Amazon sells those too. When you buy a game on Amazon, all you're really buying is an activation code for the game on whichever platform hosts it (Blizzard / Valve / Ubisoft / Origin).
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As a friend of mine said long ago referring to a construction worker holding up a sign that said "Slow" (as in "slow down your car"): you could be replaced by a bucket of sand.
Your friend is forgetting the other half of the job....which is the ultra-complex maneuver of coordinating with another sign holder and rotating the sign from "Slow" to "Stop." That immensely complex operations requires qualifications unlikely to be met outside of highly paid human labor for generations to come.
Doesn't really matter if the coverage isn't there in rural areas.
AT&T isn't trying to steal Verizon's rural customers, and T-Mobile doesn't have better coverage. I bet AT&T would be happy to secure a big chunk of Verizon's urban customer base and leave Verizon with customers in the sticks.
Rural coverage is a byproduct, not the focus you think it is.
Humans are not naturally greedy. Humans born in a greedy society (aka capitalism) are greedy.
You're denying human nature.
If you're a creationist, human greed led to Adam and Eve wanting more and pissing off God. If you're an evolutionist, human greed caused us to rise to the top of the food chain.
Humans were greedy long before there was such a word as capitalism. In fact, you could attribute the word society to greed. Groups of people (societies) got together because they either wanted other peoples stuff, or were trying to prevent other people from taking their stuff.
I left out a lot. I left out most. You can cherry pick murderers out of one race if you like, but it's not going to stop people from pointing out when other people have an agenda.
No, the purpose of AI should be that it can problem solve and adapt to a situation as well, or better than us. With an unfair reaction benefit it can actually problem solve worse, yet still win simply because it has an external advantage. That doesn't sound like a win for AI to me.
If a self-driving car can drive better than you because it's got 360 degree vision, millisecond reaction time and the capacity to focus on ten different factors at once is that "cheating"? I think that's a matter of perspective, limiting it to the wheel's turning rate and the pedals' actuation force sounds like unreasonably hampering the performance. Maybe that's not a "fair" fight, but I'd say we probably want the computer to play to its strengths and not mimic our weaknesses.
If that self-driving car was competitively driving in NASCAR, with perfect knowledge of car positions, velocity, tire conditions, fuel levels, track conditions - then it would be a fair comparison.
There are dicks everywhere. People of all religions, ethnicities, colors, and even financial backgrounds don't like and/or trust other people who are not like them.
Well yes, but using extremes can often lead to a sort of moral relativism where everybody is equally bad even though one is a fringe movement and the other a mainstream sentiment. I'm sure there were a few black supremacists, but nothing like the KKK. I'm sure some Jews hated the Nazis, but nothing like the Holocaust. I don't know if it's been listed as a fallacy but the appeal to indifference certainly should be, like they were probably just as bad as us. No, they probably weren't.
This sounds like something a white apologist would say. I was talking about individuals being dicks - which happens in all religions, ethnicities, and colors. You bring out the holocaust and the KKK as examples...
The Hutu killed a million Tutsi in 3 months - and while that doesn't compare to the Germans killing 11 million Jews, they also didn't have the power, reach, or time period to kill more before international involvement curtailed it. Slavery? Invented by Sumerian and Egyptians (middle-eastern) and perfected by Berbers (black) who specialized in enslaving Christians. There have been more non-black slaves than black slaves. KKK are retards - but like I said...EVERY group, ethnicity, religion etc has its share of dicks.
Also I was wondering: do you have a diversity program in place?
If there was one place that needed a diversity program in place, it would be professional sports. Despite not being the superior athlete, I should get hired onto a multi-million dollar NBA contract because I'm white and underrepresented.
Man has a point. If you only hire H1-Bs, you won't get many Trump supporters.
About TFA: is a sad commentary on the US education system that our rednecks can't tell the races they're supposed to hate apart. But then, I guess it's not the smart ones who do this sort of shit in the first place.
White guy in Kansas shoots foreigners because he's a racist and/or ethnocentric. Black guys beat and torture white guy in Chicago because they're racist and/or ethnocentric. White cops beat black guy in California because they're racist and/or ethnocentric. Black guy kills a bunch of white cops because he's racist and/or ethnocentric. Middle Eastern guys rape a bunch of white women in Sweden because....
