If you're burning the candle at both ends at age 54 might that be problematic?
Maybe some learning about the finite nature of life would serve you better
than tech skills. Maybe you're one of those rarities for whom obsessive
work is truly better - it's possible.
I have 11 years on you, and I promise that you won't get that overtime back,
and I'd urge you to examine your decision on how to use your time.
Thanks for the advice, but I'm already with you on that. While I *can* burn that candle, it's usually limited to those times when that extra effort is needed. I was merely commenting on the myth that youngsters can work harder/longer than us more seasoned folks. I also have a lot of experience and skill that I could transfer to newer workers. I've always tried to be professional and do the best work that can be done, but it's just work and I'm far from obsessive about it, now more than ever, and I'll tell you why.
I'm very aware of the finite nature of life. After 20 years together, almost half my life at the time, my wife Sue died of a brain tumor in January 2006, just six weeks after diagnosis. Remember Sue... I've been alone, and haven't dated anyone since. I continued to work and save as we always had, she being 19 years older than me we knew she would retire much sooner than I did. I got laid off last June, but because of our fugal lifestyle I'm debt-free and financially independent w/o a job on my current budget for the rest of my life. Of course, I'd much rather have Sue back. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself next...
Speaking of New York Times, should it have to disclose that its largest shareholder is a Mexican national with close ties to the Mexican government? Or is this something its readers are not entitled to knowing when they read all the criticisms of building a border wall with Mexico?
Foreign ownership in US companies and media outlets is quite common. The second largest shareholder of News Corporation - the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, etc... - is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
(http://bigthink.com/Resurgence/sharia-prince-owns-stake-in-fox-news-parent) Should we be concerned that relationship influences coverage of Saudi Arabia - or other middle-eastern countries, especially those hostile to Saudi Arabia - by those outlets?
"Americans deserve to know who's paying for the online ads," Klobuchar said at a press conference announcing the legislation.
... how about also requiring all, and all types of, Political Action Committees (PACs) to disclose their donors and amounts donated (note that some, but not all types, of PACs are already required to do so). And, perhaps, prominently disclose when lobbyists and special-interest groups author or edit the legislation for you Senators and Representatives. And, how about more strictly enforcing the laws the prohibit the revolving-door appointments between industry and the departments regulating those industries -- like the new FCC Chairman Ajit V. Pai, who was previously Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications.
Americans deserve to know who's paying (off) our Representatives and deserve to have those representatives and the others running our government to work for the benefit of ALL the people as a whole and not just the rich and powerful. </rant>
when a company loses business, they lower the damn prices.... but NOOOOOO not pay television services. they gouge the remaining subscribers to try to "make up" the lost profits instead.
It's like insurance pricing. You need a large pool of healthy people paying premiums to support the smaller pool of sick(er) people using services. In this case, the smaller the pool of people forced to also pay for things, like Disney requiring providers to carry ESPN (and other Disney networks) in order to carry The Disney Channel, the higher the prices for the rest of us (who don't give a shit about ESPN1-n).
Ya, but people see youngsters on TV shows like Mr. Robot and MacGyver who seemingly know everything and can do anything on/with a computer and think that an actual thing. But, it actually takes time to learn things and acquire skills and knowledge. Ditching older workers simply in favor of younger ones is extremely short-sighted. And as far as stamina and putting in long hours, even at 54, I can work my younger co-workers under the table - as a programmer and admin - but that's me; I've always been able to burn the candle at both ends and up the middle.
You do realize that this is pure crap, right? The actual initiative was to provide payment for voluntary counseling on end-of-life care, that was already in the law, not any denial of healthcare. From Death Panels
Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options....
Legislation providing for counseling patients on advance directives, living wills and end-of-life care had been on the books for years, however, the laws did not provide for physicians to be reimbursed for giving such counseling during routine physical exams of the elderly.
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
Makes sense to me. Now tell us how you feel about drug tests for recipients of public assistance.
TFS and TFA are about "non-urgent" surgery. If the the drug tests were limited to cases like this, I'm not sure I see a problem - as long as access to urgent surgery is unconstrained. I imagine this logic (critical vs. non-critical) could be expanded to handle general public assistance, if that was what you meant.
