That's nothing. I heard about this talk show host who was always going on and on about how we should lock up drug addicts and throw away the key, who turned out to be a drug addict himself. Of course, it's not as ironic, since he was rich enough to buy his way out of jail.
Funny you should bring that up - actually, I'm looking for a way to track down employees who bring in their own food, music, and binary-code-decimal LED clocks so that I can confiscate those as well.
Hehe - I was watching a DVD last night, and it had the standard "You wouldn't steal a car... you wouldn't steal a purse... you wouldn't steal a DVD... Buying pirated DVDs is stealing!" commercial. I wonder if anybody's watching that, thinking, "so... I bought a pirated DVD and nothing bad happened (and I don't feel too terribly bad about it). Maybe I should try stealing a car, too."
So, a good portion of the surveyed group are visitors to salary.com. I don't think I would consider they're numbers worth anything.
Yeah - the people visiting salary.com aren't wasting time - they're using time resourcefully looking for a new job! The real figures on time wasted by the average employee are way higher.
A link to that same picture was posted last time this subject came up (when us Americans started installing these naked-scanners in airports), but... it doesn't tell you much, since there's no picture of the girl without the scanner to compare it to. The picture looks like an "x-ray naked" picture of an 80-year-old woman... and if it is, in fact, a picture of an 80-year-old woman, then of course she doesn't look so hot "backscattered".
I've always wondered who these people were... I know that Linus was in college when he developed Linux, and that RMS actually was receiving money for sales of emacs when we first started... but who are the rest of the free software developers? Are they all academics? Corporate wageslaves like the rest of us whose company pays them to develop software and release it to the world? Are they mostly retirees? Independently wealthy? I'd love to contribute back to the OSS world, but other than a bug fix here and there, I've never been able to find the time (what with the mandatory 70 hour workweeks and all...). I've always wondered how they do it... do these people ever sleep?
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That's nothing. I heard about this talk show host who was always going on and on about how we should lock up drug addicts and throw away the key, who turned out to be a drug addict himself. Of course, it's not as ironic, since he was rich enough to buy his way out of jail.
Funny you should bring that up - actually, I'm looking for a way to track down employees who bring in their own food, music, and binary-code-decimal LED clocks so that I can confiscate those as well.
Prevent students from peering? That's harsh... peering at cheerleaders was the only joy in my life when I was in college.
Hehe - I was watching a DVD last night, and it had the standard "You wouldn't steal a car... you wouldn't steal a purse... you wouldn't steal a DVD... Buying pirated DVDs is stealing!" commercial. I wonder if anybody's watching that, thinking, "so... I bought a pirated DVD and nothing bad happened (and I don't feel too terribly bad about it). Maybe I should try stealing a car, too."
Yeah - the people visiting salary.com aren't wasting time - they're using time resourcefully looking for a new job! The real figures on time wasted by the average employee are way higher.
A link to that same picture was posted last time this subject came up (when us Americans started installing these naked-scanners in airports), but... it doesn't tell you much, since there's no picture of the girl without the scanner to compare it to. The picture looks like an "x-ray naked" picture of an 80-year-old woman... and if it is, in fact, a picture of an 80-year-old woman, then of course she doesn't look so hot "backscattered".
I've always wondered who these people were... I know that Linus was in college when he developed Linux, and that RMS actually was receiving money for sales of emacs when we first started... but who are the rest of the free software developers? Are they all academics? Corporate wageslaves like the rest of us whose company pays them to develop software and release it to the world? Are they mostly retirees? Independently wealthy? I'd love to contribute back to the OSS world, but other than a bug fix here and there, I've never been able to find the time (what with the mandatory 70 hour workweeks and all...). I've always wondered how they do it... do these people ever sleep?