Except of course the ones that are there to generate sales, like "look under the cap of any 20 oz bottle of Pepsi and you could win $25,000 instantly!"
I can use intelligence, postioning, and execution to cull that person (or personality) from my work environment.
Reminds me of that newspaper headline about the debate on capital punishment in the schools. Seems kind of harsh, but I guess it would cut down on the bullying.
I'm sure it would be. Instead of playing WoW for what feels like about four hours and then looking at the clock and realizing 16 hours actually went by, it would work the other way around.
Of course they have a choice. Google is not a Chinese company and can ignore Chinese law if they want to. Of course, this probably means not doing business in China. But they have the option. No one's forcing them. It's like saying I can't auction off my copy of College Girls do Extreme Anal Volume 23on Ebay because it's against Saudi Arabian law. I don't live in Saudi Arabia. I've never been to Saudi Arabia. They can't tell me what to do. Of course, if someone over there wins my auction, their customs will probably confiscate it. Similarly Google can do what they want, all China can do is block them with their great firewall.
Someone will be watching the webcast live on their video ipod and probably run into someone because they wasn't watching where they were going on their hoverboard.
According to the poll in the article, only 3% of the people responding agree with MLB. Given the recent declining popularity of baseball as it tries to compete with video games, hockey, extreme sports, arena football, DVDs, and internet poker, maybe they should take into consideration the opinion of their fans on issues like this.
It's sad that so much effort and money is wasted in this pointless enterprise.
Sure beats fighting wars. With the money spent on the Iraq war so far ($225B) we could cover the entire state of Wyoming with a grid of football stadiums spaced 20 miles apart. If people find sports entertaining and it increases their quality of life to watch them, I don't have a problem with it. That is, as long as they leave me alone when I decide to watch LotR or read Slashdot or whatever else THEY think is pointless.
Agreed that you're part of other people's environment, but there's about, oh, a million or so other "courtesies" that people in the office could do that are far more important than what kind of clothing people are wearing. For example, TAKE A SHOWER before going to work. DON'T check your voice mail using the speakerphone -- it's annoying. DON'T fucking sing along to your music, hum/whistle ALL FUCKING DAY, tap the ground in time to the music, etc. It's fucking annoying. If you must answer your cell phone during a meeting, leave the room first. Speaking of cell phones, take it with you when you leave the desk or else get a less annoying ringtone. It was cute the first time, but not the 482nd. If you take the last cup of coffee, make another pot. FLUSH THE GODDAMN TOILET -- half the time I go to use a urinal, the water's yellow. Oh and those sinks aren't there for decoration. I could go on.
Seriously, who would you rather sit next to -- (a) someone who keeps their cell phone on vibrate, listens to their music quietly, and dresses like they're at the gym, or (b) a guy sitting there in a suit and tie, singing along to some god awful music, and while he's in the mens room (not flushing by the way) his cell phone goes off, and of course it's on the loudest setting. If you want the cube next to the suit and tie guy, go ahead and take it -- I don't want it.
The only way anyone can hurt my productivity by dressing a certain way is if they are female, attractive, and not leaving anything to the imagination. Otherwise, I can look the other way -- I can't smell the other way or listen the other way.
But if you close your email client down and don't check it until lunch, you might miss a really important message. For example "Donuts in C275". You'd be checking your email during lunch, and be thinking "D'oh! I could have had a donut if only I had checked my email earlier". Or how about "green Civic license number XCT442 left their lights on" and your lunch is ruined by the knowledge that you ran your battery down. Of course, I guess most of it is trivial stuff like "pen1s p1lls cheep" and "Metamoderation rated as Unfair" and "urgent dept meeting in 10 minutes sorry for late notice" so go ahead and keep it closed if you want.
Great, I can fulfill my lifelong dream of going on a cruise from the Yukon to Siberia. Meanwhile, all the good cruise ship destinations will be closed off because hurricane season will last 10 months.
The whole point of Internet was not to piss everybody and his brother around off, but provide a convenient media to conduct information.
Really? I thought the whole Internet was just one big elaborate means of tricking people into looking at pictures of the goatse man. All that ecommerce and blogging and stock quotes and email and chat rooms and everything else is just there to obfuscate the internet's true purpose while at the same time providing a wide variety of opportunities to trick people into fulfilling the internet's true purpose.
Poker is a game of both skill and luck. Long term results in poker are entirely the result of skill differences since the luck evens out. If I played 10 hands of poker against the best poker player in the world, there's a good chance I'll make money, since the luck can easily override the skill difference in the short run. If I played 1,000,000 hands against him, he'd win for sure.
Of course, if you insist on thinking poker is all luck... I'm sure the pros would be more than happy to invite you to their games.
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Except of course the ones that are there to generate sales, like "look under the cap of any 20 oz bottle of Pepsi and you could win $25,000 instantly!"
I can use intelligence, postioning, and execution to cull that person (or personality) from my work environment.
Reminds me of that newspaper headline about the debate on capital punishment in the schools. Seems kind of harsh, but I guess it would cut down on the bullying.
I'm sure it would be. Instead of playing WoW for what feels like about four hours and then looking at the clock and realizing 16 hours actually went by, it would work the other way around.
Looks like an editor typo. Wikipedia says his reign began in 1334 BC not 1333 BC.
or does having an MIT fashion show make about as much sense as having Blonde Supermodels Week on Jeopardy?
