1) When someone talks about how much better the technology was at his old job and how that should be used, that *is* a useful situation. What's not useful is where everyone just accepts what's going on because "it's always been done that way", and the organization doesn't get the benefits of the insights and ideas of new blood (whether that "new (relative to the organization) blood" is in a young body or old body). The implication that your org has nothing to learn from anyone else, and/or your resistance to change, indicates that you might be one of these older workers that you speak of.
2) A significant problem with younger workers I've seen yet not mentioned yet here is resistance to working with the technology in place if it's not cool and cutting edge. Or trying to push an org into such a direction when it doesn't make sense. I've seen projects fail over that, just because younger workers want experience in something new for their resume. Oftentimes there's lots of less glamouous tech at organizations that does its job, that younger workers don't want to get involved with.
3) Don't assume that everywhere else is like academia. The existence of tenure in a job attracts those who don't want to have to keep competing to keep that job. Out in the real world us older fellows, at least those of us left, are still surviving in tech jobs because we have a passion for this stuff that keeps our minds open and willing to learn. The older survivors in this industry are that because we *like* change, and are the type of person where we'd get bored doing the same things in the same way. Many younger workers will find out they are not like that at all, and become stuck in their ways and older than their age would make you think.
It's hard to reconcile how it's a good thing that people look to govt. to solve their problems but it's a bad thing that businesses then naturally do the same.
Well to be fair, Democrats don't really worship Europeans, nor just for being Europeans. More specifically, American Leftists feel kinship with Europeans for being socialists and for looking down on America('s founding ideals), and they admire them for having so far been more successful at/farther along in moving their societies towards the Left.
you have done a really good job of not listening to me even when you do read my posts
I'm still listening to you, I just don't waste my time responding to things that are invalid due to not applying to what I've actually said.
We are drastically different people, but so is everyone. By my own beliefs, I'm commanded to love you and not see you as evil, even if I think what you support is evil. It's distinctions like this that I make in my postings, not at all subtle, yet they appear to be routinely overlooked, by the characteristically more emotional political side.
You generate your own confusion then -- I said nothing of what I'd actually advocate for on these issues, only that our brains arrive at opposite arguments being made by the same assertion.
[...] nicotine is [...] more addictive than marijuana.
If this sounds like an argument for decreasing the restrictions on marijuana, then you're a Leftist. If it sounds instead like an argument for increasing the restrictions on nicotine, then you're a Rightist. It's not only mutually exclusive values sets, but also senses of logic. Even bothering talking with one another is the polite thing to do, but futile.
This is not what 'logout' is supposed to mean - Facebook are only altering the state of the cookies instead of removing all of them when a user logs out.
I don't have direct experience in this area so I'm wondering, why exactly is logout supposed to mean deleting cookies instead of just noting in them that the user is logged out?
I'm bombarded with the opposing view constantly. [...] I have to actively seek news and information that represents my views...
Look on the bright side. The fact that you don't have to do a thing to become well-versed in the opposition's arguments for things, means that being politically sheltered and ignorant is practically beyond the realm of possibility for you. My sister for example is a solid Left-winger and doesn't have the first clue what are the purported bases the Right gives for the positions it takes. It's just too hard (in relation to how much she cares to do so) to seek such out. (Well, prior to the emergence of FNC as a mainstream media source, that is.) You're better off in the sense that you don't have to lift a finger to find out about that which you aren't already naturally driven to seek.
Windows' "find in files" functionality has been unreliable for years. Typically only developers notice this, so we just use our code editor's instead. Maybe MS assumes this and that's why they've never fixed it. I assume it's the Windows indexing service that causes it. I turned mine off, as it thrashes the disk periodically and I don't want to listen to it, and I basically never search for a filename or part of one, and when I do I can wait while it traverses things at that time.
You make one good point about American Leftism being very, very good at misrepresenting itself. But it's brilliant, because it's self-fulfilling. Take over America's institutions of information dissemination -- education and the media -- and talk and act like the Leftist ways of seeing things are the default as you say, and hence the burden is on dissenters to demonstrate why a given alternative way of thinking should even be entertained. A decade here and a decade there of that and pretty soon it adds up.
So where your comment fails to be convincing is in your thinking that the divide is (or even can) still remain at 50/50, under this subtle onslaught.
We are being moved beyond the values of individuality and personal liberty, to a "larger morality", Progressives might say. In your "false dichotomy" of Left vs. Right, the Left is winning your war-that-doesn't-exist, handily, because they've been acting like they've already won.
I was being completely serious. He's the only person on TV who pays for a small staff to really dig into and uncover and expose what the commies in America and the world are up to. It's an invaluable service and there needs to be one about the hyper-capitalists as well, as they're just as damaging.
