2. How often do you neglect household chores to spend more time on-line?
Asking a group composed mostly of males the question "How often do you neglect household chores for any reason?" should get an "always" from 90% of respondents.
3. How often do you prefer the excitement of the Internet to intimacy with your partner?
Geeks? Partners?! Unpossible!
And what if my partner is that nice girl with a webcam who has lesbian sex with her sister when I pay $4.95 a minute? Ha! Got you there! (Funny, they don't even seem to be the same race, but they say they're sisters and people don't lie on the Internet.)
If they're eroding one's right to privacy, what's to say that right to a fair trial is immune? And "arrested for possession of (evil thing)" in a news report or the local rumor mill is often enough to convict one in the eyes of the public. No jail time, but your life gets ruined.
If you asked Tom Baker (given his low opinion of the beast) it'd probably be both. Along with many other choice expletives, possibly including "never know the fucking answer when it's important".
>How do you prove it? Well if they start >the whole big brother thing then chances >are they could look at your logs of >where you frequent.
Yes, but would they have the motivation? Is Big Brother upstanding enough a fellow to decide "Ah, it's just a mistake." when he's already got his sights on you? Or would he pick on a lone Traci Lords pic from a few months back as "Evidence that the suspect has REPEATEDLY visited illegal sites! And child pornography, no less! OMG! Think of the children!"
>You know you're doing a bad job if your >ex-employees open champagne upon hearing >of your leaving. Wow.
I'm sure the gigantic KA-CHING! of a cash register ringing up her severance package drowned out the cork popping. The first rule of bad management: If someone in the company hates you, they're a "disgruntled employee". I'd suspect Carly dearest subscribed to that notion with a vengeance.
At the time I was an EDS employee on an HP contract; I saw similar (though more subdued) celebration when EDS's Dick Brown left, with sincere hopes that Carly would be next. As is was, the contract left before she did. No matter, I still got a good laugh out of it when she finally took the door.
You can sue John Carmack. You can't sue shitty parenting.
You can make a pill that cures depression or ADD/ADHD. You can't make a pill that cures or even mitigates shitty parenting.
Corporate America buys ads when CNN et al. leads with schoolboy corpses and screenshots of someone firing a shotgun in Doom. Corporate America won't buy ads on CNN if they lead with shitty parenting stories.
Therefore, there will be no studies on shitty parenting.
>Now, that;s not paranoid, just plain stupid. >Just imagine, early in the morning, quickly >checking mail before tumbling out the door >going to work, and I mistype 1 character:
Some people just have the skill. When I was a doing some work as sysadmin at a high school, one kid had a password that must've ran at least 30 characters. All numeric. He invited people to watch him type it in and try to replicate it; people watched, but never tried to type it in - they all gave up watching by about 10 digits in. Sometimes he got it wrong, yeah, but I never saw him require more than 2 shots to get it. He also changed it on occasion (or claimed he did, anyway).
As for being in a rush, he was the kind of person who wouldn't run for water if his ass was on fire.
>I'm 19, and I used a rotary phone >for probably ten years growing up.
I still use one on a regular basis - the downstairs (and, for years, only) phone in this house is rotary. Not just rotary, but stuck right to the wall, no jack. Had to install a phone jack for the PC, as well as for the touch-tone I put in upstairs for when I must phone any major company.
The rotary here has seen regular service for about as long as I've been breathing. Solid piece of hardware.
(19? Good lord, you were born around '86. I *remember* '86. The world's getting younger, I'm just getting older....)
>What happened to HP? They used to have good >hardware that was extremely reliable and which >performed well.
Yeah, they did. I worked at EDS for a while, back when the HP Deskjet support contract (which EDS holds a good chunk of) was still in North America. When I started, the 900 series was just winding down. Some of the sacrificial lambs we'd poke and prod while on a call actually printed fine a month or two being abused by the newbies. If some part sprung out of place and was blocking the paper route, snapping it off would sometimes even fix things. (Unless it was metal, then giving it a good shove with a screwdriver or sturdy pen would force it back into place.)
