Thou shalt not get a flu shot?
Seriously, I can get behind the notion that, if a person has doubts about the efficacy or effects of getting a flu shot, they should be able to choose whether or not to get one without social or professional ramifications. But what is with all of these objections being written down to religious beliefs? Where in the Bible did Jesus ever say anything about flu shots?
It's like the American Osteopathy Association: its members are whack jobs, not real doctors.
And you'd be wrong on that one. DOs are licensed physicians that practice alongside MDs in every field of medicine. Perhaps you were thinking of chiropractors or homeopaths (who frequently do have weird ideas about vaccines)?
Pretty much every time I've flown in the last 11 years -- which is as little as possible -- I find open zippers and sometimes stuff falling out of my bags. And they never even leave me a note. I assume they were just looking for something worth stealing, but apparently the possibility of getting caught and punished is so remote that they don't even need to attempt to cover their tracks.
There's really nothing you can do about this that has a good chance of a positive outcome, since no one likes criticism and managers don't really like to find out about yet one more problem they've got to deal with. Because in this case you're criticizing their management practices for allowing this to go on.
I've seen some suggestions here of books to read or to give to coworker to read. I, too, will make a reading suggestion, but a very short one:
The conclusion is to bring it up with your boss (or the team lead) and let them deal with it, deferring to their authority. Show how it's affecting productivity.
Shutting up is a dumb option. Odds are, those with authority over the problem worker are unaware of the issue. If they are aware of it, then by talking to them at least everybody knows where everybody else stands, which defuses a lot of tensions.
When you find a big kettle of shit, it's best not to stir it. If management wants your opinion of your coworkers, they'll ask for it. Otherwise you're the smart-ass who's always making someone's life difficult by bringing up problems that now they've got to deal with.
I'm cynical, of course, but consider this: If management doesn't know who's doing a good job and who's dragging down the team, the problem isn't with unmaintainable-code-guy, the problem is management. Lay low till "unmaintainable" quits or is fired, or a new boss comes in and does "360-degree" reviews or some other comprehensive performance evaluations, or you get transferred, promoted or demoted, or you find a better job and quit, or retire, or die.
I remember it too. The reasons it failed in my state were due to:
1. It was a publicity stunt tied to the olympics that was held in Atlanta.
And now I feel even older . . . My experience was from the energy crisis, when speed limit signs were marked "55 / 88km/h". But then Ronald Reagan came and fixed everything. I do remember one of my Senators speaking against the change, asking us to "think about the children." That kind of baffled me, we had a "meter stick" in my classroom. But, as I said, then Ronnie fixed that.
Q: What size of quiche are you making that you're using ingredients measured in GALLONS???
A: An American one.
That's just at the Texas Cheesecake Depository. And it's a single serving there;)
But seriously, it was the pints that screwed me up.
To provide closure on my anecdote: the cookbook used both Imperial and SI measures, so after realizing the problem I just used the SI side of my measuring cups and scale after that. Curiously, the cookbook lists small volumes only in teaspoons and tablespoons, there is no ml or g equivalent.
No, it's much simpler. Let's say you have to measure a 1 kilometer road. in meters:1,000 meter. Now do the same calculation for a 1 mile road. How many inches? What about a 4.2 mile road?
Have you ever in your life been asked for directions, and, after giving them, your interrogator then wanted to know about how far that was in centimeters?
Of course not. I've never been asked about how far it was to Chicago in inches, either. I also don't know my weight in ounces. And if I told you my mass in grams, I'd have to include a precision figure with that data.
Anyway, neither converting a distance in miles into inches or km into cm is "simple," since in both cases you haven't measured it that precisely.
I come across this when calculating how much fuel to put in an aeroplane - the bowser dispenses litres, I need to know what that is in pounds for the weight and balance calculation, and the fuel burn (and thus how much fuel I need) is specified in the POH in gallons per hour...... but these are indeed American gallons, not Imperial ones, and getting that sort of thing wrong can kill people.
Well that makes my example of a quiche baked from an English cookbook turning out kind of dry seem rather trivial in comparison.
It would be great if we could get road signs to be switched over to dual units. E.g., congress could pass a law saying that on the interstate system, any time an old sign is replaced with a new one, it has to have dual units.
I guess I'm pretty old, since I remember when we tried this.
Says who? Do you have hard info on this type of radiation?
GP is suggesting that the TSA study will back up whatever the TSA wants it to. Almost as if it's a foregone conclusion. Almost like they're gonna deliberately fudge the results. See?
There's not really any such objective thing as "wrong" anyway, only what individuals or societies decide for themselves to be moral or immoral..
Now there's a can of worms.
The other way is a can of worms, too, since you'd then have to somehow determine which moral code was the correct one -- assuming that one of the existing ones is the correct one, which might not be the case.
