Your assumption is, god is good. If you remove your restriction, allow god to be an evil being, then quite a bit of atheist/agnostic theory evaporates (not all, just a lot). The quisling strategy of worshiping an evil god is not that great of an idea, but it does at least make much more sense.
Losing the will would seem to imply a great reduction in stress, all I gotta do is lie here and die. Living would seem to involve stress. Supposedly more stress = earlier death in a simple linear relationship, but that may not be the case. Yet on the other hand, people who intensely meditate and would appear to spend less time stressing out, don't seem to live all that much longer.
How many physicists have written best-sellers? About physics?
Feynman, Gamow, Heisenberg all instantly come to mind as GOOD best seller physics popular science writers. There are probably a lot more BAD ones, example the new age quantum mech guy Zukav, but I can only instantly think of four good ones. You can troll by arguing about Greene, him being a string theorist means hes not a real physicist rather a theoretical mathematician, but he does live in the physics community despite mostly doing theoretical math, so I guess he counts. Lets call it five good ones.
The puzzle is how come there are so many Physicist / Popular science book authors? In comparison, the biochemists have Asimov, and... um yeah they've got Asimov, truly a great, yet only one individual. How about biologists? Other than the "poke a stick at the creationist nutters" of which there must be hundreds all writing the same thing, all they've got is Rachel Carson... So I ask again, how come there's so many best selling physicist authors?
I wonder if he was misdiagnosed and has something else? That would be embarrassing.
Another option is the disease might kill old people regardless of how young its diagnosed. I read up on this and the untold medical surprise is he was diagnosed at 21... most people get this diagnosis around 60 and die within a decade, in other words, around 70. Of course most people die around 70 anyway, plus or minus 20 years or so. Its quite possible if he dies around his current 70ish (Although I wish him well and I hope he lives to be a happy centurion, in the good morning america tradition, not the ancient roman tradition) the disease would none the less be consistent in killing people around age 70.
For a similar yet completely unrelated example, genealogical research shows my ancestors uniformly seem to croak in the 80s from cardiovascular disease if nothing else gets them first (like warfare, farm accidents, etc), it just seems to be the scotsman/german way to go, I suppose you could diagnose me with that disease at age 5 if you want, and wait until I croak at 85 like most of my ancestors, but that wouldn't be a medical miracle, more of a very likely prediction.
I realize I'm posting kind of late, but how come no one has mentioned xray imaging?
Every my cheapie dentist finally moved to a little CCD imager thingy for teeth.
I have a vague memory that each sheet of chest xray film was vaguely similar in cost to all the film a typical camera bug would use on a vacation. Medical / Dental xrays are a big market, or at least it was a big market, until recently.
Now they are kinda forced into college and the government is there with the money because...
.... their campaign donors (the big banks) told them to guarantee the loans. Socialize the losses and privatize the gains. Thats why higher ed costs so much, why shouldn't it, every dollar extra is another 25 cents of interest profit for the banks.
Thats awesome for the (number of people in silly valley in the field)/(number of people in USA) * 100 percent of the population. In other words just about no one.
Similar, I could move to one of the oil/gas production hubs, and be one of the 10 or so McDonalds employees making more than $20/hr.
Getting that ticket punched is only one goal. If I hire a somebody on the basis of having his ticket punched and then find out he doesn't know how to do anything, I'm going to fire him pretty soon.
That's the problem with degree inflation / underemployment, if you hire a math major to do what amounts to a secretary job (real world example, a friend of my wife) and later find out she's really no good at solving Riemann Geometry problems, its kind of hard to fire her if she does a good job at filing orders.
Lets say I lied at my current job and I don't really know C++ despite having had to take something like 4 semesters. Other than the honesty thing, would anyone care, seeing as we switched mostly from perl to ruby years ago and I've never written a line of C++ for salary in my life despite it being the core of my "IT" training?
From a training standpoint all you need is a 2-year AS IT cert collection to do my job. Doesn't matter if I got my M.S.C.S. out of a crackerjack box as long as I've got the 2-year A.S. skills to do the job once I get in here.
I have been seriously thinking about the diploma mill thing because I'm not worried about not learning how to do PHD level work, because I'll probably never get a "real" PHD level job anyway, so it seems it would be "safe" to buy some fancy wallpaper if it helps me avoid downsizing or whatever.
