Would it kill you to judge people based on their acts and not their appearances?
Sorry, but that is innate human behavior...we're visual beings, and one of the first things you use to judge any situation...is what you see, and you use your life experience, etc...to evaluate the situation.
Kinda like...if you're walking down a street...you are coming upon a bunch of kids dressed as thugs, backwards hats, lots of tatoos, pants hanging down to their asses....do you get a bit nervous for your saftely?
Same street....same number of kids, but this time, all with short hair, nice suits and ties.....are you nervous like before or do you even give these kids a second glance?
We are creatures of perception. First impressions ARE important and are lasting. Sure, we build upon those first impressions with time, but right off to bat....first impressions matter.
This is a VERY important lesson everyone should learn...it will server to help you in most any dealing you have with other people...from business, to picking up women...etc.
Appearances matter....especially at first meeting/contact.
The bottom line is that if you aren't using the mechanical bolt or slide lock when staying at *any* hotel, you were vulnerable way before this hack.
Kinda hard to use that mechanical bolt or slide lock when you leave the room to go to the beach or a meeting, etc......which likely would be the best time to come in and rob you, eh?
I never had a single problem with it (and I did exactly all of those things when I was at WDW for a conference in April).
I think the other poster was referring to vacations...
You want to lug all that stuff around to say...a day at the beach...what happens when you want to go jump in the ocean...go bar hopping....hang by the swimming pool bar (or other bars in town trying to pick up women)...you're gonna be carting you tables, computers, cameras, guitar (yes, some of us have and take travel guitars on vacations)...etc.
On a business trip, sure, you often don't carry that much around, but on a 1-2 week vacation, your subset of your belongings often becomes significant....and leaving stuff in the room is the only option really....
Was it an official International Youth Hostel? I avoid those as much as I can and stay in private hostels, usually one recommended by the hostel in the previous leg of my trip. Most private hostels have lockers where you can use your own padlock, so much less risky. (This is anywhere outside US, don't know anything about US hostels and don't want to know either)
Is hostel a EU spelling of hotel? Not familiar with the hostel spelling. YOu said it more than once, so guessing it isn't just a typo....
But at this point...I'd vote for an inanimate object over Obama right now.
I don't see how anyone new could possibly do worse than he's done so far. And..I'm not that comfortable with having Biden be one heart attack away from the presidency. He's pretty much revealed himself to be on par with Palin in the intelligence realm these past 4 years....
If you are senior/brilliant/indispensable enough, then by definition you can re-negotiate your contract and keep the upper hand in employment negotiations.
Unfortunately, 99% of people don't have that luxury.
Well, I know everyone starts out a noob, and doesn't have the self confidence and experience, etc.
But,hopefully, at some point in everyones career as they gain experience, etc....they should be able to have the upper hand and negotiate (at least learn HOW to negotiate)...shouldn't they?
I can appreciate that you find it easier to track your spending if you have markers for your barter score. I am the opposite. I find using a CC helps me keep better count on my barter score. I can see how much I have spent since the beginning of the billing cycle, and at the end, I know exactly how much I spent that month. I find it easier to let extra spending slide when I am shuffling around bits of paper and metal while having to remember how much I started with than when I can just see the total start, current, and end numbers.
To each his own.
I know easily when I take out $300 for a week for fun money, that at the end of the week I'm out...I've gone through $300.
I don't often log into my banking site till EOM when time to pay bills...and I don't log on constantly to check CC statements...so, it isn't the immediate reminder of how much money I'm blowing through a month that seeing my empty pocket/wallet is to me....
The fact that the actor who played The Joker died kind of puts a damper on putting out another joker movie in the Nolan universe.
While Ledger did an amazing portrayal of the Joker....there 'are' other talented actors out there...especially for one with so much makeup....should be capable for another talented actor to slip into the makeup. I mean, Batman is concealed....and could be replaced, why not with the villains?
