The whole "I don't see the problem, so it doesn't exists". In this case "free choice" is used to wave away the actual problems one encounters when working in the field of choice, chosen so freely.
Last time I checked, people have a free choice as to what field they want to work/study in.
Maybe reread that sentence a few times and then ask what it says about you. Or at least I hope you understand that even if one has free choice that actually working in the field of choice can be made unbearable by the general attitude of co-workers and management.
Oh, and I take 'radical feminist' as a compliment, it even made my testicles tickle a little;-)
It's exactly this virtual flaccid urine dripping dick swinging attitude that keeps women away. As a male I somehow get more and more tired of the whole angry smart ass geek factoid burping attitude. Been there, by the way; done that. And now and then I have a relapse (maybe right now). But I seem to suffer less from it, maybe because I have a 2yo and 5yo around me most of the time, and I am positively changed by fatherhood. Anyway, whatever is changing me, I welcome it.
There are two reasons why I can't speak Spanish very well. First, I can get away with it. I am a freelance Perl programmer and work for customers outside of Mexico (mainly USA/Netherlands, but have also had in the past customers in Japan, Canada, UK, etc.) for the obvious reason that in Mexico wages are way lower (like 6 times) than in the USA/Netherlands. Add to that the 25% higher prices on luxury; for example the new Mac Book Pro with retina display entry price is 500 USD more than in the USA here in Mexico... Add piss poor customer service -- people here don't seem to go back with stuff when it doesn't work, maybe they gave up long ago -- and banks like Banamex to this mix, and you'll understand that I consider the "war on drugs" more than a pointless activity.
Second of all, for the past 12 years or so I've suffered from severe depression. Things are finally better the past year or so, but there are still too many days that things are very hard, to say the least. And it was not long ago that I had plenty of times that I could hardly speak, and not read at all (compare to be woken up while deep asleep, but feeling like that for days and nothing is funny/pleasant anymore). So when I was feeling a little better I had to work to stay afloat. Not much time to learn a new language.
Add to this all that English is my second language, and I am still learning new words, and improving my English skills. I am afraid that adding another language to the mix will make it a bit harder to improve my English. And I want to be able to have good English skills since it's the language of my work / business and I want to keep my blog readable (on hiking and hacking in Mexico).
Anyway, don't get me wrong: I love Mexico, and I wish I could speak the language fluently. I've met a lot of extremely friendly people, and at times wish I could answer their questions directly, and talk with them. Country is great, I love nature and Mexico has plenty of that; many fantastic locations for hiking. One of my hobbies is keeping scorpions, and plenty of those here as well (well, tbh, that hobby started here, but I've always been interested in creepy crawlers).
Back then I picked Banamex since their "sister" in the US is Citibank which made it the only bank (if I recall correctly) that could accept Google AdSense cheques. They didn't even ask a fee. Later they sold to me the more expensive Internet banking solution and now this, so they got their money anyway. The whole card cloning thing seems to be a major issue in Mexico especially with Banamex (at least that was the impression I got a few months ago after some Googling).
I wish I could just pick a bank in the Netherlands without too much hassle. Back in the 90s the cost of banking was covered by the interest I made (and then some) on my business account. In Mexico it looks like a bank is just a place where you can put your money and you should be happy to pay fees for whatever and little or no interest at all. An old sock is looking more and more attractive.
I live in Mexico for nearly 9 years now. Last November my Banamex bankcard got stolen. This was reported in less than an hour at a nearby "sucursal" of Banamex (in the same shopping mall). A few days later my wife and I discovered that about 27,000 MXN (about 2,000 USD) had been withdrawn in two shops in the time between the cards got stolen and reported.
So we went to the bank to report this. We talked to the bank manager (or supervisor), since we had talked to him earlier how to get money. Once your card is blocked you can only get money in the bank with identification, a copy of your contract (which they had on electronic file), and max. 3000 MXN (about 219 USD) for "security reasons" (right). Anyway, he couldn't care less, or that was our impression, but we ended up with a nice lady who really wanted to help us out, but was powerless against the unbelievable crappy way Banamex deals with customers in cases like this.
There are two ways to report incidents like this: the "fast" way: reporting it by phone. And the slow way (or in my current experience the "forget about it" way) by paper. We were allowed to use the bank's phone, so we called Banamex. And called. And were put on hold. And when finally someone who could speak English was found -- I don't speak Spanish very well -- I was put on hold, or got disconnected (again). After 4 (!!!) hours of this we had to leave the bank since they really wanted to close down.
