What about the other way? Your boss has hired you to build a shed but by the time the project is done your building a mansion and they haven't giving you any more resources to do so. That shows that management is manipulative hiring a guy to to a job but then over time they can get job b, c and d as well for free.
That's certainly a possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that management hires people expecting them to grow and take on more duties, then ask for help when they need it. The difference is what happens when you go to management and ask for help. Your manager may honestly not know what you're doing or what you can handle. Really, it's the adult thing to do.
Go to your profile and hit the little pencil icon next to it. You can hide your friends list from there. (Thanks to another/. commenter, who pointed this out to me.)
BTW, make sure you lock down the settings on what your friends' apps can see, unless you trust them not to accidentally add malware.
Thanks for the pointer. I'd been looking all over for that. I'd also suggest checking out the settings on what your friends' apps can see in your profile; it's very open by default.
Really, you would turn down an applicant on the basis of something which may very well be a health condition or religious conviction? For your own sake, I hope your comment doesn't end up online or anything...
(Seriously, I hope you're kidding here. People don't drink for a lot of reasons. It just means they don't drink.)
To copy from the privacy section of the FAQ linked by the parent:
> With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address (only temporarily) and ISP and location information (in permanent logs) for the purpose of making our service faster, better and > more secure. Specifically, we use this data to conduct debugging, to analyze abuse phenomena and to improve our prefetching feature. After 24 hours, we erase any IP > information. For more information, read the Google Public DNS privacy page.
The same medical industry drones who wanted us to do prenatal testing for Down's Syndrome (what difference would knowing this beforehand make, other than a stressed-out pregnant woman?)
There are three reasons (off the top of my head) that one might want to know beforehand:
1. Termination. You might not terminate a Down's-positive fetus, but some people do, especially if it looks like they're going to die anyway.
2. Treatment. I have heard that some heart defects (which is one of the largest death-related dangers from Down's) can be treated successfully in-utero, before strain on the heart causes complications or death.
3. Preparation. I'm not sure that the moments after giving birth would be the time I'd prefer to recieve the news that my new baby had Down's. I'd prefer to research it beforehand, if that was practical.
[quote]You don't need to be incredibly toned or strong, just mildly so. In fact if you even take the slightest care of yourself, your BMI will show you as obese.[/quote]
I can't make claims about the upper end of the BMI spectrum, as I've never been there myself, but I can say quite definitely that one can be in very good shape, eat a ton of food, and not show up on the BMI as overweight or obese. I'm sure that some of this is because some people are better than others at building muscle, but even after I put on ~30 pounds of muscle (which took a lot of work), I didn't show up as obese or overweight on the BMI chart.
You may not agree with the BMI, but it's not some kind of muscle-mass indication.
The warning is there -- it's not up to manufacturers to force you to follow it.
To take a Monty Python derived example, let's talk about the Whizzo Quality Assortment. One of these chocolates, when you eat it, shoots out bolts that poke through your cheecks. At least in the US, a product has to be fit for the purpose for which it is sold. If a food isn't really food, it's not exactly the customer's fault. I agree that rampantly overeating the Olestra chips is asking for it, but eating a few of them as is normal and customary and the purpose for which they were sold is not unreasonable. Thus, it's not their fault if they have a reaction to them.
[quote]There IS a reason to have warning labels on food packages, just like medicine, and it's hardly anyone's fault other than the "victim"'s if someone ignores the warnings and gets sick.[/quote]
So if you take something which is nominally food and label this "don't eat", then sell it as food, the person who eats it is at fault? Weird. (For the record, I know one person who had a small quantity of those chips and certainly had a reaction to them. It's a risk they took, but I wouldn't suggest that it's their "fault".)
In fact, I am much less religious than most that are quite liberal. Everybody has beliefs, even when they try to convince society that they don't really.
You have data to back this up, of course. Would it be troubling you too much to ask you to produce it? Please note that religious beliefs are a subset of all possible beliefs.
That said, when I approach any situation I true to determine the truth in it and what is accurate. Many people that I know that are quite far left are just as guilty of believing without thinking. If I took evolution or ID and believed either without thoroughly disecting them, then I've just followed my belief instead of something that I know to be a fact.
