Thank you for the edification! Now I have a whole new topic to research! (This being text, and on slashdot no less, please let me add a note that I am completely sincere.)
Ahhh...I love the smell of cordite in the morning. (I know, cordite isn't used any more...I just like the word, ok?)
I'm just saying that the method you chose was guaranteed to produce the results you wanted, not the ones you claimed you were after. That's all. My method is not perfect, of course, but it is much better than yours. Given your objection, the only modification needed would be a larger sample size. Trends would emerge, pointing to the answer. I'm not suggesting that you go out and do it, or that you should have gone out and done it. I'm just pointing out the flaws with your method and suggesting one that would work. Whether you use it or not makes no difference to me. I'm sure not going to.
I would say it worked for SWB/Cingular (Cingular is now the new AT&T!(C)(TM)(R)), but I hated AT&T even more than SWB, so it's a net loss from my perspective. If you have to change your name, your company is doing something wrong. Now, if you just decide you WANT a new name, that's one thing...but if you feel the NEED to change your name, you might want to think about going into another industry.
This is about as stupid as if someone were to go and sue gun manufacturers for the way they misused the gun they bought. Good thing we don't have any of THAT going on, as well as this bullshit. Oh, no, someone broke into my house and installed crappy software when I was out of town! That's it, that's the ticket. I had NO IDEA what it was or what it did, and no idea how to remove it. I just HAD to keep using it to download nickelback crap, and they really should have stopped me from doing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
If they're in low orbit, 100 miles or so, atmosperic drag will slow them down and eventually they'll crash. But Trekky ships are usually shown well above that. In any case it takes months or years, not hours as in Trek.
Point, but who has months to watch an hour-long show? Time dilation is not only common to TV shows, it's absolutely essential. Plus, I didn't see anything about time frame in the post to which I responded.
It won't be identical with human DNA, Thus no interbreeding.
Well, that's your assertion. My rebuttal is: how the hell do you KNOW it won't be the same? I mean, sure, it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that it would be the same, but then again it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that life would ever exist in the first place, yet here we are. In fact, your observed that 'aliens are just humans with bumps on their foreheads'; well, do you think the bump would interfere with procreation? I see that as actually strengthening the case for humaliens, not weakening it as you appear to believe.
Good to know. This might be an urban legend, but I heard somewhere about teflon-coated.22 cal bullets that were supposedly banned. Would you happen to know if this is myth or has some basis in reality? I'm off to look it up online, but I'm very ADD-like so who knows where I'll end up. Plus, I'm at work, so that might interfere, too. Grumble.
Well, that would certainly be one explanation. How about aliens with technology so advanced that they could modify their (or our) DNA dynamically? That would do it, too. Point being, it's pretty silly to unquestioningly accept aliens, starflight, etc, and then balk at something like reproduction between species. "Yes, I'll believe in aliens, but I'll NEVER believe that they would buy Hondas!" Just seems bass-ackwards.
Not necessarily. If it weren't for differing sentence structure, verb order, etc, you'd be correct. Essentially, if languages were just different words for the same things, it would be that way. However, some concepts don't exist in some languages, and translating best guesses will not always result in good re-translations. For this reason, it isn't a good measurement at all. The only way to get a good measurement would be to find a piece that has been translated by a professional, and then perform one-way translations in each direction and then compare to the version translated by a professional.
Actually, it should be 'type of bullet, unless the specific type, 'cop killer', requires multiples in order to fit the definition. AFAIK, it does not. For example, you would say 'type of pants', because we refer to pants as plural. You would not, however, say, 'I'd like to own that type of cars'. Got it? No? Unsurprising.
Er, now you're getting all theoretical on me. Brain hurts! How on Earth would you be more than one physicist? Or, wait, is that the key? NOT on Earth...It's all starting to make sense now!
Isn't there a fifty cal handgun these days? Would a bullet fired from one of those not pierce a kevlar vest? I'm not trying to be flip in this response, like I was in my other one. I'm honestly curious. I was always under the impression that kevlar vests didn't even stop 9mil bullets ALL the time, just most of the time. You seem to be intimating that they are impenetrable, which really doesn't jive with the impression I've gotten from people who use them. It does, however, jibe with what I see on TV. I don't have direct experience, so I am not trying to be authoritative here.