Which wouldn't bother me if we had private-funded healthcare as a viable option. But since we don't, I guess it's up to Big Brother, since the moment a third party pays, it's no longer just about me and my doctor, right?
That third-party being either the Government or private insurance - so how are they different? I private insurer can deny you coverage or payment for treatment and can have their own rules for access to care/procedures.
Yup. That's what I'm using and it's pretty nice. I tried and liked Mint, and installed it on a friend's system, but wanted something with less hand-holding for myself. I like the MATE UI better than GNOME (and way better the Unity) and my older hardware didn't perform well using KDE.
I'm not so enthused about this feature either, but in what way is calling rude?
The Amazon drone is talking about a video chat application on the Echo Show device, so it's more than a phone call. Having a device that can auto-accept a two-way video session seems problematic -- best not have an Echo Show on the bedroom side-table -- which is actually where their TV commercial shows it being used.
Attempting to equate someone needing to use a wheelchair with someone else who falls down repeatedly. Well done.
On the other hand, perhaps Madame ex-Secretary should could have used one as a sympathy prop.
Or, perhaps, the point is that a physical disability (if it exists) doesn't disqualify someone from being President. But, well done on your discrimination - have fun getting old, especially in the days of Trump and the Republicans.
When you can drop in on people who have given you access -- so I can drop in and call my mom in her kitchen without her picking any device -- it's just awesome."
He and I have different definitions of "awesome". For example, I think it's rude to simply drop in on someone at home w/o prearranging it or calling first - not even, or especially, by my mother. So, I would never enable or use this feature - nor would I ever have one of these spy devices in my home.
... as my Genius multi-tasked helping another customer with her iPad.... "Maybe it's a piece of dust," the Genius had offered.... Geniuses had said...
I know "Genius" is Apple's name for their customer service people, but you and they degrade the meaning of the word by using it this way. I'm pretty sure these people are in no way geniuses - and, this "diagnosis" of a piece of dust on the motherboard certainly confirms that.
Uh huh. Even *if* that was/is a persistent problem, you realize that President Roosevelt had polio and spent most of his time confined to a wheelchair. But maybe you prefer a President, like Trump, who has spent 25% of his days in office golfing (69/271 days) at a taxpayer cost of at least $74M and has otherwise gotten nothing done - though, to be fair, I'm not sure that Hillary could get anything done with the Republican-controlled Congress we have.
Not meaning to engage in an argument, going back to the original post/complaint, perhaps neither candidate is in great shape, even for their ages, but Hillary simply being too "old" when Trump is older is a stupid argument to make against her.
And I'd be fine getting modded down for it, I certainly wouldn't bitch and moan in other/. stories because some mod gave a -1 to my off-topicness.
Sure, I get it - I was just injecting some humor. Things get mis-modded all the time here and it can be annoying -- mostly so when "flamebait" or "troll" is applied simply because the moderator disagrees with the opinions (or facts) in the post -- and this happens a lot with certain topics. Such mis-moderation injects the moderator's viewpoint into the thread - which makes it commentary, not moderation. Also annoying is when a post is modded "off-topic" when it's topic-adjacent or otherwise weirdly connected (often in an attempt at some humor) which shows a lack of imagination on the part of the moderator.
In this case, the original post was way off-topic and I would have modded it as such, instead of troll.
My current desktop has 2 Xeons in it and room for 256GB of RAM.
Out of curiosity, how quiet is that - in a home setting? I'm looking for something, more preferably with disk/power redundancy, to serve VMs either via Linux or VMWare. I had been looking at older, less expensive, systems like Dell PowerEdge T### systems from places like Server Monkey.
So if they were below average, how did they get hired as the "highest paid in their position" ? At the very least, it is HR incompetence.
The probably weren't hired as the highest paid, but worked their way into it. Perhaps they then became under-performing, or perhaps Tesla is simply greening their workforce -- the latter is usually unlawful and almost always short-sighted.
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Let's just abbreviate that as Ecoin - oh wait ...
The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans
Someday (soon?) that will be all of them.
So, free speech, if it's political, needs to be regulated and those exercising it to call for change need to be identifiable? Really?
