The satellite UFO privacy data remains classified, however the anonymous unclassified secure shell ionosphere data-haven remains invisible to cryptanalysis. According to our favorite chameleon man, the Zen encryption keyhole remains limited to only our unique echelon despite Black knights best efforts! The interception of the chaining codes was a small speed bump, but they have been played off as, “random radio bursts” and cannot be classified until NEO 5. On the Grey boy front we continue to fuel the rumors of strife, and all of the “leaked” information remains, and only reinforces, the propaganda fodder for the perception that is within the realms of “science fiction nut jobs”. Bubba the love sponges guppy mole protocol has successfully begun transmitting global memes based on the current terran zeitgeist by region. This timing is being handled by Reflection, and pink noise. Replay redhead has shown
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The joke was long and not funny. You, sir, need to work on your comedic timing and understanding of humor. You can't expect me to spend 3 minutes of my life reading a convoluted mess of a dialog, only to have no punch line. And who the **** upvoted this.
your report here says that you are an extremely dull person. You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful
Until it can seamlessly change the words I'm saying, as I'm saying them, into the receivers language without so much as a configuration nor without talking over the top of me, it is not the Star Trek Universal Translator.
Plus it has to provide free cakes and beer. And address me as "big boy".
Yes, but in this case we do have the date of graduation with a Bachelor's Degree. It's 1982 so it's most likely the person was born in 1960/61. It is certainly unlikely they were born much after that, unless they're some sort of slashdot-class child genius.
Most job applications I've ever seen ask for the year you attain your degree(s).
Yea, it might be the law, but we have lots of laws that are pointless and only serve to weaken respect for the rule of law.
Not using drugs is also a law, as is the "don't drink under 21" thing, and most of us have broken one or the other of those.
You can't legislate morality or tell people who to associate with. Well, you can try, and we have, but it fails every time. Just look at prohibition and how well that worked out.
Just because there are some pointless laws, or some laws that you disagree with, doesn't mean it's OK to break them. In a democracy, your choice is to fight to have those laws repealed. But otherwise, everyone would be free to ignore any law based on their personal preferences.
And legislating morality also includes things like abolishing slavery or child labour, so it is not inherently wrong or useless, although you're right about prohibition and the like.
Next the SJW will want laws saying that you have to be friends with people of each "race, age, gender, orientation", or you're being a "friend discriminator" and be subject to personal fines.
And then they'll make gay sex compulsory and force you to listen to rap music on pain of death.
25 year olds look at a 55 year old and see their parents.
Which, even if it's true, is only a problem if they have mother or father issues.
And that's the 25 year old's problem, not a potential employee who happens to be the same age as mummy or daddy.
In reality, most young people have already mixed with a wide range of older people (relatives, teachers, friends of their parents, older siblings of their friends or whatever) and in most jobs there is a mixture of ages anyway.
The real question is why ANYONE would think you have to like all the people you work with.
For instance, I have worked with people who are racists, cat-haters, misogynists, car bores, golf bores, homophobes, reactionaries, functional illiterates, religious nutters or Chelsea fans (insert pet hate here).
So, I am polite with them at work and don't go out socialising with them.
I think the real irony is that you are dismissing circletimesquare's post on the pre-formed assumption that anything you consider to be SJW-y is automatically worthless.
It's a handy bot-like way of avoiding discussion about what people actually say.
I'm even seeing this in my early 40s. Where as before I could just waltz in, display a little attitude and walk out with a job, I'm getting passed over for candidates *clearly* less experienced than me, in companies where even the boss looks like a kid to me.
Its a bit frusturating, to be honest. I'm bloody good at what I do.
The thing is, if they can recruit someone less experienced, they can pay less. Your experience is presumably not irrelevant for the jobs you are applying for.
Learning new things is much harder for older people as they are more often than not fixed in their ways.
Bullshit. As a rule, the older you are the more different things you have had to learn, and the more used you are to change. It's kids who have been taught one way to do something that panic when they have to do it differently.
Since middle age workers tend to be more risk adverse because of having families to support
Having a family may make you less inclined simply to throw in a good job in a hissy fit, but it has nothing to do with how risk adverse your actual work is.
Has anyone ever had an experience where they were positive they had a good chance at the job, but nothing came of it?.
It does happen from time to time. I had an on-site interview that went well. My last interview was with the CEO and founder of the medium-sized company, and he said, "If you've made it this far, you basically have the job." One week later I got rejected via email from a woman in HR I had never met or talked to. Sadly, I'll never know the full story.
That makes absolutely no sense. Despite the universal belief on slashdot that HR is some sort of free-floating evil entity, they do ultimately report in to the, er, CEO.
They must have had a pretty good reason to object to the CEO's opinion.
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...an entire Earth atmosphere of pressure every 30 meters!
10 meters.
He's probably a NASA engineer and confused metres and feet.
Or gold mining! Yea, that's the ticket to get the prospectors out there to colonize the place. Interstellar gold rush!
Yes, there's just the small matter of inventing FTL travel so that we can reach a planet that's 1400 light years away.
