We should force the industry to be legally required to include the lyrics to "Have A Cigar" in the contract and the artist must read and sign acknowledging that they have read those lyrics.
Lucky for you people don't kick you out of their office. Even though you should be allowed to read and understand what is put in front of you, in most cases, if you actually did, the people who presented the contract would be very annoyed. House closings only schedule about an hour or so. If you insist on reading the extremely important papers set before you, then it will probably take you 6 or 7 hours to do so and they will be pissed. Same for a car sale, same for a cell phone purchase. I'm not saying it's right, but they sure don't want to let you have all the time you need.
So please, rip them off. Copy your asses off, don't pay for shit, because they certainly aren't!
That is absolutely the wrong approach. By downloading or copying those songs you are reaffirming that you want their music. DO NOT BUY! DO NOT DOWNLOAD! DO NOT COPY. Avoid them altogether.
But outsourcing doesn't really save any money when you consider the management overhead, erosion of reputation of company, loss of goodwill from employees and so forth.
The Do Not Call registry also got rid of some spam calls for me, although it did not get rid of the worst culprits, politicians and charities, which represented about 95% of the spam calling that I received.
However, this is another example of where society has gone wrong. I should not have to go out of my way to stop someone that I don't want to talk to from calling me.
I think they should have to deposit $1 with my phone company, and it if turns out that I want to talk with them, they get their dollar back. If not, I keep the dollar. I'll even let the phone company have a 10 cent handling fee.
Honestly, at 20k a year in the US you're not going to get college educated call center staff, whereas in India you can.
Which college? Barber? Or Clown?
We outsource to India. We were told that we are getting people with Master's degrees basically doing heads down keying. We have high school graduates working for us that make twice as much, but have 5 times the throughput and get it correct the first time. It is slowly sinking in to our senior management that we need to ditch the Indians and higher local high school graduates, college students, etc. who cost slightly more money, but will be able to produce much faster and more quality work and if they don't, are two offices down so you can go fix the problem.
Now, it could very well be that we DO have Indians with Masters degrees working for us in India, but they find they work boring, so they do a crappy job. What matters to me is the end result. People don't pay us any more because their work was slowly and poorly done by a PhD versus quickly and accurately done by a high school dropout.
The issue is lots of those names are really really hard to pronounce for native English speakers who have no experience with Hindi.
But that is easily solved by maintaining a facility in the country that you are supporting and hiring locals. Additionally, it makes people feel better about your company and more likely to buy your products.
the same people who a few years ago aggressively waved the flag for those corporations and politicians who were most in favor of outsourcing American jobs overseas.
I have never met anyone other than a manager who was ever in favor of outsourcing overseas. It's bad for the economy, gives you a black eye in the eyes of employees and consumers, is at best only slightly less expensive in the near term , and is horrendously more expensive and damaging to the company in the long turn. Anyone who is lower than C level can easily see that outsourcing is a bad idea.
I see where you are going. My two houses that had them they were right underneath the breaker box. But they were not tied in in a way that made me think that is a standard way of doing things.
Yes, we still measure potential energy output in BTUs for things like water heaters, furnaces, etc. However, we generally measure electrical output in kilowatt hours or megawatt hours, so this list is just as much confusion for us as it is for you.
Thank you for that link. I was surprised that wind is only a few tenths of a cent per kilowatt more expensive than coal. I had always thought it was pretty expensive. But this may just have been due to a program promoted by my local energy concern. They had sent out some literature touting their new wind turbine power and encouraging me to sign up for this service which uses SOME wind power generation, and the awesome thing was it was only half the cost of regular fossil fuel based power. Oh, no wait... if you read it three times very carefully, you see that it is only half the cost of regular fossil fuel power in ADDITION to the regular rate that we pay for fossil fuel power. So 1.5 times the regular rate for some unknown percentage of wind based power, all so I can pat myself on the back and say how environmentally conscious I am. Quick, where is the opt out box?
ethanol is 10% of all the fuel in all the cars, and is heavily supported by subsidies, so it's not only inefficient, but can't even pay for itself.
You're not counting all the hidden benefits of ethanol. For one thing, it improves the economy because when you use it in a small engine like a weedwacker, lawnmower or generator, you have to buy a new one. Also, it decreases the life expectancy of larger engines unless they were made specifically with running ethanol in mind, so you have to buy new cars more frequently.
Given the context, isn't it ironic that BTU stands for British thermal units?