And then the 3x00s came along. A bunch of infernal breadboxes. Less than a week in the stores, and the second tier tells us NEVER to force anything back into place, because it's all plastic now and it'll break into pieces if you try. Basically the only hardware fix we were allowed to try was rolling the wheels, which doesn't work all that often. Everything else we could do to another model printer, we were warned away from on the grounds that it would break something.
The sacrificial demos we had looked eviscerated within a week or two - any amount of force anywhere would break something. Any weaker and they'd be made of glass. (Which would've at least looked cooler.)
And it didn't help that - the way I heard it - Parts Distribution was refusing to send ordered parts out and lying about stock levels to keep its budget and call time down. While I can't verify it, I DO remember when an agent in another department and I spent two hours (four man-hours total, not counting our supervisors, who got involved eventually) trying to beat Parts into sending a set of cables out to someone who'd been gypped out of a set.
Don't know what was going on there, but someone on the hardware end suddenly got *really* cheap, both in design and in distribution. Of course, it was cheap on the support end, too, but that's another story and another rant....)
Yeah, likely. Though after watching coworkers lose insurance coverage the instant they get sick, get cheated out of vacation time, etc., it rather made me overly paranoid about a Centralized Evil.:(
Ain't that the truth! I worked there for a while. Man, it's an experience I don't want to repeat. It got progressively worse - all the geeks started jumping ship or were pushed out (don't get cancer when you work there) and more idiots were hired on in their place.
Example? I noticed that a corporate database containing employee reviews was suddenly accessible to those same employees. Not being in a position to fix it, I did the company-policy thing and told my immediate superior (a new hire) ASAP. His response? "Don't read it!" He didn't deal with it at all, and then started treating me like some evil 'hacker' who caused the problem to begin with.
I contacted one of the higher-ranking people who had written reviews for the database and told her about it. It got fixed, and fast.
Oh, and due to the strange and specific way they used to munge my street address on my pay stubs, I've noticed that they've sold or otherwise distributed my address to a third party that has sent me junk mail. Real nice company.
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2. How often do you neglect household chores to spend more time on-line?
Asking a group composed mostly of males the question "How often do you neglect household chores for any reason?" should get an "always" from 90% of respondents.
3. How often do you prefer the excitement of the Internet to intimacy with your partner?
Geeks? Partners?! Unpossible!
And what if my partner is that nice girl with a webcam who has lesbian sex with her sister when I pay $4.95 a minute? Ha! Got you there! (Funny, they don't even seem to be the same race, but they say they're sisters and people don't lie on the Internet.)
Ah, yes. But that's only because they don't use the Internet enough to know the basics of web forms. Unlike... you! (Dun-da-da-dun!)
He's an addict! Burn him!
>Something about right to a fair trial....
If they're eroding one's right to privacy, what's to say that right to a fair trial is immune? And "arrested for possession of (evil thing)" in a news report or the local rumor mill is often enough to convict one in the eyes of the public. No jail time, but your life gets ruined.
If you asked Tom Baker (given his low opinion of the beast) it'd probably be both. Along with many other choice expletives, possibly including "never know the fucking answer when it's important".
>How do you prove it? Well if they start
>the whole big brother thing then chances
>are they could look at your logs of
>where you frequent.
Yes, but would they have the motivation? Is Big Brother upstanding enough a fellow to decide "Ah, it's just a mistake." when he's already got his sights on you? Or would he pick on a lone Traci Lords pic from a few months back as "Evidence that the suspect has REPEATEDLY visited illegal sites! And child pornography, no less! OMG! Think of the children!"
>You know you're doing a bad job if your
>ex-employees open champagne upon hearing
>of your leaving. Wow.
I'm sure the gigantic KA-CHING! of a cash register ringing up her severance package drowned out the cork popping. The first rule of bad management: If someone in the company hates you, they're a "disgruntled employee". I'd suspect Carly dearest subscribed to that notion with a vengeance.
At the time I was an EDS employee on an HP contract; I saw similar (though more subdued) celebration when EDS's Dick Brown left, with sincere hopes that Carly would be next. As is was, the contract left before she did. No matter, I still got a good laugh out of it when she finally took the door.
You can sue John Carmack.