We also went to one of the places they had shopped: Sam's Club. While we asked how it could happen that people could shop with my card the guy told us happily about how cards are cloned. I got the impression he was more into how cool this all was and what not instead of how "cool" is was for us, just before Christmas. Anyway, we learnt that 2 iPads had been bought at Sam's.
The next day we went to the bank building I had opened my account with. After 2 hours of more of the same, and worse; at one point I talked to someone in English who plainly stated she couldn't help me after it had taken nearly 20 minutes to get transferred to her, we decided to take the slower paper route. We filled in a form, I signed it, and hoped for the best. This was the 2nd of December
Right now? Still no money back. Even in Mexico the banks are insured for fraud (Banamex for 72 hrs after theft, if I understand correctly). We have contacted Banamex in every possible way, even via Facebook. I have contacted MasterCard, it's their shiny logo that's on my bankcard, but while they told they would escalate things with Banamex so far nothing has happened... Last resort seems to be CONDUSEF, but this being Mexico I don't have a good feeling about this (I do have some experience with PROFECO; an organizations that seems to "protect" consumer's rights).
What surprises me is the piss-poor "security" of bank cards. They are cloned in seconds, and it wouldn't surprise me if the data is transferred via the Internet to a different location; the trip from the mall were the card was stolen to Sam's Club, where the iPads were bought, takes probably 10+ minutes and what I recall from the time stamps they got there unbelievable fast.
A lot of companies get away with a lot. I don't understand why MasterCard can't put more pressure on Banamex; it's their logo on the card that got stolen. Is this logo just a meaningless shiny sticker? And I don't understand by Banamex behaves this piss poor; they are insured.
I do this with books. I read pirated ones on my Kindle. Buy the ones I like (printed, not e). To me it's like a library. And yes, I still buy a lot of dead tree books.
You forgot to mention that in networks have no problem (at least that was how it was in the Netherlands) to mess up the order of episodes, forget one now and then, and have no problem with moving the show from one time to another one, several times during a season.
I pirate GoT because I am a foreigner living in Mexico and want to hear English (dubs are teh suck) and read English subtitles (I don't want to play movies loud as I am somewhat sensitive to noise, and at the level I watch a lot is just mumbling).
FWIW, I also read the first 5 books, pirated, on my kindle. I wanted to order them via Amazon but read that the publisher had done a piss poor job. Now I am waiting for a boxed set with 7 books, hard cover, good binding & typography, etc. (i.e. at least same quality as the stuff from Subterranean press). Don't mind paying 25 USD/book, but hate paying 10+ USD/book for piss poor jobs (especially ebooks).
He he he, yeah, I was afraid that last line could be interpreted the wrong way (English is my 2nd language).
I've never been really into music. I "discovered" music when I was 16 or so. And when I am working (programming) or reading I phase out the music, so it's like musical wall paper, or musical carpet. Hence I don't see much of a point in it. And when I am actually listening to the music, it's harder to concentrate (at least that's my experience).
Will read TFA, thanks for the reminder.
Last November my bank card was stolen. It was reported within an hour to the bank, Banamex in this case (I live in Mexico). Yet the thieves had managed to clone the card and shop in two different locations within that time frame, buying for over 2000 USD in goods.
No problem you would think. Think, right. Banamex is insured. So when we found out we went to the nearest branch of Banamex. We were told there are 2 ways to report it: by phone, normally resolved within 15 days; or by filling in a form, normally resolved within 3 months. Of course we picked the phone solution. After 4 hours of trying to report this by phone -- I don't speak Spanish well, but that's no excuse for piss poor service, countless random hangups, long, long waits -- we decided to go to the next day to the branch where I had opened my account.
The next day... after 2 more hours of more of the same, we decided to go with the form
After a period of 3 months had passed, we checked with a branch: still in process. Waited another month: still in process. Another month: Oops, we lost your form. No problem sir, when was the last time you contacted before this time? In April? Ok, we re-start the process and use that one as the starting point, so call us back in... eh... 2.5 months, sir.
Really? Online security? First fix the piss poor excuse of bank cards that are in circulation, especially the ones handed out by Banamex, Mexico.
I am not kidding, I am working from a basement because it's silent, and rarely have music on; read: maybe a few times in 2-3 months(!). It's good to read that I am actually right on this: music distracts. And if it doesn't it's because I am not hearing it; in which case it's just "audio-wallpaper".
FWIW, no I am not living with my mum. I am married, and we have 2 children.
Then get the dongle. You already require a cable, so what's the problem of a dongle? I right now use (a cheap, Steren) one because a recent electric storm fried the ethernet port of my desktop.
