I am interested in your ability to live your life in a way where you are firmly committed to never telling a lie. While I do think that allowing someone to make erroneous conclusions while I remain silent is deceptive, the idea of never verbally lying is interesting. Never even little white lies?
You are right that surely there must be a line drawn somewhere. I am sure that I have at least been deceptive on any number of occasions, like hiding Christmas presents and wrapping them the night before Christmas instead of putting them under the tree, or changing the subject rather than having to tell about a surprise party or something. If I was ever directly confronted, I would have to tell the truth, but people are surprisingly not very direct. Then there are things like labeling the kids' presents as being "From Santa Claus" when they are clearly from us. However, they know good and well that there is no actual person of Santa Claus. I have told them that Santa Claus is based upon Saint Nicolas, and have shared the history of Saint Nicolas, so that they understand that the idea of this person is very much alive, and they understand the tradition, while not having to believe in a red suited fat guy who has children sit on his lap and tell him if they have been naughty.
Apparently pilots are required to take them.
That's odd. I'm a pilot and I haven't taken one nor do I know any other pilots that have. Is this something new? I got my pilot's license about 9 years ago.
Well, of course, they perform better on the actual job. These are people who are fairly adaptable to any corporate culture. In fact, most people are adaptable enough that they can fit into your corporate culture. You would easily find the outliers just by talking face to face with them for about 15 minutes rather than putting them through a humiliating test.
Oh, so I should move to india?
No, they can't hire Americans. The government allows them to take jobs from Americans, but won't allow them to give jobs to Americans.
Remember the days where you could walk into a place and hand them the help wanted sign in the window, and after a few questions, you were hired? The interviews were usually on the spot with the manager on duty and you had your job right then.
Those are still out there, but they are not the types of jobs we are looking for. Barber shops, non-chain restaurants, heck just about any mom-and-pop shop still does the sign in the window. They may make you fill out an application that they bought at OfficeMax, but most of them will just ask a few questions and hire you.
New Hire reporting in place in most U.S. states requires even small employers to report anybody they hire, so there is always some amount of paperwork to fill out, W-4s etc.
Back in the day, none of that paperwork existed, and many places would just pay cash. The government is really cracking down on that now, and business have a hard time hiding cash paid to employees, so it is the government and not the businesses which are most to blame for the change.
Don't worry, it doesn't get any better with experience. I have 20 years in IT and 10 years in Data Warehousing. I have been turned down in 3 or 4 instances in the last year because I didn't have previous experience with their particular ETL software. The fact that I had WRITTEN an ETL application meant nothing to them.
A broad example would be, "I always tell the truth." Obviously, the honest answer would be no.
That's not true. Many people don't lie at all. I don't lie at all. I have lied in the past, but now I have a strict policy of honesty. I may not always be willing to open my mouth and blather the truth, but I won't lie to cover it up. Technically, that may make me dishonest, because I don't always share the truth, but the statement "I always tell the truth" is the truth.
Of course, you can still weed me out for answering yes to that question, because business wants you to lie in some circumstances, like when dealing with customers. However, I am also pretty tactful, so when a customer approaches me with a lie that management has told them, I have so far always been able to find a truthful way to make the situation right.
Except that it hasn't been.
Sure it has. The congresscritter mentioned them in the same sentence, thus linking them. However, linking doesn't imply that one causes the other. In this case it has been used to observe that the relatively small percentage of people who commit aggressive acts overlaps with the quite large percentage of people who play violent video games.
I would bet that the people who commit aggressive acts have an equally high correlation with people who drink carbonated beverages, or people who spend at least 1 hour a day watching television.
There are already formats specified for transmittal of claim and remittance data in the the form of the 835 and 837 standards. I would suspect that there would probably be a standard developed in the same way for actual storage of medical information and I doubt that Microsoft would be involved.
I notice it doesn't mention how many jobs will be destroyed by this movement. I know that my entire company would go under, which represents a paltry 30 employees, but I would guess that there are at least a couple of million people employed in the art of getting the current paper based medical information into patient accounting systems. Granted many of them are doing it as only part of their job as a receptionist or office manager in a clinic, but large hospitals employ whole departments of these people.
Amongst the members of my family, we have had approximately 12 cell phones. Of those, at least 4 have been sent back to the manufacturer to be replaced because they were broken, 3 are still in use, and three of them are still around as toys for the kids. Which leaves 1 lost, or it falls within the approximation of the number of phones I have had. But I have never actually thrown away a phone.
You raise a good point. Instead of allowing us to just throw away old electronics, they should pay us good money to recycle it. After all, they are going to make money off of taking the good stuff out of the electronics, so if they give us some of that money, they will get more electronics to recycle and make money from.
