>ads get all the way through printing with major spelling and grammatical errors
There is one where I work that reads something like "blah, blah, blah, with pinpoint precision, blah, blah, blah".
Great, so we can repeatedly get the same (but not necessarily correct) result every time with very little variance.
Actually, most people work more than 40 hours per week these days. Since the 60's the average work week has actually gone UP despite employee productivity having gone up dramatically every year.
In my area, there is usually a person monitoring each self checkout lane. So the expense to the company has gone up, while the work required of the employee has gone down.
>If they do a good job and show up to work every day for ten years, they should make $28 an hour, minimum.
So you would advocate that a person who runs a cash register for ten years should get paid more than a person like myself who has worked in IT for 14 years.
The truly evil managers no longer even carry the responsibility or the financial burden of the company. If I screw up, it's not my manager's butt on the line, it's mine. This is what they meant by empowerment. You are now responsible for the things you do, but only if they are bad. The management still gets credit for the good things you do.
Heck, business today even put the costs of doing business on their employees. My company's cell phone broke and they wanted me to pay for a new one. Screw that! If I'm paying for this stuff, I am not an employee, I'm an investor, and am entitled to a share of the profits.
>As I said, it only takes a few people to get fined and their computers confiscated for allowing their computers to be used in an illegal manner before people start taking this shit seriously.
And by taking it seriously, that probably means throwing away their computer, because we still can't expect Joe Sixpack to be able to understand how to properly secure a Windows Computer, nor pay the high price of having someone else do it for him.
>Whereas drug dealers - before the outlawing of marijuana then alcohol then acid then anything even mildly euphoric and not produced by Merck/Phizer - were simply salesmen of the same kind as those who sold shirts, groceries, and vaccuum cleaners.
Shirts, groceries and vaccuum cleaners are not highly addictive, do not destroy my brain, reduce my reaction time, confuse my inhibitions, or cause me to lose my job and resort to stealing.
A computer is sold and marketed as a harmless appliance. By default (in MS software), protection is set at unacceptably low levels, and add on protection costs money. Despite what you say about warnings, most people are unaware that their computer can be taken over. I do not fault the user in this case. One can't expect Joe Sixpack to know how to secure his PC against hackers. Even people who USE computers at work on a daily basis are not normally expected to keep their computers safe. That is normally the IT departments responsibility. So how can we expect a home user to do so?
Not that I want to blame Microsoft or anyone else. At least the protection is usually THERE if you know how to turn it on.
The person ultimately to blame for this is the spammer or script kiddie. We shouldn't NEED to have anti-virus protection. We shouldn't NEED to have spam filtering in our e-mail clients. Heck, we shouldn't NEED to lock the door on our house when we leave. People who take advantage of unlocked doors, unsecured computers, and unfiltered inboxes are scum and don't deserve to live in our society.
I'd forgotten about that. But on that note, I've heard speakers in the past point out that Jesus overturned the money lenders tables, but he didn't overturn the money lenders themselves.
>Things made a lot more sense for me when I realized that over half the people out there voting are below average intelligence.
How do you figure. Since most eligible voters did not vote, and are therefore idiots who deserve whatever happens to them, then by definition of average, most of the people who DID vote are of above average intelligence.
And don't give me some line about non-voterers being protestors of both candidates. This thread was clearly expressing that Kerry would have won if "smart" people had voted. I'm sorry, but everyone knew the race was close and individual votes would count. Clearly the smart people, are the ones who did vote, whichever side they voted for.
Jesus Christ clearly would not have aligned himself with either party. They both have planks in their platform that would be totally against his teachings.
You're right that Jesus was into helping the poor (through individual contribution, not through government spending), and he was not into physical confrontation, but to be sure, he was not against a good verbal onslaught.
Spammers are scum. Even if you fine them for their crime, they will just find another way to try to rip people off. It's not like most spammers actually spam about legitimate services. Most of them are scams or at best products that don't perform as advertised.
Taking away their money won't magically rehabilitate them. I say take their money AND send them to jail AND make them pay their own way while in jail.