Uhm, years ago one could already do that using SpiderMonkey and some Perl. It's what I used to report nasty redirects in Blogspot/Blogger to Google (thousands and thousands). It took me some time, but Google did see the light and the problem was resolved.
Why do people keep thinking that spammers are retards? If it can be abused, it will be. And spammers/cybercriminals are among the first to do so.
No idea. Last year someone contacted me about a photo on my site of my wife breastfeeding our daughter. She emailed me that she liked the photo a lot because she looks somewhat like my wife and has a very similar photo of herself and her child. Then she wrote that it had taken her some time to contact me since she had found the same photo on another website. A website with (probably copy pasted) article on breastfeeding, with plenty of Adsense.
For a lot of people copy pasta is just a way to make money; they don't give a flying fuck about the copyright of your photo(s).
Does your boss do the book keeping or does he hire someone external to do the work?
I am a freelance Perl programmer and companies do outsource to me. Outsourcing is just letting an external developer (in this case) do (some of the) the work. If you don't trust them with your code, you're looking at the wrong people. Outsourcing is not necessarily going to eLancer / rent-a-coder et al and trying to find people willing to do 1000 hrs of work for 20 USD.
By the way, nice attitude does that boss of yours have: 'monkey work'. No wonder he's worried about being ripped off. In the Netherlands, where I am from, we have a saying: "Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten", which roughly translates to "the innkeeper trusts his guests like how he can be trusted himself".
Nearly each time I watch someone eat in a TV Series/Movies I get hungry myself. My feeling is that in a lot of USA TV Series/Movies people eat often.
My feeling is also that UK TV Series have more often people drinking alcoholic beverages.
He died from complications caused by ALS, which might have been caused by an inherited defect on chromosome 21. Not something one fixes by a diet...
While FALS is not common, it's unclear what causes ALS in the majority of cases. But there might even be an environmental factor, which could have played a role before he turned 40.
Anyway GP claimed that "he flopped over dead before reaching the average age of U.S. male. ", which seems to contradict the data I found in Wikipedia.
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The whole "I don't see the problem, so it doesn't exists". In this case "free choice" is used to wave away the actual problems one encounters when working in the field of choice, chosen so freely.
Maybe reread that sentence a few times and then ask what it says about you. Or at least I hope you understand that even if one has free choice that actually working in the field of choice can be made unbearable by the general attitude of co-workers and management.
Oh, and I take 'radical feminist' as a compliment, it even made my testicles tickle a little ;-)
It's exactly this virtual flaccid urine dripping dick swinging attitude that keeps women away. As a male I somehow get more and more tired of the whole angry smart ass geek factoid burping attitude. Been there, by the way; done that. And now and then I have a relapse (maybe right now). But I seem to suffer less from it, maybe because I have a 2yo and 5yo around me most of the time, and I am positively changed by fatherhood. Anyway, whatever is changing me, I welcome it.
There are two reasons why I can't speak Spanish very well. First, I can get away with it. I am a freelance Perl programmer and work for customers outside of Mexico (mainly USA/Netherlands, but have also had in the past customers in Japan, Canada, UK, etc.) for the obvious reason that in Mexico wages are way lower (like 6 times) than in the USA/Netherlands. Add to that the 25% higher prices on luxury; for example the new Mac Book Pro with retina display entry price is 500 USD more than in the USA here in Mexico... Add piss poor customer service -- people here don't seem to go back with stuff when it doesn't work, maybe they gave up long ago -- and banks like Banamex to this mix, and you'll understand that I consider the "war on drugs" more than a pointless activity.
Second of all, for the past 12 years or so I've suffered from severe depression. Things are finally better the past year or so, but there are still too many days that things are very hard, to say the least. And it was not long ago that I had plenty of times that I could hardly speak, and not read at all (compare to be woken up while deep asleep, but feeling like that for days and nothing is funny/pleasant anymore). So when I was feeling a little better I had to work to stay afloat. Not much time to learn a new language.
Add to this all that English is my second language, and I am still learning new words, and improving my English skills. I am afraid that adding another language to the mix will make it a bit harder to improve my English. And I want to be able to have good English skills since it's the language of my work / business and I want to keep my blog readable (on hiking and hacking in Mexico).
Anyway, don't get me wrong: I love Mexico, and I wish I could speak the language fluently. I've met a lot of extremely friendly people, and at times wish I could answer their questions directly, and talk with them. Country is great, I love nature and Mexico has plenty of that; many fantastic locations for hiking. One of my hobbies is keeping scorpions, and plenty of those here as well (well, tbh, that hobby started here, but I've always been interested in creepy crawlers).
