I mean, every libertarian I've ever seen online or spoken with, 100% of the time, says "if you don't like the company, or you can't find a job where you live, move."
So everyone on the right should be cheering this....
Actually, I'm surprised WFH ever got this far. I read, in the late eighties? early nineties? that companies with a lot of experience in telecommuting wanted their people in at least one or two days a week, not just for face-to-face meetings... but for the water cooler conversations that turn out to be critically important.
Me... I do *not* want to work from home. When I'm at work, I'm at work; when I'm not, I'm not working. My current job, if I get contacted at home more than 2-3 times a year, it's unusual. And if I was at a job where they thought that they *OWNED* me, and could bother me when I wasn't at work any time they wanted, I'd have them paying time and a half or double or triple time, depending on day and time.
I work to live. I do NOT live to work. And indentured servitude is forbidden in the US Constitution.
We were required to install it on our Linux servers - we run CentOS (same as RH). Every few days, the stupid monitor is suddenly eating 99%-100% of the CPUs... for *hours*. Overnight.
I attached strace to it, and it's in some insanely tight loop, looking at its own threads.
Maybe if I prove that it's doing it on multiple servers (it is, but I have to catch it - nothing's reporting this, unless it runs the system so hard it throws heat-based machine checks), and put a ticket in, and *maybe* the team that forced it on us will *maybe* talk to CarbonBlack....
I have *zero* doubt that there's a ton of other COTS products with issues like this.
First, as a datapoint, there was just a report last year, when two huge drug companies merged, that they would then spend *less* than what the two companies had spent on research. Second, most companies DO NOT DO basic research. There's *zero* payout for that in the next quarter or two. Third: and this is still on drug companies - a lot of money is funnelled into projects that have no use, other than keeping up the revenue stream. Case in point: a couple years ago, India refused a patent on a drug, saying that it was *not* any more effective than the existing drug they were selling... which was about to run out of patent, and would be picked up by the generic manufacturers for far, far less.
Huge amounts of basic research is either done by, or funded by the government.
And you don't even seem to understand what "basic research" means. What it means is the stuff that may pay out huge... but not for 10 or 20 or more years. Y'know, like the Human Genome Project.
And you don't even seem to understand what "basic research" means. What it means is the stuff that may pay out huge... but not for 10 or 20 or more years. Y'know, like the Human Genome Project.
The research done at the NIH is 87% waste? Really. THAT IS, CATEGORICALLY, A LIE. It's not even alternate facts, it's a LIE. I KNOW people there, and what they do.
By the way - you don't like the State Dept? You*are* serving in the military, right, to support gunboat diplomacy? The "diplomacy" of the GOP invading Iraq? How many tours have you served there...or are you just a chickenhawk, "someone's gotta go over there, but that someone isn't me"?
I had a manager, back in the eighties, who accused me of plagerism, then got rid of me... after I proposed and built a d/b system that they couldn't buy... but having made major changes in the specs, when I was nearly done resulted in it taking twice as long to complete.
Oh, and did I mention that they had it all done in compiled basica?
Ah, yes, then there was Ameritech, the former, now swallowed Baby Bell. I worked for them '95-'97, in a startup division that was going to be their entry in the long distance sweepstakes. First, halfway through, in ''96, Dick Notebeart, CEO, sent down notices to all of us who weren't union that we were to write letters to our Congresscritter and Senator to support deregulation. AND HE DEMANDED copies of the letters. No, no, he's not threatening our jobs if we don't, no, no... BULLSHIT. And then there were the insane hours (my late wife started semi-joking threatening to sue them for alienation of affection), the demands by the idiot architecture team that none of the other 26 projects had any say in, but had to meet, and they provided *nothing* to support us.... and then, after two years, and about three quarters of a BILLION dollars, they shut the project down, it was too hard, as Barbie said....
And my last: the manager from the City of Chicago, who, after the project was working well, started arranging to get rid of the VAR who built it, so that he was the only one who knew it.... He did get criminally charged, about 6 years later.
1. HR departments, who *still* don't know shit about the company, and refuse to learn., and 2. Upper management, who tells them to hire younger, because they're cheaper.
When I was looking, and in my resume, I dropped the first 10 years of work experience. If I were looking again, I'd drop the first 15, at least.
Come the Revolution, we're going to lead HR depts in to the parking lot, toss asphalt on them, and PAVE THEM INTO THE ROADWAY, so that they provide *some* social utility.
Toss ice asteroids at Mars. Or skim them from Jupiter's rings. Add a *lot* of water to Mars, and it's a lot easier to just use mass drivers plunked down on an ice asteroid to take a few years to head Marsward.