I looked up this IP on ipspotting.com (which Slashdot did a story on a few days ago) and got this:
Your IP address as a poker hand:
Four of Diamonds
Three of Hearts
Four of Clubs
Ten of Hearts
Four of Diamonds
Play proper poker at Poker.com
You cheat! You have 2 identical cards! (-2)
Since when has "There was no evidence" NOT been a valid defense?
Of course they have a choice. Google is not a Chinese company and can ignore Chinese law if they want to. Of course, this probably means not doing business in China. But they have the option. No one's forcing them. It's like saying I can't auction off my copy of College Girls do Extreme Anal Volume 23on Ebay because it's against Saudi Arabian law. I don't live in Saudi Arabia. I've never been to Saudi Arabia. They can't tell me what to do. Of course, if someone over there wins my auction, their customs will probably confiscate it. Similarly Google can do what they want, all China can do is block them with their great firewall.
s/market cap/revenue
Yes, and Mr. bin Laden probably said that terrorist attacks are a "sometimes misunderstood element of the business of international politics".
Someone will be watching the webcast live on their video ipod and probably run into someone because they wasn't watching where they were going on their hoverboard.
According to the poll in the article, only 3% of the people responding agree with MLB. Given the recent declining popularity of baseball as it tries to compete with video games, hockey, extreme sports, arena football, DVDs, and internet poker, maybe they should take into consideration the opinion of their fans on issues like this.
I hate to break it to you, but any non-primary sources that don't cite their sources accurately aren't reliable sources of information.
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It's sad that so much effort and money is wasted in this pointless enterprise.
Sure beats fighting wars. With the money spent on the Iraq war so far ($225B) we could cover the entire state of Wyoming with a grid of football stadiums spaced 20 miles apart. If people find sports entertaining and it increases their quality of life to watch them, I don't have a problem with it. That is, as long as they leave me alone when I decide to watch LotR or read Slashdot or whatever else THEY think is pointless.
Agreed that you're part of other people's environment, but there's about, oh, a million or so other "courtesies" that people in the office could do that are far more important than what kind of clothing people are wearing. For example, TAKE A SHOWER before going to work. DON'T check your voice mail using the speakerphone -- it's annoying. DON'T fucking sing along to your music, hum/whistle ALL FUCKING DAY, tap the ground in time to the music, etc. It's fucking annoying. If you must answer your cell phone during a meeting, leave the room first. Speaking of cell phones, take it with you when you leave the desk or else get a less annoying ringtone. It was cute the first time, but not the 482nd. If you take the last cup of coffee, make another pot. FLUSH THE GODDAMN TOILET -- half the time I go to use a urinal, the water's yellow. Oh and those sinks aren't there for decoration. I could go on.
Seriously, who would you rather sit next to -- (a) someone who keeps their cell phone on vibrate, listens to their music quietly, and dresses like they're at the gym, or (b) a guy sitting there in a suit and tie, singing along to some god awful music, and while he's in the mens room (not flushing by the way) his cell phone goes off, and of course it's on the loudest setting. If you want the cube next to the suit and tie guy, go ahead and take it -- I don't want it.
The only way anyone can hurt my productivity by dressing a certain way is if they are female, attractive, and not leaving anything to the imagination. Otherwise, I can look the other way -- I can't smell the other way or listen the other way.
$5.15 minimum wage and all that. Is Amazon breaking the law by paying people 65 cents for work that obviously takes more than 60*(.65/5.15) minutes?
At one point they were considering using a different set of lyrics:
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.
But if you close your email client down and don't check it until lunch, you might miss a really important message. For example "Donuts in C275". You'd be checking your email during lunch, and be thinking "D'oh! I could have had a donut if only I had checked my email earlier". Or how about "green Civic license number XCT442 left their lights on" and your lunch is ruined by the knowledge that you ran your battery down. Of course, I guess most of it is trivial stuff like "pen1s p1lls cheep" and "Metamoderation rated as Unfair" and "urgent dept meeting in 10 minutes sorry for late notice" so go ahead and keep it closed if you want.
Great, I can fulfill my lifelong dream of going on a cruise from the Yukon to Siberia. Meanwhile, all the good cruise ship destinations will be closed off because hurricane season will last 10 months.
Especially slashdotters who expect to get a girl into a bed full of filthy pillows that they're using to "boost their immune system"
Thank you, come again!
Can someone suggest some good hearing aid companies to invest in? Should be quite a growth industry in the future.
All those boomers that didn't listen to their parents telling them to turn the music down... they're getting up to retirement age now.
There's already business on Mars.
The whole point of Internet was not to piss everybody and his brother around off, but provide a convenient media to conduct information.
Really? I thought the whole Internet was just one big elaborate means of tricking people into looking at pictures of the goatse man. All that ecommerce and blogging and stock quotes and email and chat rooms and everything else is just there to obfuscate the internet's true purpose while at the same time providing a wide variety of opportunities to trick people into fulfilling the internet's true purpose.
Poker is a game of both skill and luck. Long term results in poker are entirely the result of skill differences since the luck evens out. If I played 10 hands of poker against the best poker player in the world, there's a good chance I'll make money, since the luck can easily override the skill difference in the short run. If I played 1,000,000 hands against him, he'd win for sure.
Of course, if you insist on thinking poker is all luck... I'm sure the pros would be more than happy to invite you to their games.