The difference in his tone of voice between the first time I called him and the 2nd time when I told him it was fixed was quite remarkable.
When I was working IT help desk at a Fortune 500 company, a woman screamed in my ear for ten minutes about how no one could fix her problem with the IE6 intranet sites being broken every month. I quietly remoted into her workstation, rolled back the monthly auto-update for Adobe Flash, and told her that it was fixed after she stopped screaming. She was so astonished that she no longer had a problem that she called everyone in management to praise me.
I recently got a class action settlement from Wal-Mart for $3.66. I would have bought a gift card from the online website to use it elsewhere. Alas, Wal-Mart won't let use that balance for a gift card. Now I have buy something else that I don't need or want from Wal-Mart.
I work in government IT where most of my coworkers work from home because there is limited space onsite at the facility. I'm a contractor with an assigned space at the facility. Although I have the ability to telecommute, I love commuting on the express bus because I can read The Wall Street Journal in the morning and ebooks in the afternoon, giving me an hour each way to separate my home life from my professional life.
Funny, I don't recall hearing much strong criticism of Russia under Putin during the vast majority of the Obama administration, despite plenty of obvious reason.
That's because Obama was the first president since Eisenhower to win consecutive elections with 51% of the vote. This discussion is about the 2016 election cycle, not the 2008 and 2012 election cycle.
It's attitudes like yours that cost the entire left this past election cycle.
As a moderate conservative, I don't representative the left.
You seem to have it in your head that you get to have an say so in how everyone else gets to vote.
Yes, I'm an American.
And just because YOU think people didn't make the right choice doesn't make your OPINION have any more weight.
Again, I'm an American.
And more to the point how just how much absolute corruption can you pricks on the left tolerate?
Why don't you ask someone on the left? I'm just right of center.
How many well documented cases of high level criminal corruption will it take for you open your eyes to the mere possibility that maybe, just maybe, the media isn't being honest with you?
Assuming that the Electoral College doesn't correct this historical mistake, the Trump administration will rival the Reagan administration when it comes to controversy, corruption and prison sentences.
Reality that exists where the DNC loses the House, Senate, White House, most state houses, most governor races, even dog catcher are mostly from GOP now.
Thanks to gerrymandering, vote suppression and the Russians, the Republicans are in power without having to compete on ideas or earning the popular vote.
So what reality are you talking about? I can't find evidence of it anywhere I look.
[...] while screaming about how stupid everyone else is [...]
Gullible is being too trusting that a candidate will keep their campaign promises. Stupid is voting for the letter next to the candidate's name irregardless of actual qualifications. If you re-read my comment, I wrote gullible not stupid.
[...] your team ran a shit candidate who couldn't even topple a nacho cheese Dorito.
You must feel real proud that you elected a Mexican potato chip to the highest office in the country.
A large mass of people didn't just go out and vote Trump.
Trump got ~35% of the vote in the primary elections. Even towards the end as the other Republican candidates dropped out, he got less than 50% of the votes. Keep in mind that Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. A lot of gullible voters voted for him.
Stein and Johnson saw massive jumps.
It wouldn't surprise me that half of those votes were against Trump. This election is unique because both major party candidates were equally unpopular with a majority of voters. Democrats didn't have too many choices, Republicans had too many choices.
Clinton lost because she was Clinton. That is no ones fault but hers and the DNCs.
That may be true in the end. I'm still waiting for someone to write the book that dissects this election.
If you ask for more money, in their mind that just validates a more open H1-B.
Today, yes. Not in 2030. As China and India embraces the middle class lifestyles, their young people will stay home to work. If we do import workers, it will be in the healthcare industry to take care of all those baby boomers in retirement.
Were you alive, then? Because it was a 14-month march to war. Bush made a dozen speeches making his case. Powell did the UN presentation. They got a UN resolution, and two authorizations of force from congress. And EVERY security service on the face of the planet said Saddam had WMDs - including the one you are trusting now about the Russians.