In other words, I think education is only part of the education process. Social development is the other big part
The problem is that only applies if you're doing the education process thing while 18 to 22 years old. The real world educational process is somewhat more complicated. For example, I'm in my 30s and I'm well aware that due to ageism, getting a "tech job" after 40 is roughly as likely as getting hit by lightning, and only 1 in maybe 30 will ever get into management. So, if I make the cut thats a pleasant miracle, but facing reality, I better start planning in my head for a non-STEM job, which means going back to school.
I REALLY don't think the strategy of tossing me in with the 18 year olds and telling me to learn how to play nice is going to work out. If nothing else I would probably get busted for buying the underage hotties booze in exchange for adult services or something. No... I'm not thinking this will work out.
Technical skills are great, but in todays work environment everything is team driven and being able to get along with people is almost (or even more) important than being able to crank out killer code.
That's something I've heard all my life yet never experienced. There are anecdotes where total sociopath / psychopath / lunatics who are good coders are useless, but the existence of an extreme doesn't prove that therefore "joe average coder needs to get used to the commune / collective farm and from each according to their ability and to each according to their need" and all that rot. Decades of experience show social skill and ability is more like a step function, like an amusement park ride poster "you must be this connected to humanity to succeed and no less" "you must have been laid/drunk/stoned X times to get a job here" "you must be friendly with the HR interviewer lady no matter what she says for a minimum of 10 minutes to get this job" or whatever.
someone needing a data analyst may consider certification in 2 statistics and 2 machine-learning classes from Stanford good enough for the job.
Yeah the problem for Mr Badge is that badge collection is all that is need to do the job, but the unemployed guy with a masters in math also applied for the same job, along with 10 new B.S. 4-year grads and 5 guys with 3 years of experience, and that "retired" EE prof with a PHD who was denied tenure. And also 20 guys who don't have the education or experience but they're good liars and know how to work the system, so one of those 20 will almost certainly be hired.
I'm not thinking the depths of the second great depression is all that great of a time to roll this idea out.
A 4 year college should be the place to go to do IT work.
Sure about that? I did the 2-yr associates in a IT related field (telecom) and it was way more than necessary for entry level IT work. Basically it was a 4-year engineering degree minus almost all non-technical classes, and maybe skip a couple of senior year classes. Think about it, take your average EE degree requirements, strip out all the liberal arts, strip out all the math and classes that are utterly impossible without the math, and you're pretty much got my associates degree program. Think about it... take a typical 128 credit BS, subtract out 30-40 credits of liberal arts, knock out a couple senior year classes, thats your AS degree.
I can relate that in almost two decades of IT work I never used calculus or Spanish or early american pre-civil war history (which is what eventually earned me my BS degree)
I later did a 4-year CS which with transfer credits, amounted to little more than a lot of liberal arts classes, some math, and a couple upper level classes... If you do a "real" CS degree with intensive math, it does take 4 years.
The only important actor in this transaction is HR. No one else cares about degrees or badges or whatever, all that matters is skill. Someone wake me when "HR" as a group cares more about badges than, say, 2 year associates degrees (which they do not care about at all). Or perhaps certifications. For decades my local 2-yr tech school has offered endless certs for IT and pretty much anything else they can train over a weekend. Even vendor certs. What is my old CCNA or CCNP worth? Well, I guess it would make a nice placemat under a drink at a restaurant.
...ABSOLUTELY NO DEVICES NOT COMPANY SUPPLIED ON THE NETWORK. If the company is counting on trade-secret status for things like customer lists...
Funny you should mention this, to work around that agony, at a previous financial services employer, the field techs had the customer site data in plain text email as attachments, which the field circus techs had access to via internet webmail. Boss/supvr was gatekeeper and responsible for email forwarding the most recent customer data snapshot to any of his techs that requested it from him.
The problem with hollywood movie plot based security is that it usually completely misses the mark of real security issues. If it takes 30 minutes of biometric and two factor security to get some data, what happens in the real world is one tech will simply txt message another tech asking him to email the info he needs to his gmail.
I know there are some Mobile Device Management packages out there working on this, and hopefully the best practices will all be sorted out soon.