Free Speech != Anonymous Speech
If you're burning the candle at both ends at age 54 might that be problematic? Maybe some learning about the finite nature of life would serve you better than tech skills. Maybe you're one of those rarities for whom obsessive work is truly better - it's possible. I have 11 years on you, and I promise that you won't get that overtime back, and I'd urge you to examine your decision on how to use your time.
Thanks for the advice, but I'm already with you on that. While I *can* burn that candle, it's usually limited to those times when that extra effort is needed. I was merely commenting on the myth that youngsters can work harder/longer than us more seasoned folks. I also have a lot of experience and skill that I could transfer to newer workers. I've always tried to be professional and do the best work that can be done, but it's just work and I'm far from obsessive about it, now more than ever, and I'll tell you why.
I'm very aware of the finite nature of life. After 20 years together, almost half my life at the time, my wife Sue died of a brain tumor in January 2006, just six weeks after diagnosis. Remember Sue... I've been alone, and haven't dated anyone since. I continued to work and save as we always had, she being 19 years older than me we knew she would retire much sooner than I did. I got laid off last June, but because of our fugal lifestyle I'm debt-free and financially independent w/o a job on my current budget for the rest of my life. Of course, I'd much rather have Sue back. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself next...
Thanks again.
Speaking of New York Times, should it have to disclose that its largest shareholder is a Mexican national with close ties to the Mexican government? Or is this something its readers are not entitled to knowing when they read all the criticisms of building a border wall with Mexico?
Foreign ownership in US companies and media outlets is quite common. The second largest shareholder of News Corporation - the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, etc... - is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. (http://bigthink.com/Resurgence/sharia-prince-owns-stake-in-fox-news-parent) Should we be concerned that relationship influences coverage of Saudi Arabia - or other middle-eastern countries, especially those hostile to Saudi Arabia - by those outlets?
"Americans deserve to know who's paying for the online ads," Klobuchar said at a press conference announcing the legislation.
Americans deserve to know who's paying (off) our Representatives and deserve to have those representatives and the others running our government to work for the benefit of ALL the people as a whole and not just the rich and powerful. </rant>
when a company loses business, they lower the damn prices.... but NOOOOOO not pay television services. they gouge the remaining subscribers to try to "make up" the lost profits instead.
It's like insurance pricing. You need a large pool of healthy people paying premiums to support the smaller pool of sick(er) people using services. In this case, the smaller the pool of people forced to also pay for things, like Disney requiring providers to carry ESPN (and other Disney networks) in order to carry The Disney Channel, the higher the prices for the rest of us (who don't give a shit about ESPN1-n).
No one comes out of college knowing everything.
Ya, but people see youngsters on TV shows like Mr. Robot and MacGyver who seemingly know everything and can do anything on/with a computer and think that an actual thing. But, it actually takes time to learn things and acquire skills and knowledge. Ditching older workers simply in favor of younger ones is extremely short-sighted. And as far as stamina and putting in long hours, even at 54, I can work my younger co-workers under the table - as a programmer and admin - but that's me; I've always been able to burn the candle at both ends and up the middle.
You do realize that this is pure crap, right? The actual initiative was to provide payment for voluntary counseling on end-of-life care, that was already in the law, not any denial of healthcare. From Death Panels
Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options. ...
Legislation providing for counseling patients on advance directives, living wills and end-of-life care had been on the books for years, however, the laws did not provide for physicians to be reimbursed for giving such counseling during routine physical exams of the elderly.
It's not society's job to do it for you
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
Makes sense to me. Now tell us how you feel about drug tests for recipients of public assistance.
TFS and TFA are about "non-urgent" surgery. If the the drug tests were limited to cases like this, I'm not sure I see a problem - as long as access to urgent surgery is unconstrained. I imagine this logic (critical vs. non-critical) could be expanded to handle general public assistance, if that was what you meant.
Which wouldn't bother me if we had private-funded healthcare as a viable option. But since we don't, I guess it's up to Big Brother, since the moment a third party pays, it's no longer just about me and my doctor, right?
That third-party being either the Government or private insurance - so how are they different? I private insurer can deny you coverage or payment for treatment and can have their own rules for access to care/procedures.
Who would have thought 50 years ago that we'd actually be exploring the moon one day?
Who would have thought 100,000 years ago we'd still be looking for caves to live in.