Not really. ALL of our measurement units are British Imperial units. They can't blame us for not going metric. Last time we adopted their system, they abandoned it. We learned our lesson and are sticking with what we have.
I'm a little baffled as to why they aren't installed as part of the breaker box.
Breaker boxes currently don't have much space inside them for something like that. They probably could make them have such a space, but suppressors are not a standard size. There may also be code that prevents them mounting such a device inside the breaker box. Or, they may be worried that if they allowed a space for a surge suppressor, and something went wrong, that they could be sued for damages. They could consider putting their own surge suppressor in, but aren't interested or don't see the benefit of branching out into that area (there is nothing electronic at all in today's breaker boxes. It is stamped metal, some rails, insulators and contact points. Dirt simple to make. Liability increases with complexity.
The best salesmen are the ones who take your cash while making you think you came out ahead.
No, the best salesman is the one who strikes a deal that makes money for the company and also makes the customer happy enough that they will come back and repeat the experience over and over.
That way you don't have to depend on an infinite supply of rubes in order to continue being profitable.
Best Buy can and does haggle on high dollar items. But I am sure they would be happier if you didn't. Kind of like these "no haggle" car dealers we have around here. Of course, you could go to Ford and pay sticker price, and they would be happy to let you do so. But the no haggle dealers would rather you not think of it that way.
The last two houses I have purchased both already had whole house surge supressors in them. Hopefully that means they are becoming more common. It's not like they are that expensive.
I've had problems with Radio Shack RCA cables, too. Most of the time, the outer shield got loose and the connection got flaky over time. I'm not sure if HDMI cables would suffer the same fate. I'd probably trust them from Radio Shack over RCA cables. But then again, I wouldn't consider a Radio Shack HDMI cable to be a cheap cable.
gold plating on the connectors is useful because gold doesn't oxidize (under normal conditions), unlike copper and silver.
But does having gold connectors cause an increased rate of corrosion of the connection between the copper and the gold? In my experience, putting two different elements of metal next to each other causes them to corrode badly. Even worse when there is an electric current running through them. Admittedly in the case of HDMI, the electrical effect is surely pretty darn small.
Not just that, if you can solve the 3X3, then every cube above it can be solved by first making it into a 3X3 cube. Granted there are probably some new algorithms required to do that, but when I first got my 4X4, I though it was going to be really hard, but converting it to a 3X3 was intuitive compared to solving the 3X3. And then I realized that any higher order cubes were just going to be an extension of this and not anything more complex.
I used to charge people to solve their cubes for them back in grade school. I was no marvel, though. I think I managed 47 seconds once. I certainly am not able to solve it blindfolded like some people.
If I look at my favorite songs, quite a lot of them are 6/8. I actually get tired of the formula verse, verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus. Some of my favorites have no bridge at all. And I prefer songs that have at least some minor component to them, although not necessarily in a minor key. So I guess I am not pop music's target audience. There's a pop song out right now by Parachute called "Something to believe in (Jeremiah)" that I find pretty good. It has some commonality with the traits espoused by the study. It's in 4/4, the song structure is similar, though I am not sure if they technically have a bridge since at the end they background singers are singing the "bridge" lyrics over the chorus. That, by the way, is one of the things I really like about the song. Reminds me of the melody/countermelody singing at the same time in "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by The Guess Who.
And on the business side, stop this horseshit of releasing code and having the customer find the bugs.
Well, management thought outsourcing is such a wonderful idea, so surely outsourcing QA is also a good idea. Unfortunately, when you outsource to your customers, they may just decide to drop your crappy product and go to the competition. But as a savvy manager, after having received a large bonus for firing the QA department, you have smartly moved on to ruin a different company.
Well, just clocking in and out seem easy enough, doesn't it? Well, then it turns out, that internal economy requires that you be able to show when you worked on what projects, and the projects all have to be automatically imported from and time detail exported to all of the originating departments and whatever disparate project management software they are running.
And it just goes downhill from there.
What this is supposed to do is educate the masses that you cannot "own" another life form and that every life form has inalienable rights.
These people are nuts. If someone doesn't "own" these animals, then they will die. They don't know how to forage for themselves, and if they learn, it is likely to be an extreme nuisance or possibly even a hazard to humans. They will turn feral and bite and scratch people, contract diseases because no one is caring form them, etc.
I propose instead that we make being a politician illegal.
