Yeah... always was wasn't it. Except if you're a teenager. Or a freshly graduated hotshot from college who thinks his bit of knowledge and few years experience are all the world needs. The trouble with getting rid of this attitude in young people is that they have to get old to understand why it's wrong.
It is very apparent from pictures of the end of the runway where they landed, that they actually landed short. There is a rock retaining wall coming out of the ocean and you can see significant damage
and scrape marks to the retaining wall continuing onto the runway and the beginning of the wreckage trails showing that the landing gear at least, touched down short of the runway. From the way it looked it is easy to see how the tail could have smacked into the runway either at that time or just after and then breaking free.
the signal actually follows the curvature of the Earth via a trick of electromagnetics, allowing nearly the entire globe to receive an accurate time signal, which has in recent years reached an accuracy of 1 part in 70 trillion.
An accuracy of 1 part in 70 trillion. Yeah. Maybe right at the clock they use. But people setting their clocks by it live a distance from the station. And the speed of the radio waves is finite. So the further from the station the less effectively accurate the signal is (people don't measure the exact distance they are from the source so they can't know the real time when they get the signal). The time to receive could be a second or two behind the real time for someone receiving on the far side of the earth. So how does touting their supreme accuracy reflect on actuality? Not well. I wonder if it is worth creating a super duper accurate time keeping service that can't be received accurately.
So both at once leads one to believe that pressure was applied by an outside source. As both instances have occured around leaking of US government "secrets" (Don't get me started as if they are still secrets when they are plastered over the press) it becomes obvious who benefits from the blockage. The U.S. Government
Well fucking duh. Thanks Sherlock. How is stating the obvious insightful?
If the EU stops providing the data, and the U.S. blocks flights, how long do you think it will last. The U.S. will realize how much they are being harmed by their tantrum and be forced to stop it. Sure, the EU will suffer a few problems too, but I would think it is more closely linked to other countries in Eurasia and Africa than with North America. America is more reliant on connections to other continents (requiring a lot of air travel) than is Europe. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope America lets its business leaders make it a true second rate nation by outsourcing everything. Then they won't have as much weight to throw around. In any case, it's time to stand up to their bullying. The white hat they think they wear has turned dirty grey, at least. It's amazing how treating your friends like enemies can change opinions.
Now, the implantable zoomming replacement eye lense that costs $25,000 an eye they dismissed as too expensive, no THAT seems worth talking about.
In your opinion. But otherwise no. If you look at what is actually involved in implanting a telescope in your eye you'd see that it is not really a good solution compared to a contact lens (if the latter is equally effective). The contact lens is way less obtrusive, less likely to cause future medical condition, less likely to cause catastrophic injury if someone were to get hit in the eye with anything. etc etc etc. Having recently being diagnosed with early stage AMD in one eye, I am glad someone is coming up with shit like this. But I would much rather see something like stem cell therapy or other biological solutions that provide a real cure; instead of having to learn how to interpret what is directly in front of me in the form of a doughnut shaped images.
You got it wrong by not trying to understand how a telescope helps. That would make you the moron. They put a telescope on the cornea as a way to distribute the light reflected from the object of interest to areas of retina around the damaged macula that isn't damaged. It is a way to allow functioning parts of the eye to be used to see things in the centre. My mother had this disease and it would have been awesome if she would have been able to use something like this (the idea came to late, even the implantable ones) for her.
The problem is, some management folks can't see that some costs are buying something of extreme value to the company. And they are cutting long term value for short term cost reduction
That is a description of a company going bad. FYI, the result you have had to how you approach this issue is pure luck IMHO. The only places this works (and even then it is not failsafe) are in really huge companies that have a lot of inertia. But even they die if this type of behaviour keeps up.
Yeah, exactly. I always tell people I'd rather live right in the city or *way* out in the country. The suburbs to me is worst of both worlds. Unfortunately right now, I'm in a suburb because the commute time would be worse than living in the burbs... but only because my job is 5 minutes away by car and 20 to 25 by bicycle (going the long way). Wasting 2 hours a day commuting is the only thing I hate worse than suburbs. Too stressful. Had to start back after a couple years off because of spinal surgery, so gotta do what ya gotta do. Next gig will be back in a city. A downtown with any luck. Work in cutting edge mobile software and cloud (AWS and Azure) so shouldn't be hard to get a good locale after this.:) Would go rural and get a horse if it didn't fuck my back completely to ride. [sigh]. Bicycles don't trot so have to deal with their smoother ride and just get my zen dodging cars. It's my opportunity to force the thinking machine off so the priority attention is not getting killed by automobiles.:)
Cities are a better way to be alone than the suburbs, if you like that. In fact you can be more anonymous in a city than in a suburb. And there are more things to do by yourself than in a suburb.