Unfortunately, most of the current recycling programs, like Dell's, actually want to charge us money to give them equipment that they can salvage for more money, which dissuades me from wanting to dispose of my equipment in that way. Instead, I put it at the curb, but not in the trash can. Within a few hours, its gone.
G.W. Bush, as much as he is derided, didn't even call for such an emergency broadcast on of all days 9/11/2001.
9/11 sucked, but it wasn't a national emergency. It was an emergency in NYC, D.C. and a Pennsylvania field. Local authorities also have the authority to enact the Emergency Broadcast System, but I am not aware whether they enacted it or not. The only time I have ever heard the Emergency Broadcast System used in an actual crisis was during Hurricane Alicia, quite a long time ago.
.. I have been in IT for 20 years. I love working with Technology. I love learning new things. I love finding new and interesting ways to meet business challenges.
That being said, I hate WORKING in IT. You work long hours and are on call 24/7 for the same pay as the people who work 9-5 and don't even check e-mail in the evenings. Management consistently overrides your years of experience and education in favor of their two year associates degree and 6 months of project management experience. Deadlines are set without your input. It is always assumed that if you estimate 8 man hours of work, then that means you will be done with it tomorrow. The only time anyone pays attention to you is when things are going wrong. You are never credited for the 99.999% uptime.
So I am working on building up a portfolio of rent houses so that I can quit the IT world and waste the passion, skills and experience that I have for IT.
But the managers have a hard time asking for the purchase of a backup infrastructure too because it does not bring in direct revenues.
The other day management was screaming about the number of servers we have and demanding to know what the function of each and every one was. They put a freeze on buying new equipment (but not a freeze on the projects moving forward which require new equipment). IT suggested that we do virtual machines on existing hardware, but management gave a flat-out no on VM. Management must have discovered some immunity to paradox.
I'm getting a little tired of the relentless bashing of the guy a genuine majority of the country elected.
No, the genuine majority really did vote for a nobody, in fact they specifically voted for nobody, by not voting.
Kids are sneaky. yes, you teach them right and wrong. Yes, you can refuse to buy them a video game. But do you think when they come home from a friend's house they are going to tell you that they played that video game at their friend's house? So do I need to get an inventory of all of my kid's friends' video games and tell them which house to go to and which not to go to? Or do I just tell them I am not buying them this game and for these reasons, and then hope they make the right decisions when they are at their friends' house. I think this is a case of "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". You can teach your child right from wrong, and you can share your experience with them, but ultimately it is up to the child whether to take advantage of your years of experience or whether to make their own mistakes and learn from them. If you have taught your child right from wrong and you have shared your experience with them, then you have done your part, and should not be blamed for the consequences of you kid ignoring your teachings.
I can't understand how the parents can be charged with felony child endangerment because the Dad went to work and the Mom slept late. Doesn't this happen all the time with no consequence other than the kid being late for school? Isn't the only reason that they are charged with anything the fact that the KID took it on himself to do an illegal act rather than oh, say, wake up his mother, which any child is more than capable of doing starting from the age of childbirth? Yes, there was a previous order that the kid was not allowed to be left alone because he has some issues. Well, guess what, he wasn't left alone. His mother was there. So she was asleep. I'm sure that the order doesn't specify that one or the other of them has to spend every night being awake the entire time in case the kid acts up.
Now, because this kid has issues, and clearly either can't tell right from wrong, or doesn't care, both he and his other sibling have been taken from the parents, who as far as I am concerned, haven't done anything wrong aside from possibly letting the kid play GTA, which from the article we can't even tell for sure whether his parents let the kid play, or whether it was at another relatives, or at a friend's house.
I say, blame the kid, give the other sibling back to the parents. The other sibling as far as we know doesn't have any of the same issues, and a child is far safer in the hands of moderately bad parents than in the hands of the state.
You are correct, and from what I remember of GTA, use of the brake was never really necessary. You could just let off the gas. The fact that there is no X or Square button on the car should have been enough to befuddle the kid. He clearly learned driving style from GTA, but learned driving itself from somebody else.
You should remind them that the whole point of the DVR was so that you won't have to watch the commercials which you are not supposed to have to watch anyway because you bought Cable. If you wanted to watch ads, you could watch over-the-air signals. Cable started out as offering to give you no commercials if you paid them money.
...which states that drivers can decide whether or not to play the messages.
On the plus side, even for those that do decide to listen to the messages, this will only last until the first time somebody has an accident while listening to the message.
Can you see the milky way
I'm not sure what you mean. I live in the Milky Way. Are you referring to being able to see the galactic center, or just some of the brighter stars in the Milky Way?
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I am interested in your ability to live your life in a way where you are firmly committed to never telling a lie. While I do think that allowing someone to make erroneous conclusions while I remain silent is deceptive, the idea of never verbally lying is interesting. Never even little white lies?