I think this is mentioned, but nothing mentioned indicates either party was hacked. The from part of an email can be forged as easily as the from address on a piece of stationary. That email could have come from anywhere in the world and anyone. The only thing we can gather is that the spammer somehow connected the submitter's name with that of his uncle. It could have been either side, or a public mention of both addresses, or a third relative getting hacked that has both of you in their contact list. The raw headers *might* be able to tell you if it came from an aol email server but that still doesn't itself tell you who sent it.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action."
If someone's got your email address and the address of someone you correspond with, and sends bogus emails to the correspondent with your return address, someone's been compromised.
A person can ask for advice. They can act on it as they see fit. If your adult uncle ignores your advice, you are off the hook. Maybe you know what's best for him, but if he's asked you and doesn't believe you, there's nothing you can do. I know you wish you could help, but you can't. We sell computers to people who aren't IT admins with the implication that they don't need to be one in order to operate them. Sadly this isn't true, but it's beyond your duties as a nephew to try to disabuse him of this notion.
This answer is probably less than satisfactory, but the world is an imperfect place and our ability to change that is very limited.
Perhaps other Slashdotters have some Jedi mind tricks for you to try, but I'm not optimistic, based on personal experience.
An investment is expected to bring a net positive return over time, not bring the expected loss closer to zero.
I guess that does sort of reveal our bias as Slashdotters, that a computer provides valuable utility for everybody. But it's true, as you point out, that if such a device is worthless to an individual, then worrying about powering it a lower cost makes about as much sense as trying to decide between LED, CFL and incandescent for a light bulb that will only be used outdoors in broad daylight.
Perhaps the original poster should have clarified whether he had a need for the computer in question or not. Or maybe that should have been our first question to him: "do you actually have a use for this machine?"
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Thou shalt not get a flu shot? Seriously, I can get behind the notion that, if a person has doubts about the efficacy or effects of getting a flu shot, they should be able to choose whether or not to get one without social or professional ramifications. But what is with all of these objections being written down to religious beliefs? Where in the Bible did Jesus ever say anything about flu shots?
I think it's in the book of Hezakiah,
It's like the American Osteopathy Association: its members are whack jobs, not real doctors.
And you'd be wrong on that one. DOs are licensed physicians that practice alongside MDs in every field of medicine. Perhaps you were thinking of chiropractors or homeopaths (who frequently do have weird ideas about vaccines)?
It might just be the lead poisoning talking, but I sure seem to hear a bunch of voices all talking at once when I open the medicaldaily.com link.
I only consume unleaded ice cream. Am I still susceptible?
Depends if it's fluoridated or not. There's a reason I only drink rain water and grain alcohol, you know.
Someone has to say it, may as well be me. What is this MSN?
Nope. It's a serious news source: The Washington . . . Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Every time I fly back from the states I have a note from the TSA saying they looked in my bag. They are authorised to search for vibrating objects, as well as remove and tamper with them
Pretty much every time I've flown in the last 11 years -- which is as little as possible -- I find open zippers and sometimes stuff falling out of my bags. And they never even leave me a note. I assume they were just looking for something worth stealing, but apparently the possibility of getting caught and punished is so remote that they don't even need to attempt to cover their tracks.
There's really nothing you can do about this that has a good chance of a positive outcome, since no one likes criticism and managers don't really like to find out about yet one more problem they've got to deal with. Because in this case you're criticizing their management practices for allowing this to go on.
I've seen some suggestions here of books to read or to give to coworker to read. I, too, will make a reading suggestion, but a very short one:
"To a Louse"
After this, you can wonder just what annoying trait you might have that annoys your coworker, and take some comfort in that. Or something.
The conclusion is to bring it up with your boss (or the team lead) and let them deal with it, deferring to their authority. Show how it's affecting productivity.
Shutting up is a dumb option. Odds are, those with authority over the problem worker are unaware of the issue. If they are aware of it, then by talking to them at least everybody knows where everybody else stands, which defuses a lot of tensions.
When you find a big kettle of shit, it's best not to stir it. If management wants your opinion of your coworkers, they'll ask for it. Otherwise you're the smart-ass who's always making someone's life difficult by bringing up problems that now they've got to deal with.
I'm cynical, of course, but consider this: If management doesn't know who's doing a good job and who's dragging down the team, the problem isn't with unmaintainable-code-guy, the problem is management. Lay low till "unmaintainable" quits or is fired, or a new boss comes in and does "360-degree" reviews or some other comprehensive performance evaluations, or you get transferred, promoted or demoted, or you find a better job and quit, or retire, or die.
Who cares about this obvious fucking advertisement?
Fuck dice.com and their dumb corporate partners.
If it's an advertisement, it's timed rather poorly. Unless it's supposed to gin up sales on used phones.
I remember it too. The reasons it failed in my state were due to:
1. It was a publicity stunt tied to the olympics that was held in Atlanta.
And now I feel even older . . . My experience was from the energy crisis, when speed limit signs were marked "55 / 88km/h". But then Ronald Reagan came and fixed everything. I do remember one of my Senators speaking against the change, asking us to "think about the children." That kind of baffled me, we had a "meter stick" in my classroom. But, as I said, then Ronnie fixed that.
