"However, Blizzard has really dragged their feet when it comes to fixing things. The article makes it sound like this is a recent phenomenom for WoW, but it has been around since the game was first released."
Since before, actually.
The Open Beta had the exact same loot lag, disconnection issues, authentication server problems, all of it.
I'm not sure about the Closed Beta, though. That might have been fine.
... are you sure about that.
I seem to recall plenty of stories about illegal wiretapping from the era 1950-1986 personally. And much much less outrage, too. And heck, these were actually wiretaps on US Citizens -- which is NOT what this current batch of wiretapping actually is or ever has been. All they've been doing is listening in on calls made BY US citizens, to certain foreign numbers which they've somehow determined have links to terrorists.
I'm sure that means a lot of phonebooths somewhere in Iran.
But no, it's not really a wiretap on US citizens -- no call from the US, to the US, gets tapped. Only calls pointing towards certain foreign numbers.
It's the same thing as putting a wiretap on some cocaine cartel's phone number and listening to all the calls that originate from the US, in hopes of discovering a delivery schedule. Do you think they've never done that...?
[quote]There was something long ago about the US Congress having the exclusive power to declare war. Well they haven't in a long while -- WW2 was the last time -- yet we still seem to keep having these wars. Everybody seems to accept it as normal.[/quote]
... no.
There's a time limit to how long the president can send our troops somewhere without congressional consent. I'm not clear on desert storm, but I'm quite sure that as far as Iraq and Afghanistan are concerned, congress gave it the A-OK.
Don't listen to your democratic senators and representatives who said they oppose all that BS -- they most likely voted for it. Either they're idiots and didn't read what they voted for, or they're some kind of liar. All the information about Iraq that we had when we invaded was made available to them when they voted -- but many of them did not read any of that intelligence because they were too busy..... wait, what the hell else are they supposed to be doing but making informed decisions in our nation's best interests, anyway?
Yes, and you are a shining bastion of civility and intelligence. Yes, Saddam having mis-allocated funds that were intended to feed Iraq and keep them healthy certainly is nothing more than propaganda -- and CERTAINLY all of the stories about massive corruption tied to the Food For Oil program, well, that's just FICTION!
You, sir, DO NOT know anything about the absolute nature of the regime, but seem to be able to happily make statements based upon that ignorance.
What *I* know about the regime is irrelevant. I know it was bad news, and simply believe that your statement that it was a progressive, liberal country is simply asinine, and does nothing more than pander to the "AHMAHGAH AMERIKA SUX" attitude that many adolescents are unable to escape.
Seriously.
Iraq under Saddam was a shithole of a dictatorship. What kind of sod would even suggest otherwise. I guess Pol Pot wasn't too bad.. surely Mao had his good points! LONG LIVE CASTRO!
Not that evil? He starved his people. Those sanctions MIGHT have worked out swimmingly, with no starvation, except he chose to spend that 'food' money elsewhere -- his military -- and because of the corruption that was lurking behind the Food For Oil program (thanks Kofi).
Modernized and liberalized.. yes, Iraq, the Middle East's bastion of liberty!
Seriously though you just made me weep for humanity's future.. please don't go saying stuff like that again. Iraq was not liberalised by any stretch of the imagination. Even when I had a discussion about Stalin with an old Russian guy, when he would say that Stalin did good for Russia, he never pretended that he was also a terrible tyrant who killed a lot of people. You can't pretend Saddam was not an oppressive despot just because you want to.
"Well, we may have a justifiable horror of chemical munitions, but it was never in question that Iraq had had them. The question was whether they still had them, in contravention to the agreement ending hostilities in the first Gulf War, and whether they were still developing new ones."
No, it wasn't a question.
Here's the lay-down. We have records saying that Timmy bought 1,000 copies of J-Fed's cd (which I believe counts as a WMD). 500 copies were used to kill Kurds. 350 copies were later destroyed by the UN.
When asked where the remaining 150 copies were, Timmy replied that there were no remaining 150 copies.