I've not seen the last movie....but surely someone could take up the reigns...etc?
What is truly shocking is the long-term loss of effectiveness of unions and/or their complete lack of influence in hi-tech 'salary' jobs. Sure, you can poo poo Unions, their largess in the '70s even their (apparently) corrupt leadership, but it is high time that Americans came to realize the positive benefits of Union membership and the need to maintain leverage against corporate leadership that seems willing to work us to death and feed our remains back to the rest of the workers (for the sake of shareholder value dammit)
As long as said Union membership is not mandatory I'm ok with it.
I'd rather depend on knowing my own value and my own negotiation skills when seeking and accepting a job. I've done quite well over the past decade or so, and I'd like that option to continue forward for me.
If the union thing works for someone else, cool...but if I and others want to be able to negotiate our own deals, that right should be preserved. I'm quite comfortable with taking care of myself in my business dealings.
Sadly, this is not always possible. In many places, high tech industry has a specific exemption from overtime compensation laws, or provides the employer with the option of mandating time off in lieu.
Well, there is a thing known as negotiating the terms of your accepting a job and employment.
First, if you're good...know your worth and ask for what you want. Ask for a bit MORE than you want...and compromise if needed to what you can live with.
I prefer doing 1099 through my own company....much easier to go that route. But when doing W2, I insist that I be paid for every hour I work. I get straight time for all hours worked.
I don't want OT...but will do it if necessary. My time OFF is the most important part to me.
I doubt I'll be on my deathbed, wishing I'd put in a few more hours tuning a database or attending a meeting.
When that door hits me on the ass on the way out...I leave work behind, mentally and physically. After all, it is only a job. I work so I can pay the bills and have lots of fun on my free time.
If they want me...they can pay me, I don't work for free....even at W2, I expect to be paid for any hour I work, and over 40 I still want at least straight time. That keeps them from wanting extra work unless necessary.
You have to know your worth....and usually they will respect if you know it and they know it.
But it is a job, and when I'm not at work, I'm not thinking about work, and I don't ever expect work to intrude into my personal time. If work has to contact me, it had better be because the sky is falling and something catastrophic is happening. If it is that bad, well, the clock starts running immediately....and I'll help out, but it had better be important.
God help them if it my vacation time...I often go where there is NO cell phone signal nor computer connection...that is on purpose.
A vacation is time saved up by me, for me...to relax and get away from normal life. I leave back up plans...it is up to them to implement them.
Yep...I'd prefer NOT to have every website and business out there to be able to more easily tie all their data on me together. I don't want it any easier than it already is.
And please, don't anyone mention using FB as the universal ID. I don't have and don't want FB account(s).
I don't want to pay for coffee or anything else with my phone either...I hope if the new iPhone 5 has NF on it...it can be easily and permanently shut off.
I like to use cash whenever possible...anonymous, and it gives me a much better feeling for how much I'm spending a month, that using credit which to me, ads a layer of abstraction to money, much like how chips do in a casino. With chips or CC's ( and now a phone) it is more like 'play' money than real money..and it is easier to lose sense of how much you're blowing here and there.
The number is steadily increasing; small towns have been losing inhabitants for decades, and frequently their inhabitants are mostly retired, as the younger people go to cities to seek employment. Also, with the middle class, getting a college degree has become de riguer for maintaining middle-class status for the most part, and having a college degree usually means getting a professional job. Having a professional job usually means living in a city, where the corporations are located that employ those people. Back in the small town where these people may have grown up, the only jobs are local service jobs, like waitressing or working at the feed-n-seed store, along with a small number of professional jobs (GP doctors, lawyers, etc.). People who work as managers, marketing people, HR, engineers, software developers, etc. can't find work in small towns.
I didn't mean 'small towns'...to me, that sounds like one step shy of rural.
I was talking about cities....Phoenix, Tucson, Atlanta, New Orleans, Little Rock, Dallas....etc.