Which one? That I live in Mexico, or that I don't speak Spanish very well?
Thanks!
Back then I picked Banamex since their "sister" in the US is Citibank which made it the only bank (if I recall correctly) that could accept Google AdSense cheques. They didn't even ask a fee. Later they sold to me the more expensive Internet banking solution and now this, so they got their money anyway. The whole card cloning thing seems to be a major issue in Mexico especially with Banamex (at least that was the impression I got a few months ago after some Googling).
I wish I could just pick a bank in the Netherlands without too much hassle. Back in the 90s the cost of banking was covered by the interest I made (and then some) on my business account. In Mexico it looks like a bank is just a place where you can put your money and you should be happy to pay fees for whatever and little or no interest at all. An old sock is looking more and more attractive.
I live in Mexico for nearly 9 years now. Last November my Banamex bankcard got stolen. This was reported in less than an hour at a nearby "sucursal" of Banamex (in the same shopping mall). A few days later my wife and I discovered that about 27,000 MXN (about 2,000 USD) had been withdrawn in two shops in the time between the cards got stolen and reported.
So we went to the bank to report this. We talked to the bank manager (or supervisor), since we had talked to him earlier how to get money. Once your card is blocked you can only get money in the bank with identification, a copy of your contract (which they had on electronic file), and max. 3000 MXN (about 219 USD) for "security reasons" (right). Anyway, he couldn't care less, or that was our impression, but we ended up with a nice lady who really wanted to help us out, but was powerless against the unbelievable crappy way Banamex deals with customers in cases like this.
There are two ways to report incidents like this: the "fast" way: reporting it by phone. And the slow way (or in my current experience the "forget about it" way) by paper. We were allowed to use the bank's phone, so we called Banamex. And called. And were put on hold. And when finally someone who could speak English was found -- I don't speak Spanish very well -- I was put on hold, or got disconnected (again). After 4 (!!!) hours of this we had to leave the bank since they really wanted to close down.
We also went to one of the places they had shopped: Sam's Club. While we asked how it could happen that people could shop with my card the guy told us happily about how cards are cloned. I got the impression he was more into how cool this all was and what not instead of how "cool" is was for us, just before Christmas. Anyway, we learnt that 2 iPads had been bought at Sam's.
The next day we went to the bank building I had opened my account with. After 2 hours of more of the same, and worse; at one point I talked to someone in English who plainly stated she couldn't help me after it had taken nearly 20 minutes to get transferred to her, we decided to take the slower paper route. We filled in a form, I signed it, and hoped for the best. This was the 2nd of December
Right now? Still no money back. Even in Mexico the banks are insured for fraud (Banamex for 72 hrs after theft, if I understand correctly). We have contacted Banamex in every possible way, even via Facebook. I have contacted MasterCard, it's their shiny logo that's on my bankcard, but while they told they would escalate things with Banamex so far nothing has happened... Last resort seems to be CONDUSEF, but this being Mexico I don't have a good feeling about this (I do have some experience with PROFECO; an organizations that seems to "protect" consumer's rights).
What surprises me is the piss-poor "security" of bank cards. They are cloned in seconds, and it wouldn't surprise me if the data is transferred via the Internet to a different location; the trip from the mall were the card was stolen to Sam's Club, where the iPads were bought, takes probably 10+ minutes and what I recall from the time stamps they got there unbelievable fast.
A lot of companies get away with a lot. I don't understand why MasterCard can't put more pressure on Banamex; it's their logo on the card that got stolen. Is this logo just a meaningless shiny sticker? And I don't understand by Banamex behaves this piss poor; they are insured.
and in BW and no sound. You do want it classic, right?
I guess that has much more to do with that you now have to dedicate a large part of that energy to other things. Also, it's no longer a hobby, right?
I recently bought a Celestron USB Microscope and returned it. It's just a cheap webcam with a bad lens in front. The LED lighting worked erratically.
Since "Blackwater" could get a considerable increase in budget I doubt HBO has anything but a very healthy profit.
I do this with books. I read pirated ones on my Kindle. Buy the ones I like (printed, not e). To me it's like a library. And yes, I still buy a lot of dead tree books.
You forgot to mention that in networks have no problem (at least that was how it was in the Netherlands) to mess up the order of episodes, forget one now and then, and have no problem with moving the show from one time to another one, several times during a season. I pirate GoT because I am a foreigner living in Mexico and want to hear English (dubs are teh suck) and read English subtitles (I don't want to play movies loud as I am somewhat sensitive to noise, and at the level I watch a lot is just mumbling). FWIW, I also read the first 5 books, pirated, on my kindle. I wanted to order them via Amazon but read that the publisher had done a piss poor job. Now I am waiting for a boxed set with 7 books, hard cover, good binding & typography, etc. (i.e. at least same quality as the stuff from Subterranean press). Don't mind paying 25 USD/book, but hate paying 10+ USD/book for piss poor jobs (especially ebooks).
