The whole fucking thing is contrived out of a need for plot?
None of it even begins to make any sort of sense except the hack authors needed another tech prop to make their soap opera's 'plot complications' work out.
They clearly have matter-energy conversion, but need dilithium crystals for some plot related reason. They have no money or unfulfilled needs, except when their is a plot related reason. etc etc etc.
Space hippies plot stolen directly from 'Lost in Space'. At least they skipped the 'space hillbillies' plot.
The problem is: If you find yourself in this situation, your manager is used to crapping on the floor. Just like dogs, poorly housetrained managers are much more of a problem than fresh managers. Worse still, many employers actively discourage hitting your manager with rolled up newspapers. Quit your job if it's the only way to find new managers. It's true that more are bad than good, but with experience you will learn to recognize the stink during interviews/office visits.
Don't be afraid to bail in the first week at a new job. You were looking for work when you found that place.
A manager who is used to 'his team' taking it in the personal life isn't going to change his ways. It's mostly working for HIM/HER.
Recognize the root of the problem and if you can do anything about it besides leave.
It's uneconomical to pay someone to mow my lawn with children's scissors.
So someone with capital comes along and buys a zero turning radius mower, hires a driver for the mower for minimum wage, mows 20 lawns in the time it would take to scissor down 1 lawn, and gets a fair ROI for the price of the mower.
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The whole fucking thing is contrived out of a need for plot?
None of it even begins to make any sort of sense except the hack authors needed another tech prop to make their soap opera's 'plot complications' work out.
They clearly have matter-energy conversion, but need dilithium crystals for some plot related reason. They have no money or unfulfilled needs, except when their is a plot related reason. etc etc etc.
Space hippies plot stolen directly from 'Lost in Space'. At least they skipped the 'space hillbillies' plot.
Evil, good? They are both fine choices.
Bender.
It ripped off VMS and was ripped off in turn. That's how it went before software patents.
I still have an 'Eight inch floppy' t shirt. No drives though.
I'd wear it to a conference, just to make a SJW's head explode.
That explains it. She was using it until she finished paying for it.
All companies are dysfunctional in some ways != all companies are equally dysfunctional.
When there is nothing you can do about it, just leave. There are, in fact, better places with better cultures and results.
When you find a 'ball of mud' you can pretty much guarantee you won't find managers doing much listening.
The people that put forth heroic efforts to protect their PHBs from the consequences of their decisions are part of the PROBLEM.
That's all BS.
The problem is: If you find yourself in this situation, your manager is used to crapping on the floor. Just like dogs, poorly housetrained managers are much more of a problem than fresh managers. Worse still, many employers actively discourage hitting your manager with rolled up newspapers. Quit your job if it's the only way to find new managers. It's true that more are bad than good, but with experience you will learn to recognize the stink during interviews/office visits.
Don't be afraid to bail in the first week at a new job. You were looking for work when you found that place.
A manager who is used to 'his team' taking it in the personal life isn't going to change his ways. It's mostly working for HIM/HER.
Recognize the root of the problem and if you can do anything about it besides leave.
That depends on how rough the various surfaces are. Given that more or the inner 15 miles is paved I'd guess it more the quadruples it.
See also 'How Long is the English Coast?'
No. Assault rifles are select fire.
You need an expensive (and invasive to get) license to go full 'rock and roll'.
Every time he says one of those things you drink from your neighbors supply.
Is DC a hick town full of bored corrupt cops or a big city full of lazy corrupt cops?
Truth hurts.
Freefall lets you make impossible alloys.
Let the Chinese make their people potential victims, they will pay the price, not us.
Of course our own government is trying the same thing. It that case I will simply be ignoring the law if it passes.
We're already fucked. More than 50% of the US population are already government tit suckers.
Has to be much higher in Europe.
Fair enough. We'll consider it once the Rural Electrification program Bureaucracy disappears.
Bureaucracies are self perpetuating. They need to be nuked from orbit or they go on forever.
When you're carrying 5 passports you have options in that situation.
How many register using the local mosque's address?
You are a moron aren't you? Mowing yourself is not the only alternative.
It's uneconomical to pay someone to mow my lawn with children's scissors.
So someone with capital comes along and buys a zero turning radius mower, hires a driver for the mower for minimum wage, mows 20 lawns in the time it would take to scissor down 1 lawn, and gets a fair ROI for the price of the mower.
This is good.
No it's not.
My opportunity costs are mine, I worked hard to get those skills. The gardener has a cost, which reflects his skills.
The value of a job is not what you would have to pay me to do it.
It's the price the dumbest qualified shit sack out there will take to do the job.
Never ask an admin for permission for _anything_. Just walk past them to the people that matter. What are they going to do?
Whatever it takes to keep them away from their rudders.
1 - ((1 - Corporate tax rate) * (1 - Capital gains tax rate)) is already more or less the same as regular income tax.
So all you are doing is spending political capital to rearrange the deck chairs.