Obviously, that is a lie. It's not unreasonable to assume Timmy still has those 150 copies. Maybe they've degraded due to their own suckitude, but the fact is WE DON'T KNOW, and Timmy is acting in contradiction to UN demands to be forecoming with information.
As to the success of the war? That is debatable, but I feel pretty comfortable saying that the Iraqi citizenry will be quite a bit more comfortable ruling themselves as opposed to living under the despotic thumb of a madman. Mind you, this is the guy who was ultimately behind billions of dollars of corruption during the Food For Oil years. It's just a shame that the leader of the UN was too clever to leave any clear tracks to follow, but anyone with half a brain knows exactly what sort of payoffs and bribes were going on.
Crappy post indeed! I was sadly excited by the possibility, after all these years, of having a first post. FAILURE!
However, several of these top posts were all modded flamebait -- mine should be modded Dumb, but the other two were actually above-average for slashdot!
Well, whoever it is, let's just all hope that the good other mods burn their points to help us unfortunates who have been unfairly labeled as Flamebait -- and whoever that is, gets nuked from orbit and never mods again.
10 bucks says it's not.
now to go RTFA because this sounds incredibly appealing, as I am lazy and dislike scraping my windshield.
If only they could make this work with all the snow around my car, too..
HUMAnix, perhaps?
I'd be down. I want my cyborg body.
With flame thrower arms.
I might wait, though. What sort of battery life do these things have?
I'm sure once they start becoming more and more common, a means to power them via the body's own energy system will be developed.. THAT'S when I'd get it.... hold on I'll be right back, I'm going to go patent the concept of biologically-powered cybernetic implants. And then I'll file for endless extentions.. STEP 3: PROFIT!
6/8... anysonglyrics needs to look slicker to deliver lyrics through activex IMO.
and hey. i thought smileysource was safe, because the site SAYS you're getting spyware. I figured the other one was much worse. I'll take spyware that TELLS ME it's coming over a surprize any day.
real world experience FTW. You do something dumb and then spend 3 hours un-doing it, you don't do it again.:D
From TFA: "Rejection comes as Microsoft squares off with the EC in Brussels over a potential 200-million-euro-a-day fine for failing to comply with the terms of a 2004 anti-trust ruling by the Commission on Microsoft's bundling of Media Player with Windows."
Heaven forbid they bundle a FREE program that they make with their OS. That, if you don't like, or if isn't sufficient for what you need, you can replace with many, many other FREE programs. My goodness, just imagine if they bundled IE for FREE with their OS! I don't think I could ever go download another FREE web browser!
No sir, one FREE program at a time for me.... seriously, this is stupid. They're not blocking any other FREE programs from working with Windows. Yeah they're bundled. So what. There's a plethoria of options available. For free.
Big up-front investment, little upkeep.
Seriously, my town's been using the same voting machines for.. I couldn't tell you because I don't entirely know. Better than 2 decades, that's for sure. Which is longer than Diebold's will last.
Plus, figure in that with diebold's hunkajunk, you'll have to pay for maintainance, upgrades, electricity, debugging ( / rebugging), and since I'm not an immoral thief I'm sure there's dozens of other things that I can't think of right now.
Mechanical voting machines are FAR, FAR better than electronic.
They're not subject to the whims of some cord plugged into a wall.
You flip a bunch of little levers. You verify them before you pull the big lever.
When you're done you've got a little card punched out. You look at it and can make sure it's all correct. Which it will be, because pieces of metal in the back of that voting machine aren't going to suddenly change. There's no BSoD when you're dealing with a simple machine.
Touch screens are FICKLE. Think about how dirty that screen would get! They don't work great when they're caked full of gunk, and have been punched thousands of times.
But hey, some idiots voted for Pat Buchanon because they were too stupid to read a ballot and figure out how to vote, so ZOMG WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
Three cheers for repackaging the same old songs in a slightly different order, time and time again, and charging ever more and more!
