It's just about degree. The costs of Globalism are largely born by the blue collar workers. Outsourcing IT is nothing compared to just moving multiple industries at the same time.
They just need to adjust an exchange rate (or three) a few tens of points for the next decade.
The real problem with 'managed anger' (kept just below boil), is that all governments do it, many with multiple groups. Eventually all the governments can't manage all the groups and ugly shit happens.
Right now, the good path is all about China. But anyplace could be the trigger for the bad path. The post WWII baby boom is still a financial demographic bomb for 'the west'.
Professional HR came on at about the same time that rapid growth became THE priority. Fucked everything up (par for HR). Became, more or less, impossible to fire anyone. Short of being caught doing something criminal. Hired many 'seat warmers'.
I got to the point where I had wasted a month to learn I needed a special (expensive) four port serial card that they sold. I returned the whole mess instead.
IIRC there was a 286 version of the software, but they dropped it pretty fast. I also recall 486 ISA cards, but they never made sense.
You were the ONE that got it to work? I wasted most of a month before returning it as useless, overpriced, broken, misdocumented junk.
Also only made financial sense if you already owned the terminals. We were trying to use it as a dial-in host. Impossible to make it work with modems that generated more the 16 bytes of traffic per time slice, which wasn't documented. Just terrible.
One more thing: The docs were worse than useless, why it stuck in my head. Unless they archived and included their BBS forums, it's truly a waste of storage space.
I actually tried to make that POS work (to run a multiuser dial in host) back in the late 80s.
Run away, stunk to heaven. IIRC only worked with _one_ rs232 UART (which had to do all the buffering in hardware). Didn't work well with that one. Just no. Waste of effort and money.
I should not remember those details...my brain's garbage collection is very lazy.
I'll download a copy, but only to burn it onto CDs to shoot at. Shades of '30-06 retiring' netmare 2.
Cars have already gotten 'safer'. That generally means they cost _more_ to repair.
Self driving tech is nowhere near ready to make cars safer. If it was, Tesla wouldn't be using statistical lies (e.g. comparing Tesla 'auto drive'* to all human driving, not similar driving) in an attempt to show that they are safer.
* Autodrive: Lane following and adaptive cruise control.
It's gone great up to now. Works in boom and bust, the trick is former coworkers that know your work. Wouldn't work for you though, the work has to have been good.
Someone has you convinced it's near 100%. That person has you chumped.
I worked at one, it grew rapidly, 'professional HR' was hired. The air thieves were everywhere inside a year.
The key, while it lasted, was identifying and kicking the air thieves while under probation. About 1/3 of new hires were kicked. There is no way to keep them out with just interviews. Good bullshiters are good bullshitters. As soon as the organization stops accepting that 'mistakes will be made in hiring', it's over.
If you think you work someplace without air thieves the odds are 99.99999% that you are one, not that there are none. No large company has no air thieves. None. A few small shops don't, but that generally doesn't last. For it to last the big cheeses have to grow slow, leaving 'money on the table'.
You've obviously never had to assemble a team. Who gets stuck with 'Atul' is _always_ an issue.
Basically, the only oil fired power plants in the USA are in isolated small towns, the southern tip of Florida (for those days they get the weather forecast wrong and don't have enough gas. Pipelines are constrained, no storage to speak of.) and Hawaii.
Hawaii is the only place where what you describe is happening. But even there, solar does zero at night.
A small group isn't much better if someone is sick.
I once started a small company wide health insurance defection, we were all subsidising the CFOs sick kid. Young and healthy got our insurance for less than the copay for that group.
Been true for many _decades_. They lost me in about 1985. The new vette was 'unacceptable' because it wasn't a lame economy car. It was kind of lame, but they didn't even notice, likely the thing they liked about it the most.
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It's just about degree. The costs of Globalism are largely born by the blue collar workers. Outsourcing IT is nothing compared to just moving multiple industries at the same time.
They just need to adjust an exchange rate (or three) a few tens of points for the next decade.
The real problem with 'managed anger' (kept just below boil), is that all governments do it, many with multiple groups. Eventually all the governments can't manage all the groups and ugly shit happens.
Right now, the good path is all about China. But anyplace could be the trigger for the bad path. The post WWII baby boom is still a financial demographic bomb for 'the west'.
OnTopic.
Not sure how much astroglide in PC-MOS, more than zero. Could have used more. It WAS painful.
Mod me funny?
Learn and cry. Silicon oil (astroglide) IS the secret ingredient in almost all prepared frozen foods. Keeps them moist.