Just use Ubuntu MATE 16.04, mate.
Yup. That's what I'm using and it's pretty nice. I tried and liked Mint, and installed it on a friend's system, but wanted something with less hand-holding for myself. I like the MATE UI better than GNOME (and way better the Unity) and my older hardware didn't perform well using KDE.
Seppuku time?
They tried, but the knives were made of Kobe Steel ...
I'm not so enthused about this feature either, but in what way is calling rude?
The Amazon drone is talking about a video chat application on the Echo Show device, so it's more than a phone call. Having a device that can auto-accept a two-way video session seems problematic -- best not have an Echo Show on the bedroom side-table -- which is actually where their TV commercial shows it being used.
Attempting to equate someone needing to use a wheelchair with someone else who falls down repeatedly. Well done. On the other hand, perhaps Madame ex-Secretary should could have used one as a sympathy prop.
Or, perhaps, the point is that a physical disability (if it exists) doesn't disqualify someone from being President. But, well done on your discrimination - have fun getting old, especially in the days of Trump and the Republicans.
When you can drop in on people who have given you access -- so I can drop in and call my mom in her kitchen without her picking any device -- it's just awesome."
He and I have different definitions of "awesome". For example, I think it's rude to simply drop in on someone at home w/o prearranging it or calling first - not even, or especially, by my mother. So, I would never enable or use this feature - nor would I ever have one of these spy devices in my home.
... as my Genius multi-tasked helping another customer with her iPad. ... "Maybe it's a piece of dust," the Genius had offered. ... Geniuses had said ...
I know "Genius" is Apple's name for their customer service people, but you and they degrade the meaning of the word by using it this way. I'm pretty sure these people are in no way geniuses - and, this "diagnosis" of a piece of dust on the motherboard certainly confirms that.
But Trump didn't have Fally-Downy syndrome.
Uh huh. Even *if* that was/is a persistent problem, you realize that President Roosevelt had polio and spent most of his time confined to a wheelchair. But maybe you prefer a President, like Trump, who has spent 25% of his days in office golfing (69/271 days) at a taxpayer cost of at least $74M and has otherwise gotten nothing done - though, to be fair, I'm not sure that Hillary could get anything done with the Republican-controlled Congress we have.
Not meaning to engage in an argument, going back to the original post/complaint, perhaps neither candidate is in great shape, even for their ages, but Hillary simply being too "old" when Trump is older is a stupid argument to make against her.
4. Her health. She really was too old for this shit.
Seriously? Hillary is 69 and Trump is 71 - and he's pretty out of shape.
And I'd be fine getting modded down for it, I certainly wouldn't bitch and moan in other /. stories because some mod gave a -1 to my off-topicness.
Sure, I get it - I was just injecting some humor. Things get mis-modded all the time here and it can be annoying -- mostly so when "flamebait" or "troll" is applied simply because the moderator disagrees with the opinions (or facts) in the post -- and this happens a lot with certain topics. Such mis-moderation injects the moderator's viewpoint into the thread - which makes it commentary, not moderation. Also annoying is when a post is modded "off-topic" when it's topic-adjacent or otherwise weirdly connected (often in an attempt at some humor) which shows a lack of imagination on the part of the moderator.
In this case, the original post was way off-topic and I would have modded it as such, instead of troll.
My current desktop has 2 Xeons in it and room for 256GB of RAM.
Out of curiosity, how quiet is that - in a home setting? I'm looking for something, more preferably with disk/power redundancy, to serve VMs either via Linux or VMWare. I had been looking at older, less expensive, systems like Dell PowerEdge T### systems from places like Server Monkey.
I'm going to write a spec for USB-AC... delivers 120 Volts AC to all of your peripherals.
Or USB-AC/DC that only supports devices playing Australian hard rock.
So if they were below average, how did they get hired as the "highest paid in their position" ? At the very least, it is HR incompetence.
The probably weren't hired as the highest paid, but worked their way into it. Perhaps they then became under-performing, or perhaps Tesla is simply greening their workforce -- the latter is usually unlawful and almost always short-sighted.
Look around the poker table, if you can't spot the chump, it's you.
Studies show that parents really do have a favorite child. Studies also show that if you have to ask, it isn't you.