And one more very, very important thing: what most people think of an introvert is actually a myth. Being an introvert doesn't always mean wanting to be alone. In fact, most introverts like people too (really!). In general what the reality is, is that for most introverts, being an introvert means that when you need to power back up, de-stress and get centred, you do it by getting some 'me time'... being alone and relaxing, getting time to process/meditate on things you have experienced lately. And yes, you can be alone in a crowd. Extroverts, by the way, relax by interacting with people. People who just don't 'get' other people or don't want to be around them are actually classified as misanthropes... or sometimes having Aspergers syndrome. It doesn't mean introvert. I am a strong introvert. I hate the suburbs and love the city.
If they still don't make it easier for people who go there LEGALLY to work to eventually get a green card (no tons of money, no company sponsorship or getting married, no years of waiting) then fuck it, it still isn't worth going there to work. I worked there for six years and moved back to Canada because it would have taken forever to get a green card and being indentured to a company for the duration. Fuck that. If they can give green cards to illegal immigrants and not those there legally, fuck them.
Most countries will give you a landed immigrant status (same as a green card) if you work there LEGALLY more than a set time (usually four or five years), keep your nose clean, and don't mooch off the government for anything. If that isn't the case, even though I get recruiters calling me from there regularly because of my good reputation in the city I worked in, I won't go back there to work ever. The odd vacation maybe but that's it. Not worth the stress of worrying about having to relocate your family out of the country within a month if the contract ends suddenly. Nor the stress of companies feeling like the fuck you because they think you are captive for the same reason. A big three letter telecom convinced me of all this because of the last statement.
If you're worth anything you will figure out the signs. It's like chess, companies don't do things without a purpose, stay a move ahead. If things look dicey don't even give them the chance to ask you to train them.
. If need be, start looking for work right at the outset and set that as the priority; not training the fucking offshore scabs. Then leave.
Ahem. Missed that, didn't you. This implies that you can start the training, but it isn't your top priority. Btw, most places don't give severance anyway. And if you used your time wisely, you'll have another job anyway. If people like you willingly make it easy for companies to replace you with people from another country, then you deserve what you get.
I think there is case law now that if you work in a place that is creating a very bad work environment for an employee, even if they quit they can still sue for wrongful dismissal; on the basis that they wouldn't have quit if the work environment were better. This came up in the U.S. somewhere around 5 to 8 years ago I think... maybe a year or two earlier. Someone sued the company on this basis and won. If this isn't an overwhelmingly bad work environment (being forced to train your offshore replacement) I don't know what is.
So I have been around long enough to have worked through several business cycles/recessions etc. I have good references btw (just saying, I'm working now so don't need to call on them). But the point is, every now and then companies down size. A few times I was on the way out when departments got cut etc. More than once I had them come back and ask if I could contract out in my off time because they fucked up and still needed my services (I was already working a new job by then in those cases). I have a rule: You only get one chance to lay me off, after that, fuck you. A company that doesn't appreciate your work once, still won't appreciate it. A leopard doesn't change its spots. But if you do have go back, do it as a consultant and rape them with your fees. Then cut out as soon as you have a better gig.
If you know you're going to go, why do people train their offshore replacements. Just get it over with. Tell them to go fuck themselves and learn the systems on their own, then leave. If need be, start looking for work right at the outset and set that as the priority; not training the fucking offshore scabs. Then leave. If a company has that little loyalty to you, then fuck 'em, they don't deserve a work ethic of any sort, nor any loyalty.
If they hired an actor to that looks like Barr, it seems pretty deliberate. They can truthfully say it was a mistake as long as they don't say what they were mistaken about. Whether or not they say so publicly, they probably mean they made a mistake thinking they could get away with this, without anyone noticing and without Barr making a big enough fuss to fuck up their plans. Like I said, the act of trying to steal this guy's thing wasn't a mistake; as in, "oops we didn't know someone had this name and there was a guy who looked like our actor." That would be bullshit.
