You're in Columbus? I'm about an hour from you then.
Funny thing is that I can agree with the lack of decent doctors in this area. It really weirded out one of them that I knew my medical history and the prevelant medical conditions in my family when I went to see her not to mention that I listed off the most likely things that came to mind as being the problem because of the symptoms. I'm not a med journal reader or hypocondriac, I've just had an interesting medical history and I've learned to listen to my body heh.
I used to travel quite a bit and made friends in a lot of different places. I still stay in touch with a lot of them, but it just really isn't the same. Being able to have an evening out with a friend is a lot more satisfying than just having pixels on a screen.
For me, being able to talk to them on the phone is a little more "real" than online, but it still doesn't compare to being face to face.
Yes, I still stay in touch with them, but there are times that I miss them a great deal even while we chat on im.
I'd consider that maintaining the fence (which I already mentioned). The point is that it just isn't a plausable solution (and I have no idea what was going through the person's head who suggested it. I was, after all, only answering replies to my first post).
There is, however, one factor that isn't covered in that. The farmers that would be *ahem* rather upset because the deer that are trapped on their property eat all of their produce. There are still a lot of farms in my area. To give you an idea, my family has about 100 acres, and that's considered fairly small here.
Not to mention the places they aren't allowed to fence in, like the state and national forests (which we have a great many of. There are perks to being in the unglaciated portion of Ohio. The hills and forests are beautiful).
Read the whole thread and the article yourself. The person you were responding to was talking about NYC. However, he was giving an example of why this should not work (a reason why the *large scale* implementation would not work).
This would affect more than just NYC as the person you were responding to realized. They want to do this nationwide, therefore my comments are perfectly in order. Try taking your own advice.
"So, find the tallest fence a deer can jump, and build one a foot taller."
Now there's a cost that the state would be happy to deal with - building 10' fences along *all* of the state highways. That's to say nothing of the counties and townships having to absorb that cost for barriers on *those* roads.
You're dealing with a lot more than just the fact that deer can jump high. Cost is a major factor (not only to put the fences in but also to maintain them), and I don't know about your state, but mine is in such a budget crunch that they've started cutting funding to unimportant things (like higher education) right and left.
Not to mention the fact that a large amount of the roadways in this country are not in a pedestrian area or even in a city.
Take, for example I70 though Indianapolis. The last time I drove that section of 70 (it's been 3 years now, but it never really changes there), the posted limit was rather low (like 50 or 55 I believe). I was getting passed by patrol cars as I roughly followed the flow of traffic by doing 80. To be honest, I was lagging behind the car ahead of me a bit...
Speed limits tend to be arbitraily enforced in a lot of places that I've been. My ex-fiance was amazed that my state actually enforced the speed limit because they just tend to igrore in where she grew up in St Louis unless they either don't like you or you do something *really* stupid.
"Driving at 80 mph "in a 50" in the middle of the night, with not a cloud in the sky, on a completely empty, straight road? No."
I wish I could do that here. Unfortunately the roads here aren't even safe when there are no other cars on them. Deer are a real problem here (to the point that it doesn't really have an effect on your insurance premium. The companies just go "oh, another one" and hand over the cash without really penalizing you.)
So speaks the guy who has totaled 2 cars (one of which was only doing 20mph at the time. seriously) from hitting deer. And I've lost count of how many I've managed to avoid.
That's just it. I don't consider the people who simply reading a few pieces in the book to have actually "read" the book. That would be like reading the first and last paragraphs in "Tale of Two Cities" and saying that you read *that* book.
There was a very long period in history when it was a major no-no to have a copy if you weren't a priest, etc.
There were a lot of other quirks during that time period as well (morality being enforced by law, wether written or unofficial, people who weren't a part of the mainstream being denied rights, and other similar things). The thing that really worries me is that we seem to be slipping back into that sort of a situation/mindset as a people.
My prievious comment wasn't meant as the flamebait it was modded. I was being completely serious. Lots of people have a copy, but most of them never seem to have read it. They just sort of seem to take it on faith (no pun intended) that it says what they think it does. This conclusion comes from having had long discussions with many people trying to get me to "return to god" (I'm a taoist, and I live in the bible belt. It is occasionally a joy).
Chalk it up to personal experience and a detached point of view.
I agree with the part about the foosball tables, etc. Work is something to enable you to make enough to live in relative comfort while not losing your sanity in the process of making the money.
I, however, have to occasionally get away from the computer if I am in the office and run into a mental block. I used to work at a place that had a loop road circling the group of buildings (it was origionally a mental hospital. The Ridges, you might have heard of it. It's an interesting place). If I hit a block, I would go for a walk around the loop to get my mind off of things and then come back with a frest prespective.
That and shooting pool (when I was coding on campus for projects. The rec center was about 2 blocks away) were my major ways to work through mental blocks. Work, especially in mentally taxing professions, should be a balance of work and play, so there are uses for "recreation" type things in an office. The problem is that most people just can't reisit playing when they have no real reason to.
