Good point. Let's see, all Irish are drunks, all Frenchmen are arrogant, all Orientals are bad drivers, all blacks are lazy, and the only person I ever knew as neonmonk was a dipshit.
Try being a southern white male. With the notable, rare exception of Matthew Mcconaughey, a white male with a southern drawl is invariably portrayed in the movies as either a wife beater, a racist, a child abuser, a drunk, or as simply stupid. More often it's a combination of all five.
I would never, ever, ever pay a buck for a downloaded song. I used to say that once the RIAA backed companies that would sell the songs at Russian rates, i.e. 10-20 cents per song, that I would support them.
That was a couple of years ago. Now, i hate these greedy bastards so much that i would pay more for music just to bypass them.
Fortunately, as long as i can access mp3million.com, it's a non-issue.
I used to make a steady 300-350 bucks a month from Adsense ads on my sites. My recent months have been 150-200. I figured it was because of the fall of IE and the rise of Chrome and Firefox, both of which are seldom seen without Adblock Plus.
At the company where I worked for 24 years, one dysfunctional nutcase of a family member with a veep position was responsible for dozens of good folks getting the hell out of Dodge.
I had an excellent boss, a very good one above him, and a decent one above him. Next came Loony Toons, who would do stuff like scan the internet records of every employee in the billion-dollar company looking for weather.com. If he found it, a stern rebuke was to be given to the unlucky soul who dared to check the forecast while at work.
I could list at least twenty-five more incidents that prove that this executive couldn't land a job as a box stacker at any company but his family's.
In my case, it was in the midst of an ice storm, and I wanted to know the prospects for making it home on my 25-mile drive.
When I was downsized, I laid into that fruitcake with both barrels. I know I'll never work for that self-righteous, pseudo-religious family-owned again, but it felt good, it didn't affect my finding another job, and maybe, just maybe, it will help the rest of the family grow cojones and pay that idiot to stay away.
They do if they have it installed with auto updates. A 2001 XP disk doesn't of course, but if they've pirated an OEM with SP3 on it, auto-protection (until support stops)
They stomped all over a t-shirt manufacturer a few years back over "Little Doobie" shirts.
And as an ex-employee who was unceremoniously downsized, may I say how good it feels to get "Little Doobie" back out there where Google can find it. The self-righteous tards would like nothing better than to have that ugly little incident forgotten.;-)
It's Jack Daniel's.
Put this one in the same league as "I'm going to loose my widget that i don't want to lose." The error is far to common to correct, but it's still painful.
I'm fighting them, I've donated money to the EFF and advertised on all of my sites promoting them.
But I'm assuming that sooner of later the asshats will win. Ergo, I'm stocking up hard on Russian-bought music and movies. If it all came to a halt tomorrow, I have two very nice collections. I'll never go see another film in a theater, though, or rent a DVD. And the last music nickel the RIAA made off of me was circa 2005.
I worked at a place that manufactured snack cakes with a cute little girl as their trademark. I worked there 13 years as an hourly employee, then got promoted into their IT department.
It was great for five years or so, then the third generation of this family-owned started flexing their muscles, invoking a new unsaid policy that unless you could prove otherwise, the assumption was that you were a lazy goof-off who should be demoted or fired.
Thus was born the semiannual evaluations from hell process.
I would typically spend 20-40 hours applying loads of manure to my evaluation in an effort to be spared the axe. So would every other salaried employee in the billion-dollar company. This was time that could have been used in improving our production numbers via technology (I was an intranet developer). Instead, we had to slather our way though an incomprehensible eval process that forced us to make predictions based on absolutely no data. Basically, we had to try to read the minds of a couple of dysfunctional family members who now found themselves in officer positions.
They probably couldn't get warehouse worker jobs for Wal-Mart, thank God (for them) that they were members of the family.
I've been gone about a year now, others are going over the wall as other jobs make themselves available. The company has managed to grow in a bad economy, but when things get better, I predict a Microsoft-like turn for the worse, as folks who can afford Hostess or Dolly Madison snack cakes leave in droves.
I'm not saying that the psychotic salaried evals are causing the downfall of the company, but they certainly are a barometer of how things in general are going. Just like Microsoft.
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Got it! :-)
Try being a southern white male. With the notable, rare exception of Matthew Mcconaughey, a white male with a southern drawl is invariably portrayed in the movies as either a wife beater, a racist, a child abuser, a drunk, or as simply stupid. More often it's a combination of all five.
