Half of TFA made it into the summary. Should have included the other half of TFA that explains why the coding camp went out of business. Of course, quoting the entire TFA would have violated fair use.
So in 3 months, you made $66. An average of $22 per month.
Wrong, dumbass. The average was $66.66 per month. Multiply by three months in a quarter that's $200. An extra $200 that requires little effort on my part than posting a few dozen comments on Slashdot every day.
Even if you're making equivalent rates from all of your claimed 30 revenue streams (and we all know you're not) [...]
Where I don't provide information, you make up shit to fill in gaps and then lowball the results.
I leave work, spend time with my wife & kid, do creative projects (woodworking, music, and open source programming), do useful household upkeep, and a hundred other gratifying, rewarding things.
A lifestyle that I will probably never have. I don't dwell on what I don't have. I deal with what I do have. When God hands out lemons, I make lemonade and people get upset because I don't suck my lemons with salt and tequila like everyone else.
No, it's quite clear that you prefer being able to claim you're an entrepreneur without having to actually deliver on the actual successful business ventures of BEING an entrepreneur.
I've been in business for ten years now. People who don't believe they're successful TODAY won't be successful TOMORROW. I don't let doubters and naysayers dictate how I run my business.
The story of "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, which can be found in "Welcome to the Monkey House", where the government restricts everyone to be average: the beautiful wear masks, the athletic wear weights, and the intelligent have radio implants to make them stupid..
- Averaging ~ $27 a month in advertising revenues.
Made $150 in advertising revenues from Slashdot last month. The average for the past quarter was $66.66.
Selling ~ $60 worth of ebooks per year.
That's interesting number I don't recognize. Citation, please?
Working on your "side business" every day, from when you get home, until you go to bed at 10:30 pm.
Correct.
Being stuck on a shitty, dead-end treadmill is what you think of as life?
I'm not the type that comes home, watches TV and drink beers after work. I haven't watched TV in 25 years and it takes me six months to drank a six-pack. I prefer the entrepreneur lifestyle instead.
You and your father may be 100% different though because your mother also had a part in it.
The older I get the more I become my father. Fortunately, I watched my father get old so I know what to prepare for. As for my late mother, she was an alcoholic, slept all the time and a mean drunk when awake.
Dat creimer math is amazing. If you lost 6 pounds, and you were 350 to start, you'd be 344 now.
Nope, I'm 364 pounds. I'm no longer using the scales at the gym that maxed out at 350 pounds. I expect all the 14-year-old wankers to stay fixated on the 350 pounds and/or the fact that I'm not losing weight fast enough.
If you're **bankrupt**, where do you get $1.5k to file?
Bankrupt doesn't mean you're completely broke. It means that you can't pay what you owe other people. I was out of work but still paying my credit card bills for two years when my unemployment benefits expired after 99 weeks and the weekend job for 20 hours per month wasn't enough to cover the bills. When I saw my attorney, she told me to stop paying my credit cards so I can pay her to file my bankruptcy application. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I had $25 in checking and a new full-time job.
When I filed for Chapter Seven US bankruptcy in 2011, my attorney wouldn't file the bankruptcy application until I paid the $1,500 fee ($300 went to the court) over a six-month period. Sweden doesn't charge an application fee?
I got a pop-up message when I visited my web host provider, DreamHost, yesterday.
Please upgrade your plan to proceed.
Just kidding. You can still get to this site *for now*. But if the FCC ends net neutrality, your cable company could charge you extra fees just to use the websites and apps you want. We can stop them and keep the Internet open, fast, and awesome if we all contact the U.S. Congress and the FCC, but we only have a few days left. Learn more.
3) You have maintained a weight of 350 pounds for years;
As I pointed out in a few other post, the scales at the gym maxed out at 350 pounds. My new digital scale maxed out at 400 pounds. I lost six pounds over the last two months. I'm now 365 pounds.
You are LARGER than "normal-sized", which means for you, it's even EASIER to lose weight on 1500 calories a day.
If I was a butterball. That was 30 years ago. Today I have a lot of muscle and some fat.
I wonder who told you that you can. I wonder why you keep repeating it.
I'm just doing what the corporations are doing. If you copy Disney and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice. If you copy the Universal Monsters and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice. If you copy my stuff and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice.
You have to get up ridiculously early to get to your shitty job;
My father got up at 5:30AM to go to work for 50 years. He stopped working six weeks before he died at 75 from terminal throat cancer.