Capes are amusing. Cloaks with hoods are more fun. However, I always perfered my set of Chinese fighting robes when I was a kid (I trained in kung fu).
No, we never got pictures.
As for being a "chess geek", that's something nobody ever tried to make fun of me for. I actually ended up teaching a couple of people in school how to play.
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That's it! I've had enough of this for one knight!
Not necessarily. Some devs have to do multiple projects with insane deadlines at the same time. A lot of the time, in situations like that, you can't write fantastic code. Instead, you have to compromise and deal with something that just works even though it may not be all that you want it to be.
It's a hard lesson, but one that a lot of people learn.
Actually, most of the HR people look for it on the resume. If it's not there, you don't get the chance to be rejected on wether or not they think they will move on.
Besides, to be brutally honest, with the way that this economy is, if you don't at least entertain the thought of going somewhere else, you're setting yourself up to be put in a very bad position if something causes you to loose the job for other reasons. Outsourcing, anyone?
Just because you look at what is in another place doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to leave - only that you are keeping your wits about you.
Honest answer? No, I don't want to work in a beurocratic hell hole.
Holding out, however, is often easier said than done. And right now, a steady job would be nice. I'd still keep looking for the job where I felt that I made a difference, but that would be easier to do after I had a position which would pay the bills consistantly.
The problem is in convincing people that you actually can do the job when you don't have the certs, because that's all that it seems the HR drones are looking for.
Don't get me wrong, I have a degree (BS in CS from an accredited program), and am pretty damned good at what I do (code as well as working with clients to gather specs, maintaining it, and the like as well as knowing normal user issues from four years spent as a network analyst and tech to pay my way through college), but I don't have the certs.
I've been looking for a job since March, and have settled on doing some freelance stuff until I find something more permanant, and this is getting really old.
I may be in demand somewhere, but I have yet to find where, and am getting a wee bit frustrated. heh
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If you had read the article, you would see that the last one they looked at did just that...
You're in Columbus? I'm about an hour from you then.
Funny thing is that I can agree with the lack of decent doctors in this area. It really weirded out one of them that I knew my medical history and the prevelant medical conditions in my family when I went to see her not to mention that I listed off the most likely things that came to mind as being the problem because of the symptoms. I'm not a med journal reader or hypocondriac, I've just had an interesting medical history and I've learned to listen to my body heh.
I used to travel quite a bit and made friends in a lot of different places. I still stay in touch with a lot of them, but it just really isn't the same. Being able to have an evening out with a friend is a lot more satisfying than just having pixels on a screen.
For me, being able to talk to them on the phone is a little more "real" than online, but it still doesn't compare to being face to face.
Yes, I still stay in touch with them, but there are times that I miss them a great deal even while we chat on im.
I'd consider that maintaining the fence (which I already mentioned). The point is that it just isn't a plausable solution (and I have no idea what was going through the person's head who suggested it. I was, after all, only answering replies to my first post).
There is, however, one factor that isn't covered in that. The farmers that would be *ahem* rather upset because the deer that are trapped on their property eat all of their produce. There are still a lot of farms in my area. To give you an idea, my family has about 100 acres, and that's considered fairly small here.
Not to mention the places they aren't allowed to fence in, like the state and national forests (which we have a great many of. There are perks to being in the unglaciated portion of Ohio. The hills and forests are beautiful).
Read the whole thread and the article yourself. The person you were responding to was talking about NYC. However, he was giving an example of why this should not work (a reason why the *large scale* implementation would not work).
This would affect more than just NYC as the person you were responding to realized. They want to do this nationwide, therefore my comments are perfectly in order. Try taking your own advice.
"So, find the tallest fence a deer can jump, and build one a foot taller."
Now there's a cost that the state would be happy to deal with - building 10' fences along *all* of the state highways. That's to say nothing of the counties and townships having to absorb that cost for barriers on *those* roads.
You're dealing with a lot more than just the fact that deer can jump high. Cost is a major factor (not only to put the fences in but also to maintain them), and I don't know about your state, but mine is in such a budget crunch that they've started cutting funding to unimportant things (like higher education) right and left.
In theory? great idea. In practice? notsomuch.
"A new invention can help solve that problem- it's called a fence."
No, really it can't. I've seen deer jump fences taller than I am, and I measure in at 6'
No offence, but NYC != world
Not to mention the fact that a large amount of the roadways in this country are not in a pedestrian area or even in a city.
Take, for example I70 though Indianapolis. The last time I drove that section of 70 (it's been 3 years now, but it never really changes there), the posted limit was rather low (like 50 or 55 I believe). I was getting passed by patrol cars as I roughly followed the flow of traffic by doing 80. To be honest, I was lagging behind the car ahead of me a bit...
Speed limits tend to be arbitraily enforced in a lot of places that I've been. My ex-fiance was amazed that my state actually enforced the speed limit because they just tend to igrore in where she grew up in St Louis unless they either don't like you or you do something *really* stupid.