No new work + income = genius!
(seriously though, who the hell buys these things, once you've got the Beatles catalogue.. there's no reason to buy anthology after anthology.)
Well actually, trailers can be up to 53 feet long.. that increases their volume to 109m^3.
That's still short, however I believe you're allowed to pull two trailers in any state (and even 3 in some).. 218m^3! Far above and beyond the paltry 138.24m^3 you need.
In fact the extra room could carry a WHOLE LOT OF BEER.. for watching all those DVDs.
If you google my name + middle initial, you get... mainly obituaries, several of them from ministers and reverends.. you get a few lawyers and CPAs.
Include my full middle name, you get the same.
Just first+last name, you get a pastor/theologian who has written a few books, apparently, and who's also.. apparenlty.. either gay himself or just very much supporting of the whole LGBT thing (that's sort of what all his books are about and whatnot). Of course, he's MUCH older than me.
Of course, if you google the name I use for my email address, you get some really, really old stuff, and a TON of boards I've registered for dealing with the many, many video games I play. I think it's time to get a new email address....
Essentially, you're right.
I believe it was before Alito was on the court, but recently there was a case with Roberts.. now, this involved a small religion, I think in the south west, that used a particular psychedelic drug. Not peyote, an amazonian vine i think.
Anyway, the important part is that they ruled that the religion be allowed to continue, legally, their practice -- much to the dismay of the Bush administration.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Sorry, but I don't believe any company with both "Micro" and "soft" in their company name will be going anywhere near that particular market.. unless they open up a subdivision named "MacroHard"
True story, I worked retail at a mall several years ago.
After a month or so working there, I noticed that.. hey, these credit card recipts I was putting in the drawer.. they had the customer's name, and full credit card number, and expiration date on them! Well HOT DAMN! That's all you need! PIN numbers and all, too. It was.. disturbing, to say the least, and yes, I DID think a few times that if I just pocketed those little scraps of paper for a night.... that I'd probably get caught but WOW if I didn't, right?;D
I'm sure that POS bookstore isn't the only place that has such an apparent extreme amount of trust in their $5.15-an-hour payed employees that they love to drop down to 10 hours a week and hire 2 more people to pick up the 20 hours you had been previously working.
PS: I do suggest you don't shop in that store, on account of the very reason I mentioned. They also hide most of their inventory from ever being accounted for, which I guess is good for them but also means that the tiny, dinky store I was in regularly lost, I would estimate, around $5k a month in theft. The mallrats told me, and I didn't care, since according to company policy I was powerless to stop them. That's manager work, and the managers were in the back office sleeping. Dang.
O what woeful mistakes we make
when first we speak, and then we think
This is just preventing you from getting from the gov't for free what you should have to pay for:p
Not limiting your 1st Amendment rights in any way, and that 2nd Amendment jab is wwwaaaaayyy out in left field. So far out in fact, your post is barely comprehensable.
Good example.
I sort of kind of work collections. It's not exactly a collections agency, it's a loan guarentor, but what we do is basically collections with a lot more authority and power to weild over people than a normal collection agency -- we actually CAN garnish wages and seize federal tax returns. Can even garnish SSI and disability!
We can't spoof, apparently, our outbound line. We get no calls on that line. The people we call obviously often don't pick up their phone, and when they get a letter from us they try to call..... the stupid outbound line, that doesn't go anywhere.
would do a lot more business if we could stick our 800# up there.
I know I'm paraphrasing here, because I'm at work and don't have the book in front of me.
Here you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in place, and well if you want to get somewhere else, you ahve to run twice as fast!