These places aren't what I'd call 'urban'....packed densely in a small spot, with everyone living in high rise apts, etc....they are spread out, some with suburbs some without, but they allow for you to have neighborhoods with plenty of green space, everyone has a house with a yard, etc.
I wasn't talking about places with less than 20K people which is small and to me...nearly rural.
I was saying most people don't live in tightly packed urban concrete jungles like NYC.
Going to a dry cleaner takes a lot of time, aside from the money. I found it much more worthwhile to wear clothes that I can just throw in the washing machine at home. As a bonus, these clothes (being generally 100% cotton) are far more comfortable that those horrible button-down shirts and slacks.
Well, for many of us...we have to look somewhat professional on the jobsite, and tshirts and shorts don't cut it. Business casual to me, is a button down cotton polo shirt, and cotton slacks. These not only need to be clean...but neatly ironed. ( find if ironed and highly starched, I can get more than one wear out of them too some times).
And really, the cleaners are pretty much everywhere...not hard to find one on your path you drive to/from work.
If you have a woman...get her to cart your laundry around with hers if that helps....one can drop it off, other can pick it up...etc. I find it is a time saver for the most part and worth every penny.
Unless you work from home in your bunny slippers, many if not most of us still have to look decent at the worksite.
I don't just wear button down shirts...I have regular cotton polo shirts too...those I do launder (I didn't say I didn't do *any* wash at home) myself, but for anything that can't be quickly washed and folded/hung up and needs ironing, I let the pros do it. Hell, you can find deals for shirts only $1 or so each...and even if you dry clean slacks, you can usually get 5 pairs done for like $12 or so....seriously, that's easily better than me spending 2-5 hours doing tons of laundry and ironing at home on a sunday...
I dunno. At least with Batman...I'd happily go see more of them with the Joker coming out again...in the comic's he's constantly breaking out of Arkham.
Lots of other Batman villains too....Riddler, Penguin...Catwoman....
Why don't they just keep doing more Batman movies in the same vein as the current one?
It seems well done....characters good, etc. Even if the same director wants to quit, couldn't someone else take over the reigns, but keep the same basic 'flavor' of the current movies.
I don't like this having to 'reboot' every fucking 3-4 movies. I could understand it for the Star Trek movie....and it was done well. I've not seen the new Spiderman yet, but I'm confused for the need to do the 'origin' all over again....and start over. Sure I know new actors, but you don't start the story all over again, just because you have new actors.
Hell, if they did that...James Bond movies would have been only an endless chain of origin movies....I think the audience can handle different actors playing the characters, but we don't need everything around the character to keep changing every 2-3 movies....leave the basic background story going forward and just change cast.
...I think I'll just wait till the next season for Big Bang Theory comes out...and hope they will explain the Higgs Boson thing....Sheldon does seem to have quite a way with words.
Well, when I think of 'urban', I think of a tightly packed, concrete jungle with little to no green space, and likely were people mostly don't even own cars, something like NYC.
To me urban is that....city living, is more like somewhere like Tucson, Little Rock, Nashville, or larger like Dallas, Richardson, etc.
Urban to me is tightly packed, all apt. dwellers...not home owners with actual yards, in areas where you can spit and not hit your neighbor....
:)
But I certainly didn't mean rural, with farmland and the like.
One thing that no one has really mentioned in this day in age vs the past...is the seeming lack of time to do all this stuff yourself.
On a 'normal' work week for me..I spend 8+ hours a day at work, I try to hit the gym 3-4 days of the week too..that's a couple hours, so basicaly, the ONLY time I really have to myself for fun, is the weekend.
Now..lets see. I know how to wash my own clothes and can iron them. I could figure how to change the brakes on my car...I could do a LOT of shit on my own.
But, personally...I'd rather spend my weekends going out and having fun. Doing hobby stuff. To me, it is worth it to pay a neighborhood kid to mow my lawn.