You get up 2.5 hours before you're expected to arrive at work, because you have to take shitty public transit in the Bay Area, which is expensive and crowded;
The alternative is to spend 3+ hours driving in traffic. I spend an hour each way taking the express bus, reading The Wall Street Journal in the morning and an ebook on the way home. If you don't arrive at my job by 7:30AM, you won't get a parking spot and street parking sucks.
You spend your "work" days dicking around on Slashdot;
While attending three meetings and two training sessions that didn't apply to me at my regular job yesterday, and responding to email notifications from Slashdot while redoing YouTube thumbnails for a client last night.
and burn hours and days and weeks of your free time for a few dollars;
I love how everyone lowball the numbers that they know nothing about. We went from half-cents to pennies to dollars over the last three months
You have to be in bed by 10:30 pm because you have to wake up again to do it all over again the next day.
I look forward to every new day because that's life.
For job applications in CA, there's a checkbox to receive a copy of the background check and/or credit reports that the employer requests. In 20+ years of working in IT, no private sector company has ever requested a background check and/or credit reports. Only my government IT job requested background check AND credit reports (all three bureaus). I expect social media to be more of the same.
Take away the slashdot and maybe you're not a failure. But there is definitely something wrong that you keep frequenting this place. Given how long you've been working, you're darn right you are a failure.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for scripts to finish. Thank you for your participation!
do you really enjoy the phrase '14yo wankers' or do you suffer from some kind of obesity-induced autism that compels you to say it as many times as possible
I was previously using "asshat" as a general description of my critics. But Eli the Computer Guy summed up in a recent video who my real critics are on Slashdot: the 14-year-old wankers.
Slashdot Mirror
Half of TFA made it into the summary. Should have included the other half of TFA that explains why the coding camp went out of business. Of course, quoting the entire TFA would have violated fair use.
So in 3 months, you made $66. An average of $22 per month.
Wrong, dumbass. The average was $66.66 per month. Multiply by three months in a quarter that's $200. An extra $200 that requires little effort on my part than posting a few dozen comments on Slashdot every day.
Even if you're making equivalent rates from all of your claimed 30 revenue streams (and we all know you're not) [...]
Where I don't provide information, you make up shit to fill in gaps and then lowball the results.
I leave work, spend time with my wife & kid, do creative projects (woodworking, music, and open source programming), do useful household upkeep, and a hundred other gratifying, rewarding things.
A lifestyle that I will probably never have. I don't dwell on what I don't have. I deal with what I do have. When God hands out lemons, I make lemonade and people get upset because I don't suck my lemons with salt and tequila like everyone else.
No, it's quite clear that you prefer being able to claim you're an entrepreneur without having to actually deliver on the actual successful business ventures of BEING an entrepreneur.
I've been in business for ten years now. People who don't believe they're successful TODAY won't be successful TOMORROW. I don't let doubters and naysayers dictate how I run my business.
The story of "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, which can be found in "Welcome to the Monkey House", where the government restricts everyone to be average: the beautiful wear masks, the athletic wear weights, and the intelligent have radio implants to make them stupid..
Can we make AIs snarky rather than homicidal killers?
Was his name Donald Trump by any chance?
Oh, no. This was a good hombre who came to the US to build his business.
Its amazing how many people find employment again just as their unemployment benefits run out.
I worked 20 hours per month for six months before I got a full-time job. That's underemployment, not employment.
- Averaging ~ $27 a month in advertising revenues.
Made $150 in advertising revenues from Slashdot last month. The average for the past quarter was $66.66.
Selling ~ $60 worth of ebooks per year.
That's interesting number I don't recognize. Citation, please?
Working on your "side business" every day, from when you get home, until you go to bed at 10:30 pm.
Correct.
Being stuck on a shitty, dead-end treadmill is what you think of as life?
I'm not the type that comes home, watches TV and drink beers after work. I haven't watched TV in 25 years and it takes me six months to drank a six-pack. I prefer the entrepreneur lifestyle instead.
You and your father may be 100% different though because your mother also had a part in it.
The older I get the more I become my father. Fortunately, I watched my father get old so I know what to prepare for. As for my late mother, she was an alcoholic, slept all the time and a mean drunk when awake.
Dat creimer math is amazing. If you lost 6 pounds, and you were 350 to start, you'd be 344 now.
Nope, I'm 364 pounds. I'm no longer using the scales at the gym that maxed out at 350 pounds. I expect all the 14-year-old wankers to stay fixated on the 350 pounds and/or the fact that I'm not losing weight fast enough.
If you're **bankrupt**, where do you get $1.5k to file?