Don't need them. All you need is rdesktop/VNC/SSH. Some companies have been working "in the future" for a couple decades now, some still aren't in the present.
Is the remote wipe functionality such that if I have to zap your device it will only nuke the company data?
Yeah.... go ahead, wipe the vmware image my wife connects to via rdesktop. Its not going to affect her phone, desktop, tablet, work laptop, home laptop, etc.
Its conceptually not much different than allowing remote webmail access.
Back then you couldn't just connect a phone to another device and retrieve and make public everything that was transmitted on it.
Sure you could. Darn near 30 years ago my father had a terminal at home hooked up to a printer. And 40 years ago my grandfather had a reel to reel tape recorder hooked up to the phone (business purposes, something about dictation services and the then new concept of documenting conference calls with engineering consultants). This is old old old old case law. So I ask again, who profits by dredging this up and muddying the waters with a fake sheen of newness?
See the thing about IT/CS, is there's never really anything new, its just all recycled over and over, everything, and the noobs always think they as the youth of American are the ones who invented it. There is some old saying about every generation of teenagers think they're the first generation to invent 1) rebellion and 2) music and 3) sex and everyone old enough to see the pattern just laughs.
To expound on Dharkfiber another situation where an "imaginary org chart" comes in handy is creating logical demarc points/workflows for contractors. Formally in writing you already expect someone in a "cable puller" role to document new cabling as such, with a demarc point between him and the imaginary R+S LAN guy who configures the ethernet switches. Or perhaps you have a huge project and contract both roles out, this imaginary org chart shows how you get those two to optimistically work together.
He obviously doesn't like.... solely because they are different than he is. That is pretty much the de facto definition of bigotry.
Um, no, not at all. Sorry. I've checked. For example, according to the wikipedia entry, bigotry requires intolerance, animosity, hostility, and mostly comes with world views and ideologies. In stark contrast he has the ultra watered down, borderline unrelated "he obviously doesn't like".
Now don't go getting cause and effect all backwards here. I agree it is quite possible that if someone feels intolerance, animosity, hostility, due to some kind of ideology, it is quite possible they also do not like being neighbors with those people. But the opposite is quite possible.
Lets try a non-racial example. I seem to like women with the same hair color as my hair color. That is a spectacular distance away from "intolerance and hostility"
Having worked in small environments I suggest pretending you're the CIO not just a low level IT drone.
Create your imaginary virtual employees and organize your data appropriately.
Unless you have a really good reason to go project based at the top level, I'm guessing as "CIO" your employees would be mgr operations, mgr development, mgr security/auditing who basically watches the other two or something like that. Take a wild guess what your top three level directories or top level three wiki pages I'm suggesting.
It become an interesting role playing game, sorta. So, if we were big enough to have a guy who did nothing but R+S CCNP/CCIE type stuff, he would probably report to the operations mgr, so R+S type stuff has a wiki page linked from the operations page. If you had an admin/intern of license collation and recording working for the operations mgr, that would probably link off the operations wiki page, etc.
This is also hyper convenient if the boss graciously grants you a summer intern, you can almost instantly trivially drop that person right into your pre-existing "system". Look kid, you're now officially an instant licensing admin, or whatever.
Also in your summary of "stuff" you overlooked written EULAs you provide to your internal customers, request forms to fill out, whatever ticketing system you use, whatever project management system you use... And it seems helpful to have a public or private or whatever wiki or something documenting what metrics, if any, you provide to your boss for review time.
Why not suggest using income data instead. That way you don't come off as a racist scumbag. Just sayin'.
That strategy does not work, you end up avoiding mostly harmless low income areas, like university student areas and old folks homes where the income level almost by definition is nothing but SS checks.
Also both race and income are kind of meaningless in the office park neighborhood where I work, but crime rates DO vary heavily based on location (probably because one border is on the bar scene, and the other border is basically completely uninhabited industrial buildings)
You think your race is better than any other race.
you simply hate everyone who isn't exactly like you
You seem to be reading a whole lot into a situation that probably doesn't exist. A religious analogy would be those who think people are either evangelical Christians or judeo-christian tradition satanists and anywhere in between is not allowed, and the though of someone not even playing on that continuum is not permitted to be thought about.