Hey, this sounds great! Just one problem...which plane hit building 7? Er, wait...I forgot. It just fell down out of sympathy for the others. Never mind!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that in Speed the bus couldn't go UNDER 70 mph
I'm not. Why not? Because that "fact" isn't a fact. Actually, the bus could not go under 50 mph, and the speedometer clearly reads close to 70 before that particular jump. No, I'm not defending the movie's physics. I will say, however, that it was excellent in the 'make your date jump and give her an excuse to grab your arm' department. But then, I usually go to the movies thinking more about the date than the physics in the movie, which makes me an abberation here on slashdot.
The episodes I've seen of The Shield had stark instances of nonprofessional (and outright illegal) conduct on behalf of the police.
This thread is about inaccuracies on TV. Of course, you will only appreciate this joke properly if you've ever actually had any contact with bad police. My city is currently undergoing investigation into police misconduct going back decades. I've seen nonprofessional and illegal conduct by police personally. This is not to say that all policemen are like that, but it certainly isn't the case that none are.
or if the cops got hold of it. Movies plots glorify crime. People in movies should not break laws. They should drive carefully and keep to the speed limits.
You're way off here. Way, way, way off. Do you really think cops want to STOP speeding entirely? Hell, no. If they did that, they'd lose a HELL of a lot of revenue. My grandad used to tell me that when he was young, cops only stopped speeders if they happened to see them while on patrol or if things were REALLY slow around the town. These days, you have entire divisions of police devoted to nothing but revenue generation...er, I mean Traffic Safety. That's the problem with assigning fines for violations rather than community service or jail time. Do you really think there would be as many speeders (or as many traffic cops) if there were no option to avoid court and possible jail time/community service?
# Ships falling out of orbit when they lose power.
Sometimes, even our satellites do this. It really depends on your orbit, distance from the planet, mass of the ship, etc.
# Ships colliding at warp speed and just getting a few dents.
I don't recall this ever happening. I admit my recall may be faulty here, and you would be correct. Really, pretty much any collision involving something the size of the Enterprise should be fairly damaging to *something*
# Alien races that can interbreed with humans.
This one is unlikely, but who's to say what alien DNA is like? Do you have some samples laying around? Far-fetched, maybe, but if you're already unquestioningly accepting the existence of aliens, why not magical alien DNA too?
But otherwise they have pretty lame computer technology (which doesn't seem to fit with their invention of the Cylons)
Sorry to barge in here, but...did you watch the show? They had lame computer technology BECAUSE they invented the Cylons. Previous to the Cylon War, they had plenty of good computers. So, in order to prevent 1. a recurrence of the Cylon fiasco, and 2. the Cylons from being able to hack their shit, they dumbed down their computers greatly. They mentioned this once, weren't you paying attention?
Well, I don't recall him saying that they translated things and then translated them back rather well. How did the piece hold up in German? How would a similarly written piece of German writing fare when translated only into English? Basically, does it work for its intended purpose or not? I'm assuming here that the intended purpose is not to translate something to another language and then back into the original language. I could, of course, be wrong on that, but it doesn't seem like you really need a whole website to translate things into the same language in which they were written.
Pretty much, yes and yes. Most of the victims had at most a peripheral evolvement with gangs - as in kissing one of the boss'es girls, falling $20 short to pay for an occasional joint or being a gang member's brother. Nothing for which we would expect killed as adults.
From where is your assertion drawn? That is certainly NOT my experince, and I grew up in such a neighborhood. It wasn't the government that got me out, either.
I totally agree. Let lazy bastards get off their bums and build their own home - such as a tent or a wooden shack - in any area of their choosing and start planting vegetables on the grounds. That's what poor do around the world and they have way more self-respect that our government housing types. Maybe then we'll start focusing on eradicating poverty and crime everywhere rather than just in rich white neighborhoods.
Well, there's really not much crime or poverty in rich white neighborhoods. I think most of the problem is the middle-class areas which are being taken over by lower-class areas because the middle class is fast being taxed into extinction.
Can we ALL be employed washing each other's dishes?
No, someone has to cook, and someone has to wait tables, and someone has to deliver the produce, and someone has to grow the produce, etc, etc, etc.
Most kinds of jobs involve making stuff rather than being a servant for a rich guy (after all, really poor generally wash their own dishes).