There are dicks everywhere. People of all religions, ethnicities, colors, and even financial backgrounds don't like and/or trust other people who are not like them.
What makes you think the majority of litter is assholes throwing shit out their window? Most of the litter I've seen on my 50 mile commute has been waste management vehicles with improperly secured gates or tops, or just degraded tops to the point where there are huge holes. These vehicles leave miles-long "comet tails" of debris in their wake that are very annoying to drive through and hazardous to paint and windshields.
Not to mention the possibility of high winds at the landfill before a particular segment gets covered again.
My stance on environmentalism is that I would like its advocates to live by their advice. For instance, if they advocate that I should eschew plane travel to reduce carbon footprint, they should not do it from conferences that they reached by traveling by plane, especially not by private jet. Otherwise, my suspicion is that they want me to suffer to preserve their playground.
Fine fine. You can have the point on the "majority" of litter, as long as I can still pick up the smoldering butts that people throw out their window and extinguish them in their eyeballs.
Defamation for what? They *did* have his package. For a month. With no record of its location....leading to the not unreasonable assumption that it had been stolen - which is not as rare as we'd like to wish it would be.
If you were to take to google, you'd find that carriers routinely open, inspect, and reseal packages - often at the request of law enforcement, and without a warrant being required. This is especially prevalent in Colorado and Washington, where LE assumes everyone is trying to ship marijuana out of state.
Returning to the same google-fu, missing packages aren't a rarity - which is what insurance is for. He did have insurance on the package, but not nearly enough.
I should add that FWIW, my stance on environmentalism is such that I wish (for example) that police would fingerprint or DNA litter, then fine the owners. Or that if I saw someone throwing a cigarette butt out of their window, it was legal for me to get out of my car, retrieve their cigarette butt, and put it out in their eyeballs.
That doesn't make me see Al Gore as any less of a douche than he is.
If everyone would stop speculating what they think OTHER people with opposing views would think as a means to build a strawman argument about how smart they are and how stupid people with opposing political views are....this conversation wouldn't be so hard to read.
I read through some of the comments on this story, and I couldn't help but notice there were quite a few that related Gore's politics and finance. None gave him any credit at all for financial acumen.
Yet not only did Gore make a lot of money by accepting (at the time cheap) stock for sitting on Apple's board, he made 'way more when he and another guy started up Current TV. Gore built it up and wound up selling it for major bucks.
So basically, Gore showed real financial chops. But because he's an unapologetic hypocrite, there's all kinds of sniping about private jets and save the whales by the same people who venerate Donald Trump. Yet Trump's main claim to fame is the number of times he's declared bankruptcy in ways allowing him to screw contractors over without losing any of his own money.
That's because fast food workers aren't sitting around on work hours taking surveys. Truck drivers aren't driving down the road taking surveys. Taxi drivers and uber drivers aren't carting people around while taking surveys.
Office workers......people who generally have some sort of responsibility that involves decision making outside of a yes/no matrix - and thus don't see how their jobs can be automated due to complex troubleshooting and decision making - CAN sit around and do surveys.
In other obvious news, a recent survey of heavy drinkers shows that a whopping 65% don't believe they have a drinking problem, while only 3% thought that they did.
I documented all of this, got supporting statements from my colleagues, and went to HR
Aha, I see your mistake.
When your "I went to..." statement does not end with "the troublesome's persons direct supervisor", then you have done nothing except cause grief for yourself.
Companies don't change in response to HR reported threats. They clam up and protect the status quo. Hint: you reporting a problem is not the status quo...
If instead you report to a manager above the troubled employee, well now you are giving the company a chance to quietly sweep a problem under the rug... there is nothing large companies and high level executives like more than some good rug sweeping. Heck, they might even lay off her whole division just to be sure!
Actually, in both cases I did go to the person's direct supervisor.
In the incident of the poker game at my house, there were 10-15 other people there - all co-workers. The story made it to her boss (my boss' boss) before I talked to him next. He was an empty suit - GE has its share of people who talk a good talk, but don't follow through on anything.