Its possible, in fact normal, to not want to live in Mexico or not want to live in Somalia without hating Mexico or Somalia.
Hmm I'm thinking crime rate influencing real estate prices is not exactly new. If not, there's some great homes in Detroit I could buy for $1 and flip to you for $100K if you'd like.
The problem is the "good" neighborhoods are good because of local environmental factors, more or less, not just random distribution of muggers.
My neighborhood superficially would appear to be a great empty hunting ground based on violent crime stats. However, its across the street from the local PD and is the closest subdivision thus many of my neighbors are off-duty cops. A mugger literally wouldn't live very long around here...
On the "food source" side, my city is big enough that people lock their doors and suburban enough that everyone drives everywhere except for maybe schoolkids. So there is literally no one to mug in my neighborhood other than school kids and dog walkers... On the other hand, the "downtown" bar district is full of drunks with money every night, easy pickings.
Much more common in the soft sciences and liberal arts than in hard science classes.
I had a history class and an English lit class like that.
The history prof just came out and told us that reading the text out loud would be a better lecture than anything the prof could say, or at least thats what his boss, coincidentally the dept chair and author of the text, told him. We all had a laugh over that one. So we were basically forbidden by dilbertian management from having a lecture in that class.
Thats my position. No weasel words. They just work. All of them.
So tonight I can play skyrim for a couple hours on XP with nearly 100% certainty it'll work and I'll get my skyrim time in.
Or
I can spend endless hours finding a torrent of some newer version of windows, taking days to download the.iso, figuring out if its got preinstalled virii and worms, this is not linux so I have to search all over the freaking internet to find drivers for my hardware on the new windows version and hope they work after rebooting 50 times to install them. With the end result, if I'm very lucky and very skillful and very tired from hours of work that... Skyrim might continue to work, in other words I get nothing out of that work.
Eh. If I ever run across a game that requires post XP OS, maybe I'll set up for triple boot, but until then... eh.
XP was unsuitable for enterprise work or "real work" or safe enough to use on the internet back or good for anything but running games when it was new, so being like that now is no big change.
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Your assumption is, god is good. If you remove your restriction, allow god to be an evil being, then quite a bit of atheist/agnostic theory evaporates (not all, just a lot).
The quisling strategy of worshiping an evil god is not that great of an idea, but it does at least make much more sense.
Losing the will would seem to imply a great reduction in stress, all I gotta do is lie here and die.
Living would seem to involve stress.
Supposedly more stress = earlier death in a simple linear relationship, but that may not be the case.
Yet on the other hand, people who intensely meditate and would appear to spend less time stressing out, don't seem to live all that much longer.
How many physicists have written best-sellers? About physics?
Feynman, Gamow, Heisenberg all instantly come to mind as GOOD best seller physics popular science writers. There are probably a lot more BAD ones, example the new age quantum mech guy Zukav, but I can only instantly think of four good ones. You can troll by arguing about Greene, him being a string theorist means hes not a real physicist rather a theoretical mathematician, but he does live in the physics community despite mostly doing theoretical math, so I guess he counts. Lets call it five good ones.
The puzzle is how come there are so many Physicist / Popular science book authors? In comparison, the biochemists have Asimov, and ... um yeah they've got Asimov, truly a great, yet only one individual. How about biologists? Other than the "poke a stick at the creationist nutters" of which there must be hundreds all writing the same thing, all they've got is Rachel Carson... So I ask again, how come there's so many best selling physicist authors?
I wonder if he was misdiagnosed and has something else? That would be embarrassing.
Another option is the disease might kill old people regardless of how young its diagnosed. I read up on this and the untold medical surprise is he was diagnosed at 21... most people get this diagnosis around 60 and die within a decade, in other words, around 70. Of course most people die around 70 anyway, plus or minus 20 years or so. Its quite possible if he dies around his current 70ish (Although I wish him well and I hope he lives to be a happy centurion, in the good morning america tradition, not the ancient roman tradition) the disease would none the less be consistent in killing people around age 70.
For a similar yet completely unrelated example, genealogical research shows my ancestors uniformly seem to croak in the 80s from cardiovascular disease if nothing else gets them first (like warfare, farm accidents, etc), it just seems to be the scotsman/german way to go, I suppose you could diagnose me with that disease at age 5 if you want, and wait until I croak at 85 like most of my ancestors, but that wouldn't be a medical miracle, more of a very likely prediction.