You can't sue shitty parenting.
You can make a pill that cures depression or ADD/ADHD.
You can't make a pill that cures or even mitigates shitty parenting.
Corporate America buys ads when CNN et al. leads with schoolboy corpses and screenshots of someone firing a shotgun in Doom.
Corporate America won't buy ads on CNN if they lead with shitty parenting stories.
Therefore, there will be no studies on shitty parenting.
>Now, that;s not paranoid, just plain stupid.
>Just imagine, early in the morning, quickly
>checking mail before tumbling out the door
>going to work, and I mistype 1 character:
Some people just have the skill. When I was a doing some work as sysadmin at a high school, one kid had a password that must've ran at least 30 characters. All numeric. He invited people to watch him type it in and try to replicate it; people watched, but never tried to type it in - they all gave up watching by about 10 digits in. Sometimes he got it wrong, yeah, but I never saw him require more than 2 shots to get it. He also changed it on occasion (or claimed he did, anyway).
As for being in a rush, he was the kind of person who wouldn't run for water if his ass was on fire.
>I'm 19, and I used a rotary phone
>for probably ten years growing up.
I still use one on a regular basis - the downstairs (and, for years, only) phone in this house is rotary. Not just rotary, but stuck right to the wall, no jack. Had to install a phone jack for the PC, as well as for the touch-tone I put in upstairs for when I must phone any major company.
The rotary here has seen regular service for about as long as I've been breathing. Solid piece of hardware.
(19? Good lord, you were born around '86. I *remember* '86. The world's getting younger, I'm just getting older....)
>What happened to HP? They used to have good
>hardware that was extremely reliable and which
>performed well.
Yeah, they did. I worked at EDS for a while, back when the HP Deskjet support contract (which EDS holds a good chunk of) was still in North America. When I started, the 900 series was just winding down. Some of the sacrificial lambs we'd poke and prod while on a call actually printed fine a month or two being abused by the newbies. If some part sprung out of place and was blocking the paper route, snapping it off would sometimes even fix things. (Unless it was metal, then giving it a good shove with a screwdriver or sturdy pen would force it back into place.)
And then the 3x00s came along. A bunch of infernal breadboxes. Less than a week in the stores, and the second tier tells us NEVER to force anything back into place, because it's all plastic now and it'll break into pieces if you try. Basically the only hardware fix we were allowed to try was rolling the wheels, which doesn't work all that often. Everything else we could do to another model printer, we were warned away from on the grounds that it would break something.
The sacrificial demos we had looked eviscerated within a week or two - any amount of force anywhere would break something. Any weaker and they'd be made of glass. (Which would've at least looked cooler.)
And it didn't help that - the way I heard it - Parts Distribution was refusing to send ordered parts out and lying about stock levels to keep its budget and call time down. While I can't verify it, I DO remember when an agent in another department and I spent two hours (four man-hours total, not counting our supervisors, who got involved eventually) trying to beat Parts into sending a set of cables out to someone who'd been gypped out of a set.
Don't know what was going on there, but someone on the hardware end suddenly got *really* cheap, both in design and in distribution. Of course, it was cheap on the support end, too, but that's another story and another rant....)
Yeah, likely. Though after watching coworkers lose insurance coverage the instant they get sick, get cheated out of vacation time, etc., it rather made me overly paranoid about a Centralized Evil. :(
Ain't that the truth! I worked there for a while. Man, it's an experience I don't want to repeat. It got progressively worse - all the geeks started jumping ship or were pushed out (don't get cancer when you work there) and more idiots were hired on in their place.
Example? I noticed that a corporate database containing employee reviews was suddenly accessible to those same employees. Not being in a position to fix it, I did the company-policy thing and told my immediate superior (a new hire) ASAP. His response? "Don't read it!" He didn't deal with it at all, and then started treating me like some evil 'hacker' who caused the problem to begin with.
I contacted one of the higher-ranking people who had written reviews for the database and told her about it. It got fixed, and fast.
Oh, and due to the strange and specific way they used to munge my street address on my pay stubs, I've noticed that they've sold or otherwise distributed my address to a third party that has sent me junk mail. Real nice company.