In the incident of the finance lady, I actually started with my boss. I was so enraged that I wanted to violence this person - I went to talk to my boss, took his advice to write it all up, go to HR....and while I called and left a message (and sent an e-mail) to her boss, my own boss had warned me that he was an empty suit, and nothing would happen. True to form, he didn't even bother to return my call or respond to my e-mail.
So...is she an ex-manager because you moved on, or someone did something about that behavior?
I got the fuck out. I took a demotion and a pay raise and moved to another team....which was difficult because of the "You're my best project manager so I'm going to give you a shitty performance review so that you have to stay on my team and make me look good" problem.
That said, I'd have taken the easy way out, if HR told me what you claim they told you, and sue. Especially, if she had been abusive to you. Jackpot!
One doesn't really sue GE. Especially an individual...or at least me - with a fairly long military career behind me, where I've been called worse and hurt worse. I'm just pointing out that it goes both ways. Stories like mine don't make national media...unless I'm a woman. Then I can blog about it, sue my employer for sexual discrimination, and even when a court rules against me - still make national headlines.
That said, your tone really stands out as misogynistic. Not saying you are, but it just comes across that way. Perhaps, it was the rant about affirmative action and focused on women and minorities,
No - not a misogynist....this story is about men mistreating women in a corporate culture. Stories like this make national headlines. The reverse stories do not. Just like domestic violence - news only reports one side of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
What's her name accuses men at Uber of sexually harassing and holding her down and it makes national news. I report women at GE assaulting and physically abusing me, and I'm a misogynist. See my point?
"Another manager threatened to beat an underperforming employee's head in with a baseball bat."
Now, that's what must be a highly motivating work environment:/
One must wonder how their hiring process works, i.e. letting such characters through the gates, since recent reports don't paint a pretty picture.
That sounds like the sort of thing where someone is quoting Bon Qui Qui (Mad TV; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) and says, "I will cut you!" or something, and the receiving end takes it as a threat.
Granted: The first rule of public speaking (or just about any kind of presentation) is to Know Your Audience. KYA. Applies to everything. You shouldn't tell jokes to people who may not get them, or may take offense at them...unless you're a stand-up comic. KYA. But that sort of professionalism isn't taught at any MBA school, and we have an entire generation or two of managers who are missing fundamental characteristics of leadership.
And my ex-manager (woman) was at a poker game at my house, raving drunk and after losing a hand to me, threw a handful of ceramic poker chips in my face as hard as she could. Not that it surprised anyone because she occasionally comes to work drunk. Not that anyone will do anything about it because she's a she.
And then there's the manager of our finance department (black woman) who doesn't feel unprofessional screaming at me on the phone and calling me names - while I'm on speaker phone with her - while people in other offices come to listen in amazement. She developed a billing workflow for our entire business unit, and after deploying it at the END OF THE QUARTER with no testing - which caused no end of headaches - I dug through to figure out the errors, drafted a corrective action plan to fix it and sent it to her - which culminated in this legendary phone conversation where she was screaming at me on the phone about how I was too stupid to figure out how to use the workflow...
I documented all of this, got supporting statements from my colleagues, and went to HR - who basically said that she's untouchable because she's a minority and a woman. I work for GE; not exactly a small-time company. We have all the expected training, HR-enforced compliance...hell, when someone does something that grabs the attention of a regulatory body in a bad way, people get fired. The people involved get fired. The people who weren't involved but heard about it punitive career action for not proactively taking steps to report it up the chain of command. The people who weren't involved and didn't hear about it, but were in a position that they theoretically SHOULD have heard or known about it get formally reprimanded.
But God help that there be a woman, or for double damage a minority woman...and rules go out the window.
Plot twist, the government doesn't manage their own networks anymore, for a while now they've been getting rid of military trained personnel and replacing them with civilian contractors.
Keep in mind that Department of Homeland security != Military; the Department of Defense (military) is a separate department. And many DHS personnel are unskilled, uneducated workers. TSA and all the security theater is part of DHS. This news article is as special as "Exxon gas station cashiers locked out of computer network."
Baggage handlers, X-Ray viewers, clerks, and even janitorial staff proudly introduce themselves in public as "I'm with Homeland Security." It sounds a lot better than "I'm a baggage handler at the airport."