I realize I'm posting kind of late, but how come no one has mentioned xray imaging?
Every my cheapie dentist finally moved to a little CCD imager thingy for teeth.
I have a vague memory that each sheet of chest xray film was vaguely similar in cost to all the film a typical camera bug would use on a vacation. Medical / Dental xrays are a big market, or at least it was a big market, until recently.
Now they are kinda forced into college and the government is there with the money because ...
.... their campaign donors (the big banks) told them to guarantee the loans. Socialize the losses and privatize the gains. Thats why higher ed costs so much, why shouldn't it, every dollar extra is another 25 cents of interest profit for the banks.
Thats awesome for the (number of people in silly valley in the field)/(number of people in USA) * 100 percent of the population. In other words just about no one.
Similar, I could move to one of the oil/gas production hubs, and be one of the 10 or so McDonalds employees making more than $20/hr.
It's just not relevant to most of the population.
Getting that ticket punched is only one goal. If I hire a somebody on the basis of having his ticket punched and then find out he doesn't know how to do anything, I'm going to fire him pretty soon.
That's the problem with degree inflation / underemployment, if you hire a math major to do what amounts to a secretary job (real world example, a friend of my wife) and later find out she's really no good at solving Riemann Geometry problems, its kind of hard to fire her if she does a good job at filing orders.
Lets say I lied at my current job and I don't really know C++ despite having had to take something like 4 semesters. Other than the honesty thing, would anyone care, seeing as we switched mostly from perl to ruby years ago and I've never written a line of C++ for salary in my life despite it being the core of my "IT" training?
From a training standpoint all you need is a 2-year AS IT cert collection to do my job. Doesn't matter if I got my M.S.C.S. out of a crackerjack box as long as I've got the 2-year A.S. skills to do the job once I get in here.
I have been seriously thinking about the diploma mill thing because I'm not worried about not learning how to do PHD level work, because I'll probably never get a "real" PHD level job anyway, so it seems it would be "safe" to buy some fancy wallpaper if it helps me avoid downsizing or whatever.
In other words, I think education is only part of the education process. Social development is the other big part
The problem is that only applies if you're doing the education process thing while 18 to 22 years old. The real world educational process is somewhat more complicated. For example, I'm in my 30s and I'm well aware that due to ageism, getting a "tech job" after 40 is roughly as likely as getting hit by lightning, and only 1 in maybe 30 will ever get into management. So, if I make the cut thats a pleasant miracle, but facing reality, I better start planning in my head for a non-STEM job, which means going back to school.
I REALLY don't think the strategy of tossing me in with the 18 year olds and telling me to learn how to play nice is going to work out. If nothing else I would probably get busted for buying the underage hotties booze in exchange for adult services or something. No... I'm not thinking this will work out.
Technical skills are great, but in todays work environment everything is team driven and being able to get along with people is almost (or even more) important than being able to crank out killer code.
That's something I've heard all my life yet never experienced. There are anecdotes where total sociopath / psychopath / lunatics who are good coders are useless, but the existence of an extreme doesn't prove that therefore "joe average coder needs to get used to the commune / collective farm and from each according to their ability and to each according to their need" and all that rot. Decades of experience show social skill and ability is more like a step function, like an amusement park ride poster "you must be this connected to humanity to succeed and no less" "you must have been laid/drunk/stoned X times to get a job here" "you must be friendly with the HR interviewer lady no matter what she says for a minimum of 10 minutes to get this job" or whatever.
someone needing a data analyst may consider certification in 2 statistics and 2 machine-learning classes from Stanford good enough for the job.
Yeah the problem for Mr Badge is that badge collection is all that is need to do the job, but the unemployed guy with a masters in math also applied for the same job, along with 10 new B.S. 4-year grads and 5 guys with 3 years of experience, and that "retired" EE prof with a PHD who was denied tenure. And also 20 guys who don't have the education or experience but they're good liars and know how to work the system, so one of those 20 will almost certainly be hired.
I'm not thinking the depths of the second great depression is all that great of a time to roll this idea out.
A 4 year college should be the place to go to do IT work.