Not in America. We USED to be a manufacturing country. Now we're a 'services' country. Most jobs do NOT involve making things anymore. The company I work for has over 80k employees worldwide...about 5-10k of which actually MAKE something. This is just one example.
It doesn't seem fair to blame someone for not getting a job when we made 75% of occupations - making furniture, working on assembly line, brewing beer, writing Java code - unavailable in US.
But 97.923% of jobs HAVEN'T been outsourced. Hey, if you can make up numbers, so can I.
Let's at least demand that interested workers are allowed to freely move to India or China and try their luck there.
Yes, because that's worked so well for us here, hasn't it? We should not let ANYONE 'freely move' here and we should not expect to get to 'freely move' wherever we want. You're living in FUD and it really doesn't have to be that way. Take a deep breath or two and repeat to yourself, "It's going to be ok. It's going to work out."
Your problems can be easily worked out. We have enough nukes to do the world a few times over, but just in case, we could devote all of the production capabilities of the globe towards making more nukes, thus ensuring that even with a failure rate of 30% or higher, the mission will be accomplished. If the genies appear right before the nukes go off...well, then at least we know, and who's to say they would have appeared without the nukes being built in the first place? So really, I understand that you may have objections, but surely they are all surmountable. Care to try again?
Ok, let's get it straight. Homeless "have places to live"?...People with cars and TVs can only get food in soup kitchens?
Let us brush up on logic, shall we? Homeless doesn't always equal poor, and poor doesn't always equal homeless.
Let's move on.
It sounds like you haven't actually worked with poor people who have it good in US.
Sounds like it from what? I have BEEN the poor in the US who had it good. I was below the 'poverty line' (that means poor), and I had a place to live, air conditioning, my own bed, television, car, radio...clothes, food, etc. Of course, it wasn't as nice as I wanted and there wasn't as much of it as I wanted, but if wishes were fishes... the whole world would smell terrible.
If you did, I think you would find that they would love to get a (better) job, but everything that doesn't require a master's degree has been outsourced.
That's odd, I somehow got (several) better jobs, in increasing rank, with NO college degree whatsoever. Of course, it took work. It wasn't fun. It wasn't always the best job.
They would love to live a decent life, but their children get killed in random shootings in the only areas where they can afford rent.
Well, now we're getting in to other issues. Why do their children get shot? Is it because the majority of them want nothing more than to go to school and be left alone? Are most of the shootings random or stray bullets? Also please note that MUCH of the government-assisted housing is in such areas. I thought those programs HELPED people! Yet many times, they simply keep them tethered to horrible places.
They have to raise their 3 children without a father who ran away and doesn't have money for child support.
My father left when I was 3 years old. My mother never received a dime from him, in child support or anything else. Yet we never took any government money, either, because my mom taught us that charity is a crutch and that you can make do without it. So we did. Yet she also taught us to volunteer, not just because it's the right thing to do, but to show us what our lives would have been like if she had not worked herself ragged. I appreciate the sacrifices my mom made SO MUCH more than I did when I was little.
They are met with condescending attitude even from people such as yourself who claim to be charitable.
Actually, people who have been 'in the trenches' are MUCH more likely to be cynical than those that stay in their secluded lives and think that everyone who gets government money actually NEEDS it. Or that everyone who goes to soup kitchens is homeless. Or that everyone who begs for money is poor. Don't believe me? Go spend ONE WEEKEND at a soup kitchen. Then let me know how you feel.
One day when your profession is outsourced you will have to literally get a "fucking job" and wonder why someone has to get screwed in the ass to get a car and a TV when possessing a university degree and being willing to work do good hard work with hands.
If this job gets outsourced (why the fear? They can't outsource EVERYTHING, you know), I'll simply go get another job. I've worked manual labor before and it doesn't scare me. They'll never outsource things like construction, because, you know, it would be impossible. Also, I see 'help wanted' signs ALL OVER THE PLACE. It can't be THAT hard to get a job washing dishes. I've certainly never found it impossible to become employed, given that I'm not holding out for some 'perfect job'. So get off your high horse, dickweed. Lecture me about condescension and then claim I'd be reduced to prostitution if I lost my job? Jackass.
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Thank you for the edification! Now I have a whole new topic to research! (This being text, and on slashdot no less, please let me add a note that I am completely sincere.)
Ahhh...I love the smell of cordite in the morning.
(I know, cordite isn't used any more...I just like the word, ok?)