I agree that education at all levels should be an entitlement. But it's not, and that wasn't the OP's point - it was that his daughter is going to pay an assload for college that won't do her any good, then spend a decade slaving for someone to pay it off and struggling for a livelihood.
My point in return was that this isn't the only path available - nor even the most appropriate...just an example of the sort of entitlement mentality that adds to the struggle that the OP was complaining about.
@Altrag: You said that military service = murder and die because a world leader mouths off. I'm guessing you're from North Korea and thinking America works the same way. It doesn't.
rsilvergun, you're going to hate me for this - but I read in what you write the sense of entitlement causing a generation of people to think rewards come without work. Breaking it down:
-Your kid just hit college and she'll not only spend her life making someone else rich, but the first 10 years paying for the privilege.
There's a lot going on in that sentence. Starting with the fact that your kid hit college unprepared - sounds like she didn't push or excel in school, so doesn't have academic or athletic scholarships. And if that's the case, perhaps you should have encouraged her to try an alternative method to adulthood; vocational training. Learning a useful skill? My wife made some poor choices when she was younger, and isn't going to college until now - in her 40s - which her employer is paying for as long as she maintains As. Your daughter could do the same?
Then there's the assumption that she'll spend her life making someone else rich, but the first 10 years paying for the privilege. Again - you're structuring this around the idea that your daughter is entitled to college, and a career afterwards - likely without having any distinguishing characteristics at all. And given your verbage, it doesn't sound like you have much hope that she'll break out of the mold and do something innovative or worthwhile.
Here's an idea - if you want your daughter to be economically sound, enlist her in the army. I hear Trump is staffing up. Not only will she get a big fat enlistment check that she can use to pay off most of your mortgage, she'll get a steady career, steady pay, cut and dry promotional requirements - and instead of struggling to pay off her college, she can have the military pay for her college, then double dip to tap the G.I. Bill when she gets out / retires in case she decides she wants to go after an MBA.
There's a path for everyone - but it's often not a glamorous path full of coddling, hand-holding, and the "everyone wins" shit that they teach in schools. I *TOO* want Americans to stop settling for less - but the only way for them to stop settling for less is for them to get off their collective asses, and go get more.
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What about games on non amazon app stores?
Amazon sells those too. When you buy a game on Amazon, all you're really buying is an activation code for the game on whichever platform hosts it (Blizzard / Valve / Ubisoft / Origin).
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As a friend of mine said long ago referring to a construction worker holding up a sign that said "Slow" (as in "slow down your car"): you could be replaced by a bucket of sand.
Your friend is forgetting the other half of the job....which is the ultra-complex maneuver of coordinating with another sign holder and rotating the sign from "Slow" to "Stop." That immensely complex operations requires qualifications unlikely to be met outside of highly paid human labor for generations to come.
Doesn't really matter if the coverage isn't there in rural areas.
AT&T isn't trying to steal Verizon's rural customers, and T-Mobile doesn't have better coverage. I bet AT&T would be happy to secure a big chunk of Verizon's urban customer base and leave Verizon with customers in the sticks.
Rural coverage is a byproduct, not the focus you think it is.
Maybe they will be smart enough to be able to tell the difference between "outnumber" and "outsmart", thus outsmarting the poster
Hopefully also smart enough to proofread their own sentences, so we don't end up with garbage like "more computing power that a person."
Humans are not naturally greedy. Humans born in a greedy society (aka capitalism) are greedy.
You're denying human nature.
If you're a creationist, human greed led to Adam and Eve wanting more and pissing off God.
If you're an evolutionist, human greed caused us to rise to the top of the food chain.
Humans were greedy long before there was such a word as capitalism. In fact, you could attribute the word society to greed. Groups of people (societies) got together because they either wanted other peoples stuff, or were trying to prevent other people from taking their stuff.
You left out some:
I left out a lot. I left out most. You can cherry pick murderers out of one race if you like, but it's not going to stop people from pointing out when other people have an agenda.
No, the purpose of AI should be that it can problem solve and adapt to a situation as well, or better than us. With an unfair reaction benefit it can actually problem solve worse, yet still win simply because it has an external advantage. That doesn't sound like a win for AI to me.