It is worth it to me, to take my button down shirts for work and slacks to the cleaners and have them laundered and pressed.
It is worth it to go have my car have the oil changed for me....etc.
It is worth the money I send having other people to do rote, daily maintenance things for me, so I have time to learn and investigate photography/videography, and accompanying post production. I like to have time to fire up the smoker and hand grind, stuff and smoke sausages....maybe learn to make home made cheeses.
I'd rather hit some of the neighborhood bars in New Orleans..get to know people...hell there are I think over 65 MAJOR festivals in the New Orleans immediate area annually....and only 52 weeks in a year. I like to spend my time going to as many of those as I can.
So, it is worth it for me, to pay for services and products that I need to live and have a nice house, so that I can enjoy my time at home and around the city that I want to do and enjoy doing with my limited 'free' time.
Geez, I can only imagine it is even worse for people with kids...what a time soaker there!!!
This is my thought as well. Would I love to own all hand-made, stained and rubbed solid wood furniture? Maybe. But I'm not willing to pay 3x (or more) the cost of flatpack assemble-your-self items that can 'do the job' just as well.
I've found that by finding some good, small town antique auctions...i've been able to find and buy some fantastic, high quality furniture...at a very reasonable price.
I've lucked out and found at least one place that the city antiques people use...they buy it cheap and bring it into the city to sell for $$$$ more than they bought it for.
You might look into this as that some real bargains on really high quality stuff can be had. You just gotta be patient and wait for what you want...and also, have a price in your head of what it is worth to you, and not pay a cent more.
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Sorry, but that is innate human behavior...we're visual beings, and one of the first things you use to judge any situation...is what you see, and you use your life experience, etc...to evaluate the situation.
Kinda like...if you're walking down a street...you are coming upon a bunch of kids dressed as thugs, backwards hats, lots of tatoos, pants hanging down to their asses....do you get a bit nervous for your saftely?
Same street....same number of kids, but this time, all with short hair, nice suits and ties.....are you nervous like before or do you even give these kids a second glance?
We are creatures of perception. First impressions ARE important and are lasting. Sure, we build upon those first impressions with time, but right off to bat....first impressions matter.
This is a VERY important lesson everyone should learn...it will server to help you in most any dealing you have with other people...from business, to picking up women...etc.
Appearances matter....especially at first meeting/contact.
Kinda hard to use that mechanical bolt or slide lock when you leave the room to go to the beach or a meeting, etc......which likely would be the best time to come in and rob you, eh?
I think the other poster was referring to vacations...
You want to lug all that stuff around to say...a day at the beach...what happens when you want to go jump in the ocean...go bar hopping....hang by the swimming pool bar (or other bars in town trying to pick up women)...you're gonna be carting you tables, computers, cameras, guitar (yes, some of us have and take travel guitars on vacations)...etc.
On a business trip, sure, you often don't carry that much around, but on a 1-2 week vacation, your subset of your belongings often becomes significant....and leaving stuff in the room is the only option really....
Is hostel a EU spelling of hotel? Not familiar with the hostel spelling. YOu said it more than once, so guessing it isn't just a typo....
But at this point...I'd vote for an inanimate object over Obama right now.
I don't see how anyone new could possibly do worse than he's done so far. And..I'm not that comfortable with having Biden be one heart attack away from the presidency. He's pretty much revealed himself to be on par with Palin in the intelligence realm these past 4 years....
What you describe is alive and well in the southeast of the US....kids roam the neighborhoods, etc....
Well, I know everyone starts out a noob, and doesn't have the self confidence and experience, etc.
But,hopefully, at some point in everyones career as they gain experience, etc....they should be able to have the upper hand and negotiate (at least learn HOW to negotiate)...shouldn't they?
To each his own.
I know easily when I take out $300 for a week for fun money, that at the end of the week I'm out...I've gone through $300.