At least if I'm fighting a bear, once I get done and am resting on his corpse I know I'm done. When you're fighting a bear, all that matters is how good of a job you do, not how many suck-ass brownie points you can score, not if you showed up a minute or two late for the fight, not if you call off and stay inside frequently because the facts are clearly illustrated.. if you can kill more bears than your neighbors, your neighbors are the ones that'll be eaten, not you.
we have no such cut and dry lines anymore, and I hate to paraphrase again but the only real motivation at work is to do just enough not to get in trouble. Of course, as someone who personally IS a few minutes late daily, that sucks. Doesn't matter that when I'm at work, I make damn sure that my main concern is doing work, nor that I do my work bettre than the vast majority of other employees -- nosir. Doesn't even matter that I'm a much more personable, intelligent and well-spoken (and well-dressed) individual than them. Basically? Hard work is NOT rewarded. Take the company I work for. They're more concerned everybody shows up 10 minutes early than they are that anybody actually does any work once they do get here. What the hell? 7 hours 59 minutes of hard work would beat 8 hours of sitting around clucking like hens, but I don't know, I guess that's just me. That's just the world we live in. It's easy to point to lcok-in times, but to actually observe someone's work and make a subjective analysis that they're a worthless POS? Litigation! Onos that's not fair!
As I'm sure you can tell I'm very sick of, and fed up with, the state of the job market. No room for good honest hard work, not a single good and decent manager to be found anywhere (they've all lied and blackmailed their way up the ladder step by step and now that they've made it to where they can order others around only use their authority to get out of actually doing any work themselves and instead just spend their time staring at walls and yelling at employees for taking 1 minute too long to walk back inside from a break, as they're on their way in from their own break that they left for 48 minutes ago.
Yes, that's certainly better than just throwin yourself in a cave with a bear and seeing who's better. At least with the bear, there's no stressful bullshit to deal with, just one angry bear that might eat you. Please, GIVE me a bear to fight instead of all these worthless, petty stressful jobs.
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"However, Blizzard has really dragged their feet when it comes to fixing things. The article makes it sound like this is a recent phenomenom for WoW, but it has been around since the game was first released." Since before, actually. The Open Beta had the exact same loot lag, disconnection issues, authentication server problems, all of it. I'm not sure about the Closed Beta, though. That might have been fine.
... are you sure about that. I seem to recall plenty of stories about illegal wiretapping from the era 1950-1986 personally. And much much less outrage, too. And heck, these were actually wiretaps on US Citizens -- which is NOT what this current batch of wiretapping actually is or ever has been. All they've been doing is listening in on calls made BY US citizens, to certain foreign numbers which they've somehow determined have links to terrorists.
I'm sure that means a lot of phonebooths somewhere in Iran.
But no, it's not really a wiretap on US citizens -- no call from the US, to the US, gets tapped. Only calls pointing towards certain foreign numbers.
It's the same thing as putting a wiretap on some cocaine cartel's phone number and listening to all the calls that originate from the US, in hopes of discovering a delivery schedule. Do you think they've never done that...?
[quote]There was something long ago about the US Congress having the exclusive power to declare war. Well they haven't in a long while -- WW2 was the last time -- yet we still seem to keep having these wars. Everybody seems to accept it as normal.[/quote]
... no.
There's a time limit to how long the president can send our troops somewhere without congressional consent. I'm not clear on desert storm, but I'm quite sure that as far as Iraq and Afghanistan are concerned, congress gave it the A-OK.
Don't listen to your democratic senators and representatives who said they oppose all that BS -- they most likely voted for it. Either they're idiots and didn't read what they voted for, or they're some kind of liar. All the information about Iraq that we had when we invaded was made available to them when they voted -- but many of them did not read any of that intelligence because they were too busy..... wait, what the hell else are they supposed to be doing but making informed decisions in our nation's best interests, anyway?
Yes, and you are a shining bastion of civility and intelligence. Yes, Saddam having mis-allocated funds that were intended to feed Iraq and keep them healthy certainly is nothing more than propaganda -- and CERTAINLY all of the stories about massive corruption tied to the Food For Oil program, well, that's just FICTION! You, sir, DO NOT know anything about the absolute nature of the regime, but seem to be able to happily make statements based upon that ignorance. What *I* know about the regime is irrelevant. I know it was bad news, and simply believe that your statement that it was a progressive, liberal country is simply asinine, and does nothing more than pander to the "AHMAHGAH AMERIKA SUX" attitude that many adolescents are unable to escape. Seriously. Iraq under Saddam was a shithole of a dictatorship. What kind of sod would even suggest otherwise. I guess Pol Pot wasn't too bad.. surely Mao had his good points! LONG LIVE CASTRO!