You are right that surely there must be a line drawn somewhere. I am sure that I have at least been deceptive on any number of occasions, like hiding Christmas presents and wrapping them the night before Christmas instead of putting them under the tree, or changing the subject rather than having to tell about a surprise party or something. If I was ever directly confronted, I would have to tell the truth, but people are surprisingly not very direct. Then there are things like labeling the kids' presents as being "From Santa Claus" when they are clearly from us. However, they know good and well that there is no actual person of Santa Claus. I have told them that Santa Claus is based upon Saint Nicolas, and have shared the history of Saint Nicolas, so that they understand that the idea of this person is very much alive, and they understand the tradition, while not having to believe in a red suited fat guy who has children sit on his lap and tell him if they have been naughty.
Apparently pilots are required to take them.
That's odd. I'm a pilot and I haven't taken one nor do I know any other pilots that have. Is this something new? I got my pilot's license about 9 years ago.
Well, of course, they perform better on the actual job. These are people who are fairly adaptable to any corporate culture. In fact, most people are adaptable enough that they can fit into your corporate culture. You would easily find the outliers just by talking face to face with them for about 15 minutes rather than putting them through a humiliating test.
Oh, so I should move to india?
No, they can't hire Americans. The government allows them to take jobs from Americans, but won't allow them to give jobs to Americans.
Remember the days where you could walk into a place and hand them the help wanted sign in the window, and after a few questions, you were hired? The interviews were usually on the spot with the manager on duty and you had your job right then.
Those are still out there, but they are not the types of jobs we are looking for. Barber shops, non-chain restaurants, heck just about any mom-and-pop shop still does the sign in the window. They may make you fill out an application that they bought at OfficeMax, but most of them will just ask a few questions and hire you.
New Hire reporting in place in most U.S. states requires even small employers to report anybody they hire, so there is always some amount of paperwork to fill out, W-4s etc.
Back in the day, none of that paperwork existed, and many places would just pay cash. The government is really cracking down on that now, and business have a hard time hiding cash paid to employees, so it is the government and not the businesses which are most to blame for the change.
Don't worry, it doesn't get any better with experience. I have 20 years in IT and 10 years in Data Warehousing. I have been turned down in 3 or 4 instances in the last year because I didn't have previous experience with their particular ETL software. The fact that I had WRITTEN an ETL application meant nothing to them.
A broad example would be, "I always tell the truth." Obviously, the honest answer would be no.
That's not true. Many people don't lie at all. I don't lie at all. I have lied in the past, but now I have a strict policy of honesty. I may not always be willing to open my mouth and blather the truth, but I won't lie to cover it up. Technically, that may make me dishonest, because I don't always share the truth, but the statement "I always tell the truth" is the truth.
Of course, you can still weed me out for answering yes to that question, because business wants you to lie in some circumstances, like when dealing with customers. However, I am also pretty tactful, so when a customer approaches me with a lie that management has told them, I have so far always been able to find a truthful way to make the situation right.
Except that it hasn't been.
Sure it has. The congresscritter mentioned them in the same sentence, thus linking them. However, linking doesn't imply that one causes the other. In this case it has been used to observe that the relatively small percentage of people who commit aggressive acts overlaps with the quite large percentage of people who play violent video games. I would bet that the people who commit aggressive acts have an equally high correlation with people who drink carbonated beverages, or people who spend at least 1 hour a day watching television.
Warning: Poor parenting leads to disaffected members of society.
Correlation is not causation.
There are already formats specified for transmittal of claim and remittance data in the the form of the 835 and 837 standards. I would suspect that there would probably be a standard developed in the same way for actual storage of medical information and I doubt that Microsoft would be involved.
I notice it doesn't mention how many jobs will be destroyed by this movement. I know that my entire company would go under, which represents a paltry 30 employees, but I would guess that there are at least a couple of million people employed in the art of getting the current paper based medical information into patient accounting systems. Granted many of them are doing it as only part of their job as a receptionist or office manager in a clinic, but large hospitals employ whole departments of these people.
Amongst the members of my family, we have had approximately 12 cell phones. Of those, at least 4 have been sent back to the manufacturer to be replaced because they were broken, 3 are still in use, and three of them are still around as toys for the kids. Which leaves 1 lost, or it falls within the approximation of the number of phones I have had. But I have never actually thrown away a phone.
You raise a good point. Instead of allowing us to just throw away old electronics, they should pay us good money to recycle it. After all, they are going to make money off of taking the good stuff out of the electronics, so if they give us some of that money, they will get more electronics to recycle and make money from.