What makes you think that people on the "far left" haven't taken this approach? Your sampling method is flawed for drawing the conclusions you have drawn. I know many people from what you would probably call the "far left" (as well as the rest of the political spectrum) who are very logical and methodical in drawing their conclusions.
And in light of this article, I wonder if I could make a FOIA request to get to your coupon book, since it seems we now have a right to get to any information out there.
That FOIA request will take O(n lg n) time to process.
Lolita is an excellent novel, and I'm sure there is quite a bit of relevant commentary on the web.
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> These credit criminals are lucky they aren't hitchhiking or flagging a bus down. These are not the upright citizens that a bank considers credit worthy.
*cough* May I remind you that most middle-class people who declare bankruptcy do so as a result of a medical catastrophe?
>I would have a lot better time hearing pro choice arguments if they also said it would be ok to kill a newborn if unwanted. I'm serious, there really isn't any difference, and I would like a consistent argument.
There's a very large difference. When a fetus is embedded inside you, you are the one that must care for it (and take serious health risks for it). Once it's born and turns into a baby, you can hand it off to someone else, who can then take responsibility. It's the difference between "part of your body" and "not part of your body". This is, I believe, where the Roe v Wade viability test comes in.
I'm not going to say where I stand on this issue, but I do think it's pretty clear that the situation where the fetus is inside vs. where the baby is outside are distinct.
>My 10th graders are learning math that I personally didn't learn until 11th grade in the States (Trig./Advanced math)
Well, it depends on what school district you're in. I learned trig in junior high/middle school. Actually, I learned it TWICE, because I moved between 7th and 8th grade and got the same exact textbook two years in a row. In another school district for high school I learned some math that most people don't learn until upper division of college (or in passing in a graduate course). This disparity seems to have quite a lot to do with many bankruptcies -- people buy more house than they can reasonably afford, and then a medical emergency takes them out. It's sad in several ways.
In my experience, people can program in cubes just fine (even if it's a bit noisy) by wearing headphones. On the other hand, theorists tend to have a harder time getting good work done in such an environment. Even if people aren't talking, there's a very distracting background hum which I find very noisy (when I visit the cube farm near me; I don't work there). The theorists I know work in offices, at home, or walking around somewhere reasonably quiet. It's not a lack of focus that makes them unproductive when it's noisy -- they can program or write papers just as well as anyone in a loud environment -- but that they have to clamp down farther on the amount of mental bandwidth going to input operations.
My hips don't rub, either, but some airlines put the seats so close together that when the person in front of me leans back their seat they're lying on my knees. This is compounded by the people (even the healthy weight ones) sitting next to me and overflowing into my seat. It's not economical to fly a cheaper airline if I can't get work done on the way (due to the lack of an unobstructed lap or table), or if I have to argue with them for TWO HOURS to get them to pay for a hotel room when they strand me in some random airport!... I think I'm going to start springing for direct flights again.
You can, in fact, buy topological maps (and good ones, too) from the USGS. They don't have trails on them, however. There are some parks here in PA where the people running them don't even know where a lot of the trails are!
Hear, hear! (and I'm one of the fast skiiers, mind you)
The last point should really be "the ski place should design their trails to allow stopping". I broke my hand in a fall because a steep, icy trail merged with a easier trail -- WITH A JUMP. Basically, you had the choice of going fast over the jump if there was no one below it, or having a pretty bad accident. Go slow? You'll plant your tips and land on your face. Go fast? You'd better damn well hope there's no one there. I didn't know there was going to be a jump there, and someone stopped right freaking under it. I broke my hand because my other choice was to plant skis in her head.
It depends on what you're playing. I was listening to a radio podcast the other day; I had to turn the volume up near 75% to hear it. I have good hearing, mind you, and I was listening to other music at ~30% of max. The point is that it's relative to what's coming out of the file, not what's coming out of the headphones. Silence doesn't become automatically deafening.