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We should force the industry to be legally required to include the lyrics to "Have A Cigar" in the contract and the artist must read and sign acknowledging that they have read those lyrics.
Lucky for you people don't kick you out of their office. Even though you should be allowed to read and understand what is put in front of you, in most cases, if you actually did, the people who presented the contract would be very annoyed. House closings only schedule about an hour or so. If you insist on reading the extremely important papers set before you, then it will probably take you 6 or 7 hours to do so and they will be pissed. Same for a car sale, same for a cell phone purchase. I'm not saying it's right, but they sure don't want to let you have all the time you need.
So please, rip them off. Copy your asses off, don't pay for shit, because they certainly aren't!
That is absolutely the wrong approach. By downloading or copying those songs you are reaffirming that you want their music. DO NOT BUY! DO NOT DOWNLOAD! DO NOT COPY. Avoid them altogether.
But outsourcing doesn't really save any money when you consider the management overhead, erosion of reputation of company, loss of goodwill from employees and so forth.
The Do Not Call registry also got rid of some spam calls for me, although it did not get rid of the worst culprits, politicians and charities, which represented about 95% of the spam calling that I received.
However, this is another example of where society has gone wrong. I should not have to go out of my way to stop someone that I don't want to talk to from calling me. I think they should have to deposit $1 with my phone company, and it if turns out that I want to talk with them, they get their dollar back. If not, I keep the dollar. I'll even let the phone company have a 10 cent handling fee.
Honestly, at 20k a year in the US you're not going to get college educated call center staff, whereas in India you can.
Which college? Barber? Or Clown?
We outsource to India. We were told that we are getting people with Master's degrees basically doing heads down keying. We have high school graduates working for us that make twice as much, but have 5 times the throughput and get it correct the first time. It is slowly sinking in to our senior management that we need to ditch the Indians and higher local high school graduates, college students, etc. who cost slightly more money, but will be able to produce much faster and more quality work and if they don't, are two offices down so you can go fix the problem. Now, it could very well be that we DO have Indians with Masters degrees working for us in India, but they find they work boring, so they do a crappy job. What matters to me is the end result. People don't pay us any more because their work was slowly and poorly done by a PhD versus quickly and accurately done by a high school dropout.
The issue is lots of those names are really really hard to pronounce for native English speakers who have no experience with Hindi.
But that is easily solved by maintaining a facility in the country that you are supporting and hiring locals. Additionally, it makes people feel better about your company and more likely to buy your products.
the same people who a few years ago aggressively waved the flag for those corporations and politicians who were most in favor of outsourcing American jobs overseas.
I have never met anyone other than a manager who was ever in favor of outsourcing overseas. It's bad for the economy, gives you a black eye in the eyes of employees and consumers, is at best only slightly less expensive in the near term , and is horrendously more expensive and damaging to the company in the long turn. Anyone who is lower than C level can easily see that outsourcing is a bad idea.
I see where you are going. My two houses that had them they were right underneath the breaker box. But they were not tied in in a way that made me think that is a standard way of doing things.
Yes, we still measure potential energy output in BTUs for things like water heaters, furnaces, etc. However, we generally measure electrical output in kilowatt hours or megawatt hours, so this list is just as much confusion for us as it is for you.
Thank you for that link. I was surprised that wind is only a few tenths of a cent per kilowatt more expensive than coal. I had always thought it was pretty expensive. But this may just have been due to a program promoted by my local energy concern. They had sent out some literature touting their new wind turbine power and encouraging me to sign up for this service which uses SOME wind power generation, and the awesome thing was it was only half the cost of regular fossil fuel based power. Oh, no wait... if you read it three times very carefully, you see that it is only half the cost of regular fossil fuel power in ADDITION to the regular rate that we pay for fossil fuel power. So 1.5 times the regular rate for some unknown percentage of wind based power, all so I can pat myself on the back and say how environmentally conscious I am. Quick, where is the opt out box?
ethanol is 10% of all the fuel in all the cars, and is heavily supported by subsidies, so it's not only inefficient, but can't even pay for itself.
You're not counting all the hidden benefits of ethanol. For one thing, it improves the economy because when you use it in a small engine like a weedwacker, lawnmower or generator, you have to buy a new one. Also, it decreases the life expectancy of larger engines unless they were made specifically with running ethanol in mind, so you have to buy new cars more frequently.
Given the context, isn't it ironic that BTU stands for British thermal units?