The satellite UFO privacy data remains classified, however the anonymous unclassified secure shell ionosphere data-haven remains invisible to cryptanalysis. According to our favorite chameleon man, the Zen encryption keyhole remains limited to only our unique echelon despite Black knights best efforts! The interception of the chaining codes was a small speed bump, but they have been played off as, “random radio bursts” and cannot be classified until NEO 5. On the Grey boy front we continue to fuel the rumors of strife, and all of the “leaked” information remains, and only reinforces, the propaganda fodder for the perception that is within the realms of “science fiction nut jobs”. Bubba the love sponges guppy mole protocol has successfully begun transmitting global memes based on the current terran zeitgeist by region. This timing is being handled by Reflection, and pink noise. Replay redhead has shown
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Some researcher connected a cow's brain to the internet and gave it a Slashdot account.
Well, that would explain the editors...
Bit harsh on cows though.
The point being that I was saying Mandarin is unlikely to spread either much less become a global language.
I saw a TV news item last night about kids in Africa being taught Mandarin. I wouldn't rule out Mandarin becoming a global language if I were you.
The joke was long and not funny. You, sir, need to work on your comedic timing and understanding of humor. You can't expect me to spend 3 minutes of my life reading a convoluted mess of a dialog, only to have no punch line. And who the **** upvoted this.
your report here says that you are an extremely dull person. You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful
Until it can seamlessly change the words I'm saying, as I'm saying them, into the receivers language without so much as a configuration nor without talking over the top of me, it is not the Star Trek Universal Translator.
Plus it has to provide free cakes and beer. And address me as "big boy".
...and needed some people to *drink* there.
FTFY
Oh, and some shrimp on the bar-b.
Only Americans say shrimp. Everyone else says prawns.
An exotic adventurer from a distant land is going to leave some trace in the local gene pool.
That's a rather more flattering description than the usual "sex tourist".
Why are you whining about something that is 100% optional?
Duh, it's Microsoft
If Windows came with a free cancer-curing app people would be complaining here that you couldn't turn it off.
You forgot to spell Microsoft with a '$' and call it a slashvertisement to get your automagic +5, you silly goose.
If I now denounce you as an M$ shill, can I claim my +5 too?
I'll go ahead guess that he's really into and good at microprocessor design
What, a 19 year old who's designed his own supercomputer chip and received $100K DARPA funding? You're really going out on a limb there.
Most job applications I've ever seen ask for the year you attain your degree(s).
Yea, it might be the law, but we have lots of laws that are pointless and only serve to weaken respect for the rule of law.
Not using drugs is also a law, as is the "don't drink under 21" thing, and most of us have broken one or the other of those.
You can't legislate morality or tell people who to associate with. Well, you can try, and we have, but it fails every time. Just look at prohibition and how well that worked out.
Just because there are some pointless laws, or some laws that you disagree with, doesn't mean it's OK to break them. In a democracy, your choice is to fight to have those laws repealed. But otherwise, everyone would be free to ignore any law based on their personal preferences.
And legislating morality also includes things like abolishing slavery or child labour, so it is not inherently wrong or useless, although you're right about prohibition and the like.
Next the SJW will want laws saying that you have to be friends with people of each "race, age, gender, orientation", or you're being a "friend discriminator" and be subject to personal fines.
And then they'll make gay sex compulsory and force you to listen to rap music on pain of death.
Remember, SJW is an anagram of ISIL.
does a 30 year old white male want to work all day with another 30 year old white male, or with a 50 year old black woman?
It depends on the individual. Or do you seriously think that all 30 year old white males (or 50 year old black women) are the same?
25 year olds look at a 55 year old and see their parents.
Which, even if it's true, is only a problem if they have mother or father issues.
And that's the 25 year old's problem, not a potential employee who happens to be the same age as mummy or daddy.
In reality, most young people have already mixed with a wide range of older people (relatives, teachers, friends of their parents, older siblings of their friends or whatever) and in most jobs there is a mixture of ages anyway.
For instance, I have worked with people who are racists, cat-haters, misogynists, car bores, golf bores, homophobes, reactionaries, functional illiterates, religious nutters or Chelsea fans (insert pet hate here).
So, I am polite with them at work and don't go out socialising with them.
It's a handy bot-like way of avoiding discussion about what people actually say.
Do you realise that you veered off into your SJW rant?
Do you realise that anyone using the term SJW unironically is a complete knob-end?
I'm even seeing this in my early 40s. Where as before I could just waltz in, display a little attitude and walk out with a job, I'm getting passed over for candidates *clearly* less experienced than me, in companies where even the boss looks like a kid to me.
Its a bit frusturating, to be honest. I'm bloody good at what I do.
The thing is, if they can recruit someone less experienced, they can pay less. Your experience is presumably not irrelevant for the jobs you are applying for.
Learning new things is much harder for older people as they are more often than not fixed in their ways.
Bullshit. As a rule, the older you are the more different things you have had to learn, and the more used you are to change. It's kids who have been taught one way to do something that panic when they have to do it differently.
I can only thank my lucky stars that I have had a series of jobs rather than a "career."
Since middle age workers tend to be more risk adverse because of having families to support
Having a family may make you less inclined simply to throw in a good job in a hissy fit, but it has nothing to do with how risk adverse your actual work is.
Has anyone ever had an experience where they were positive they had a good chance at the job, but nothing came of it?.
It does happen from time to time. I had an on-site interview that went well. My last interview was with the CEO and founder of the medium-sized company, and he said, "If you've made it this far, you basically have the job." One week later I got rejected via email from a woman in HR I had never met or talked to. Sadly, I'll never know the full story.
That makes absolutely no sense. Despite the universal belief on slashdot that HR is some sort of free-floating evil entity, they do ultimately report in to the, er, CEO.
They must have had a pretty good reason to object to the CEO's opinion.