When oil-prices skyrocket because your president feels he has to go murder some people WOAH NOW.. slow down a minute.
You can't blame high oil prices on the US. We went to WAR for oil. Remember, Blood for Oil!
If the rest of the world had maybe gotten behind us on this, we wouldn't HAVE this ridiculously high oil prices.
Wait, yes we would, I'm sorry. I almost forgot that the high price of oil is primarily the result of rampant speculation and nothing more.
Maybe we just need more blood for oil.... let's invade the speculators. I wanna see GW pronounce "speculators". 'Speck-oo-late-urz'
Not that evil?
He starved his people. Those sanctions MIGHT have worked out swimmingly, with no starvation, except he chose to spend that 'food' money elsewhere -- his military -- and because of the corruption that was lurking behind the Food For Oil program (thanks Kofi).
Modernized and liberalized.. yes, Iraq, the Middle East's bastion of liberty!
Seriously though you just made me weep for humanity's future.. please don't go saying stuff like that again. Iraq was not liberalised by any stretch of the imagination. Even when I had a discussion about Stalin with an old Russian guy, when he would say that Stalin did good for Russia, he never pretended that he was also a terrible tyrant who killed a lot of people. You can't pretend Saddam was not an oppressive despot just because you want to.
"Well, we may have a justifiable horror of chemical munitions, but it was never in question that Iraq had had them. The question was whether they still had them, in contravention to the agreement ending hostilities in the first Gulf War, and whether they were still developing new ones."
No, it wasn't a question.
Here's the lay-down. We have records saying that Timmy bought 1,000 copies of J-Fed's cd (which I believe counts as a WMD). 500 copies were used to kill Kurds. 350 copies were later destroyed by the UN.
When asked where the remaining 150 copies were, Timmy replied that there were no remaining 150 copies.
Obviously, that is a lie. It's not unreasonable to assume Timmy still has those 150 copies. Maybe they've degraded due to their own suckitude, but the fact is WE DON'T KNOW, and Timmy is acting in contradiction to UN demands to be forecoming with information.
As to the success of the war? That is debatable, but I feel pretty comfortable saying that the Iraqi citizenry will be quite a bit more comfortable ruling themselves as opposed to living under the despotic thumb of a madman. Mind you, this is the guy who was ultimately behind billions of dollars of corruption during the Food For Oil years. It's just a shame that the leader of the UN was too clever to leave any clear tracks to follow, but anyone with half a brain knows exactly what sort of payoffs and bribes were going on.
Crappy post indeed! I was sadly excited by the possibility, after all these years, of having a first post. FAILURE!
However, several of these top posts were all modded flamebait -- mine should be modded Dumb, but the other two were actually above-average for slashdot!
Well, whoever it is, let's just all hope that the good other mods burn their points to help us unfortunates who have been unfairly labeled as Flamebait -- and whoever that is, gets nuked from orbit and never mods again.
It's the only way to be sure.
10 bucks says it's not. now to go RTFA because this sounds incredibly appealing, as I am lazy and dislike scraping my windshield. If only they could make this work with all the snow around my car, too..
HUMAnix, perhaps? I'd be down. I want my cyborg body. With flame thrower arms. I might wait, though. What sort of battery life do these things have? I'm sure once they start becoming more and more common, a means to power them via the body's own energy system will be developed.. THAT'S when I'd get it. ... hold on I'll be right back, I'm going to go patent the concept of biologically-powered cybernetic implants. And then I'll file for endless extentions.. STEP 3: PROFIT!