I guess Redmond's new business strategy is throw enough dirty pairs of underwear against the wall and something is bound to stick sooner or later...
We who run Linux can still pretty much be the masters of our own desktop domains. :-)
Microsoft hardware has consistently been good stuff. If they would abandon coding altogether, their company might have potential.
That was a couple of years ago. Now, i hate these greedy bastards so much that i would pay more for music just to bypass them.
Fortunately, as long as i can access mp3million.com, it's a non-issue.
Has he found evidence of CO2 levels rising? Actual numbers?
Get back to work on my 8" floppy reader!
Death rays don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people!
Affects Windows. And we care why...?
I used to make a steady 300-350 bucks a month from Adsense ads on my sites. My recent months have been 150-200. I figured it was because of the fall of IE and the rise of Chrome and Firefox, both of which are seldom seen without Adblock Plus.
I had an excellent boss, a very good one above him, and a decent one above him. Next came Loony Toons, who would do stuff like scan the internet records of every employee in the billion-dollar company looking for weather.com. If he found it, a stern rebuke was to be given to the unlucky soul who dared to check the forecast while at work.
I could list at least twenty-five more incidents that prove that this executive couldn't land a job as a box stacker at any company but his family's.
In my case, it was in the midst of an ice storm, and I wanted to know the prospects for making it home on my 25-mile drive.
When I was downsized, I laid into that fruitcake with both barrels. I know I'll never work for that self-righteous, pseudo-religious family-owned again, but it felt good, it didn't affect my finding another job, and maybe, just maybe, it will help the rest of the family grow cojones and pay that idiot to stay away.
SOP at most larger companies is to simply give dates of hiring and termination, nothing more. They're as afraid of lawsuits as anyone.
They do if they have it installed with auto updates. A 2001 XP disk doesn't of course, but if they've pirated an OEM with SP3 on it, auto-protection (until support stops)
ACH! Please disregard comment fired in haste. :-P
It's Tennessee whiskey, NOT BOURBON!
And as an ex-employee who was unceremoniously downsized, may I say how good it feels to get "Little Doobie" back out there where Google can find it. The self-righteous tards would like nothing better than to have that ugly little incident forgotten. ;-)
Please mod up and help my cause?
The alternative is to contribute to a shite-storm of infected PC's. I think their motives are just to keep the hatred under control.
Do you mean Tennessee whiskey?
It's Jack Daniel's. Put this one in the same league as "I'm going to loose my widget that i don't want to lose." The error is far to common to correct, but it's still painful.
There's still time!
But I'm assuming that sooner of later the asshats will win. Ergo, I'm stocking up hard on Russian-bought music and movies. If it all came to a halt tomorrow, I have two very nice collections. I'll never go see another film in a theater, though, or rent a DVD. And the last music nickel the RIAA made off of me was circa 2005.
That carries as much weight for me as Steve BLAMMER stating that he's going to &^%&$!! bury Google.
Noise with no real content. Next.
It was great for five years or so, then the third generation of this family-owned started flexing their muscles, invoking a new unsaid policy that unless you could prove otherwise, the assumption was that you were a lazy goof-off who should be demoted or fired.
Thus was born the semiannual evaluations from hell process.
I would typically spend 20-40 hours applying loads of manure to my evaluation in an effort to be spared the axe. So would every other salaried employee in the billion-dollar company. This was time that could have been used in improving our production numbers via technology (I was an intranet developer). Instead, we had to slather our way though an incomprehensible eval process that forced us to make predictions based on absolutely no data. Basically, we had to try to read the minds of a couple of dysfunctional family members who now found themselves in officer positions.
They probably couldn't get warehouse worker jobs for Wal-Mart, thank God (for them) that they were members of the family.
I've been gone about a year now, others are going over the wall as other jobs make themselves available. The company has managed to grow in a bad economy, but when things get better, I predict a Microsoft-like turn for the worse, as folks who can afford Hostess or Dolly Madison snack cakes leave in droves.
I'm not saying that the psychotic salaried evals are causing the downfall of the company, but they certainly are a barometer of how things in general are going. Just like Microsoft.
Maybe you should apply for a job as a motherfucking editor? You might want to tone it back a bit on your motherfucking interview, though. Fuck.