I proposed this technology way back in 3rd grade in response to an assignment about saving energy. Note that the year was 1973. I expect royalty checks.
Continuing along the same old path was also not going to save you money either. I wholeheartedly agree the bill is not perfect out of the gate, but the goals are reasonable. It will take years to implement the policies and years to see the effects. If our politicians have any brains, they will work to improve it. It took us years to get where we are. Don't be disingenuous and tell me you expected instant results.
I've been looking at some of the provisions, and one theme is rewarding healthcare providers for increased positive outcomes at reduced cost. That seems like a good thing to me. Right now the rewards are perverse and encourage excessive spending with no health associated benefit.
What bothers me about my neighbor and those like her, is they have a rabid hatred of the president and oopose ANYTHING he says or does. I guarantee if he says mothers and apple pie are good, they will promptly go out and trash mothers at every opportunity and declare apple pie a communist plot.
You sound just like one of my neighbors. I recently found out she can't solve a simple equatiion like 35/2 = and she is unable to use factcheck.org to back up her wild eyed (and incorrect) accusations about NOBAMA.
It may sound condescending, but really - 6-months old and you're asking about apps? All the kid wants to do at this age is pound things on the floor and slobber on them.
How about just giving the kid a colorful cardboard square and be done with it.
Obviously written by a young know-nothing without children. There is no such thing as "dead sleep".
The last time an alarm woke me up was 20 years ago before my first child. I don't know how, but kids makes it so that you never sleep well again. I am always awake before the alarm
- don't ship jobs overseas and ask me to train my replacement - that kills morale
- don't fire everyone and bring in starvation salary replacements with H1-B visas - that kills morale
- don't bring in "consulting" companies to analyze how you can cut costs and streamline. Listen to your own people.
- for a publicly traded company, don't kowtow to large investors looking for quarterly gains. If you find your company beholden in that way, then go private.
Bingo. And that's why my company recently instituted a hiring freeze and yet another cost containment initiative. They're making billions but act as if they are about to go bankrupt. The shareholders (I.e. large investment houses like Goldman Sachs) are demanding that share price go up and the company will do anything in its power to comply.
I heartily agree that unions have helped with "safer working conditions, weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, and a host of other things ". However, they have also failed miserably when it comes to things like nonsensical work rules, seniority, and protecting useless workers.
The one example I can give is my first job (which was a union posiiton). There was a guy who used to hide in the toilet to read the paper or sleep. There was another guy who ran a vitamin supplements business from his desk. They were useless workers and yet every year we got the same pay raise. Management (also useless) tried to get rid of them several times, but the union reps always managed to save them.
In an ideal world, I would like to have the benefits that unions have brought without the the soul sucking lowest common denominator mentality that holds back conscientious workers.
Problem is, the IT people who I know do not want to move things to the cloud unless it really makes sense (like spam filtering for instance). The pressure is coming from the C-level management. Some idiot from Gartner told them it's the next big trend and BINGO, we're moving as much as we can to the cloud. No amount of argument, convincing, managing up, etc will change the trajectory of the decision.
In my 15 years of working in the IT world in three different companies , upper management has NEVER listened to it's own people. They always hire outside consultants to tell them what to do, and this is what C-level people are being told what to do these days.
Another example of their drive to get their products entrenched:
My company is looking to go away from our current antivirus product to Forefront. We don't use SCCM. According to Microsoft, you need SCCM to manage Forefront. So, we are expected to dump our current inventory/software deployment system and set up an SCCM infrastructure just to use their antivirus product.
I've never flown first class, so I wouldn't know:-(
Also, although service was better, I'll be the first to admit the experience wasn't without fault. The major negative back then was smoking. They had smoking sections, but what was the point? The planes always stank of cigarettes.
I flew internationally several times in the 1970's The service was way way better and the flight attendants were way better looking. Food? You got a menu at the beginning of the flight to choose from two entrees. Your food came on ceramic plates with stainless steel cutlery.
The one I got is a 60-watt equivalent. I forget how much I paid, probably around $25 or so. I'm not necessarily a fanboy, but I was curious about the new technology and bought it on a whim. As I said, the light quality is very good, but I'm not about to replace all the bulbs in my house at that price point.
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Good questions, my BS meter exploded after I read that post :-)
Holy cow, high school flashback.....
Every time I read about these Mars findings I start thinking about the time machine I'll never have.
What a treat it would be to see it as it was.
I proposed this technology way back in 3rd grade in response to an assignment about saving energy. Note that the year was 1973. I expect royalty checks.