Easy enough. You'd just need to build the tracks, and you don't need to worry about zoning or the environment (nothing migrating across the track, y'know)....
Shocked that it reads almost *exactly* like the report that came out in Reagan's first term, in the early eighties. Oddly enough, the GOP REFUSES to raise taxes to do massive spending on infrastructure. I guess that not only is it not "sexy" (maintenance never is), but it's not big buck profits for their buds.
It's a right wing British supermarket tabloid. USans - how do you feel about using the National Enquirer, or (my own personal favorite), the Weekly World News as sources for wikipedia articles?
The GOP has been using it as a script, with them as Big Brother, at least since Reagan. It's just now clear to everyone (except the suckers of the alt-wrong), since Trump & co say exactly what the GOP's been saying since Nixon started his Southern Strategy, except they're too narcissistic and stupid to use the Approved Euphemisms.
"You want a view of the future? Picture a boot stomping on a human face, forever." - O'Brian to Winston. And for you on the right, so, how's you're bank account looking?
Manning's served years, now. From news reports, none of US "assets" were harmed; if necessary, they were moved out of harm's way.
Now, what about Dick Cheney, whose office (or maybe it was him, personally) outed CIA covert agent Valerie Plame to politically attack her ambassador husband, who had proof that Saddam Hussein had no effective WMDs, nor had they tried to get yellowcake uranium. According to news reports, the US *lost* "assets"... meaning imprisoned or killed. Why was Cheney, who WAS where the buck stops for his office as VPUS, not even charged?
Forget the sites the articles mention. I was having very serious troubles getting to the Guardian's site, pictures not loading, and worse, I couldn't even log onto my hosting provider.
Now, I'm on Verizon FIOS, and my system (Linux, a real o/s) couldn't even ping hostmonster.com, it couldn't find the name, until I manual added nameserver 8.8.8.8 (one of google's) to my resolv.conf. Then it started working.
That tells me that it was overloading nameservers in a *LOT* of places.
I have just this to say about that: folks, I wouldn't let alpha software out to users.
They brought in "hybrid" phones here last year (VOIP). For voicemail, it sends an mp3, and a "transcription". Frequently, the "transcription", "powered by Microsoft speech technology", resembles early "computer poetry". And by "early", I'm talking 1960s or '70s.... with significant portions bearing zero resemblance to what was said.
So, if the Universe has 20 times as many galaxies, and so, presumably, 20 times as much normal matter, then the estimate that the Universe is only 4% normal matter jumps to 80% normal matter, and a *lot* less dark matter, right?
Horse hockey. The studios don't own the theatres, theatre companies do, and the studios want an arm and a leg to show the films, and the theatre companies want the other arm and a leg for profit... and the theatres pay the staff from the food and drinks.
The result is, what, it was $20/person last year for an IMAX show of Interstellar. $20 for a MOVIE? And another what, $10? $15? $20? for popcorn and sodas?
Gee, I just don' know why fewer people is going to da theatres....
1. As of the beginning of this year, the PCI - the organization of credit card vendors section that deals with security, announced, over a year ago, that not having chip readers enabled meant that the store is liable for fraud.. The chip is a *lot* more trouble to clone or steal. 2. What's the big deal? Time them printing out the chit, you signing it, or inputting crap on the screen, then having to sign (I *loathe* "signing" with my fingertip) - as if anyone could read half your signatures - as opposed to shoving the card in and waiting a minute for it to beep.
It's about them not wanting to loose a *lot* of money because users don't care about people stealing their data, or watching you punch in your PIN, or....
Ah, not for years yet, at least. Since I've spec'd out a number of servers this year, let me assure you that I can get an 8TB HDD for about the price of a 1TB SSD... if they're even offering SSD's that large; most are 256G or 500G.
You're read/heard how he underpays or fails to pay people and small contractors he's hired.
Here's another one: my PT and I were talking this morning, and he told me his father's an industrial contractor - paints bridges, drywall buildings, etc, and more than once, he's done a job for Trump, and then, when it was done, Trump comes in, says yeah, he's satisfied... but that he thinks he's already paid him enough, never mind the signed contract.
Tell me that's not criminal fraud?
He is a crook. And his wife doesn't wear a cloth coat....
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I mean, every libertarian I've ever seen online or spoken with, 100% of the time, says "if you don't like the company, or you can't find a job where you live, move."
So everyone on the right should be cheering this....
Actually, I'm surprised WFH ever got this far. I read, in the late eighties? early nineties? that companies with a lot of experience in telecommuting wanted their people in at least one or two days a week, not just for face-to-face meetings... but for the water cooler conversations that turn out to be critically important.