Sure about that? I did the 2-yr associates in a IT related field (telecom) and it was way more than necessary for entry level IT work. Basically it was a 4-year engineering degree minus almost all non-technical classes, and maybe skip a couple of senior year classes. Think about it, take your average EE degree requirements, strip out all the liberal arts, strip out all the math and classes that are utterly impossible without the math, and you're pretty much got my associates degree program. Think about it... take a typical 128 credit BS, subtract out 30-40 credits of liberal arts, knock out a couple senior year classes, thats your AS degree.
I can relate that in almost two decades of IT work I never used calculus or Spanish or early american pre-civil war history (which is what eventually earned me my BS degree)
I later did a 4-year CS which with transfer credits, amounted to little more than a lot of liberal arts classes, some math, and a couple upper level classes... If you do a "real" CS degree with intensive math, it does take 4 years.
The only important actor in this transaction is HR. No one else cares about degrees or badges or whatever, all that matters is skill.
Someone wake me when "HR" as a group cares more about badges than, say, 2 year associates degrees (which they do not care about at all).
Or perhaps certifications. For decades my local 2-yr tech school has offered endless certs for IT and pretty much anything else they can train over a weekend.
Even vendor certs. What is my old CCNA or CCNP worth? Well, I guess it would make a nice placemat under a drink at a restaurant.
...ABSOLUTELY NO DEVICES NOT COMPANY SUPPLIED ON THE NETWORK. If the company is counting on trade-secret status for things like customer lists...
Funny you should mention this, to work around that agony, at a previous financial services employer, the field techs had the customer site data in plain text email as attachments, which the field circus techs had access to via internet webmail. Boss/supvr was gatekeeper and responsible for email forwarding the most recent customer data snapshot to any of his techs that requested it from him.
The problem with hollywood movie plot based security is that it usually completely misses the mark of real security issues. If it takes 30 minutes of biometric and two factor security to get some data, what happens in the real world is one tech will simply txt message another tech asking him to email the info he needs to his gmail.
I know there are some Mobile Device Management packages out there working on this, and hopefully the best practices will all be sorted out soon.
Don't need them. All you need is rdesktop/VNC/SSH. Some companies have been working "in the future" for a couple decades now, some still aren't in the present.
Is the remote wipe functionality such that if I have to zap your device it will only nuke the company data?
Yeah.... go ahead, wipe the vmware image my wife connects to via rdesktop. Its not going to affect her phone, desktop, tablet, work laptop, home laptop, etc.
Its conceptually not much different than allowing remote webmail access.
Back then you couldn't just connect a phone to another device and retrieve and make public everything that was transmitted on it.
Sure you could. Darn near 30 years ago my father had a terminal at home hooked up to a printer. And 40 years ago my grandfather had a reel to reel tape recorder hooked up to the phone (business purposes, something about dictation services and the then new concept of documenting conference calls with engineering consultants). This is old old old old case law. So I ask again, who profits by dredging this up and muddying the waters with a fake sheen of newness?
See the thing about IT/CS, is there's never really anything new, its just all recycled over and over, everything, and the noobs always think they as the youth of American are the ones who invented it. There is some old saying about every generation of teenagers think they're the first generation to invent 1) rebellion and 2) music and 3) sex and everyone old enough to see the pattern just laughs.
To expound on Dharkfiber another situation where an "imaginary org chart" comes in handy is creating logical demarc points/workflows for contractors. Formally in writing you already expect someone in a "cable puller" role to document new cabling as such, with a demarc point between him and the imaginary R+S LAN guy who configures the ethernet switches. Or perhaps you have a huge project and contract both roles out, this imaginary org chart shows how you get those two to optimistically work together.
He obviously doesn't like .... solely because they are different than he is. That is pretty much the de facto definition of bigotry.
Um, no, not at all. Sorry. I've checked. For example, according to the wikipedia entry, bigotry requires intolerance, animosity, hostility, and mostly comes with world views and ideologies. In stark contrast he has the ultra watered down, borderline unrelated "he obviously doesn't like".
Now don't go getting cause and effect all backwards here. I agree it is quite possible that if someone feels intolerance, animosity, hostility, due to some kind of ideology, it is quite possible they also do not like being neighbors with those people. But the opposite is quite possible.