Shoot, I thought the trick in IT was to get so good at it that you can do the same work as an average guy in one hour, and then spend the rest of the day reading/.
I mean, what's the point in going full throttle for 8 hours? Is HR going to pay you 8 times as much for doing 8 times the work? No.
I have never worked for another company which has paid me enough to not have a side job. There have been times when I didn't have a side job, but that wasn't because I was getting paid enough.
The only time I felt I was being compensated enough not to have a side job was when I was a consultant. Unfortunately, the market for consulting shrank considerably in the last few years, so I had to get a regular job and two side jobs.
That's what IT companies are thinking. Rather than invest in better paid and more talented IT professionals, and investing in research to bring out new and greater products, they choose instead to save their money. After all a bird in the hand is worth 2 million in the bush, right?
>justifying to myself a life at a desk in exchange for money.
No one will ever be paid to their full potential being employed by someone else.
>while we're spouting trite sayings, let me add "money can't buy happiness"
No, but it can rent it.
>..2 most damaging things that can happen to a house (or any building really) is 1. a fire and 2. a flood/water damage
Yup. And not necessarily in that order. Also, a plumbing problem can become an electrical problem, or a gas problem, or a structural problem.
Water is the enemy of a home.
It's not gray market if you report it. It's perfectly legitimate. I happen to have an S-corp, but even if you don't you can still report the income appropriate on your standard 1040.
>I used to do wedding photography and videography but it gets kind of stressful after a while.
Wedding photography seems stressful on both sides. Having had to pay for wedding photography, I was amazed at the cost for a small book of photos. But I guess that is to justify the stress that my wife presumably caused your counterpart. I know I was too tired and stressed myself to have caused any fuss.
>They could likely trump up some reason to fire you
The fact that they would have to trump up a reason to fire me (shoes laced in improper left over right fashion) instead of firing me for an unsupportable anti-compete clause does little to reassure me.
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>ads get all the way through printing with major spelling and grammatical errors
There is one where I work that reads something like "blah, blah, blah, with pinpoint precision, blah, blah, blah".
Great, so we can repeatedly get the same (but not necessarily correct) result every time with very little variance.
Actually, most people work more than 40 hours per week these days. Since the 60's the average work week has actually gone UP despite employee productivity having gone up dramatically every year.
In my area, there is usually a person monitoring each self checkout lane. So the expense to the company has gone up, while the work required of the employee has gone down.
>If they do a good job and show up to work every day for ten years, they should make $28 an hour, minimum.
So you would advocate that a person who runs a cash register for ten years should get paid more than a person like myself who has worked in IT for 14 years.
The truly evil managers no longer even carry the responsibility or the financial burden of the company. If I screw up, it's not my manager's butt on the line, it's mine. This is what they meant by empowerment. You are now responsible for the things you do, but only if they are bad. The management still gets credit for the good things you do.
Heck, business today even put the costs of doing business on their employees. My company's cell phone broke and they wanted me to pay for a new one. Screw that! If I'm paying for this stuff, I am not an employee, I'm an investor, and am entitled to a share of the profits.
>As I said, it only takes a few people to get fined and their computers confiscated for allowing their computers to be used in an illegal manner before people start taking this shit seriously.
And by taking it seriously, that probably means throwing away their computer, because we still can't expect Joe Sixpack to be able to understand how to properly secure a Windows Computer, nor pay the high price of having someone else do it for him.
Actually it DOES make the USPS a profit, and that is why a normal letter costs 37 cents.
>Whereas drug dealers - before the outlawing of marijuana then alcohol then acid then anything even mildly euphoric and not produced by Merck/Phizer - were simply salesmen of the same kind as those who sold shirts, groceries, and vaccuum cleaners.
Shirts, groceries and vaccuum cleaners are not highly addictive, do not destroy my brain, reduce my reaction time, confuse my inhibitions, or cause me to lose my job and resort to stealing.
Yes, legitimate firms like cigarette companies. Everyone loves them.
If you are a spammer, yes. If you are an unwilling recipient, then no.
