Of course they will also goof off at times, take personal days, or sneak out early to run a personal errand... You get points for showing up early and leaving late
Interesting. When I need to run an errand, I tell my boss, "hey, I gotta leave at 3 to get my ferret neutered." And he says, "OK." As long as I have all my work done, nobody gives a shit. On the other hand... I left pretty late one day, but I had forgotten to do something I said I would do. Do you think my boss cared that I was working late? Nope. He cared that I didn't get that report to Jenkins in time for his meeting in the morning. (Actually I texted Jenkins around 7:30 that night, and he said it was cool, but whatever, bossman wanted results). If neither of us are busy he might drop by my office to see if I have seen $latest_viral_video$. He might even invite one of my hourly guys to come watch, too. At the end of the day, team-building really does matter. I have a loyal team.
One of the solutions is to encourage numeracy. Americans in particular seem to have a hard time understanding ratios, probabilities, even stuff as simple as orders of magnitude. You have politicians in a tizzy about a $400,000 budget item, while Exxon takes a $2 billion tax break [citation needed]. Explaining things like statistics, and how useless a p-value is will get you nothing but blank stares.
I talk to my kids about numbers all the time. When my wife tells them how dangerous it is to play outside by themselves, I show them the NHTSA and FBI stats saying that they are far more likely to die in a car crash than get kidnapped. But they're not scared of getting in the car. Why not? I tell them they are more likely to be harmed by sitting on their butts playing on their iPad than by going out and getting some exercise. Of course, then one of them goes and falls on a rock and gets a concussion. Fukken kids.
we did cross an ocean from the other side of the world to participate in your defense.
Yeah. It takes at least three rounds to get that transport to Algeria pipeline going. Don't even get me started on the naval buildup required to take Tokyo (assuming the bastards don't invade Mexico.)
And whom would your armed revolt be against? I'll give you a hint, a lot of disgruntled Americans work for corporations. You think they're going to take up arms against themselves?
There's two other reasons managers don't fire people. Sometimes they keep hoping to take somebody with a lot of potential, and turn them into the ideal employee. I've had an issue with one of my guys. Rarely does all of his work, always blames other people, but I know he can be a top-notch guy because he has a lot of knowledge, and occasional glimmers of give-a-damn. Sometimes you just don't want to throw in the towel.
The other reason we don't fire people at my company is because they made it a pain in the ass to hire new people.
Pretty sure that's what Trump has in mind. Dump NATO while fellating Putin. Of course, he thinks we're a third world country, so second world would be a step up?
I got a ride from a friend one time, and she went down the wrong way on a one way, too. Nearly got us killed, because there was no stop sign at an intersection coming the wrong direction, but cross traffic did not stop. It happens. The only difference, with Uber, you can correct the software. With a human driver, you're constantly fighting stupid.
Yeah, that notorious liberal Donald J. Trump came up with "Trump dat bitch!" and "Lyin' Ted" and "Crooked Hillary". They're always name-calling, those filthy liberals!
But we're not doing as we were told, now, are we? We eat bacon and catfish. We work 7 days a week. We don't give a tenth of our income to the church. Maybe you're on to something....
Not sure why you got modded as troll. You've got a pretty good point. The "evidence" supporting a religion has as much to do with the adherents and their "spiritual" experience as much as anything else. It's the whole opiate for the masses thing. Speaking from personal experience, getting high and being "filled with the holy spirit" feel very similar.
I don't think you're arguing that the current religious population is evidence for the literal things the Bible says, rather it's a testament to the generally validity of the religion in the lives of the people who practice it. I don't think that's argumentum ad populum, so much as reframing the debate.
You can't even get staunch denialists to agree on the first four points. On point one they blame evil scientists hiding data, oh and sunspots, yeah, sunspots! On point 2 they do some handwaving about methane (as if that somehow matters). Point 3 is just correlation, not causation. And point 4 is more handwaving about volcanoes.
I've been saying "Trump is the president we deserve" for the last 10 months. He represents everything Americans stand for these days. Just look at the comments section on any public news site for the last 5 years. We are a fact-averse, hypocritical, writhing mass of bigotry and ignorance. We value fame for fame's sake. We value money for money's sake. We entertain ourselves with the suffering of others. We fail to take responsibility for our mistakes, and seek to blame others preemptively. We cloak our hatred of people who are not like us in the trappings of righteousness. We use pithy, short generalizations to allow us to rationalize ignoring anybody who disagrees with us.
Obama represented what we thought we wanted to become. Trump will represent us as we truly are. Whether that's a good thing or not, depends on your point of view.