The Iraqi war had nothing to do with 9/11. No one stopped us from going into Afghanistan after 9/11 to take out the Taliban government and Osama bin Laden. If the Bush administration wasn't obsess with Saddam, they wouldn't have let Osama bin Laden escape and started an unnecessary war in Iraq.
If anything I hope this emphasizes the need to use well funded domestic IT workers in many more areas of the industry.
Good luck with that. I saw a study in 2001 that the IT industry will have 1M+ job openings and no one to fill them as baby boomers retire by 2030. That's when I went back to community college to learn computer programming and got into the IT field. Few workers means higher pay for those still in the workforce.
A flood of fake news stories to influence gullible voters to vote against their interests by voting for Trump. It doesn't help that Trump, various staff members and some of his appointees are members of The Friends of Putin Club. Or that the Republican Party is worshiping Putin as a strong leader that the U.S. could never have without a fascist government.
China holds only only 10% of the US debt. Roughly half of the debt is owned by the US government itself. Most US debt is owed to Americans in some form or other.
So the Chinese own 20% (1/5 of 1/2) of the publicly available U.S. debt. That doesn't cause alarm in most people, probably because they don't understand how bonds work. U.S. debt is a confidence game. As long as investors believe that the U.S. government will continue to service and refinance (next debt ceiling increase is in March/April 2017), interest rates will stay ultra-low on the $20T+ national debt. If a large investor, say, the Chinese, dumped their position into the open market, confidence will collapse and interest rates will shoot up in future bond offerings. When you consider that retiring baby boomers will consume two-thirds of the U.S. budgets for Social Security and Medicare, and taxes will have to way up to pay for everything else, in 2030, pissing off the Chinese isn't a good idea.
But would you have really voted for Reagan over Carter or Mondale? I doubt it.
Reagan was before my time. I voted for Bush Sr. in 1988 and 1992. Dole in 1996. George W. in 2000 and 2004. I voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 because John McCain stopped being a maverick and Mitt Romney pandered to the Tea Party crowd. When the 2016 GOP clown car came to town, I went Democratic to vote for Clinton in the primary race.
Socially liberal, registered Democrat votes for Clinton over Trump just doesn't have the same dramatic effect, does it?
On the Democratic side, no is giving me crap for being a moderate conservative or calling me a DINO (Democrat In Name Only). I rather be in a party where I'm welcomed than pissed on.
Also, if I'm the US, as long as I have the nukes, I ain't paying.
The Chinese have nukes. They also have a larger population (1.3B people vs. 360M). If a nuclear exchange took place, the Chinese are more likely to survive. Also, the Russians wouldn't appreciate nukes being blown in their backyard and may toss a few back at the U.S. But, go ahead, keep waving your Johnson and prove to the world that Americans are stupid.
If the Chinese government dumps U.S. debt into the open market, it would be a vote of no confidence and increase the borrowing cost for U.S. taxpayers. This is why Chinese officials are always astonished when U.S. presidents make demands rather than come with hat in hand.
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The difference in his tone of voice between the first time I called him and the 2nd time when I told him it was fixed was quite remarkable.
When I was working IT help desk at a Fortune 500 company, a woman screamed in my ear for ten minutes about how no one could fix her problem with the IE6 intranet sites being broken every month. I quietly remoted into her workstation, rolled back the monthly auto-update for Adobe Flash, and told her that it was fixed after she stopped screaming. She was so astonished that she no longer had a problem that she called everyone in management to praise me.
See subject & your admitting you are a troll (probably hired by George Soros or Hillary Clinton to mislead others)
Congrats on getting out of jail! The Slashdot community misses you. (Not!)
Nah, run down to your local Walmart and pick it up.
None of the local Wal-Marts are in running distance from where I live.
Sometimes you get to see some amazing things...
White trailer trash? I don't need to see my distant relatives that badly.