Wouldn't this be a good use for Kickstarter? Raise funds for fighting something like this to conclusion in order to set precedent. So Kickstarter is a way to get around traditional corporate funding. Maybe it can be a way to get around traditional corporate blackmail too!
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Yeah... always was wasn't it. Except if you're a teenager. Or a freshly graduated hotshot from college who thinks his bit of knowledge and few years experience are all the world needs. The trouble with getting rid of this attitude in young people is that they have to get old to understand why it's wrong.
It is very apparent from pictures of the end of the runway where they landed, that they actually landed short. There is a rock retaining wall coming out of the ocean and you can see significant damage and scrape marks to the retaining wall continuing onto the runway and the beginning of the wreckage trails showing that the landing gear at least, touched down short of the runway. From the way it looked it is easy to see how the tail could have smacked into the runway either at that time or just after and then breaking free.
I don't know the demographics of those places, but could it be 'white flight'?
An accuracy of 1 part in 70 trillion. Yeah. Maybe right at the clock they use. But people setting their clocks by it live a distance from the station. And the speed of the radio waves is finite. So the further from the station the less effectively accurate the signal is (people don't measure the exact distance they are from the source so they can't know the real time when they get the signal). The time to receive could be a second or two behind the real time for someone receiving on the far side of the earth. So how does touting their supreme accuracy reflect on actuality? Not well. I wonder if it is worth creating a super duper accurate time keeping service that can't be received accurately.
And America has no tourism industry. And Europeans have no options for holiday travel than America. Right.
Well fucking duh. Thanks Sherlock. How is stating the obvious insightful?
If the EU stops providing the data, and the U.S. blocks flights, how long do you think it will last. The U.S. will realize how much they are being harmed by their tantrum and be forced to stop it. Sure, the EU will suffer a few problems too, but I would think it is more closely linked to other countries in Eurasia and Africa than with North America. America is more reliant on connections to other continents (requiring a lot of air travel) than is Europe. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope America lets its business leaders make it a true second rate nation by outsourcing everything. Then they won't have as much weight to throw around. In any case, it's time to stand up to their bullying. The white hat they think they wear has turned dirty grey, at least. It's amazing how treating your friends like enemies can change opinions.
Where are the Apple fans telling us that Apple or Steve Jobs actually invented the mouse and the internet?
Depends which head you think with.
In your opinion. But otherwise no. If you look at what is actually involved in implanting a telescope in your eye you'd see that it is not really a good solution compared to a contact lens (if the latter is equally effective). The contact lens is way less obtrusive, less likely to cause future medical condition, less likely to cause catastrophic injury if someone were to get hit in the eye with anything. etc etc etc. Having recently being diagnosed with early stage AMD in one eye, I am glad someone is coming up with shit like this. But I would much rather see something like stem cell therapy or other biological solutions that provide a real cure; instead of having to learn how to interpret what is directly in front of me in the form of a doughnut shaped images.
You got it wrong by not trying to understand how a telescope helps. That would make you the moron. They put a telescope on the cornea as a way to distribute the light reflected from the object of interest to areas of retina around the damaged macula that isn't damaged. It is a way to allow functioning parts of the eye to be used to see things in the centre. My mother had this disease and it would have been awesome if she would have been able to use something like this (the idea came to late, even the implantable ones) for her.
That is a description of a company going bad. FYI, the result you have had to how you approach this issue is pure luck IMHO. The only places this works (and even then it is not failsafe) are in really huge companies that have a lot of inertia. But even they die if this type of behaviour keeps up.
Yeah, exactly. I always tell people I'd rather live right in the city or *way* out in the country. The suburbs to me is worst of both worlds. Unfortunately right now, I'm in a suburb because the commute time would be worse than living in the burbs... but only because my job is 5 minutes away by car and 20 to 25 by bicycle (going the long way). Wasting 2 hours a day commuting is the only thing I hate worse than suburbs. Too stressful. Had to start back after a couple years off because of spinal surgery, so gotta do what ya gotta do. Next gig will be back in a city. A downtown with any luck. Work in cutting edge mobile software and cloud (AWS and Azure) so shouldn't be hard to get a good locale after this. :) Would go rural and get a horse if it didn't fuck my back completely to ride. [sigh]. Bicycles don't trot so have to deal with their smoother ride and just get my zen dodging cars. It's my opportunity to force the thinking machine off so the priority attention is not getting killed by automobiles. :)
Ummmmm... nah, too easy.