I'm just saying that the method you chose was guaranteed to produce the results you wanted, not the ones you claimed you were after. That's all. My method is not perfect, of course, but it is much better than yours. Given your objection, the only modification needed would be a larger sample size. Trends would emerge, pointing to the answer. I'm not suggesting that you go out and do it, or that you should have gone out and done it. I'm just pointing out the flaws with your method and suggesting one that would work. Whether you use it or not makes no difference to me. I'm sure not going to.
I would say it worked for SWB/Cingular (Cingular is now the new AT&T!(C)(TM)(R)), but I hated AT&T even more than SWB, so it's a net loss from my perspective. If you have to change your name, your company is doing something wrong. Now, if you just decide you WANT a new name, that's one thing...but if you feel the NEED to change your name, you might want to think about going into another industry.
This is about as stupid as if someone were to go and sue gun manufacturers for the way they misused the gun they bought. Good thing we don't have any of THAT going on, as well as this bullshit. Oh, no, someone broke into my house and installed crappy software when I was out of town! That's it, that's the ticket. I had NO IDEA what it was or what it did, and no idea how to remove it. I just HAD to keep using it to download nickelback crap, and they really should have stopped me from doing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
If they're in low orbit, 100 miles or so, atmosperic drag will slow them down and eventually they'll crash. But Trekky ships are usually shown well above that. In any case it takes months or years, not hours as in Trek.
Point, but who has months to watch an hour-long show? Time dilation is not only common to TV shows, it's absolutely essential. Plus, I didn't see anything about time frame in the post to which I responded.
It won't be identical with human DNA, Thus no interbreeding.
Well, that's your assertion. My rebuttal is: how the hell do you KNOW it won't be the same? I mean, sure, it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that it would be the same, but then again it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that life would ever exist in the first place, yet here we are. In fact, your observed that 'aliens are just humans with bumps on their foreheads'; well, do you think the bump would interfere with procreation? I see that as actually strengthening the case for humaliens, not weakening it as you appear to believe.
Good to know. This might be an urban legend, but I heard somewhere about teflon-coated .22 cal bullets that were supposedly banned. Would you happen to know if this is myth or has some basis in reality? I'm off to look it up online, but I'm very ADD-like so who knows where I'll end up. Plus, I'm at work, so that might interfere, too. Grumble.
Well, that would certainly be one explanation. How about aliens with technology so advanced that they could modify their (or our) DNA dynamically? That would do it, too. Point being, it's pretty silly to unquestioningly accept aliens, starflight, etc, and then balk at something like reproduction between species. "Yes, I'll believe in aliens, but I'll NEVER believe that they would buy Hondas!" Just seems bass-ackwards.
Not necessarily. If it weren't for differing sentence structure, verb order, etc, you'd be correct. Essentially, if languages were just different words for the same things, it would be that way. However, some concepts don't exist in some languages, and translating best guesses will not always result in good re-translations. For this reason, it isn't a good measurement at all. The only way to get a good measurement would be to find a piece that has been translated by a professional, and then perform one-way translations in each direction and then compare to the version translated by a professional.
What, you don't remember trivial throwaway details in a multi-year series? Wait, is it weird to do that? Ah, crap....am I weird again?
Actually, it should be 'type of bullet, unless the specific type, 'cop killer', requires multiples in order to fit the definition. AFAIK, it does not. For example, you would say 'type of pants', because we refer to pants as plural. You would not, however, say, 'I'd like to own that type of cars'. Got it? No? Unsurprising.
Based on the incredibly simple mistakes you made in your post, I am guessing you've seen that movie.
Maybe if I was a physicists
Er, now you're getting all theoretical on me. Brain hurts! How on Earth would you be more than one physicist? Or, wait, is that the key? NOT on Earth...It's all starting to make sense now!
Isn't there a fifty cal handgun these days? Would a bullet fired from one of those not pierce a kevlar vest? I'm not trying to be flip in this response, like I was in my other one. I'm honestly curious. I was always under the impression that kevlar vests didn't even stop 9mil bullets ALL the time, just most of the time. You seem to be intimating that they are impenetrable, which really doesn't jive with the impression I've gotten from people who use them. It does, however, jibe with what I see on TV. I don't have direct experience, so I am not trying to be authoritative here.
There is no such thing as a "cop killer" type of bullets.
First: Link.