I've been saying from the get go that most of these stories had to be fabricated. There's probably one or two legit cases of overheating, causing a fire. But there's simply not enough energy in one of these batteries to explode a car. It makes no sense. Further, these devices go through rigorous MTBF accelerated lifetime tests. The failure rate is known ahead of time to within a few per million. They know they'll never get it down to zero, so they find a threshold they think everybody will be OK with and shoot for that.
The problem is now, with Facebook and the 24-hour news cycle, the few actual failures out of the million devices will "go viral," and everybody freaks out. People have no understanding of statistics, so they have no way to deal with it. I think these are the same people who go buy a lottery ticket when the news runs a story about PowerBall being at eleventy million dollars. They don't understand that the odds dictate that they are not going to win the lottery, and their phone is not going to blow up.
This innumeracy has real ramifications for public policy makers, too. Police shootings are comparable to previous years, yet people think there is a sudden spike. Kidnappings are rarer than ever, yet moms are afraid for their children "in this day and age." People just need to chill out.
You paid 2k and expected to be able to use it indefinitely. We didn't know back then that computers would become obsolete so fast. We thought they would be like the washing machine that lasted twenty+ years and could be repaired ad nauseum, passed on to the kids, that sort of thing. We were told you could just update components. I remember when we bought our first hard drive and upgraded the ram, and got a new video card. Making the old beast better one piece at a time. It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that it became clear you would need to upgrade frequently if you wanted to be able to use current software.
Of course, I'm something of a luddite. I miss my old flip phone, and bemoan the loss of my optical drive. People at work were amazed that I was on an 8 year old laptop back in 2013. The replacement one really didn't improve my productivity, since all the software was bigger and slower. And two years later I had to get a third one. Same story in 2016.
But now we know better. Now we know that the thing in our pocket will be in a landfill in two years. That's why when the accelerometer goes out, we don't stress about it. That's why when an app stops working, we assume it's our fault for having an 8-month-old dinosaur. Oh well.
THIS! All the focus on tax rates ignores the biggest two facets of tax code, income and deductions. Getting rid of the mortgage interest deduction is an economic no-brainer, but it's a political third rail. Basically, poor people pay me to give interest to my rich father-in-law (or pay you to give money to banks). It makes no sense. The other way the big dogs reduce taxes is by hiding their income.
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Of course, the Swiss also remained "neutral" against Hitler. So there might be more to the story.
Maybe not all, but the majority who voted for trickle-down economics time and time again.
Of course they will also goof off at times, take personal days, or sneak out early to run a personal errand... You get points for showing up early and leaving late
Interesting. When I need to run an errand, I tell my boss, "hey, I gotta leave at 3 to get my ferret neutered." And he says, "OK." As long as I have all my work done, nobody gives a shit. On the other hand... I left pretty late one day, but I had forgotten to do something I said I would do. Do you think my boss cared that I was working late? Nope. He cared that I didn't get that report to Jenkins in time for his meeting in the morning. (Actually I texted Jenkins around 7:30 that night, and he said it was cool, but whatever, bossman wanted results). If neither of us are busy he might drop by my office to see if I have seen $latest_viral_video$. He might even invite one of my hourly guys to come watch, too. At the end of the day, team-building really does matter. I have a loyal team.
Yeah, I offered my kid a sip of my beer, and he was all "ew, no way, that's drugs." Spineless little brat.
I talk to my kids about numbers all the time. When my wife tells them how dangerous it is to play outside by themselves, I show them the NHTSA and FBI stats saying that they are far more likely to die in a car crash than get kidnapped. But they're not scared of getting in the car. Why not? I tell them they are more likely to be harmed by sitting on their butts playing on their iPad than by going out and getting some exercise. Of course, then one of them goes and falls on a rock and gets a concussion. Fukken kids.
we did cross an ocean from the other side of the world to participate in your defense.
Yeah. It takes at least three rounds to get that transport to Algeria pipeline going. Don't even get me started on the naval buildup required to take Tokyo (assuming the bastards don't invade Mexico.)
My wife made us get satellite when MNF moved to ESPN in 2006. She said, "Don't mess with a pregnant woman's football!" It was scary.
People like you are why I still visit Slashdot.
I don't know... that AC guy sure posts a lot of crap, too.
I've never met a biker who said, "You know, what I really need is less freedom on the road."
And whom would your armed revolt be against? I'll give you a hint, a lot of disgruntled Americans work for corporations. You think they're going to take up arms against themselves?
So THAT's why the couldn't answer the FOIA request. They've been looking for the sheep game.
There's two other reasons managers don't fire people. Sometimes they keep hoping to take somebody with a lot of potential, and turn them into the ideal employee. I've had an issue with one of my guys. Rarely does all of his work, always blames other people, but I know he can be a top-notch guy because he has a lot of knowledge, and occasional glimmers of give-a-damn. Sometimes you just don't want to throw in the towel.
The other reason we don't fire people at my company is because they made it a pain in the ass to hire new people.
