Why? Because people in general are jealous and selfish. When person X find out person Y makes 10K more / year then them, for "the same job", they will want that 10K more as well
That's not "selfishness and jealousy," that's the desire for fairness.
even if they do not deserve it, either because they do not have the same level of experience or because they simply are not a good performer in their job.
Someone who has more experience than me deserves a bigger check than me (which is why unions go for "seniority"), but as to "a good performer" that is a matter of the boss' whim and your co-workers schmoozing and sucking up abilities.
See, just from your post it is obvious that you worked in a union or simmilar environment (such as the army), where people have things like "grades".
Yet you're still anti-union? You think it's fair that a lazy schmoozer that plays golf with the boss on Saturdays should earn more than a hard working nerd?
I can't agree. A well rounded education is valuable. I've been taking various classes off and on since I graduated, and intend to go back in a couple of years after I retire.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I actually LIKE learning.
People take 13 years of general ed classes before they ever get to college. If they haven't gotten a decent general education by that time, they are not going to get it with a few more years.
That depends on the quality of the 12 years (they didn't have preschool and kindergarten when I was a kid). I learned to read in the first grade, and learned little to nothing else until I reached college; I'd already read what the teachers were trying to teach the other kids. School bored the hell out of me. One high school science teacher gave me an A+ on a paper because it was over his head! Of course, I'm not normal (I read the entire encyclopedia Britannica when I was 12).
But college was completely different. There, I actually did learn, and rather than being bored I was fascinated. To the point that even now, I'll take an occasional class "just because".
We could also cut back on their social services payments - if they've got enough free time to sit all day on the Internet then they don't deserve benefit handouts.
Well, we don't have that problem in the US and haven't had since 1996 when they pretty much stopped welfare.
Whatever idiot (or parent's freak) that modded the parent "troll," waste your points on me so you won't have any left to mod other informative posts down. It only takes simple arithmetic to convert kg to lb, or as the parent says, just google it.
BTW, 1 km is.6 mile. Mass can be measured in pounds as well as kg, it's just a different measuring system that is easily converted.
I agree that the metric system is a lot easier to use than imperial, but you guys are nerds and should be able to do simple math. Too bad you don't have to take an IQ test to get mod points.
Someone with mod points and a brain, please correct he bad moderation on the parent post. Thank you.
I agree, people from other cultures are more interesting, but interacting with other cultures is no different than general studies classes -- you're learning in either case.
Start menu/orb -> Click the user picture at the top of the menu -> Click "Remove your password"
Does it actually remove it, or just remove the necessity of typing it in at boot? I wouldn't want an internet-facing computer to be without a password, I just want it to boot when I turn it on.
I deal with Windows issues instead because I grew up with it enough to know all the kinks.
Well, that's perfectly understandable. I'm so old that I was 30 before I had a computer, that was 30 years ago. I went from a computer with 4k of RAM and a tape drive and BASIC to DOS to Windows (I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to Windows from DOS). The final push away from Windows was when a Windows update replaced a perfectly good driver with one that didn't work at all, shortly after being hit by XCP.
Of course, if you're a gamer (I used to be) you NEED Windows.
You are right, of course which is why I never bank nor pay bills via internet, nor have anything on the Windows box (personal info, etc) that could be useful to criminals. Also, I keep backups (that's a lesson from the University of Hard Knox; it doesn't take a cracker or virus to destroy your data, only a head crash).
For the longest time I couldn't figure out why there were so many rabid Windows fans at/., but then, I imagine a lot of folks here make some pretty good money cleaning crap out of Windows machines.
What you describe in the last paragraph is one of the many reasons I went to Linux. I need to get Linux on that notebook, if only to make networking between the two boxes easier.
Yeah, well, my great uncle started smoking at age 12 and quit at age 82, and lived another decade. But I wouldn't suggest that his longevity disproves the fact that smoking is bad for you.
Were it not for the coffee, your granny might well have shown symptoms earlier and been dead by now.