By and large, waste treatment effluent does not go into the potable water supply.
Waste water is used for landscaping, which tickles down into the water table and gets pumped out into the potable water supply.
Remember, duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe together.
And a $5.95 shipping charge for a "free" item.
If they get no meal break, how are they overweight?
They bring their own snack food or hit the vending machine. Or they gorge themselves before or after work.
Also saying that something is a "significant" part of a problem without providing a shred of evidence to support it makes you look stupid.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
I recently got a class action settlement from Wal-Mart for $3.66. I would have bought a gift card from the online website to use it elsewhere. Alas, Wal-Mart won't let use that balance for a gift card. Now I have buy something else that I don't need or want from Wal-Mart.
I work in government IT where most of my coworkers work from home because there is limited space onsite at the facility. I'm a contractor with an assigned space at the facility. Although I have the ability to telecommute, I love commuting on the express bus because I can read The Wall Street Journal in the morning and ebooks in the afternoon, giving me an hour each way to separate my home life from my professional life.
Funny, I don't recall hearing much strong criticism of Russia under Putin during the vast majority of the Obama administration, despite plenty of obvious reason.
That's because Obama was the first president since Eisenhower to win consecutive elections with 51% of the vote. This discussion is about the 2016 election cycle, not the 2008 and 2012 election cycle.
It's attitudes like yours that cost the entire left this past election cycle.
As a moderate conservative, I don't representative the left.
You seem to have it in your head that you get to have an say so in how everyone else gets to vote.
Yes, I'm an American.
And just because YOU think people didn't make the right choice doesn't make your OPINION have any more weight.
Again, I'm an American.
And more to the point how just how much absolute corruption can you pricks on the left tolerate?
Why don't you ask someone on the left? I'm just right of center.
How many well documented cases of high level criminal corruption will it take for you open your eyes to the mere possibility that maybe, just maybe, the media isn't being honest with you?
Assuming that the Electoral College doesn't correct this historical mistake, the Trump administration will rival the Reagan administration when it comes to controversy, corruption and prison sentences.
https://www.quora.com/Which-presidents-administration-was-the-most-corrupt-in-US-history
Or are you just going to just talk down to people about how you think you know better than them?
If you feel like I'm talking down to you, it's because you're groveling on the floor. That's your problem, not mine.
Reality that exists where the DNC loses the House, Senate, White House, most state houses, most governor races, even dog catcher are mostly from GOP now.
Thanks to gerrymandering, vote suppression and the Russians, the Republicans are in power without having to compete on ideas or earning the popular vote.
So what reality are you talking about? I can't find evidence of it anywhere I look.
Stop watching Fox News, go outside and find out.
[...] while screaming about how stupid everyone else is [...]
Gullible is being too trusting that a candidate will keep their campaign promises. Stupid is voting for the letter next to the candidate's name irregardless of actual qualifications. If you re-read my comment, I wrote gullible not stupid.
[...] your team ran a shit candidate who couldn't even topple a nacho cheese Dorito.
You must feel real proud that you elected a Mexican potato chip to the highest office in the country.
There will be dozens, most will piss of most readers. Echo chambers will be everywhere.
That's because reality has a well-known liberal bias. ;)
A large mass of people didn't just go out and vote Trump.
Trump got ~35% of the vote in the primary elections. Even towards the end as the other Republican candidates dropped out, he got less than 50% of the votes. Keep in mind that Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. A lot of gullible voters voted for him.
Stein and Johnson saw massive jumps.
It wouldn't surprise me that half of those votes were against Trump. This election is unique because both major party candidates were equally unpopular with a majority of voters. Democrats didn't have too many choices, Republicans had too many choices.
Clinton lost because she was Clinton. That is no ones fault but hers and the DNCs.
That may be true in the end. I'm still waiting for someone to write the book that dissects this election.
Ain't gonna happen unless you drug the water supply.