I can take the data presented by a source without necessarily accepting the presenter's spin. Standing where I stand, I would prolly take less of your opinion than I do his, but I would take the set of (necessarily selective) evidence presented on your topic under just as serious consideration.
I wish there were "boring" facts and history TV show hosts with obsessions for bringing to light Islamic fascism, and Climate Change, and anything else that might be a *significant* threat to the American middle class way of life.
a computer is deciding that the "rapid engagement of the brakes" is really a request for 100% braking power
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the given circumstances), no. They're programmed to sacrifice some braking power to try to maintain some steering control. But your point that cars are already making decisions for us and taking choices out of our hands remains. Unfortunately I think one of those decisions cost me getting into an accident (i.e. not being able to stop in time) and losing my car (an older car that ins. decided to just total out). Then again, that same decision might save my life some day.
An interesting point. Would one rather be on the road with vehicles directly operated by flawed biological entities, but who each have something tangibly very dear to them to lose (like life or limb), or be on the road with vehicles operated by prolly less flawed computer entities, but created by flawed biological entities who've got nothing at stake except maybe their jobs?
Right, the logic expressed in TFS was reasonable, but only from the collectivist POV. That is, a system where some people are sacrificed for The Greater Good(TM), in this case for likely a significant increase in highway safety, vs. a system where the individual has a large amount (albeit not complete) control over his or her own life. This is just one particular case in the timeless struggle between two conflicting general philosophies.
Wow, you're like the anti- Glenn Beck -- he seems to try to read up on as much of what the worst and most extreme of the anti-capitalists do and historically have done and trying to understand the schemes they're up to, and you seem to do the same except that your deep and driving interest and therefore prolly your angle of origin is in the exact opposite direction.
Nevertheless, I wish you had a TV show (maybe on CNBC, in your case), as there's a need for someone to distill and easily explain and bring this other stuff to the masses as well.
(Where by "the masses" I mean people who don't have the time or interest to pour over all such material and talk with experts and figure it all out, but should nevertheless be getting the executive summary, since afterall it is about a group of people who are trying to screw them over, and often have the very power to do so. And the screwing can and has been significant, even if regarding some periods of time they're still not aware of it.)
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1) When someone talks about how much better the technology was at his old job and how that should be used, that *is* a useful situation. What's not useful is where everyone just accepts what's going on because "it's always been done that way", and the organization doesn't get the benefits of the insights and ideas of new blood (whether that "new (relative to the organization) blood" is in a young body or old body). The implication that your org has nothing to learn from anyone else, and/or your resistance to change, indicates that you might be one of these older workers that you speak of.
2) A significant problem with younger workers I've seen yet not mentioned yet here is resistance to working with the technology in place if it's not cool and cutting edge. Or trying to push an org into such a direction when it doesn't make sense. I've seen projects fail over that, just because younger workers want experience in something new for their resume. Oftentimes there's lots of less glamouous tech at organizations that does its job, that younger workers don't want to get involved with.
3) Don't assume that everywhere else is like academia. The existence of tenure in a job attracts those who don't want to have to keep competing to keep that job. Out in the real world us older fellows, at least those of us left, are still surviving in tech jobs because we have a passion for this stuff that keeps our minds open and willing to learn. The older survivors in this industry are that because we *like* change, and are the type of person where we'd get bored doing the same things in the same way. Many younger workers will find out they are not like that at all, and become stuck in their ways and older than their age would make you think.
And that's because only the lower and upper classes have advocates for them in govt.
It's hard to reconcile how it's a good thing that people look to govt. to solve their problems but it's a bad thing that businesses then naturally do the same.
Instead of paying more and more people not to work as productivity rises, how about instead reducing the national work week?
Or maybe the pocket equivalent of a ToughPad.
"Meat is my friend, not my food"?
Well to be fair, Democrats don't really worship Europeans, nor just for being Europeans. More specifically, American Leftists feel kinship with Europeans for being socialists and for looking down on America('s founding ideals), and they admire them for having so far been more successful at/farther along in moving their societies towards the Left.
I'm still listening to you, I just don't waste my time responding to things that are invalid due to not applying to what I've actually said.
We are drastically different people, but so is everyone. By my own beliefs, I'm commanded to love you and not see you as evil, even if I think what you support is evil. It's distinctions like this that I make in my postings, not at all subtle, yet they appear to be routinely overlooked, by the characteristically more emotional political side.
What's disappointing is that you're starting to sound more and more like CT, and I eventually had to stop reading his posts.
My desire for the scaling back of govt. is not of the kind that's about a scaling back uniformly across all of its dimensions.
You generate your own confusion then -- I said nothing of what I'd actually advocate for on these issues, only that our brains arrive at opposite arguments being made by the same assertion.
