I can't speak for all of IT, but I kind of fell into this line of work by accident. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my job, I like working on machines; it's the people I can't stand. Like the guy whose brand new pc comes back to me 2 weeks after I issued it to him because he was doing shit he shouldn't have been. So I have bump everything else I'm working on just to get this asshole set up again. Yeah, I resent having to redo work I just did, especially when I have 20 other things that need to get done.
Good example. I was thinking more from a preventative maintenance/general functionality perspective, like even a modestly educated person wouldn't drive 10,000 miles without an oil change, or eat a bucket of lard and not expect there to be consequences. But the security angle works too. And I can't help the smugness because I'm usually right;)
Alright, ignorant then, and willfully so. They don't want to know how to do anything properly, they just want it done now and get all pissy with me when they fuck it up. God forbid they actually take the time to learn something.
After seeing how the "average consumer" uses and treats their computer, and having to fix it after the fact, it's hard to NOT feel resentment towards them. It's not personal, I just despise what they represent, willful ignorance.
Are you kidding? The entire system would collapse. How would they have time to both raise money for their reelection campaigns AND actually do their jobs?
It WAS passed on to the "people," in this case, insurance companies (they're legally people now, how's that for fucked). They completely fucked it up by involving profit motive in a system that should NOT be about profit, it should be about taking care of REAL people. That's why the government is now involved. And expecting a state like, say, Ohio, to jump in and fix things is just fucking naive. Ohio can't even come up with a constitutional way to fund it's schools. So where else is left to turn?
People need to screw up to learn--give them some room to fail gracefully and learn how to pick themselves back up.
Brilliant. Too bad we now coddle kids from the crib through high school. Not allowed to fail, not allowed to fuck up, it's always someone else's fault.
Wonderful basis for a society we've fabricated here.
I'll give you that one. At least when an adult does something stupid, they have a good chance of knowing it might be stupid. Not so much for teens. Socrates would probably call that "wisdom"
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I know you tried to make the OP look foolish but is it really that hard to write Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2?
you dumbass mods...
I thought it was talking about Megan Fox getting thrown out of some club called "Galaxy," my bad
this man has no dick
I can't speak for all of IT, but I kind of fell into this line of work by accident. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my job, I like working on machines; it's the people I can't stand. Like the guy whose brand new pc comes back to me 2 weeks after I issued it to him because he was doing shit he shouldn't have been. So I have bump everything else I'm working on just to get this asshole set up again. Yeah, I resent having to redo work I just did, especially when I have 20 other things that need to get done.
Good example. I was thinking more from a preventative maintenance/general functionality perspective, like even a modestly educated person wouldn't drive 10,000 miles without an oil change, or eat a bucket of lard and not expect there to be consequences. But the security angle works too. And I can't help the smugness because I'm usually right ;)
Alright, ignorant then, and willfully so. They don't want to know how to do anything properly, they just want it done now and get all pissy with me when they fuck it up. God forbid they actually take the time to learn something.
After seeing how the "average consumer" uses and treats their computer, and having to fix it after the fact, it's hard to NOT feel resentment towards them. It's not personal, I just despise what they represent, willful ignorance.
because it comes pre-bundled into every machine from just about every major vendor, and people are too lazy and stupid to find/get something better
yes, yes, I am an insensitive clod
And that somehow makes it better? They're ALL fucking idiotic barbarian cretins, no matter what they do or say to try and disguise that fact.
C) A working machine that's immune to rootkits and doesn't have an obsolete OS.
hint: always choose C.
Are you kidding? The entire system would collapse. How would they have time to both raise money for their reelection campaigns AND actually do their jobs?
It WAS passed on to the "people," in this case, insurance companies (they're legally people now, how's that for fucked). They completely fucked it up by involving profit motive in a system that should NOT be about profit, it should be about taking care of REAL people. That's why the government is now involved. And expecting a state like, say, Ohio, to jump in and fix things is just fucking naive. Ohio can't even come up with a constitutional way to fund it's schools. So where else is left to turn?
Everything you just said is complete and utter bullshit. I'd pick it apart point by point, but I don't have time.
Because you don't get to decide how your tax money is spent. If you don't like it, stop paying taxes.
true, but right and wrong seldom have anything to do with legal and not
People need to screw up to learn--give them some room to fail gracefully and learn how to pick themselves back up.
Brilliant. Too bad we now coddle kids from the crib through high school. Not allowed to fail, not allowed to fuck up, it's always someone else's fault.
Wonderful basis for a society we've fabricated here.
you were sent to the store by yourself when you were just learning to read? wow, these days your mom would have been branded negligent and jailed
I'll give you that one. At least when an adult does something stupid, they have a good chance of knowing it might be stupid. Not so much for teens. Socrates would probably call that "wisdom"
damn right! this is Amurika damnit! I did not lose a leg in Vietnam so parents have to be responsible for their children's behavior!
can result in fatal or permanently life-altering disease
and, of course, pregnancy. duh
redundant
first up, Kansas, followed by Oklahoma and Texas
agreed, but it can also be safely assumed that in general, an adult is an idiot too. what do you think an idiot teen grows up to become?
the most rigidly constructed building is the most fragile
judges are like any other group, a few intelligent, rational ones, a whole shitload of clueless morons