Me... I do *not* want to work from home. When I'm at work, I'm at work; when I'm not, I'm not working. My current job, if I get contacted at home more than 2-3 times a year, it's unusual. And if I was at a job where they thought that they *OWNED* me, and could bother me when I wasn't at work any time they wanted, I'd have them paying time and a half or double or triple time, depending on day and time.
I work to live. I do NOT live to work. And indentured servitude is forbidden in the US Constitution.
We were required to install it on our Linux servers - we run CentOS (same as RH). Every few days, the stupid monitor is suddenly eating 99%-100% of the CPUs... for *hours*. Overnight.
I attached strace to it, and it's in some insanely tight loop, looking at its own threads.
Maybe if I prove that it's doing it on multiple servers (it is, but I have to catch it - nothing's reporting this, unless it runs the system so hard it throws heat-based machine checks), and put a ticket in, and *maybe* the team that forced it on us will *maybe* talk to CarbonBlack....
I have *zero* doubt that there's a ton of other COTS products with issues like this.
You're an ignorant idiot.
First, as a datapoint, there was just a report last year, when two huge drug companies merged, that they would then spend *less* than what the two companies had spent on research.
Second, most companies DO NOT DO basic research. There's *zero* payout for that in the next quarter or two.
Third: and this is still on drug companies - a lot of money is funnelled into projects that have no use, other than keeping up the revenue stream. Case in point: a couple years ago, India refused a patent on a drug, saying that it was *not* any more effective than the existing drug they were selling... which was about to run out of patent, and would be picked up by the generic manufacturers for far, far less.
Huge amounts of basic research is either done by, or funded by the government.
And you don't even seem to understand what "basic research" means. What it means is the stuff that may pay out huge... but not for 10 or 20 or more years. Y'know, like the Human Genome Project.
And you don't even seem to understand what "basic research" means. What it means is the stuff that may pay out huge... but not for 10 or 20 or more years. Y'know, like the Human Genome Project.
The research done at the NIH is 87% waste? Really. THAT IS, CATEGORICALLY, A LIE. It's not even alternate facts, it's a LIE. I KNOW people there, and what they do.
By the way - you don't like the State Dept? You*are* serving in the military, right, to support gunboat diplomacy? The "diplomacy" of the GOP invading Iraq? How many tours have you served there...or are you just a chickenhawk, "someone's gotta go over there, but that someone isn't me"?
I had a manager, back in the eighties, who accused me of plagerism, then got rid of me... after I proposed and built a d/b system that they couldn't buy... but having made major changes in the specs, when I was nearly done resulted in it taking twice as long to complete.
Oh, and did I mention that they had it all done in compiled basica?
Ah, yes, then there was Ameritech, the former, now swallowed Baby Bell. I worked for them '95-'97, in a startup division that was going to be their entry in the long distance sweepstakes. First, halfway through, in ''96, Dick Notebeart, CEO, sent down notices to all of us who weren't union that we were to write letters to our Congresscritter and Senator to support deregulation. AND HE DEMANDED copies of the letters. No, no, he's not threatening our jobs if we don't, no, no... BULLSHIT. And then there were the insane hours (my late wife started semi-joking threatening to sue them for alienation of affection), the demands by the idiot architecture team that none of the other 26 projects had any say in, but had to meet, and they provided *nothing* to support us.... and then, after two years, and about three quarters of a BILLION dollars, they shut the project down, it was too hard, as Barbie said....
And my last: the manager from the City of Chicago, who, after the project was working well, started arranging to get rid of the VAR who built it, so that he was the only one who knew it.... He did get criminally charged, about 6 years later.
And, of course, we *know* where the biggest, sorry, HUUUUGGGEEESST one of all is....
If it's in software, *why* is it in software?
1. HR departments, who *still* don't know shit about the company, and refuse to learn., and
2. Upper management, who tells them to hire younger, because they're cheaper.
When I was looking, and in my resume, I dropped the first 10 years of work experience. If I were looking again, I'd drop the first 15, at least.
Come the Revolution, we're going to lead HR depts in to the parking lot, toss asphalt on them, and PAVE THEM INTO THE ROADWAY, so that they provide *some* social utility.
Obligatory: when we get closer, remember to transmit "Gort! Klaatu barata nikto!"
Toss ice asteroids at Mars. Or skim them from Jupiter's rings. Add a *lot* of water to Mars, and it's a lot easier to just use mass drivers plunked down on an ice asteroid to take a few years to head Marsward.
Easy enough. You'd just need to build the tracks, and you don't need to worry about zoning or the environment (nothing migrating across the track, y'know)....
"Pluto is a planet! Equal rights for Pluto!" - alien from Pluto, award winner in the young fan division in the Masquerade at Worldcon 2008.