He he he, yeah, I was afraid that last line could be interpreted the wrong way (English is my 2nd language). I've never been really into music. I "discovered" music when I was 16 or so. And when I am working (programming) or reading I phase out the music, so it's like musical wall paper, or musical carpet. Hence I don't see much of a point in it. And when I am actually listening to the music, it's harder to concentrate (at least that's my experience). Will read TFA, thanks for the reminder.
Last November my bank card was stolen. It was reported within an hour to the bank, Banamex in this case (I live in Mexico). Yet the thieves had managed to clone the card and shop in two different locations within that time frame, buying for over 2000 USD in goods.
No problem you would think. Think, right. Banamex is insured. So when we found out we went to the nearest branch of Banamex. We were told there are 2 ways to report it: by phone, normally resolved within 15 days; or by filling in a form, normally resolved within 3 months. Of course we picked the phone solution. After 4 hours of trying to report this by phone -- I don't speak Spanish well, but that's no excuse for piss poor service, countless random hangups, long, long waits -- we decided to go to the next day to the branch where I had opened my account.
The next day... after 2 more hours of more of the same, we decided to go with the form
After a period of 3 months had passed, we checked with a branch: still in process. Waited another month: still in process. Another month: Oops, we lost your form. No problem sir, when was the last time you contacted before this time? In April? Ok, we re-start the process and use that one as the starting point, so call us back in... eh... 2.5 months, sir.
Really? Online security? First fix the piss poor excuse of bank cards that are in circulation, especially the ones handed out by Banamex, Mexico.
I am not kidding, I am working from a basement because it's silent, and rarely have music on; read: maybe a few times in 2-3 months(!). It's good to read that I am actually right on this: music distracts. And if it doesn't it's because I am not hearing it; in which case it's just "audio-wallpaper".
FWIW, no I am not living with my mum. I am married, and we have 2 children.
Second. I bought an Acer twice and they are overpriced crap, even if you run Windows on it.
Then get the dongle. You already require a cable, so what's the problem of a dongle? I right now use (a cheap, Steren) one because a recent electric storm fried the ethernet port of my desktop.
Uhm, years ago one could already do that using SpiderMonkey and some Perl. It's what I used to report nasty redirects in Blogspot/Blogger to Google (thousands and thousands). It took me some time, but Google did see the light and the problem was resolved.
Why do people keep thinking that spammers are retards? If it can be abused, it will be. And spammers/cybercriminals are among the first to do so.
No idea. Last year someone contacted me about a photo on my site of my wife breastfeeding our daughter. She emailed me that she liked the photo a lot because she looks somewhat like my wife and has a very similar photo of herself and her child. Then she wrote that it had taken her some time to contact me since she had found the same photo on another website. A website with (probably copy pasted) article on breastfeeding, with plenty of Adsense.
For a lot of people copy pasta is just a way to make money; they don't give a flying fuck about the copyright of your photo(s).
Enter the URL of your picture in Google's image search and it will also find similar/same.
So, maybe soon a kid can finally fix the RSS feed? It's XML, not HTML :-(
Does your boss do the book keeping or does he hire someone external to do the work?
I am a freelance Perl programmer and companies do outsource to me. Outsourcing is just letting an external developer (in this case) do (some of the) the work. If you don't trust them with your code, you're looking at the wrong people. Outsourcing is not necessarily going to eLancer / rent-a-coder et al and trying to find people willing to do 1000 hrs of work for 20 USD.
By the way, nice attitude does that boss of yours have: 'monkey work'. No wonder he's worried about being ripped off. In the Netherlands, where I am from, we have a saying: "Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten", which roughly translates to "the innkeeper trusts his guests like how he can be trusted himself".
Nearly each time I watch someone eat in a TV Series/Movies I get hungry myself. My feeling is that in a lot of USA TV Series/Movies people eat often. My feeling is also that UK TV Series have more often people drinking alcoholic beverages.
He died from complications caused by ALS, which might have been caused by an inherited defect on chromosome 21. Not something one fixes by a diet... While FALS is not common, it's unclear what causes ALS in the majority of cases. But there might even be an environmental factor, which could have played a role before he turned 40.
Anyway GP claimed that "he flopped over dead before reaching the average age of U.S. male. ", which seems to contradict the data I found in Wikipedia.