6/8... anysonglyrics needs to look slicker to deliver lyrics through activex IMO. and hey. i thought smileysource was safe, because the site SAYS you're getting spyware. I figured the other one was much worse. I'll take spyware that TELLS ME it's coming over a surprize any day. real world experience FTW. You do something dumb and then spend 3 hours un-doing it, you don't do it again. :D
As was the US antitrust case.
... seriously, this is stupid. They're not blocking any other FREE programs from working with Windows. Yeah they're bundled. So what. There's a plethoria of options available. For free.
From TFA:
"Rejection comes as Microsoft squares off with the EC in Brussels over a potential 200-million-euro-a-day fine for failing to comply with the terms of a 2004 anti-trust ruling by the Commission on Microsoft's bundling of Media Player with Windows."
Heaven forbid they bundle a FREE program that they make with their OS. That, if you don't like, or if isn't sufficient for what you need, you can replace with many, many other FREE programs.
My goodness, just imagine if they bundled IE for FREE with their OS! I don't think I could ever go download another FREE web browser!
No sir, one FREE program at a time for me.
Big up-front investment, little upkeep. Seriously, my town's been using the same voting machines for.. I couldn't tell you because I don't entirely know. Better than 2 decades, that's for sure. Which is longer than Diebold's will last. Plus, figure in that with diebold's hunkajunk, you'll have to pay for maintainance, upgrades, electricity, debugging ( / rebugging), and since I'm not an immoral thief I'm sure there's dozens of other things that I can't think of right now.
Mechanical voting machines are FAR, FAR better than electronic. They're not subject to the whims of some cord plugged into a wall. You flip a bunch of little levers. You verify them before you pull the big lever. When you're done you've got a little card punched out. You look at it and can make sure it's all correct. Which it will be, because pieces of metal in the back of that voting machine aren't going to suddenly change. There's no BSoD when you're dealing with a simple machine. Touch screens are FICKLE. Think about how dirty that screen would get! They don't work great when they're caked full of gunk, and have been punched thousands of times. But hey, some idiots voted for Pat Buchanon because they were too stupid to read a ballot and figure out how to vote, so ZOMG WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
Three cheers for repackaging the same old songs in a slightly different order, time and time again, and charging ever more and more! No new work + income = genius! (seriously though, who the hell buys these things, once you've got the Beatles catalogue.. there's no reason to buy anthology after anthology.)
Well actually, trailers can be up to 53 feet long.. that increases their volume to 109m^3. That's still short, however I believe you're allowed to pull two trailers in any state (and even 3 in some).. 218m^3! Far above and beyond the paltry 138.24m^3 you need. In fact the extra room could carry a WHOLE LOT OF BEER.. for watching all those DVDs.
If you google my name + middle initial, you get... mainly obituaries, several of them from ministers and reverends.. you get a few lawyers and CPAs. Include my full middle name, you get the same. Just first+last name, you get a pastor/theologian who has written a few books, apparently, and who's also.. apparenlty.. either gay himself or just very much supporting of the whole LGBT thing (that's sort of what all his books are about and whatnot). Of course, he's MUCH older than me. Of course, if you google the name I use for my email address, you get some really, really old stuff, and a TON of boards I've registered for dealing with the many, many video games I play. I think it's time to get a new email address....
Essentially, you're right. I believe it was before Alito was on the court, but recently there was a case with Roberts.. now, this involved a small religion, I think in the south west, that used a particular psychedelic drug. Not peyote, an amazonian vine i think. Anyway, the important part is that they ruled that the religion be allowed to continue, legally, their practice -- much to the dismay of the Bush administration. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Sorry, but I don't believe any company with both "Micro" and "soft" in their company name will be going anywhere near that particular market.. unless they open up a subdivision named "MacroHard"
Wouldn't help.
;D
True story, I worked retail at a mall several years ago.