And under the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (tm), which also declared War on Coal!!!
Oh, yeah, what "government war on coal"? I must have missed that in the corporate change to mountaintop removal, cutting 90% of mining jobs....
Shocked that it reads almost *exactly* like the report that came out in Reagan's first term, in the early eighties. Oddly enough, the GOP REFUSES to raise taxes to do massive spending on infrastructure. I guess that not only is it not "sexy" (maintenance never is), but it's not big buck profits for their buds.
...the leaks of the GOP emails and files, which hackers *surely* got?
It's a right wing British supermarket tabloid. USans - how do you feel about using the National Enquirer, or (my own personal favorite), the Weekly World News as sources for wikipedia articles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And STP lasted for close to 24 hours. Yes. I can personally verify that it did. And yes, this is long, long beyond the statute of limitations.
The GOP has been using it as a script, with them as Big Brother, at least since Reagan. It's just now clear to everyone (except the suckers of the alt-wrong), since Trump & co say exactly what the GOP's been saying since Nixon started his Southern Strategy, except they're too narcissistic and stupid to use the Approved Euphemisms.
"You want a view of the future? Picture a boot stomping on a human face, forever." - O'Brian to Winston. And for you on the right, so, how's you're bank account looking?
Manning's served years, now. From news reports, none of US "assets" were harmed; if necessary, they were moved out of harm's way.
Now, what about Dick Cheney, whose office (or maybe it was him, personally) outed CIA covert agent Valerie Plame to politically attack her ambassador husband, who had proof that Saddam Hussein had no effective WMDs, nor had they tried to get yellowcake uranium. According to news reports, the US *lost* "assets"... meaning imprisoned or killed. Why was Cheney, who WAS where the buck stops for his office as VPUS, not even charged?
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Also, I'm wondering how much of this is political - I cannot reach Paul Krugman's blog in the NYT.
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Forget the sites the articles mention. I was having very serious troubles getting to the Guardian's site, pictures not loading, and worse, I couldn't even log onto my hosting provider.
Now, I'm on Verizon FIOS, and my system (Linux, a real o/s) couldn't even ping hostmonster.com, it couldn't find the name, until I manual added nameserver 8.8.8.8 (one of google's) to my resolv.conf. Then it started working.
That tells me that it was overloading nameservers in a *LOT* of places.
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I have just this to say about that: folks, I wouldn't let alpha software out to users.
They brought in "hybrid" phones here last year (VOIP). For voicemail, it sends an mp3, and a "transcription". Frequently, the "transcription", "powered by Microsoft speech technology", resembles early "computer poetry". And by "early", I'm talking 1960s or '70s.... with significant portions bearing zero resemblance to what was said.
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So, if the Universe has 20 times as many galaxies, and so, presumably, 20 times as much normal matter, then the estimate that the Universe is only 4% normal matter jumps to 80% normal matter, and a *lot* less dark matter, right?
Horse hockey. The studios don't own the theatres, theatre companies do, and the studios want an arm and a leg to show the films, and the theatre companies want the other arm and a leg for profit... and the theatres pay the staff from the food and drinks.
The result is, what, it was $20/person last year for an IMAX show of Interstellar. $20 for a MOVIE? And another what, $10? $15? $20? for popcorn and sodas?
Gee, I just don' know why fewer people is going to da theatres....
1. As of the beginning of this year, the PCI - the organization of credit card vendors section that deals with security, announced, over a year ago, that not having chip readers enabled meant that the store is liable for fraud.. The chip is a *lot* more trouble to clone or steal.
2. What's the big deal? Time them printing out the chit, you signing it, or inputting crap on the screen, then having to sign (I *loathe* "signing" with my fingertip) - as if anyone could read half your signatures - as opposed to shoving the card in and waiting a minute for it to beep.
It's about them not wanting to loose a *lot* of money because users don't care about people stealing their data, or watching you punch in your PIN, or....
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Ah, not for years yet, at least. Since I've spec'd out a number of servers this year, let me assure you that I can get an 8TB HDD for about the price of a 1TB SSD... if they're even offering SSD's that large; most are 256G or 500G.
HDDs declared dead, film at 11....
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You're read/heard how he underpays or fails to pay people and small contractors he's hired.
Here's another one: my PT and I were talking this morning, and he told me his father's an industrial contractor - paints bridges, drywall buildings, etc, and more than once, he's done a job for Trump, and then, when it was done, Trump comes in, says yeah, he's satisfied... but that he thinks he's already paid him enough, never mind the signed contract.
Tell me that's not criminal fraud?
He is a crook. And his wife doesn't wear a cloth coat....
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