Secondly: There is no such thing as a "cop killer" type of bullets .
One of these kids is not like the other ones. One of these kids just doesn't belong.
Hey, this sounds great! Just one problem...which plane hit building 7? Er, wait...I forgot. It just fell down out of sympathy for the others. Never mind!
spelling error intentional; hello, grammar nazis.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that in Speed the bus couldn't go UNDER 70 mph
I'm not. Why not? Because that "fact" isn't a fact. Actually, the bus could not go under 50 mph, and the speedometer clearly reads close to 70 before that particular jump. No, I'm not defending the movie's physics. I will say, however, that it was excellent in the 'make your date jump and give her an excuse to grab your arm' department. But then, I usually go to the movies thinking more about the date than the physics in the movie, which makes me an abberation here on slashdot.
The episodes I've seen of The Shield had stark instances of nonprofessional (and outright illegal) conduct on behalf of the police.
This thread is about inaccuracies on TV.
Of course, you will only appreciate this joke properly if you've ever actually had any contact with bad police. My city is currently undergoing investigation into police misconduct going back decades. I've seen nonprofessional and illegal conduct by police personally. This is not to say that all policemen are like that, but it certainly isn't the case that none are.
or if the cops got hold of it. Movies plots glorify crime. People in movies should not break laws. They should drive carefully and keep to the speed limits.
You're way off here. Way, way, way off. Do you really think cops want to STOP speeding entirely? Hell, no. If they did that, they'd lose a HELL of a lot of revenue. My grandad used to tell me that when he was young, cops only stopped speeders if they happened to see them while on patrol or if things were REALLY slow around the town. These days, you have entire divisions of police devoted to nothing but revenue generation...er, I mean Traffic Safety. That's the problem with assigning fines for violations rather than community service or jail time. Do you really think there would be as many speeders (or as many traffic cops) if there were no option to avoid court and possible jail time/community service?
You were doing pretty well until:
# Ships falling out of orbit when they lose power.
Sometimes, even our satellites do this. It really depends on your orbit, distance from the planet, mass of the ship, etc.
# Ships colliding at warp speed and just getting a few dents.
I don't recall this ever happening. I admit my recall may be faulty here, and you would be correct. Really, pretty much any collision involving something the size of the Enterprise should be fairly damaging to *something*
# Alien races that can interbreed with humans.
This one is unlikely, but who's to say what alien DNA is like? Do you have some samples laying around? Far-fetched, maybe, but if you're already unquestioningly accepting the existence of aliens, why not magical alien DNA too?
But otherwise they have pretty lame computer technology (which doesn't seem to fit with their invention of the Cylons)
Sorry to barge in here, but...did you watch the show? They had lame computer technology BECAUSE they invented the Cylons. Previous to the Cylon War, they had plenty of good computers. So, in order to prevent 1. a recurrence of the Cylon fiasco, and 2. the Cylons from being able to hack their shit, they dumbed down their computers greatly. They mentioned this once, weren't you paying attention?
Well, I don't recall him saying that they translated things and then translated them back rather well. How did the piece hold up in German? How would a similarly written piece of German writing fare when translated only into English? Basically, does it work for its intended purpose or not? I'm assuming here that the intended purpose is not to translate something to another language and then back into the original language. I could, of course, be wrong on that, but it doesn't seem like you really need a whole website to translate things into the same language in which they were written.
Pretty much, yes and yes. Most of the victims had at most a peripheral evolvement with gangs - as in kissing one of the boss'es girls, falling $20 short to pay for an occasional joint or being a gang member's brother. Nothing for which we would expect killed as adults.
From where is your assertion drawn? That is certainly NOT my experince, and I grew up in such a neighborhood. It wasn't the government that got me out, either.
I totally agree. Let lazy bastards get off their bums and build their own home - such as a tent or a wooden shack - in any area of their choosing and start planting vegetables on the grounds. That's what poor do around the world and they have way more self-respect that our government housing types. Maybe then we'll start focusing on eradicating poverty and crime everywhere rather than just in rich white neighborhoods.
Well, there's really not much crime or poverty in rich white neighborhoods. I think most of the problem is the middle-class areas which are being taken over by lower-class areas because the middle class is fast being taxed into extinction.
Can we ALL be employed washing each other's dishes?
No, someone has to cook, and someone has to wait tables, and someone has to deliver the produce, and someone has to grow the produce, etc, etc, etc.