I bet it's too expensive to put in wonder bread though.
The correct moderation for this and parent post is 'offtopic'. Mods, please fix.
Bullshit. Name one.
Didn't have 'HR' during the good time.
Professional HR came on at about the same time that rapid growth became THE priority. Fucked everything up (par for HR). Became, more or less, impossible to fire anyone. Short of being caught doing something criminal. Hired many 'seat warmers'.
I got to the point where I had wasted a month to learn I needed a special (expensive) four port serial card that they sold. I returned the whole mess instead.
IIRC there was a 286 version of the software, but they dropped it pretty fast. I also recall 486 ISA cards, but they never made sense.
You've never heard of DosBox? It works pretty good.
The recipe for 'Cicero Rye' died with the baker about 25 years ago.
It was _great_ bread, there are websites dedicated to recreating/finding the recipe. The widow was offered five figures, but didn't know it.
But PC-MOS is more like a recipe for wonder bread. (Astroglide is the secret ingredient, same as for McNuggets.)
You were the ONE that got it to work? I wasted most of a month before returning it as useless, overpriced, broken, misdocumented junk.
Also only made financial sense if you already owned the terminals. We were trying to use it as a dial-in host. Impossible to make it work with modems that generated more the 16 bytes of traffic per time slice, which wasn't documented. Just terrible.
One more thing: The docs were worse than useless, why it stuck in my head. Unless they archived and included their BBS forums, it's truly a waste of storage space.
I actually tried to make that POS work (to run a multiuser dial in host) back in the late 80s.
Run away, stunk to heaven. IIRC only worked with _one_ rs232 UART (which had to do all the buffering in hardware). Didn't work well with that one. Just no. Waste of effort and money.
I should not remember those details...my brain's garbage collection is very lazy.
I'll download a copy, but only to burn it onto CDs to shoot at. Shades of '30-06 retiring' netmare 2.
Paying customers. Duh.
You don't 'get' markets, do you? Start every analysis by identifying the marxist class of players?
Cars have already gotten 'safer'. That generally means they cost _more_ to repair.
Self driving tech is nowhere near ready to make cars safer. If it was, Tesla wouldn't be using statistical lies (e.g. comparing Tesla 'auto drive'* to all human driving, not similar driving) in an attempt to show that they are safer.
* Autodrive: Lane following and adaptive cruise control.
If they happen to have a relative who's a retiring crane operator and inherit the job. Otherwise, no.
It's gone great up to now. Works in boom and bust, the trick is former coworkers that know your work. Wouldn't work for you though, the work has to have been good.
Someone has you convinced it's near 100%. That person has you chumped.
I worked at one, it grew rapidly, 'professional HR' was hired. The air thieves were everywhere inside a year.
The key, while it lasted, was identifying and kicking the air thieves while under probation. About 1/3 of new hires were kicked. There is no way to keep them out with just interviews. Good bullshiters are good bullshitters. As soon as the organization stops accepting that 'mistakes will be made in hiring', it's over.
If you think you work someplace without air thieves the odds are 99.99999% that you are one, not that there are none. No large company has no air thieves. None. A few small shops don't, but that generally doesn't last. For it to last the big cheeses have to grow slow, leaving 'money on the table'.
You've obviously never had to assemble a team. Who gets stuck with 'Atul' is _always_ an issue.
Basically, the only oil fired power plants in the USA are in isolated small towns, the southern tip of Florida (for those days they get the weather forecast wrong and don't have enough gas. Pipelines are constrained, no storage to speak of.) and Hawaii.
Hawaii is the only place where what you describe is happening. But even there, solar does zero at night.
MBA calls someone an idiot. He would know.
A small group isn't much better if someone is sick.
I once started a small company wide health insurance defection, we were all subsidising the CFOs sick kid. Young and healthy got our insurance for less than the copay for that group.
Saves everybody time and effort. Do you want to work for a bottom feeder?
Which saves you time applying for shit jobs you wouldn't take anyhow.
Been true for many _decades_. They lost me in about 1985. The new vette was 'unacceptable' because it wasn't a lame economy car. It was kind of lame, but they didn't even notice, likely the thing they liked about it the most.
Nothing new. Old people are denied kidney transplants, cancer treatments etc all the time in England.
To clarify, they are denied them everywhere for medical reasons, in England they are denied them for financial ones.
Suck the government tit, lose some privacy, I'm fine with that.
If you show up in a suit for tech position in CA, you'll be asked to leave.