Yes. Slashdot does seem to hate SJWs. Though for the life of me, I don't really know why.
Pretty sure that's what Trump has in mind. Dump NATO while fellating Putin. Of course, he thinks we're a third world country, so second world would be a step up?
I got a ride from a friend one time, and she went down the wrong way on a one way, too. Nearly got us killed, because there was no stop sign at an intersection coming the wrong direction, but cross traffic did not stop. It happens. The only difference, with Uber, you can correct the software. With a human driver, you're constantly fighting stupid.
Yeah, that notorious liberal Donald J. Trump came up with "Trump dat bitch!" and "Lyin' Ted" and "Crooked Hillary". They're always name-calling, those filthy liberals!
But we're not doing as we were told, now, are we? We eat bacon and catfish. We work 7 days a week. We don't give a tenth of our income to the church. Maybe you're on to something....
Not sure why you got modded as troll. You've got a pretty good point. The "evidence" supporting a religion has as much to do with the adherents and their "spiritual" experience as much as anything else. It's the whole opiate for the masses thing. Speaking from personal experience, getting high and being "filled with the holy spirit" feel very similar.
I don't think you're arguing that the current religious population is evidence for the literal things the Bible says, rather it's a testament to the generally validity of the religion in the lives of the people who practice it. I don't think that's argumentum ad populum, so much as reframing the debate.
You can't even get staunch denialists to agree on the first four points. On point one they blame evil scientists hiding data, oh and sunspots, yeah, sunspots! On point 2 they do some handwaving about methane (as if that somehow matters). Point 3 is just correlation, not causation. And point 4 is more handwaving about volcanoes.
I've been saying "Trump is the president we deserve" for the last 10 months. He represents everything Americans stand for these days. Just look at the comments section on any public news site for the last 5 years. We are a fact-averse, hypocritical, writhing mass of bigotry and ignorance. We value fame for fame's sake. We value money for money's sake. We entertain ourselves with the suffering of others. We fail to take responsibility for our mistakes, and seek to blame others preemptively. We cloak our hatred of people who are not like us in the trappings of righteousness. We use pithy, short generalizations to allow us to rationalize ignoring anybody who disagrees with us.
Obama represented what we thought we wanted to become. Trump will represent us as we truly are. Whether that's a good thing or not, depends on your point of view.
No raindrop thinks it is responsible for the flood.
I've been saying from the get go that most of these stories had to be fabricated. There's probably one or two legit cases of overheating, causing a fire. But there's simply not enough energy in one of these batteries to explode a car. It makes no sense. Further, these devices go through rigorous MTBF accelerated lifetime tests. The failure rate is known ahead of time to within a few per million. They know they'll never get it down to zero, so they find a threshold they think everybody will be OK with and shoot for that.
The problem is now, with Facebook and the 24-hour news cycle, the few actual failures out of the million devices will "go viral," and everybody freaks out. People have no understanding of statistics, so they have no way to deal with it. I think these are the same people who go buy a lottery ticket when the news runs a story about PowerBall being at eleventy million dollars. They don't understand that the odds dictate that they are not going to win the lottery, and their phone is not going to blow up.
This innumeracy has real ramifications for public policy makers, too. Police shootings are comparable to previous years, yet people think there is a sudden spike. Kidnappings are rarer than ever, yet moms are afraid for their children "in this day and age." People just need to chill out.
In all fairness, there are a lot of Europeans who get confused by these things, too.
You paid 2k and expected to be able to use it indefinitely. We didn't know back then that computers would become obsolete so fast. We thought they would be like the washing machine that lasted twenty+ years and could be repaired ad nauseum, passed on to the kids, that sort of thing. We were told you could just update components. I remember when we bought our first hard drive and upgraded the ram, and got a new video card. Making the old beast better one piece at a time. It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that it became clear you would need to upgrade frequently if you wanted to be able to use current software.
Of course, I'm something of a luddite. I miss my old flip phone, and bemoan the loss of my optical drive. People at work were amazed that I was on an 8 year old laptop back in 2013. The replacement one really didn't improve my productivity, since all the software was bigger and slower. And two years later I had to get a third one. Same story in 2016.
But now we know better. Now we know that the thing in our pocket will be in a landfill in two years. That's why when the accelerometer goes out, we don't stress about it. That's why when an app stops working, we assume it's our fault for having an 8-month-old dinosaur. Oh well.
Also, I think super-thin phones are stupid.
THIS! All the focus on tax rates ignores the biggest two facets of tax code, income and deductions. Getting rid of the mortgage interest deduction is an economic no-brainer, but it's a political third rail. Basically, poor people pay me to give interest to my rich father-in-law (or pay you to give money to banks). It makes no sense. The other way the big dogs reduce taxes is by hiding their income.