I don't often log into my banking site till EOM when time to pay bills...and I don't log on constantly to check CC statements...so, it isn't the immediate reminder of how much money I'm blowing through a month that seeing my empty pocket/wallet is to me....
Good point....living in the desert does present its own twist on living conditions and neighborhoods. Not my best example.
While Ledger did an amazing portrayal of the Joker....there 'are' other talented actors out there...especially for one with so much makeup....should be capable for another talented actor to slip into the makeup. I mean, Batman is concealed....and could be replaced, why not with the villains?
I've not seen the last movie....but surely someone could take up the reigns...etc?
As long as said Union membership is not mandatory I'm ok with it.
I'd rather depend on knowing my own value and my own negotiation skills when seeking and accepting a job. I've done quite well over the past decade or so, and I'd like that option to continue forward for me.
If the union thing works for someone else, cool...but if I and others want to be able to negotiate our own deals, that right should be preserved. I'm quite comfortable with taking care of myself in my business dealings.
Well, there is a thing known as negotiating the terms of your accepting a job and employment.
First, if you're good...know your worth and ask for what you want. Ask for a bit MORE than you want...and compromise if needed to what you can live with.
I prefer doing 1099 through my own company....much easier to go that route. But when doing W2, I insist that I be paid for every hour I work. I get straight time for all hours worked.
I don't want OT...but will do it if necessary. My time OFF is the most important part to me.
I doubt I'll be on my deathbed, wishing I'd put in a few more hours tuning a database or attending a meeting.
When that door hits me on the ass on the way out...I leave work behind, mentally and physically. After all, it is only a job. I work so I can pay the bills and have lots of fun on my free time.
If they want me...they can pay me, I don't work for free....even at W2, I expect to be paid for any hour I work, and over 40 I still want at least straight time. That keeps them from wanting extra work unless necessary.
You have to know your worth....and usually they will respect if you know it and they know it.
But it is a job, and when I'm not at work, I'm not thinking about work, and I don't ever expect work to intrude into my personal time. If work has to contact me, it had better be because the sky is falling and something catastrophic is happening. If it is that bad, well, the clock starts running immediately....and I'll help out, but it had better be important.
God help them if it my vacation time...I often go where there is NO cell phone signal nor computer connection...that is on purpose.
A vacation is time saved up by me, for me...to relax and get away from normal life. I leave back up plans...it is up to them to implement them.
I guess that works....if you have a FB account.
Not something that I'd ever be interested in.
Yep...I'd prefer NOT to have every website and business out there to be able to more easily tie all their data on me together. I don't want it any easier than it already is.
And please, don't anyone mention using FB as the universal ID. I don't have and don't want FB account(s).
I don't want to pay for coffee or anything else with my phone either...I hope if the new iPhone 5 has NF on it...it can be easily and permanently shut off.
I like to use cash whenever possible...anonymous, and it gives me a much better feeling for how much I'm spending a month, that using credit which to me, ads a layer of abstraction to money, much like how chips do in a casino. With chips or CC's ( and now a phone) it is more like 'play' money than real money..and it is easier to lose sense of how much you're blowing here and there.
I didn't mean 'small towns'...to me, that sounds like one step shy of rural.
I was talking about cities....Phoenix, Tucson, Atlanta, New Orleans, Little Rock, Dallas....etc.
These places aren't what I'd call 'urban'....packed densely in a small spot, with everyone living in high rise apts, etc....they are spread out, some with suburbs some without, but they allow for you to have neighborhoods with plenty of green space, everyone has a house with a yard, etc.
I wasn't talking about places with less than 20K people which is small and to me...nearly rural.
I was saying most people don't live in tightly packed urban concrete jungles like NYC.
Well, for many of us...we have to look somewhat professional on the jobsite, and tshirts and shorts don't cut it. Business casual to me, is a button down cotton polo shirt, and cotton slacks. These not only need to be clean...but neatly ironed. ( find if ironed and highly starched, I can get more than one wear out of them too some times).