If this sounds like an argument for decreasing the restrictions on marijuana, then you're a Leftist. If it sounds instead like an argument for increasing the restrictions on nicotine, then you're a Rightist. It's not only mutually exclusive values sets, but also senses of logic. Even bothering talking with one another is the polite thing to do, but futile.
From TFA:
I don't have direct experience in this area so I'm wondering, why exactly is logout supposed to mean deleting cookies instead of just noting in them that the user is logged out?
Look on the bright side. The fact that you don't have to do a thing to become well-versed in the opposition's arguments for things, means that being politically sheltered and ignorant is practically beyond the realm of possibility for you. My sister for example is a solid Left-winger and doesn't have the first clue what are the purported bases the Right gives for the positions it takes. It's just too hard (in relation to how much she cares to do so) to seek such out. (Well, prior to the emergence of FNC as a mainstream media source, that is.) You're better off in the sense that you don't have to lift a finger to find out about that which you aren't already naturally driven to seek.
Space junk.
Not to mention "Four dollar and ninety two cent thirty centimeter" doesn't make for a very memorable jingle.
Windows' "find in files" functionality has been unreliable for years. Typically only developers notice this, so we just use our code editor's instead. Maybe MS assumes this and that's why they've never fixed it. I assume it's the Windows indexing service that causes it. I turned mine off, as it thrashes the disk periodically and I don't want to listen to it, and I basically never search for a filename or part of one, and when I do I can wait while it traverses things at that time.
You make one good point about American Leftism being very, very good at misrepresenting itself. But it's brilliant, because it's self-fulfilling. Take over America's institutions of information dissemination -- education and the media -- and talk and act like the Leftist ways of seeing things are the default as you say, and hence the burden is on dissenters to demonstrate why a given alternative way of thinking should even be entertained. A decade here and a decade there of that and pretty soon it adds up.
So where your comment fails to be convincing is in your thinking that the divide is (or even can) still remain at 50/50, under this subtle onslaught.
We are being moved beyond the values of individuality and personal liberty, to a "larger morality", Progressives might say. In your "false dichotomy" of Left vs. Right, the Left is winning your war-that-doesn't-exist, handily, because they've been acting like they've already won.
I like to answer truthfully, and bum the unsuspecting person out.
I was being completely serious. He's the only person on TV who pays for a small staff to really dig into and uncover and expose what the commies in America and the world are up to. It's an invaluable service and there needs to be one about the hyper-capitalists as well, as they're just as damaging.
I can take the data presented by a source without necessarily accepting the presenter's spin. Standing where I stand, I would prolly take less of your opinion than I do his, but I would take the set of (necessarily selective) evidence presented on your topic under just as serious consideration.
I wish there were "boring" facts and history TV show hosts with obsessions for bringing to light Islamic fascism, and Climate Change, and anything else that might be a *significant* threat to the American middle class way of life.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the given circumstances), no. They're programmed to sacrifice some braking power to try to maintain some steering control. But your point that cars are already making decisions for us and taking choices out of our hands remains. Unfortunately I think one of those decisions cost me getting into an accident (i.e. not being able to stop in time) and losing my car (an older car that ins. decided to just total out). Then again, that same decision might save my life some day.
An interesting point. Would one rather be on the road with vehicles directly operated by flawed biological entities, but who each have something tangibly very dear to them to lose (like life or limb), or be on the road with vehicles operated by prolly less flawed computer entities, but created by flawed biological entities who've got nothing at stake except maybe their jobs?
Right, the logic expressed in TFS was reasonable, but only from the collectivist POV. That is, a system where some people are sacrificed for The Greater Good(TM), in this case for likely a significant increase in highway safety, vs. a system where the individual has a large amount (albeit not complete) control over his or her own life. This is just one particular case in the timeless struggle between two conflicting general philosophies.
Wow, you're like the anti- Glenn Beck -- he seems to try to read up on as much of what the worst and most extreme of the anti-capitalists do and historically have done and trying to understand the schemes they're up to, and you seem to do the same except that your deep and driving interest and therefore prolly your angle of origin is in the exact opposite direction.
Nevertheless, I wish you had a TV show (maybe on CNBC, in your case), as there's a need for someone to distill and easily explain and bring this other stuff to the masses as well.
(Where by "the masses" I mean people who don't have the time or interest to pour over all such material and talk with experts and figure it all out, but should nevertheless be getting the executive summary, since afterall it is about a group of people who are trying to screw them over, and often have the very power to do so. And the screwing can and has been significant, even if regarding some periods of time they're still not aware of it.)
Tangibility is a dying appreciation. It's an experience to hold in your hands and behold album cover art printed on big squares of cardboard sleeving.
I'm now going to go play with the picture wheel built into the cover of 1970's Led Zeppelin III, and check for any neighborhood scamps on my lawn.