Unfortunately, most of the current recycling programs, like Dell's, actually want to charge us money to give them equipment that they can salvage for more money, which dissuades me from wanting to dispose of my equipment in that way. Instead, I put it at the curb, but not in the trash can. Within a few hours, its gone.
G.W. Bush, as much as he is derided, didn't even call for such an emergency broadcast on of all days 9/11/2001.
9/11 sucked, but it wasn't a national emergency. It was an emergency in NYC, D.C. and a Pennsylvania field. Local authorities also have the authority to enact the Emergency Broadcast System, but I am not aware whether they enacted it or not. The only time I have ever heard the Emergency Broadcast System used in an actual crisis was during Hurricane Alicia, quite a long time ago.
.. I have been in IT for 20 years. I love working with Technology. I love learning new things. I love finding new and interesting ways to meet business challenges.
That being said, I hate WORKING in IT. You work long hours and are on call 24/7 for the same pay as the people who work 9-5 and don't even check e-mail in the evenings. Management consistently overrides your years of experience and education in favor of their two year associates degree and 6 months of project management experience. Deadlines are set without your input. It is always assumed that if you estimate 8 man hours of work, then that means you will be done with it tomorrow. The only time anyone pays attention to you is when things are going wrong. You are never credited for the 99.999% uptime.
So I am working on building up a portfolio of rent houses so that I can quit the IT world and waste the passion, skills and experience that I have for IT.
IT is responsibility with no authority.
But the managers have a hard time asking for the purchase of a backup infrastructure too because it does not bring in direct revenues.
The other day management was screaming about the number of servers we have and demanding to know what the function of each and every one was. They put a freeze on buying new equipment (but not a freeze on the projects moving forward which require new equipment). IT suggested that we do virtual machines on existing hardware, but management gave a flat-out no on VM. Management must have discovered some immunity to paradox.
I'm getting a little tired of the relentless bashing of the guy a genuine majority of the country elected.
No, the genuine majority really did vote for a nobody, in fact they specifically voted for nobody, by not voting.
Kids are sneaky. yes, you teach them right and wrong. Yes, you can refuse to buy them a video game. But do you think when they come home from a friend's house they are going to tell you that they played that video game at their friend's house? So do I need to get an inventory of all of my kid's friends' video games and tell them which house to go to and which not to go to? Or do I just tell them I am not buying them this game and for these reasons, and then hope they make the right decisions when they are at their friends' house. I think this is a case of "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". You can teach your child right from wrong, and you can share your experience with them, but ultimately it is up to the child whether to take advantage of your years of experience or whether to make their own mistakes and learn from them. If you have taught your child right from wrong and you have shared your experience with them, then you have done your part, and should not be blamed for the consequences of you kid ignoring your teachings.
I can't understand how the parents can be charged with felony child endangerment because the Dad went to work and the Mom slept late. Doesn't this happen all the time with no consequence other than the kid being late for school? Isn't the only reason that they are charged with anything the fact that the KID took it on himself to do an illegal act rather than oh, say, wake up his mother, which any child is more than capable of doing starting from the age of childbirth? Yes, there was a previous order that the kid was not allowed to be left alone because he has some issues. Well, guess what, he wasn't left alone. His mother was there. So she was asleep. I'm sure that the order doesn't specify that one or the other of them has to spend every night being awake the entire time in case the kid acts up.
Now, because this kid has issues, and clearly either can't tell right from wrong, or doesn't care, both he and his other sibling have been taken from the parents, who as far as I am concerned, haven't done anything wrong aside from possibly letting the kid play GTA, which from the article we can't even tell for sure whether his parents let the kid play, or whether it was at another relatives, or at a friend's house.
I say, blame the kid, give the other sibling back to the parents. The other sibling as far as we know doesn't have any of the same issues, and a child is far safer in the hands of moderately bad parents than in the hands of the state.
You are correct, and from what I remember of GTA, use of the brake was never really necessary. You could just let off the gas. The fact that there is no X or Square button on the car should have been enough to befuddle the kid. He clearly learned driving style from GTA, but learned driving itself from somebody else.
Also, I might add, Buffalo are not extinct. They are plentiful enough that you can eat Buffalo meat for only a slightly higher cost than cow meat.
You should remind them that the whole point of the DVR was so that you won't have to watch the commercials which you are not supposed to have to watch anyway because you bought Cable. If you wanted to watch ads, you could watch over-the-air signals. Cable started out as offering to give you no commercials if you paid them money.
...which states that drivers can decide whether or not to play the messages.
On the plus side, even for those that do decide to listen to the messages, this will only last until the first time somebody has an accident while listening to the message.
Can you see the milky way
I'm not sure what you mean. I live in the Milky Way. Are you referring to being able to see the galactic center, or just some of the brighter stars in the Milky Way?