We loath them because they are greedy fucking assholes with bad signals, bad service, bad billing gimmicks, and bad telemarketers; and we can't switch because the competitors are few in numbers and also suck. I live in a relatively well-populated area and there is STILL shit competition here. Dare I say it, they make Microsoft look good.
Suppose your boss asked you to have an automated server task run "3 times a day". The time values would look awkward and be hard to mentally verify if our clocks were 10-based.
Things are often partitioned by 2, 3, and 4 in "domain land". Five is used less often, and only usually due to our usage of base 10. (60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 5, but it's too large to be practical in my opinion. 12 is the best compromise.)
Joking aside, GOP will indeed likely balk at anything that sounds like the "europification" of America. Another "culture war" issue.
Personally, I think measurement systems should be based on a base of 12, not 10. 12 divides nicely into 3 and 4, unlike base 10. D@mn our tetrapod ancestors for having 5 digits per paw.
Everybody wants "the loser" to "just die" until circumstances turn YOU into "the loser". Automation is slowly climbing up the education ladder; your time may come.
That might be true, but the culture is what the culture is. Republicans commonly denigrate "free-loaders" and that's not going to change any time soon. Our identity is tied to our work, for good or bad.
Sometimes being able to work is more important to people than having cheap trinkets in the shops. Maximizing happiness and maximizing "stuff" may not necessarily be the same thing.
Is anybody pretending that corporations and politicians aren't already effectively doing the same thing?
Almost every day on the way to work, I hear at least one radio ad for "repairing your company's online reputation...We can help remove false and angry commentary and ratings about your company and its products. A poor online reputation can hurt your bottom line. We can restore your good name. Call now!"
Though scientists are not sure why this happens...
Combine it with an EM drive: double the speed & double the mystery. Maybe if you mix baffling with confounding you get a multiplier effect instead of just doubling. (That's the way the entropy seems to work with compounded software bugs.)
That movie was sci-fi at its best: mostly plausible*, educational, entertaining, suspenseful, memorable, timeless, and it made you think. And it had Raquel Welch!
* Except maybe for the shrunken human passengers part, but in the near future, remote "virtual" control operators may play similar roles the way military drone operators do now. They may end up having to make quick decisions in difficult circumstances in terms of the patient's life and say limitations of batteries etc. on potentially patient-customized probe(s).
Caveat: I forgot to mention that not all organizations will accept this "aspergers discount". If they find you "difficult", some orgs will simply let you go rather than cut your salary.
It's kind of like ball teams: some team managers want consistency and predictability in players, and pay a premium for it.
Other teams are willing to take "damaged goods" to save money on players or take a gamble, and have staff that is used to dealing with unpredictable personalities. (It may be lack of "team" skills, habit of missing practices or being late, or a criminal/drug background.)
Ben Wallace pretty much won the Detroit Pistons the championship a decade ago by keeping Shaq at bay with vigor and skill usually seen in a more expensive player. But, he has a record of ticking off other players and staff on his team.
Both types of teams can and do win the big trophy, BUT you have to fit the profile of the team expectations to stay with such a team.
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We loath them because they are greedy fucking assholes with bad signals, bad service, bad billing gimmicks, and bad telemarketers; and we can't switch because the competitors are few in numbers and also suck. I live in a relatively well-populated area and there is STILL shit competition here. Dare I say it, they make Microsoft look good.
No, they outsource that also so they can blame the contractor for doing their dirty deeds (done real cheap).
Lyrics:
Your job has gone
and your income too
to a slave-like worker
in Timbuktu
You can try, to find
another job, of its kind
but A.I. will soon make you through.
[add your own verse, crowd-source this...]
That's not unlike USA early in its industrial revolution. Remember The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair?
Suppose your boss asked you to have an automated server task run "3 times a day". The time values would look awkward and be hard to mentally verify if our clocks were 10-based.
Things are often partitioned by 2, 3, and 4 in "domain land". Five is used less often, and only usually due to our usage of base 10. (60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 5, but it's too large to be practical in my opinion. 12 is the best compromise.)
Aren't those LOR characters?
Joking aside, GOP will indeed likely balk at anything that sounds like the "europification" of America. Another "culture war" issue.
Personally, I think measurement systems should be based on a base of 12, not 10. 12 divides nicely into 3 and 4, unlike base 10. D@mn our tetrapod ancestors for having 5 digits per paw.
Boolean?
They are usually jerks at work also.
Everybody wants "the loser" to "just die" until circumstances turn YOU into "the loser". Automation is slowly climbing up the education ladder; your time may come.
Ask most females who they'd rather date: a warehouse picker, or a guy who sits around all day watching TV and collecting welfare?
How did you pull that out of my writing?
That might be true, but the culture is what the culture is. Republicans commonly denigrate "free-loaders" and that's not going to change any time soon. Our identity is tied to our work, for good or bad.
HAL still won't open that damned pod bay door.
Sometimes being able to work is more important to people than having cheap trinkets in the shops. Maximizing happiness and maximizing "stuff" may not necessarily be the same thing.
My plutocrat can beat up your autocrat!
Almost every day on the way to work, I hear at least one radio ad for "repairing your company's online reputation...We can help remove false and angry commentary and ratings about your company and its products. A poor online reputation can hurt your bottom line. We can restore your good name. Call now!"
Puti boy, for $30 more per hour, I can re-write this to not sound so cheesy and fake to yankee ears.
Cool! Where do I sign up?
It's because I prayed really hard for a trip to Risa.
That is perfectly valid in the Furbian dialect of English.
Combine it with an EM drive: double the speed & double the mystery. Maybe if you mix baffling with confounding you get a multiplier effect instead of just doubling. (That's the way the entropy seems to work with compounded software bugs.)
That movie was sci-fi at its best: mostly plausible*, educational, entertaining, suspenseful, memorable, timeless, and it made you think. And it had Raquel Welch!
* Except maybe for the shrunken human passengers part, but in the near future, remote "virtual" control operators may play similar roles the way military drone operators do now. They may end up having to make quick decisions in difficult circumstances in terms of the patient's life and say limitations of batteries etc. on potentially patient-customized probe(s).
Plutocrats will "encourage" law-makers try every other technique first before they have to spend profits to change themselves.
Caveat: I forgot to mention that not all organizations will accept this "aspergers discount". If they find you "difficult", some orgs will simply let you go rather than cut your salary.
It's kind of like ball teams: some team managers want consistency and predictability in players, and pay a premium for it.
Other teams are willing to take "damaged goods" to save money on players or take a gamble, and have staff that is used to dealing with unpredictable personalities. (It may be lack of "team" skills, habit of missing practices or being late, or a criminal/drug background.)
Ben Wallace pretty much won the Detroit Pistons the championship a decade ago by keeping Shaq at bay with vigor and skill usually seen in a more expensive player. But, he has a record of ticking off other players and staff on his team.
Both types of teams can and do win the big trophy, BUT you have to fit the profile of the team expectations to stay with such a team.