Continuing along the same old path was also not going to save you money either. I wholeheartedly agree the bill is not perfect out of the gate, but the goals are reasonable. It will take years to implement the policies and years to see the effects. If our politicians have any brains, they will work to improve it. It took us years to get where we are. Don't be disingenuous and tell me you expected instant results.
I've been looking at some of the provisions, and one theme is rewarding healthcare providers for increased positive outcomes at reduced cost. That seems like a good thing to me. Right now the rewards are perverse and encourage excessive spending with no health associated benefit.
What bothers me about my neighbor and those like her, is they have a rabid hatred of the president and oopose ANYTHING he says or does. I guarantee if he says mothers and apple pie are good, they will promptly go out and trash mothers at every opportunity and declare apple pie a communist plot.
Heh, I'm thankfully long past the 6-month stage. My kids are 21 and 16.
LOL
Thank you for injecting humor into the conversation
You give criminals too much credit. If they want to burglarize a house, they simply wait for nobody to be home and break in.
You sound just like one of my neighbors. I recently found out she can't solve a simple equatiion like 35 /2 = and she is unable to use factcheck.org to back up her wild eyed (and incorrect) accusations about NOBAMA.
It may sound condescending, but really - 6-months old and you're asking about apps? All the kid wants to do at this age is pound things on the floor and slobber on them.
How about just giving the kid a colorful cardboard square and be done with it.
I remember my TI-58. These kids with their newfangled TI-83's amuse me.
Now get off my lawn.
Don't know but I still use FreeNX to remotely.accees my home Linux box.
Obviously written by a young know-nothing without children. There is no such thing as "dead sleep".
The last time an alarm woke me up was 20 years ago before my first child. I don't know how, but kids makes it so that you never sleep well again. I am always awake before the alarm
Not bad stuff.
I would add:
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Sorry to say, but in my 25 years of working, there was only one company where the HR department wasn't populated by useless morons
Bingo. And that's why my company recently instituted a hiring freeze and yet another cost containment initiative. They're making billions but act as if they are about to go bankrupt. The shareholders (I.e. large investment houses like Goldman Sachs) are demanding that share price go up and the company will do anything in its power to comply.
I heartily agree that unions have helped with "safer working conditions, weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, and a host of other things ". However, they have also failed miserably when it comes to things like nonsensical work rules, seniority, and protecting useless workers.
The one example I can give is my first job (which was a union posiiton). There was a guy who used to hide in the toilet to read the paper or sleep. There was another guy who ran a vitamin supplements business from his desk. They were useless workers and yet every year we got the same pay raise. Management (also useless) tried to get rid of them several times, but the union reps always managed to save them.
In an ideal world, I would like to have the benefits that unions have brought without the the soul sucking lowest common denominator mentality that holds back conscientious workers.
Problem is, the IT people who I know do not want to move things to the cloud unless it really makes sense (like spam filtering for instance). The pressure is coming from the C-level management. Some idiot from Gartner told them it's the next big trend and BINGO, we're moving as much as we can to the cloud. No amount of argument, convincing, managing up, etc will change the trajectory of the decision.
In my 15 years of working in the IT world in three different companies , upper management has NEVER listened to it's own people. They always hire outside consultants to tell them what to do, and this is what C-level people are being told what to do these days.
I don't have one, but cars with push button start may be different in that department.
Another example of their drive to get their products entrenched:
My company is looking to go away from our current antivirus product to Forefront. We don't use SCCM. According to Microsoft, you need SCCM to manage Forefront. So, we are expected to dump our current inventory/software deployment system and set up an SCCM infrastructure just to use their antivirus product.
Brilliant.
I've never flown first class, so I wouldn't know :-(
Also, although service was better, I'll be the first to admit the experience wasn't without fault. The major negative back then was smoking. They had smoking sections, but what was the point? The planes always stank of cigarettes.
I flew internationally several times in the 1970's The service was way way better and the flight attendants were way better looking. Food? You got a menu at the beginning of the flight to choose from two entrees. Your food came on ceramic plates with stainless steel cutlery.
Agreed, that is needlessly extreme.
The one I got is a 60-watt equivalent. I forget how much I paid, probably around $25 or so. I'm not necessarily a fanboy, but I was curious about the new technology and bought it on a whim. As I said, the light quality is very good, but I'm not about to replace all the bulbs in my house at that price point.
If I had mod points, I would have gladly awarded the Funny you were seeking....