Most kinds of jobs involve making stuff rather than being a servant for a rich guy (after all, really poor generally wash their own dishes).
Not in America. We USED to be a manufacturing country. Now we're a 'services' country. Most jobs do NOT involve making things anymore. The company I work for has over 80k employees worldwide...about 5-10k of which actually MAKE something. This is just one example.
It doesn't seem fair to blame someone for not getting a job when we made 75% of occupations - making furniture, working on assembly line, brewing beer, writing Java code - unavailable in US.
But 97.923% of jobs HAVEN'T been outsourced. Hey, if you can make up numbers, so can I.
Let's at least demand that interested workers are allowed to freely move to India or China and try their luck there.
Yes, because that's worked so well for us here, hasn't it? We should not let ANYONE 'freely move' here and we should not expect to get to 'freely move' wherever we want. You're living in FUD and it really doesn't have to be that way. Take a deep breath or two and repeat to yourself, "It's going to be ok. It's going to work out."
Your problems can be easily worked out. We have enough nukes to do the world a few times over, but just in case, we could devote all of the production capabilities of the globe towards making more nukes, thus ensuring that even with a failure rate of 30% or higher, the mission will be accomplished. If the genies appear right before the nukes go off...well, then at least we know, and who's to say they would have appeared without the nukes being built in the first place? So really, I understand that you may have objections, but surely they are all surmountable. Care to try again?
Ok, let's get it straight. Homeless "have places to live"?...People with cars and TVs can only get food in soup kitchens?
Let us brush up on logic, shall we? Homeless doesn't always equal poor, and poor doesn't always equal homeless.
Let's move on.
It sounds like you haven't actually worked with poor people who have it good in US.
Sounds like it from what? I have BEEN the poor in the US who had it good. I was below the 'poverty line' (that means poor), and I had a place to live, air conditioning, my own bed, television, car, radio...clothes, food, etc. Of course, it wasn't as nice as I wanted and there wasn't as much of it as I wanted, but if wishes were fishes... the whole world would smell terrible.
If you did, I think you would find that they would love to get a (better) job, but everything that doesn't require a master's degree has been outsourced.
That's odd, I somehow got (several) better jobs, in increasing rank, with NO college degree whatsoever. Of course, it took work. It wasn't fun. It wasn't always the best job.
They would love to live a decent life, but their children get killed in random shootings in the only areas where they can afford rent.
Well, now we're getting in to other issues. Why do their children get shot? Is it because the majority of them want nothing more than to go to school and be left alone? Are most of the shootings random or stray bullets? Also please note that MUCH of the government-assisted housing is in such areas. I thought those programs HELPED people! Yet many times, they simply keep them tethered to horrible places.
They have to raise their 3 children without a father who ran away and doesn't have money for child support.
My father left when I was 3 years old. My mother never received a dime from him, in child support or anything else. Yet we never took any government money, either, because my mom taught us that charity is a crutch and that you can make do without it. So we did. Yet she also taught us to volunteer, not just because it's the right thing to do, but to show us what our lives would have been like if she had not worked herself ragged. I appreciate the sacrifices my mom made SO MUCH more than I did when I was little.
They are met with condescending attitude even from people such as yourself who claim to be charitable.
Actually, people who have been 'in the trenches' are MUCH more likely to be cynical than those that stay in their secluded lives and think that everyone who gets government money actually NEEDS it. Or that everyone who goes to soup kitchens is homeless. Or that everyone who begs for money is poor. Don't believe me? Go spend ONE WEEKEND at a soup kitchen. Then let me know how you feel.
One day when your profession is outsourced you will have to literally get a "fucking job" and wonder why someone has to get screwed in the ass to get a car and a TV when possessing a university degree and being willing to work do good hard work with hands.
If this job gets outsourced (why the fear? They can't outsource EVERYTHING, you know), I'll simply go get another job. I've worked manual labor before and it doesn't scare me. They'll never outsource things like construction, because, you know, it would be impossible. Also, I see 'help wanted' signs ALL OVER THE PLACE. It can't be THAT hard to get a job washing dishes. I've certainly never found it impossible to become employed, given that I'm not holding out for some 'perfect job'. So get off your high horse, dickweed. Lecture me about condescension and then claim I'd be reduced to prostitution if I lost my job? Jackass.