Not really. ALL of our measurement units are British Imperial units. They can't blame us for not going metric. Last time we adopted their system, they abandoned it. We learned our lesson and are sticking with what we have.
I'm a little baffled as to why they aren't installed as part of the breaker box.
Breaker boxes currently don't have much space inside them for something like that. They probably could make them have such a space, but suppressors are not a standard size. There may also be code that prevents them mounting such a device inside the breaker box. Or, they may be worried that if they allowed a space for a surge suppressor, and something went wrong, that they could be sued for damages. They could consider putting their own surge suppressor in, but aren't interested or don't see the benefit of branching out into that area (there is nothing electronic at all in today's breaker boxes. It is stamped metal, some rails, insulators and contact points. Dirt simple to make. Liability increases with complexity.
The best salesmen are the ones who take your cash while making you think you came out ahead.
No, the best salesman is the one who strikes a deal that makes money for the company and also makes the customer happy enough that they will come back and repeat the experience over and over.
That way you don't have to depend on an infinite supply of rubes in order to continue being profitable.
Best Buy can and does haggle on high dollar items. But I am sure they would be happier if you didn't. Kind of like these "no haggle" car dealers we have around here. Of course, you could go to Ford and pay sticker price, and they would be happy to let you do so. But the no haggle dealers would rather you not think of it that way.
The last two houses I have purchased both already had whole house surge supressors in them. Hopefully that means they are becoming more common. It's not like they are that expensive.
I've had problems with Radio Shack RCA cables, too. Most of the time, the outer shield got loose and the connection got flaky over time. I'm not sure if HDMI cables would suffer the same fate. I'd probably trust them from Radio Shack over RCA cables. But then again, I wouldn't consider a Radio Shack HDMI cable to be a cheap cable.
gold plating on the connectors is useful because gold doesn't oxidize (under normal conditions), unlike copper and silver.
But does having gold connectors cause an increased rate of corrosion of the connection between the copper and the gold? In my experience, putting two different elements of metal next to each other causes them to corrode badly. Even worse when there is an electric current running through them. Admittedly in the case of HDMI, the electrical effect is surely pretty darn small.
You won't find anybody more racist than a minority, in my experience.
Not just that, if you can solve the 3X3, then every cube above it can be solved by first making it into a 3X3 cube. Granted there are probably some new algorithms required to do that, but when I first got my 4X4, I though it was going to be really hard, but converting it to a 3X3 was intuitive compared to solving the 3X3. And then I realized that any higher order cubes were just going to be an extension of this and not anything more complex.
I used to charge people to solve their cubes for them back in grade school. I was no marvel, though. I think I managed 47 seconds once. I certainly am not able to solve it blindfolded like some people.
If I look at my favorite songs, quite a lot of them are 6/8. I actually get tired of the formula verse, verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus. Some of my favorites have no bridge at all. And I prefer songs that have at least some minor component to them, although not necessarily in a minor key. So I guess I am not pop music's target audience. There's a pop song out right now by Parachute called "Something to believe in (Jeremiah)" that I find pretty good. It has some commonality with the traits espoused by the study. It's in 4/4, the song structure is similar, though I am not sure if they technically have a bridge since at the end they background singers are singing the "bridge" lyrics over the chorus. That, by the way, is one of the things I really like about the song. Reminds me of the melody/countermelody singing at the same time in "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by The Guess Who.
And on the business side, stop this horseshit of releasing code and having the customer find the bugs.
Well, management thought outsourcing is such a wonderful idea, so surely outsourcing QA is also a good idea. Unfortunately, when you outsource to your customers, they may just decide to drop your crappy product and go to the competition. But as a savvy manager, after having received a large bonus for firing the QA department, you have smartly moved on to ruin a different company.
Well, just clocking in and out seem easy enough, doesn't it? Well, then it turns out, that internal economy requires that you be able to show when you worked on what projects, and the projects all have to be automatically imported from and time detail exported to all of the originating departments and whatever disparate project management software they are running.
And it just goes downhill from there.
What this is supposed to do is educate the masses that you cannot "own" another life form and that every life form has inalienable rights.
These people are nuts. If someone doesn't "own" these animals, then they will die. They don't know how to forage for themselves, and if they learn, it is likely to be an extreme nuisance or possibly even a hazard to humans. They will turn feral and bite and scratch people, contract diseases because no one is caring form them, etc. I propose instead that we make being a politician illegal.