The water supply is already drugged, as most waste treatment plants don't remove dissolved drugs from the water supply.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-half-of-drugs-removed-by-sewage-treatment/
If you ask for more money, in their mind that just validates a more open H1-B.
Today, yes. Not in 2030. As China and India embraces the middle class lifestyles, their young people will stay home to work. If we do import workers, it will be in the healthcare industry to take care of all those baby boomers in retirement.
Were you alive, then? Because it was a 14-month march to war. Bush made a dozen speeches making his case. Powell did the UN presentation. They got a UN resolution, and two authorizations of force from congress. And EVERY security service on the face of the planet said Saddam had WMDs - including the one you are trusting now about the Russians.
The Iraqi war had nothing to do with 9/11. No one stopped us from going into Afghanistan after 9/11 to take out the Taliban government and Osama bin Laden. If the Bush administration wasn't obsess with Saddam, they wouldn't have let Osama bin Laden escape and started an unnecessary war in Iraq.
If anything I hope this emphasizes the need to use well funded domestic IT workers in many more areas of the industry.
Good luck with that. I saw a study in 2001 that the IT industry will have 1M+ job openings and no one to fill them as baby boomers retire by 2030. That's when I went back to community college to learn computer programming and got into the IT field. Few workers means higher pay for those still in the workforce.
That's the story all the good boys and girls are believing this month?
That's what I'm reading in the media these days.
[...] she made it very clear during the debates that she wanted to start WWIII with Russia.
I didn't realized that we elected Trump to be the new Chamberlian to appease the Russians.
A flood of fake news stories to influence gullible voters to vote against their interests by voting for Trump. It doesn't help that Trump, various staff members and some of his appointees are members of The Friends of Putin Club. Or that the Republican Party is worshiping Putin as a strong leader that the U.S. could never have without a fascist government.
China holds only only 10% of the US debt. Roughly half of the debt is owned by the US government itself. Most US debt is owed to Americans in some form or other.
So the Chinese own 20% (1/5 of 1/2) of the publicly available U.S. debt. That doesn't cause alarm in most people, probably because they don't understand how bonds work. U.S. debt is a confidence game. As long as investors believe that the U.S. government will continue to service and refinance (next debt ceiling increase is in March/April 2017), interest rates will stay ultra-low on the $20T+ national debt. If a large investor, say, the Chinese, dumped their position into the open market, confidence will collapse and interest rates will shoot up in future bond offerings. When you consider that retiring baby boomers will consume two-thirds of the U.S. budgets for Social Security and Medicare, and taxes will have to way up to pay for everything else, in 2030, pissing off the Chinese isn't a good idea.
But would you have really voted for Reagan over Carter or Mondale? I doubt it.
Reagan was before my time. I voted for Bush Sr. in 1988 and 1992. Dole in 1996. George W. in 2000 and 2004. I voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 because John McCain stopped being a maverick and Mitt Romney pandered to the Tea Party crowd. When the 2016 GOP clown car came to town, I went Democratic to vote for Clinton in the primary race.
Socially liberal, registered Democrat votes for Clinton over Trump just doesn't have the same dramatic effect, does it?
On the Democratic side, no is giving me crap for being a moderate conservative or calling me a DINO (Democrat In Name Only). I rather be in a party where I'm welcomed than pissed on.
Also, if I'm the US, as long as I have the nukes, I ain't paying.
The Chinese have nukes. They also have a larger population (1.3B people vs. 360M). If a nuclear exchange took place, the Chinese are more likely to survive. Also, the Russians wouldn't appreciate nukes being blown in their backyard and may toss a few back at the U.S. But, go ahead, keep waving your Johnson and prove to the world that Americans are stupid.
They own less than 10% of US debt.
If the Chinese government dumps U.S. debt into the open market, it would be a vote of no confidence and increase the borrowing cost for U.S. taxpayers. This is why Chinese officials are always astonished when U.S. presidents make demands rather than come with hat in hand.