Cities are a better way to be alone than the suburbs, if you like that. In fact you can be more anonymous in a city than in a suburb. And there are more things to do by yourself than in a suburb.
And one more very, very important thing: what most people think of an introvert is actually a myth. Being an introvert doesn't always mean wanting to be alone. In fact, most introverts like people too (really!). In general what the reality is, is that for most introverts, being an introvert means that when you need to power back up, de-stress and get centred, you do it by getting some 'me time'... being alone and relaxing, getting time to process/meditate on things you have experienced lately. And yes, you can be alone in a crowd. Extroverts, by the way, relax by interacting with people. People who just don't 'get' other people or don't want to be around them are actually classified as misanthropes... or sometimes having Aspergers syndrome. It doesn't mean introvert. I am a strong introvert. I hate the suburbs and love the city.
If they still don't make it easier for people who go there LEGALLY to work to eventually get a green card (no tons of money, no company sponsorship or getting married, no years of waiting) then fuck it, it still isn't worth going there to work. I worked there for six years and moved back to Canada because it would have taken forever to get a green card and being indentured to a company for the duration. Fuck that. If they can give green cards to illegal immigrants and not those there legally, fuck them.
Most countries will give you a landed immigrant status (same as a green card) if you work there LEGALLY more than a set time (usually four or five years), keep your nose clean, and don't mooch off the government for anything. If that isn't the case, even though I get recruiters calling me from there regularly because of my good reputation in the city I worked in, I won't go back there to work ever. The odd vacation maybe but that's it. Not worth the stress of worrying about having to relocate your family out of the country within a month if the contract ends suddenly. Nor the stress of companies feeling like the fuck you because they think you are captive for the same reason. A big three letter telecom convinced me of all this because of the last statement.
If you're worth anything you will figure out the signs. It's like chess, companies don't do things without a purpose, stay a move ahead. If things look dicey don't even give them the chance to ask you to train them.
Ahem. Missed that, didn't you. This implies that you can start the training, but it isn't your top priority. Btw, most places don't give severance anyway. And if you used your time wisely, you'll have another job anyway. If people like you willingly make it easy for companies to replace you with people from another country, then you deserve what you get.
I think there is case law now that if you work in a place that is creating a very bad work environment for an employee, even if they quit they can still sue for wrongful dismissal; on the basis that they wouldn't have quit if the work environment were better. This came up in the U.S. somewhere around 5 to 8 years ago I think... maybe a year or two earlier. Someone sued the company on this basis and won. If this isn't an overwhelmingly bad work environment (being forced to train your offshore replacement) I don't know what is.
So I have been around long enough to have worked through several business cycles/recessions etc. I have good references btw (just saying, I'm working now so don't need to call on them). But the point is, every now and then companies down size. A few times I was on the way out when departments got cut etc. More than once I had them come back and ask if I could contract out in my off time because they fucked up and still needed my services (I was already working a new job by then in those cases). I have a rule: You only get one chance to lay me off, after that, fuck you. A company that doesn't appreciate your work once, still won't appreciate it. A leopard doesn't change its spots. But if you do have go back, do it as a consultant and rape them with your fees. Then cut out as soon as you have a better gig.
If you know you're going to go, why do people train their offshore replacements. Just get it over with. Tell them to go fuck themselves and learn the systems on their own, then leave. If need be, start looking for work right at the outset and set that as the priority; not training the fucking offshore scabs. Then leave. If a company has that little loyalty to you, then fuck 'em, they don't deserve a work ethic of any sort, nor any loyalty.
You must like lawyers. Even dream of being one.
If they hired an actor to that looks like Barr, it seems pretty deliberate. They can truthfully say it was a mistake as long as they don't say what they were mistaken about. Whether or not they say so publicly, they probably mean they made a mistake thinking they could get away with this, without anyone noticing and without Barr making a big enough fuss to fuck up their plans. Like I said, the act of trying to steal this guy's thing wasn't a mistake; as in, "oops we didn't know someone had this name and there was a guy who looked like our actor." That would be bullshit.
Wouldn't this be a good use for Kickstarter? Raise funds for fighting something like this to conclusion in order to set precedent. So Kickstarter is a way to get around traditional corporate funding. Maybe it can be a way to get around traditional corporate blackmail too!
If managers aren't really managing projects and only making sure devs are happy, then they aren't really managers. At best they are gofers.