A computer is sold and marketed as a harmless appliance. By default (in MS software), protection is set at unacceptably low levels, and add on protection costs money. Despite what you say about warnings, most people are unaware that their computer can be taken over. I do not fault the user in this case. One can't expect Joe Sixpack to know how to secure his PC against hackers. Even people who USE computers at work on a daily basis are not normally expected to keep their computers safe. That is normally the IT departments responsibility. So how can we expect a home user to do so?
Not that I want to blame Microsoft or anyone else. At least the protection is usually THERE if you know how to turn it on.
The person ultimately to blame for this is the spammer or script kiddie. We shouldn't NEED to have anti-virus protection. We shouldn't NEED to have spam filtering in our e-mail clients. Heck, we shouldn't NEED to lock the door on our house when we leave. People who take advantage of unlocked doors, unsecured computers, and unfiltered inboxes are scum and don't deserve to live in our society.
I'd forgotten about that. But on that note, I've heard speakers in the past point out that Jesus overturned the money lenders tables, but he didn't overturn the money lenders themselves.
>Things made a lot more sense for me when I realized that over half the people out there voting are below average intelligence.
How do you figure. Since most eligible voters did not vote, and are therefore idiots who deserve whatever happens to them, then by definition of average, most of the people who DID vote are of above average intelligence.
And don't give me some line about non-voterers being protestors of both candidates. This thread was clearly expressing that Kerry would have won if "smart" people had voted. I'm sorry, but everyone knew the race was close and individual votes would count. Clearly the smart people, are the ones who did vote, whichever side they voted for.
Jesus Christ clearly would not have aligned himself with either party. They both have planks in their platform that would be totally against his teachings.
You're right that Jesus was into helping the poor (through individual contribution, not through government spending), and he was not into physical confrontation, but to be sure, he was not against a good verbal onslaught.
Spammers are scum. Even if you fine them for their crime, they will just find another way to try to rip people off. It's not like most spammers actually spam about legitimate services. Most of them are scams or at best products that don't perform as advertised.
Taking away their money won't magically rehabilitate them. I say take their money AND send them to jail AND make them pay their own way while in jail.
Shoot, I thought the trick in IT was to get so good at it that you can do the same work as an average guy in one hour, and then spend the rest of the day reading /.
I mean, what's the point in going full throttle for 8 hours? Is HR going to pay you 8 times as much for doing 8 times the work? No.
I have never worked for another company which has paid me enough to not have a side job. There have been times when I didn't have a side job, but that wasn't because I was getting paid enough.
The only time I felt I was being compensated enough not to have a side job was when I was a consultant. Unfortunately, the market for consulting shrank considerably in the last few years, so I had to get a regular job and two side jobs.
That's what IT companies are thinking. Rather than invest in better paid and more talented IT professionals, and investing in research to bring out new and greater products, they choose instead to save their money. After all a bird in the hand is worth 2 million in the bush, right?
>justifying to myself a life at a desk in exchange for money.
No one will ever be paid to their full potential being employed by someone else.
>while we're spouting trite sayings, let me add "money can't buy happiness"
No, but it can rent it.
I used to. But that was before the bubble burst and took all of my money with it. I used to be retired. Now I have three jobs.
>..2 most damaging things that can happen to a house (or any building really) is 1. a fire and 2. a flood/water damage
Yup. And not necessarily in that order. Also, a plumbing problem can become an electrical problem, or a gas problem, or a structural problem.
Water is the enemy of a home.
It's not gray market if you report it. It's perfectly legitimate. I happen to have an S-corp, but even if you don't you can still report the income appropriate on your standard 1040.
I play bass, keyboards, guitar and sing tenor at my Church. I don't get paid for it, though. Which is not to say that I am not compensated for it.
>I used to do wedding photography and videography but it gets kind of stressful after a while.
Wedding photography seems stressful on both sides. Having had to pay for wedding photography, I was amazed at the cost for a small book of photos. But I guess that is to justify the stress that my wife presumably caused your counterpart. I know I was too tired and stressed myself to have caused any fuss.
>They could likely trump up some reason to fire you
The fact that they would have to trump up a reason to fire me (shoes laced in improper left over right fashion) instead of firing me for an unsupportable anti-compete clause does little to reassure me.