I've found that often, no matter how insightful or thought-provoking an FP is, some dufus will mod it "offtopic," "troll," or (hilariously) "redundant." I try to avoid first posts, just because if the first two mods are the "FP always modded down" type, nobody is likely to even see it. What's the point of making a comment if you're going to be at -1?
We've not evolved any, we just like to think we are better than people thousands of years ago.
Well, we probably haven't evolved physically; wait... yes we have. Europeans evolved the ability to digest cow's milk, for one. But societies have evolved greatly. We no longer have crucifiction or burning at the stake, for example. Technology has evolved to a huge extent as well.
You were modded "troll" because of the tone of your comment. Most people don't take kindly to being called "assholes", especially by someone who's 100% wrong. For instance, there's little or no "Don't you dare copy my source code without my permission" here, it's "the GPL protects me from some big corporation taking my code then suing me for using my own code." The pirates are mostly one of the following:
I can't get the content for six months after everyone's done talking about it and released a spoiler
I can't get the content at all except from TPB
I'm not paying for a dead man's work
The pirate version is superior to the paid version (no unskippable trailors or FBI warnings or lame animated menus to sit through)
I won't buy a pig in a poke
The studies all show that pirates spend more on the work they pirate than non-pirates do.
I have season 5 of the Big Bang Theory DLing right now. The first four seasons are on overpriced DVDs sitting on my shelf, season 5 will be bought when they get the fucking lead out of their asses and let me pay for the damed thing!
Sorry, buddy, but you're the asshole here. I agree with the moderators. Keep it up and your karma won't be excellent for long.
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Why? Because people in general are jealous and selfish. When person X find out person Y makes 10K more / year then them, for "the same job", they will want that 10K more as well
That's not "selfishness and jealousy," that's the desire for fairness.
even if they do not deserve it, either because they do not have the same level of experience or because they simply are not a good performer in their job.
Someone who has more experience than me deserves a bigger check than me (which is why unions go for "seniority"), but as to "a good performer" that is a matter of the boss' whim and your co-workers schmoozing and sucking up abilities.
And some of them still call us "open sores."
I'll bet it's Ballmer's doing. If he can't throw a chair at least he can YELL
See, just from your post it is obvious that you worked in a union or simmilar environment (such as the army), where people have things like "grades".
Yet you're still anti-union? You think it's fair that a lazy schmoozer that plays golf with the boss on Saturdays should earn more than a hard working nerd?
I can't agree. A well rounded education is valuable. I've been taking various classes off and on since I graduated, and intend to go back in a couple of years after I retire.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I actually LIKE learning.
People take 13 years of general ed classes before they ever get to college. If they haven't gotten a decent general education by that time, they are not going to get it with a few more years.
That depends on the quality of the 12 years (they didn't have preschool and kindergarten when I was a kid). I learned to read in the first grade, and learned little to nothing else until I reached college; I'd already read what the teachers were trying to teach the other kids. School bored the hell out of me. One high school science teacher gave me an A+ on a paper because it was over his head! Of course, I'm not normal (I read the entire encyclopedia Britannica when I was 12).
But college was completely different. There, I actually did learn, and rather than being bored I was fascinated. To the point that even now, I'll take an occasional class "just because".
We could also cut back on their social services payments - if they've got enough free time to sit all day on the Internet then they don't deserve benefit handouts.
Well, we don't have that problem in the US and haven't had since 1996 when they pretty much stopped welfare.
Whatever idiot (or parent's freak) that modded the parent "troll," waste your points on me so you won't have any left to mod other informative posts down. It only takes simple arithmetic to convert kg to lb, or as the parent says, just google it.
BTW, 1 km is .6 mile. Mass can be measured in pounds as well as kg, it's just a different measuring system that is easily converted.
I agree that the metric system is a lot easier to use than imperial, but you guys are nerds and should be able to do simple math. Too bad you don't have to take an IQ test to get mod points.