"Driving at 80 mph "in a 50" in the middle of the night, with not a cloud in the sky, on a completely empty, straight road? No."
I wish I could do that here. Unfortunately the roads here aren't even safe when there are no other cars on them. Deer are a real problem here (to the point that it doesn't really have an effect on your insurance premium. The companies just go "oh, another one" and hand over the cash without really penalizing you.)
So speaks the guy who has totaled 2 cars (one of which was only doing 20mph at the time. seriously) from hitting deer. And I've lost count of how many I've managed to avoid.
That's just it. I don't consider the people who simply reading a few pieces in the book to have actually "read" the book. That would be like reading the first and last paragraphs in "Tale of Two Cities" and saying that you read *that* book.
There was a very long period in history when it was a major no-no to have a copy if you weren't a priest, etc.
There were a lot of other quirks during that time period as well (morality being enforced by law, wether written or unofficial, people who weren't a part of the mainstream being denied rights, and other similar things). The thing that really worries me is that we seem to be slipping back into that sort of a situation/mindset as a people.
My prievious comment wasn't meant as the flamebait it was modded. I was being completely serious. Lots of people have a copy, but most of them never seem to have read it. They just sort of seem to take it on faith (no pun intended) that it says what they think it does. This conclusion comes from having had long discussions with many people trying to get me to "return to god" (I'm a taoist, and I live in the bible belt. It is occasionally a joy).
Chalk it up to personal experience and a detached point of view.
and how many of them have actually read it? Care to place bets that it's probably less than 20%?
Only because nobody reads them anymore now that they have television...
I agree with the part about the foosball tables, etc. Work is something to enable you to make enough to live in relative comfort while not losing your sanity in the process of making the money.
I, however, have to occasionally get away from the computer if I am in the office and run into a mental block. I used to work at a place that had a loop road circling the group of buildings (it was origionally a mental hospital. The Ridges, you might have heard of it. It's an interesting place). If I hit a block, I would go for a walk around the loop to get my mind off of things and then come back with a frest prespective.
That and shooting pool (when I was coding on campus for projects. The rec center was about 2 blocks away) were my major ways to work through mental blocks. Work, especially in mentally taxing professions, should be a balance of work and play, so there are uses for "recreation" type things in an office. The problem is that most people just can't reisit playing when they have no real reason to.
Capes are amusing. Cloaks with hoods are more fun. However, I always perfered my set of Chinese fighting robes when I was a kid (I trained in kung fu).
No, we never got pictures.
As for being a "chess geek", that's something nobody ever tried to make fun of me for. I actually ended up teaching a couple of people in school how to play.
That's it! I've had enough of this for one knight!
The comment "put more boobs in it" gets modded informative? Now *that's* funny.
Now I have this mental image of Doom on my cell phone.
Sorry, but my phone is a phone. If i want to play a game, I'll use my computer or gba, but that's just me.
You must have had to maintain some of the same code I was handed a few times. Spend days just writing comments for the crap.
*shudders*
And people always wondered why I got twitchy when they asked me quesitons about code they were working on that they refused to comment.
Not necessarily. Some devs have to do multiple projects with insane deadlines at the same time. A lot of the time, in situations like that, you can't write fantastic code. Instead, you have to compromise and deal with something that just works even though it may not be all that you want it to be.
It's a hard lesson, but one that a lot of people learn.
*places a cute little kitten on the floor* meow.
*picks up a 10lb long-hafted sledgehammer*
*raises the hammer and takes aim at the kitten*
I will leave the last step of this to your imagination as I tend to like kittens...
Actually, most of the HR people look for it on the resume. If it's not there, you don't get the chance to be rejected on wether or not they think they will move on.
Besides, to be brutally honest, with the way that this economy is, if you don't at least entertain the thought of going somewhere else, you're setting yourself up to be put in a very bad position if something causes you to loose the job for other reasons. Outsourcing, anyone?
Just because you look at what is in another place doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to leave - only that you are keeping your wits about you.
Honest answer? No, I don't want to work in a beurocratic hell hole.
Holding out, however, is often easier said than done. And right now, a steady job would be nice. I'd still keep looking for the job where I felt that I made a difference, but that would be easier to do after I had a position which would pay the bills consistantly.
The problem is in convincing people that you actually can do the job when you don't have the certs, because that's all that it seems the HR drones are looking for.
Don't get me wrong, I have a degree (BS in CS from an accredited program), and am pretty damned good at what I do (code as well as working with clients to gather specs, maintaining it, and the like as well as knowing normal user issues from four years spent as a network analyst and tech to pay my way through college), but I don't have the certs.
I've been looking for a job since March, and have settled on doing some freelance stuff until I find something more permanant, and this is getting really old.
I may be in demand somewhere, but I have yet to find where, and am getting a wee bit frustrated. heh
Now that the election is over? He might opt for "Canadian" =]