Bankrupt doesn't mean you're completely broke. It means that you can't pay what you owe other people. I was out of work but still paying my credit card bills for two years when my unemployment benefits expired after 99 weeks and the weekend job for 20 hours per month wasn't enough to cover the bills. When I saw my attorney, she told me to stop paying my credit cards so I can pay her to file my bankruptcy application. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I had $25 in checking and a new full-time job.
When I was at the trustee hearing for my bankruptcy, an older gentlemen was on his fifth business bankruptcy in 50 years. The trustee was amazed.
When I filed for Chapter Seven US bankruptcy in 2011, my attorney wouldn't file the bankruptcy application until I paid the $1,500 fee ($300 went to the court) over a six-month period. Sweden doesn't charge an application fee?
I got a pop-up message when I visited my web host provider, DreamHost, yesterday.
Please upgrade your plan to proceed.
Just kidding. You can still get to this site *for now*. But if the FCC ends net neutrality, your cable company could charge you extra fees just to use the websites and apps you want. We can stop them and keep the Internet open, fast, and awesome if we all contact the U.S. Congress and the FCC, but we only have a few days left. Learn more.
3) You have maintained a weight of 350 pounds for years;
As I pointed out in a few other post, the scales at the gym maxed out at 350 pounds. My new digital scale maxed out at 400 pounds. I lost six pounds over the last two months. I'm now 365 pounds.
You are LARGER than "normal-sized", which means for you, it's even EASIER to lose weight on 1500 calories a day.
If I was a butterball. That was 30 years ago. Today I have a lot of muscle and some fat.
I wonder who told you that you can. I wonder why you keep repeating it.
I'm just doing what the corporations are doing. If you copy Disney and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice. If you copy the Universal Monsters and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice. If you copy my stuff and put it out in public, expect a DMCA takedown notice.
You beat the system by being unemployable.
Or you create your own job, as employers don't have to jump through the same hoops as employees.
You have to get up ridiculously early to get to your shitty job;
My father got up at 5:30AM to go to work for 50 years. He stopped working six weeks before he died at 75 from terminal throat cancer.
You get up 2.5 hours before you're expected to arrive at work, because you have to take shitty public transit in the Bay Area, which is expensive and crowded;
The alternative is to spend 3+ hours driving in traffic. I spend an hour each way taking the express bus, reading The Wall Street Journal in the morning and an ebook on the way home. If you don't arrive at my job by 7:30AM, you won't get a parking spot and street parking sucks.
You spend your "work" days dicking around on Slashdot;
While attending three meetings and two training sessions that didn't apply to me at my regular job yesterday, and responding to email notifications from Slashdot while redoing YouTube thumbnails for a client last night.
and burn hours and days and weeks of your free time for a few dollars;
I love how everyone lowball the numbers that they know nothing about. We went from half-cents to pennies to dollars over the last three months
You have to be in bed by 10:30 pm because you have to wake up again to do it all over again the next day.
I look forward to every new day because that's life.
For job applications in CA, there's a checkbox to receive a copy of the background check and/or credit reports that the employer requests. In 20+ years of working in IT, no private sector company has ever requested a background check and/or credit reports. Only my government IT job requested background check AND credit reports (all three bureaus). I expect social media to be more of the same.
not worry about the slashdot trolls as much as you do
I find the 14-year-old wankers to be amusing. That some of them call themselves men and have children is more worrisome.
Either way 6 hours of sleep is not enough sleep if you have to be cognitive during the work day and produce.
I've always gotten six hours of sleep. My late father who got up at 5:30AM to go to work for 50 years always slept six hours.
Take away the slashdot and maybe you're not a failure. But there is definitely something wrong that you keep frequenting this place. Given how long you've been working, you're darn right you are a failure.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for scripts to finish. Thank you for your participation!
do you really enjoy the phrase '14yo wankers' or do you suffer from some kind of obesity-induced autism that compels you to say it as many times as possible
I was previously using "asshat" as a general description of my critics. But Eli the Computer Guy summed up in a recent video who my real critics are on Slashdot: the 14-year-old wankers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcFStmtr7k
It does seem like a "convenient reinterpretation of a failed existence" though.
Only on Slashdot would having a job that pays the bills and a side business that brings in cash flow be considered a failure.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Who told you this? Tony Robbins? Are you listening to 'Eye of the Tiger' between pudding cups
Not from the 14-year-old wankers on Slashdot.
We're going to Mars... on a shoestring budget... that gets smaller with each passing year.
*YOU* seem to care an awful lot? What a success you are...
As a content creator, I have an obligation to protect my copyrights or risk losing them.