Lets try a non-racial example. I seem to like women with the same hair color as my hair color. That is a spectacular distance away from "intolerance and hostility"
Who profits by muddied waters? Wasn't this all figured out decades ago when employees got home telephones and occasionally talked business on them?
Having worked in small environments I suggest pretending you're the CIO not just a low level IT drone.
Create your imaginary virtual employees and organize your data appropriately.
Unless you have a really good reason to go project based at the top level, I'm guessing as "CIO" your employees would be mgr operations, mgr development, mgr security/auditing who basically watches the other two or something like that. Take a wild guess what your top three level directories or top level three wiki pages I'm suggesting.
It become an interesting role playing game, sorta. So, if we were big enough to have a guy who did nothing but R+S CCNP/CCIE type stuff, he would probably report to the operations mgr, so R+S type stuff has a wiki page linked from the operations page. If you had an admin/intern of license collation and recording working for the operations mgr, that would probably link off the operations wiki page, etc.
This is also hyper convenient if the boss graciously grants you a summer intern, you can almost instantly trivially drop that person right into your pre-existing "system". Look kid, you're now officially an instant licensing admin, or whatever.
Also in your summary of "stuff" you overlooked written EULAs you provide to your internal customers, request forms to fill out, whatever ticketing system you use, whatever project management system you use... And it seems helpful to have a public or private or whatever wiki or something documenting what metrics, if any, you provide to your boss for review time.
Why not suggest using income data instead. That way you don't come off as a racist scumbag. Just sayin'.
That strategy does not work, you end up avoiding mostly harmless low income areas, like university student areas and old folks homes where the income level almost by definition is nothing but SS checks.
Also both race and income are kind of meaningless in the office park neighborhood where I work, but crime rates DO vary heavily based on location (probably because one border is on the bar scene, and the other border is basically completely uninhabited industrial buildings)
You think your race is better than any other race.
you simply hate everyone who isn't exactly like you
You seem to be reading a whole lot into a situation that probably doesn't exist. A religious analogy would be those who think people are either evangelical Christians or judeo-christian tradition satanists and anywhere in between is not allowed, and the though of someone not even playing on that continuum is not permitted to be thought about.
Its possible, in fact normal, to not want to live in Mexico or not want to live in Somalia without hating Mexico or Somalia.
Hmm I'm thinking crime rate influencing real estate prices is not exactly new. If not, there's some great homes in Detroit I could buy for $1 and flip to you for $100K if you'd like.
The problem is the "good" neighborhoods are good because of local environmental factors, more or less, not just random distribution of muggers.
My neighborhood superficially would appear to be a great empty hunting ground based on violent crime stats. However, its across the street from the local PD and is the closest subdivision thus many of my neighbors are off-duty cops. A mugger literally wouldn't live very long around here...
On the "food source" side, my city is big enough that people lock their doors and suburban enough that everyone drives everywhere except for maybe schoolkids. So there is literally no one to mug in my neighborhood other than school kids and dog walkers... On the other hand, the "downtown" bar district is full of drunks with money every night, easy pickings.
Much more common in the soft sciences and liberal arts than in hard science classes.
I had a history class and an English lit class like that.
The history prof just came out and told us that reading the text out loud would be a better lecture than anything the prof could say, or at least thats what his boss, coincidentally the dept chair and author of the text, told him. We all had a laugh over that one. So we were basically forbidden by dilbertian management from having a lecture in that class.
1) All my games work
Thats my position. No weasel words. They just work. All of them.
So tonight I can play skyrim for a couple hours on XP with nearly 100% certainty it'll work and I'll get my skyrim time in.
Or
I can spend endless hours finding a torrent of some newer version of windows, taking days to download the .iso, figuring out if its got preinstalled virii and worms, this is not linux so I have to search all over the freaking internet to find drivers for my hardware on the new windows version and hope they work after rebooting 50 times to install them. With the end result, if I'm very lucky and very skillful and very tired from hours of work that ... Skyrim might continue to work, in other words I get nothing out of that work.
Eh. If I ever run across a game that requires post XP OS, maybe I'll set up for triple boot, but until then... eh.
XP was unsuitable for enterprise work or "real work" or safe enough to use on the internet back or good for anything but running games when it was new, so being like that now is no big change.