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What about the other way? Your boss has hired you to build a shed but by the time the project is done your building a mansion and they haven't giving you any more resources to do so. That shows that management is manipulative hiring a guy to to a job but then over time they can get job b, c and d as well for free.
That's certainly a possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that management hires people expecting them to grow and take on more duties, then ask for help when they need it. The difference is what happens when you go to management and ask for help. Your manager may honestly not know what you're doing or what you can handle. Really, it's the adult thing to do.
Go to your profile and hit the little pencil icon next to it. You can hide your friends list from there. (Thanks to another /. commenter, who pointed this out to me.)
BTW, make sure you lock down the settings on what your friends' apps can see, unless you trust them not to accidentally add malware.
Thanks for the pointer. I'd been looking all over for that. I'd also suggest checking out the settings on what your friends' apps can see in your profile; it's very open by default.
Really, you would turn down an applicant on the basis of something which may very well be a health condition or religious conviction? For your own sake, I hope your comment doesn't end up online or anything...
(Seriously, I hope you're kidding here. People don't drink for a lot of reasons. It just means they don't drink.)
To copy from the privacy section of the FAQ linked by the parent:
> With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address (only temporarily) and ISP and location information (in permanent logs) for the purpose of making our service faster, better and
> more secure. Specifically, we use this data to conduct debugging, to analyze abuse phenomena and to improve our prefetching feature. After 24 hours, we erase any IP
> information. For more information, read the Google Public DNS privacy page.
If I didn't know better, I'd suspect that you were trying to get all the women around here to come out of the woodwork...
They make running shoes like that (but probably not as padded as you have in mind). They're called track spikes (just take the spikes out).
Thanks,
Lea
There are three reasons (off the top of my head) that one might want to know beforehand:
1. Termination. You might not terminate a Down's-positive fetus, but some people do, especially if it looks like they're going to die anyway.
2. Treatment. I have heard that some heart defects (which is one of the largest death-related dangers from Down's) can be treated successfully in-utero, before strain on the heart causes complications or death.
3. Preparation. I'm not sure that the moments after giving birth would be the time I'd prefer to recieve the news that my new baby had Down's. I'd prefer to research it beforehand, if that was practical.
- Lea
[quote]You don't need to be incredibly toned or strong, just mildly so. In fact if you even take the slightest care of yourself, your BMI will show you as obese.[/quote]
I can't make claims about the upper end of the BMI spectrum, as I've never been there myself, but I can say quite definitely that one can be in very good shape, eat a ton of food, and not show up on the BMI as overweight or obese. I'm sure that some of this is because some people are better than others at building muscle, but even after I put on ~30 pounds of muscle (which took a lot of work), I didn't show up as obese or overweight on the BMI chart.
You may not agree with the BMI, but it's not some kind of muscle-mass indication.
-Lea
To take a Monty Python derived example, let's talk about the Whizzo Quality Assortment. One of these chocolates, when you eat it, shoots out bolts that poke through your cheecks. At least in the US, a product has to be fit for the purpose for which it is sold. If a food isn't really food, it's not exactly the customer's fault. I agree that rampantly overeating the Olestra chips is asking for it, but eating a few of them as is normal and customary and the purpose for which they were sold is not unreasonable. Thus, it's not their fault if they have a reaction to them.
Lea
[quote]There IS a reason to have warning labels on food packages, just like medicine, and it's hardly anyone's fault other than the "victim"'s if someone ignores the warnings and gets sick.[/quote]
So if you take something which is nominally food and label this "don't eat", then sell it as food, the person who eats it is at fault? Weird. (For the record, I know one person who had a small quantity of those chips and certainly had a reaction to them. It's a risk they took, but I wouldn't suggest that it's their "fault".)
Lea
> And perhaps no sport showcases the raw power of the leg than the fifty-yard-dash.
:)
This grammatical error jumped (har) out at me.
Lea
You have data to back this up, of course. Would it be troubling you too much to ask you to produce it? Please note that religious beliefs are a subset of all possible beliefs.