And really, the cleaners are pretty much everywhere...not hard to find one on your path you drive to/from work.
If you have a woman...get her to cart your laundry around with hers if that helps....one can drop it off, other can pick it up...etc. I find it is a time saver for the most part and worth every penny.
Unless you work from home in your bunny slippers, many if not most of us still have to look decent at the worksite.
I don't just wear button down shirts...I have regular cotton polo shirts too...those I do launder (I didn't say I didn't do *any* wash at home) myself, but for anything that can't be quickly washed and folded/hung up and needs ironing, I let the pros do it. Hell, you can find deals for shirts only $1 or so each...and even if you dry clean slacks, you can usually get 5 pairs done for like $12 or so....seriously, that's easily better than me spending 2-5 hours doing tons of laundry and ironing at home on a sunday...
Lots of other Batman villains too....Riddler, Penguin...Catwoman....
I guess with a micro-usb to 'dock' connector adapter?
I don't think the standard has to be on the phone physically...as long as there is an adapter, it meets the legality of the law...?
It seems well done....characters good, etc. Even if the same director wants to quit, couldn't someone else take over the reigns, but keep the same basic 'flavor' of the current movies.
I don't like this having to 'reboot' every fucking 3-4 movies. I could understand it for the Star Trek movie....and it was done well. I've not seen the new Spiderman yet, but I'm confused for the need to do the 'origin' all over again....and start over. Sure I know new actors, but you don't start the story all over again, just because you have new actors.
Hell, if they did that...James Bond movies would have been only an endless chain of origin movies....I think the audience can handle different actors playing the characters, but we don't need everything around the character to keep changing every 2-3 movies....leave the basic background story going forward and just change cast.
To me urban is that....city living, is more like somewhere like Tucson, Little Rock, Nashville, or larger like Dallas, Richardson, etc.
Urban to me is tightly packed, all apt. dwellers...not home owners with actual yards, in areas where you can spit and not hit your neighbor....
But I certainly didn't mean rural, with farmland and the like.
On a 'normal' work week for me..I spend 8+ hours a day at work, I try to hit the gym 3-4 days of the week too..that's a couple hours, so basicaly, the ONLY time I really have to myself for fun, is the weekend.
Now..lets see. I know how to wash my own clothes and can iron them. I could figure how to change the brakes on my car...I could do a LOT of shit on my own.
But, personally...I'd rather spend my weekends going out and having fun. Doing hobby stuff. To me, it is worth it to pay a neighborhood kid to mow my lawn.
It is worth it to me, to take my button down shirts for work and slacks to the cleaners and have them laundered and pressed.
It is worth it to go have my car have the oil changed for me....etc.
It is worth the money I send having other people to do rote, daily maintenance things for me, so I have time to learn and investigate photography/videography, and accompanying post production. I like to have time to fire up the smoker and hand grind, stuff and smoke sausages....maybe learn to make home made cheeses.
I'd rather hit some of the neighborhood bars in New Orleans..get to know people...hell there are I think over 65 MAJOR festivals in the New Orleans immediate area annually....and only 52 weeks in a year. I like to spend my time going to as many of those as I can.
So, it is worth it for me, to pay for services and products that I need to live and have a nice house, so that I can enjoy my time at home and around the city that I want to do and enjoy doing with my limited 'free' time.
Geez, I can only imagine it is even worse for people with kids...what a time soaker there!!!
I've found that by finding some good, small town antique auctions...i've been able to find and buy some fantastic, high quality furniture...at a very reasonable price.
I've lucked out and found at least one place that the city antiques people use...they buy it cheap and bring it into the city to sell for $$$$ more than they bought it for.
You might look into this as that some real bargains on really high quality stuff can be had. You just gotta be patient and wait for what you want...and also, have a price in your head of what it is worth to you, and not pay a cent more.