After a month or so working there, I noticed that.. hey, these credit card recipts I was putting in the drawer..
they had the customer's name, and full credit card number, and expiration date on them! Well HOT DAMN! That's all you need! PIN numbers and all, too. It was.. disturbing, to say the least, and yes, I DID think a few times that if I just pocketed those little scraps of paper for a night.... that I'd probably get caught but WOW if I didn't, right?
I'm sure that POS bookstore isn't the only place that has such an apparent extreme amount of trust in their $5.15-an-hour payed employees that they love to drop down to 10 hours a week and hire 2 more people to pick up the 20 hours you had been previously working.
PS: I do suggest you don't shop in that store, on account of the very reason I mentioned. They also hide most of their inventory from ever being accounted for, which I guess is good for them but also means that the tiny, dinky store I was in regularly lost, I would estimate, around $5k a month in theft. The mallrats told me, and I didn't care, since according to company policy I was powerless to stop them. That's manager work, and the managers were in the back office sleeping. Dang.
No no no no no no... Nuke from orbit.. THAT'S the only way to be sure
Wow, sounds like sooommmeone got served!
O what woeful mistakes we make when first we speak, and then we think This is just preventing you from getting from the gov't for free what you should have to pay for :p
Not limiting your 1st Amendment rights in any way, and that 2nd Amendment jab is wwwaaaaayyy out in left field. So far out in fact, your post is barely comprehensable.
Good example. I sort of kind of work collections. It's not exactly a collections agency, it's a loan guarentor, but what we do is basically collections with a lot more authority and power to weild over people than a normal collection agency -- we actually CAN garnish wages and seize federal tax returns. Can even garnish SSI and disability! We can't spoof, apparently, our outbound line. We get no calls on that line. The people we call obviously often don't pick up their phone, and when they get a letter from us they try to call... .. the stupid outbound line, that doesn't go anywhere.
would do a lot more business if we could stick our 800# up there.
I know I'm paraphrasing here, because I'm at work and don't have the book in front of me.
Here you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in place, and well if you want to get somewhere else, you ahve to run twice as fast!
At least if I'm fighting a bear, once I get done and am resting on his corpse I know I'm done. When you're fighting a bear, all that matters is how good of a job you do, not how many suck-ass brownie points you can score, not if you showed up a minute or two late for the fight, not if you call off and stay inside frequently because the facts are clearly illustrated.. if you can kill more bears than your neighbors, your neighbors are the ones that'll be eaten, not you.
we have no such cut and dry lines anymore, and I hate to paraphrase again but the only real motivation at work is to do just enough not to get in trouble. Of course, as someone who personally IS a few minutes late daily, that sucks. Doesn't matter that when I'm at work, I make damn sure that my main concern is doing work, nor that I do my work bettre than the vast majority of other employees -- nosir. Doesn't even matter that I'm a much more personable, intelligent and well-spoken (and well-dressed) individual than them. Basically? Hard work is NOT rewarded.
Take the company I work for. They're more concerned everybody shows up 10 minutes early than they are that anybody actually does any work once they do get here. What the hell? 7 hours 59 minutes of hard work would beat 8 hours of sitting around clucking like hens, but I don't know, I guess that's just me.
That's just the world we live in. It's easy to point to lcok-in times, but to actually observe someone's work and make a subjective analysis that they're a worthless POS? Litigation! Onos that's not fair!
As I'm sure you can tell I'm very sick of, and fed up with, the state of the job market. No room for good honest hard work, not a single good and decent manager to be found anywhere (they've all lied and blackmailed their way up the ladder step by step and now that they've made it to where they can order others around only use their authority to get out of actually doing any work themselves and instead just spend their time staring at walls and yelling at employees for taking 1 minute too long to walk back inside from a break, as they're on their way in from their own break that they left for 48 minutes ago.
Yes, that's certainly better than just throwin yourself in a cave with a bear and seeing who's better. At least with the bear, there's no stressful bullshit to deal with, just one angry bear that might eat you.
Please, GIVE me a bear to fight instead of all these worthless, petty stressful jobs.