What makes you think that people on the "far left" haven't taken this approach? Your sampling method is flawed for drawing the conclusions you have drawn. I know many people from what you would probably call the "far left" (as well as the rest of the political spectrum) who are very logical and methodical in drawing their conclusions.
Lea
That FOIA request will take O(n lg n) time to process.
Lolita is an excellent novel, and I'm sure there is quite a bit of relevant commentary on the web.
> These credit criminals are lucky they aren't hitchhiking or flagging a bus down. These are not the upright citizens that a bank considers credit worthy.
*cough* May I remind you that most middle-class people who declare bankruptcy do so as a result of a medical catastrophe?
> Egg donation requires weeks of hormone therapy and an invasive surgery.
Plus, it depletes the finite number of eggs a woman has -- doing it a few times, especially, can make it harder for the donor to get pregnant herself.
Lea
>I would have a lot better time hearing pro choice arguments if they also said it would be ok to kill a newborn if unwanted. I'm serious, there really isn't any difference, and I would like a consistent argument.
There's a very large difference. When a fetus is embedded inside you, you are the one that must care for it (and take serious health risks for it). Once it's born and turns into a baby, you can hand it off to someone else, who can then take responsibility. It's the difference between "part of your body" and "not part of your body". This is, I believe, where the Roe v Wade viability test comes in.
I'm not going to say where I stand on this issue, but I do think it's pretty clear that the situation where the fetus is inside vs. where the baby is outside are distinct.
I didn't bother registering for quite a while, myself, and it wasn't a problem at the time at all. I just don't have maximal dick-waving rights now.
Lea
>My 10th graders are learning math that I personally didn't learn until 11th grade in the States (Trig./Advanced math)
Well, it depends on what school district you're in. I learned trig in junior high/middle school. Actually, I learned it TWICE, because I moved between 7th and 8th grade and got the same exact textbook two years in a row. In another school district for high school I learned some math that most people don't learn until upper division of college (or in passing in a graduate course). This disparity seems to have quite a lot to do with many bankruptcies -- people buy more house than they can reasonably afford, and then a medical emergency takes them out. It's sad in several ways.
Lea
In my experience, people can program in cubes just fine (even if it's a bit noisy) by wearing headphones. On the other hand, theorists tend to have a harder time getting good work done in such an environment. Even if people aren't talking, there's a very distracting background hum which I find very noisy (when I visit the cube farm near me; I don't work there). The theorists I know work in offices, at home, or walking around somewhere reasonably quiet. It's not a lack of focus that makes them unproductive when it's noisy -- they can program or write papers just as well as anyone in a loud environment -- but that they have to clamp down farther on the amount of mental bandwidth going to input operations.
Lea
My hips don't rub, either, but some airlines put the seats so close together that when the person in front of me leans back their seat they're lying on my knees. This is compounded by the people (even the healthy weight ones) sitting next to me and overflowing into my seat. It's not economical to fly a cheaper airline if I can't get work done on the way (due to the lack of an unobstructed lap or table), or if I have to argue with them for TWO HOURS to get them to pay for a hotel room when they strand me in some random airport! ... I think I'm going to start springing for direct flights again.
You can, in fact, buy topological maps (and good ones, too) from the USGS. They don't have trails on them, however. There are some parks here in PA where the people running them don't even know where a lot of the trails are!
Lea
Hear, hear! (and I'm one of the fast skiiers, mind you)
The last point should really be "the ski place should design their trails to allow stopping". I broke my hand in a fall because a steep, icy trail merged with a easier trail -- WITH A JUMP. Basically, you had the choice of going fast over the jump if there was no one below it, or having a pretty bad accident. Go slow? You'll plant your tips and land on your face. Go fast? You'd better damn well hope there's no one there. I didn't know there was going to be a jump there, and someone stopped right freaking under it. I broke my hand because my other choice was to plant skis in her head.
Lea
It depends on what you're playing. I was listening to a radio podcast the other day; I had to turn the volume up near 75% to hear it. I have good hearing, mind you, and I was listening to other music at ~30% of max. The point is that it's relative to what's coming out of the file, not what's coming out of the headphones. Silence doesn't become automatically deafening.
Lea