Q: What size of quiche are you making that you're using ingredients measured in GALLONS???
A: An American one.
That's just at the Texas Cheesecake Depository. And it's a single serving there ;)
But seriously, it was the pints that screwed me up.
To provide closure on my anecdote: the cookbook used both Imperial and SI measures, so after realizing the problem I just used the SI side of my measuring cups and scale after that. Curiously, the cookbook lists small volumes only in teaspoons and tablespoons, there is no ml or g equivalent.
No, it's much simpler. Let's say you have to measure a 1 kilometer road. in meters:1,000 meter. Now do the same calculation for a 1 mile road. How many inches? What about a 4.2 mile road?
Have you ever in your life been asked for directions, and, after giving them, your interrogator then wanted to know about how far that was in centimeters?
Of course not. I've never been asked about how far it was to Chicago in inches, either. I also don't know my weight in ounces. And if I told you my mass in grams, I'd have to include a precision figure with that data.
Anyway, neither converting a distance in miles into inches or km into cm is "simple," since in both cases you haven't measured it that precisely.
Good point.
I come across this when calculating how much fuel to put in an aeroplane - the bowser dispenses litres, I need to know what that is in pounds for the weight and balance calculation, and the fuel burn (and thus how much fuel I need) is specified in the POH in gallons per hour ... ... but these are indeed American gallons, not Imperial ones, and getting that sort of thing wrong can kill people.
Well that makes my example of a quiche baked from an English cookbook turning out kind of dry seem rather trivial in comparison.
It would be great if we could get road signs to be switched over to dual units. E.g., congress could pass a law saying that on the interstate system, any time an old sign is replaced with a new one, it has to have dual units.
I guess I'm pretty old, since I remember when we tried this.
Are the Colonies really still using Imperial units?
No.
And first put on a small one man fighter called the Twin Ion Engine fighter in 1977.
But it was short range only, and couldn't operate far from base.
If we don't, it's not going to be so great.
If you've got the money to invest, I guess I'd put it on "not so great". Then it's a beautiful world, for you. But not for me.
Says who? Do you have hard info on this type of radiation?
GP is suggesting that the TSA study will back up whatever the TSA wants it to. Almost as if it's a foregone conclusion. Almost like they're gonna deliberately fudge the results. See?
That's even better! Can I send them all my hipster douchebags around here? We're all full up.
Oh Hell yes! The West "Dot" is totally looking for some. Sushi and NASCAR, together at last!
Man, I really want to move to Kansas so I can live in Dub's Dread. Dub's Dread: I am the law!
It'd only be cool till you realized that it's a suburb named after a golf course that's named after . . . a different golf course.
I have a better idea: we stop wasting precious time of busy people and let them do their work to fix actual problems.
Aren't there other persons yet alive convicted of the "crime" that Turing was? As such, the problem is contemporary.
Nothing good comes from dwelling on the past.
Isn't there a famous quote about forgetting the past?
There's not really any such objective thing as "wrong" anyway, only what individuals or societies decide for themselves to be moral or immoral. .
Now there's a can of worms.
The other way is a can of worms, too, since you'd then have to somehow determine which moral code was the correct one -- assuming that one of the existing ones is the correct one, which might not be the case.
I think this is mentioned, but nothing mentioned indicates either party was hacked. The from part of an email can be forged as easily as the from address on a piece of stationary. That email could have come from anywhere in the world and anyone. The only thing we can gather is that the spammer somehow connected the submitter's name with that of his uncle. It could have been either side, or a public mention of both addresses, or a third relative getting hacked that has both of you in their contact list. The raw headers *might* be able to tell you if it came from an aol email server but that still doesn't itself tell you who sent it.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action."
If someone's got your email address and the address of someone you correspond with, and sends bogus emails to the correspondent with your return address, someone's been compromised.
A person can ask for advice. They can act on it as they see fit. If your adult uncle ignores your advice, you are off the hook. Maybe you know what's best for him, but if he's asked you and doesn't believe you, there's nothing you can do. I know you wish you could help, but you can't. We sell computers to people who aren't IT admins with the implication that they don't need to be one in order to operate them. Sadly this isn't true, but it's beyond your duties as a nephew to try to disabuse him of this notion.
This answer is probably less than satisfactory, but the world is an imperfect place and our ability to change that is very limited.
Perhaps other Slashdotters have some Jedi mind tricks for you to try, but I'm not optimistic, based on personal experience.
An investment is expected to bring a net positive return over time, not bring the expected loss closer to zero.
I guess that does sort of reveal our bias as Slashdotters, that a computer provides valuable utility for everybody. But it's true, as you point out, that if such a device is worthless to an individual, then worrying about powering it a lower cost makes about as much sense as trying to decide between LED, CFL and incandescent for a light bulb that will only be used outdoors in broad daylight.
Perhaps the original poster should have clarified whether he had a need for the computer in question or not. Or maybe that should have been our first question to him: "do you actually have a use for this machine?"