yourself, have your company email address there? Would that cause any 'confusion' with FB, or d they suck up and use ANY information in your descriptions and your registration info?
Are you basically saying IF I did set up the business account, to make sure I was not logged into that business FB account when browsing around from one of my computers?
Then again....I've not seen Bing since I think they came online and everyone took a look a them....
I'll look someone straight in the eyes when telling the truth, and I'll do the same thing while lying to your face...
I try not to do the latter...but in the past, I'd dare say the lies would often sound more heartfelt and honest than the truth did....
But what good is it doing to do me even in LONG run to have my 911 emergency number be the same as in some other country?
I mean...it isn't like we're going to change to metric, which would actually affect many more things between the countries that the emergency number.
But WFT is going to benefit me as a US citizen to 'harmonize' my emergency number to be the same as someone in say, France or Egypt?
Seriously?
I mean...for Joe and Susie Sixpack, you think the television is irrelevant?
Hmm..if that were the case, they way are all those big screen LCD/Plasma tvs still flying off the racks at XYZ stores all over the US?
That would be the center channel...mostly dialog.
So, will this address the commercials compressing their sound so that it SEEMS to sound louder...?
What's wrong with our current system, it seems to work just fine in the US so far and if it ain't broke, don't fix it as they say....?
Ok, you completely baffled me with this disconnect of thoughts. How exactly is income profiling racist exactly?
I'd not have even thought of mixing race with income profiling till you tried to associate the two concepts, but If thinking about it, I'd dare say there are MANY more poor white people than poor white people in the USA. I mean, there are more whites on welfare than blacks, no?
Wow....what bars in what malls is this at?!?!
Well, just wait till the insurance industry, and govt healthcare (it seems to still be coming) get more interested in using this information to build a profile on your for if nothing else the cost of your health risk? Do you buy cigarettes? Much alcohol? Wow...lots of junk food on your bill, not much in the way of healthy veggies, yep, you're a health risk and may be treated as such for either treatment, or maybe insurance costs.
That's just one scenario, but enough to scare the heebie jeebies out of me.
Oh, if part of a full degree, then I'd agree with you...I was under the impression he was going to try to use this as his sole college credentials for applying for first job 'out of school'......and in that case, IMHO, it is worthless to most HR folks culling resumes.
Yeah..sadly, I have to agree with you.
This 'degree' on your resume...will likely get your application directly filed in the circular filesystem by the HR person who will rapidly go to the next resume with a more 'real' degree....
Hell, I think most any sane person would also take that deal!!!
I would in a heartbeat....and then retire in a few years from now easily....