Someone with mod points and a brain, please correct he bad moderation on the parent post. Thank you.
I agree, people from other cultures are more interesting, but interacting with other cultures is no different than general studies classes -- you're learning in either case.
Whatever floats your boat. If you want to continue to look ignorant, knock yourself out.
You're right, it was in Airplane first.
Sometimes in these OS war threads, I actually learn something. Any learning is a plus, whether it's someone teaching me, or me teaching someone else.
We should be ashamed of all the years we've been calling dinosaurs old and fat.
Bullshit, maybe the rest of the dinasaurs were fit and trim, but my ex-wife is certainly old and fat.
As soon as you're able to, run like hell away from those people!
Start menu/orb -> Click the user picture at the top of the menu -> Click "Remove your password"
Does it actually remove it, or just remove the necessity of typing it in at boot? I wouldn't want an internet-facing computer to be without a password, I just want it to boot when I turn it on.
I deal with Windows issues instead because I grew up with it enough to know all the kinks.
Well, that's perfectly understandable. I'm so old that I was 30 before I had a computer, that was 30 years ago. I went from a computer with 4k of RAM and a tape drive and BASIC to DOS to Windows (I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to Windows from DOS). The final push away from Windows was when a Windows update replaced a perfectly good driver with one that didn't work at all, shortly after being hit by XCP.
Of course, if you're a gamer (I used to be) you NEED Windows.
The gallup pole only counts people who use landlines. These days, that's people over 70.
You are right, of course which is why I never bank nor pay bills via internet, nor have anything on the Windows box (personal info, etc) that could be useful to criminals. Also, I keep backups (that's a lesson from the University of Hard Knox; it doesn't take a cracker or virus to destroy your data, only a head crash).
For the longest time I couldn't figure out why there were so many rabid Windows fans at /., but then, I imagine a lot of folks here make some pretty good money cleaning crap out of Windows machines.
What you describe in the last paragraph is one of the many reasons I went to Linux. I need to get Linux on that notebook, if only to make networking between the two boxes easier.
No, I didn't work on any of the tech directly, but I did see it in action.
Shooting people in the head is far more civilized than torturing them to death. Still barbaric, yes, but an advance nonetheless.
Yeah, well, my great uncle started smoking at age 12 and quit at age 82, and lived another decade. But I wouldn't suggest that his longevity disproves the fact that smoking is bad for you.
Were it not for the coffee, your granny might well have shown symptoms earlier and been dead by now.
Post first and post often.
I've found that often, no matter how insightful or thought-provoking an FP is, some dufus will mod it "offtopic," "troll," or (hilariously) "redundant." I try to avoid first posts, just because if the first two mods are the "FP always modded down" type, nobody is likely to even see it. What's the point of making a comment if you're going to be at -1?
We've not evolved any, we just like to think we are better than people thousands of years ago.
Well, we probably haven't evolved physically; wait... yes we have. Europeans evolved the ability to digest cow's milk, for one. But societies have evolved greatly. We no longer have crucifiction or burning at the stake, for example. Technology has evolved to a huge extent as well.
Dew knot truss yore spill checker!
Ah, that only works with a "red matter" black hole. You know, the kind of black hole that you can go through and come out a hundred years in the past!
You were modded "troll" because of the tone of your comment. Most people don't take kindly to being called "assholes", especially by someone who's 100% wrong. For instance, there's little or no "Don't you dare copy my source code without my permission" here, it's "the GPL protects me from some big corporation taking my code then suing me for using my own code." The pirates are mostly one of the following:
The studies all show that pirates spend more on the work they pirate than non-pirates do.
I have season 5 of the Big Bang Theory DLing right now. The first four seasons are on overpriced DVDs sitting on my shelf, season 5 will be bought when they get the fucking lead out of their asses and let me pay for the damed thing!
Sorry, buddy, but you're the asshole here. I agree with the moderators. Keep it up and your karma won't be excellent for long.