If a self-driving car can drive better than you because it's got 360 degree vision, millisecond reaction time and the capacity to focus on ten different factors at once is that "cheating"? I think that's a matter of perspective, limiting it to the wheel's turning rate and the pedals' actuation force sounds like unreasonably hampering the performance. Maybe that's not a "fair" fight, but I'd say we probably want the computer to play to its strengths and not mimic our weaknesses.
If that self-driving car was competitively driving in NASCAR, with perfect knowledge of car positions, velocity, tire conditions, fuel levels, track conditions - then it would be a fair comparison.
There are dicks everywhere. People of all religions, ethnicities, colors, and even financial backgrounds don't like and/or trust other people who are not like them.
Well yes, but using extremes can often lead to a sort of moral relativism where everybody is equally bad even though one is a fringe movement and the other a mainstream sentiment. I'm sure there were a few black supremacists, but nothing like the KKK. I'm sure some Jews hated the Nazis, but nothing like the Holocaust. I don't know if it's been listed as a fallacy but the appeal to indifference certainly should be, like they were probably just as bad as us. No, they probably weren't.
This sounds like something a white apologist would say. I was talking about individuals being dicks - which happens in all religions, ethnicities, and colors. You bring out the holocaust and the KKK as examples...
The Hutu killed a million Tutsi in 3 months - and while that doesn't compare to the Germans killing 11 million Jews, they also didn't have the power, reach, or time period to kill more before international involvement curtailed it. Slavery? Invented by Sumerian and Egyptians (middle-eastern) and perfected by Berbers (black) who specialized in enslaving Christians. There have been more non-black slaves than black slaves. KKK are retards - but like I said...EVERY group, ethnicity, religion etc has its share of dicks.
Also I was wondering: do you have a diversity program in place?
If there was one place that needed a diversity program in place, it would be professional sports. Despite not being the superior athlete, I should get hired onto a multi-million dollar NBA contract because I'm white and underrepresented.
Man has a point. If you only hire H1-Bs, you won't get many Trump supporters.
About TFA: is a sad commentary on the US education system that our rednecks can't tell the races they're supposed to hate apart. But then, I guess it's not the smart ones who do this sort of shit in the first place.
White guy in Kansas shoots foreigners because he's a racist and/or ethnocentric. ....
Black guys beat and torture white guy in Chicago because they're racist and/or ethnocentric.
White cops beat black guy in California because they're racist and/or ethnocentric.
Black guy kills a bunch of white cops because he's racist and/or ethnocentric.
Middle Eastern guys rape a bunch of white women in Sweden because
There are dicks everywhere. People of all religions, ethnicities, colors, and even financial backgrounds don't like and/or trust other people who are not like them.
What makes you think the majority of litter is assholes throwing shit out their window? Most of the litter I've seen on my 50 mile commute has been waste management vehicles with improperly secured gates or tops, or just degraded tops to the point where there are huge holes. These vehicles leave miles-long "comet tails" of debris in their wake that are very annoying to drive through and hazardous to paint and windshields.
Not to mention the possibility of high winds at the landfill before a particular segment gets covered again.
My stance on environmentalism is that I would like its advocates to live by their advice. For instance, if they advocate that I should eschew plane travel to reduce carbon footprint, they should not do it from conferences that they reached by traveling by plane, especially not by private jet. Otherwise, my suspicion is that they want me to suffer to preserve their playground.
Fine fine. You can have the point on the "majority" of litter, as long as I can still pick up the smoldering butts that people throw out their window and extinguish them in their eyeballs.
The GP post is a clear exception to Poe's Law. It's abundantly clear that it's sarcasm.
C'mon, use your head ... "treason in the united corporations of america state?" "Trump will get him drowned in a steel cage?"
The post is +5 funny. Let's laugh and not take it seriously.
I can't laugh at it because the words aren't assembled together well enough to make a coherent thought for me to follow.
He needs to go to jail for a long time.
Defamation for what? They *did* have his package. For a month. With no record of its location....leading to the not unreasonable assumption that it had been stolen - which is not as rare as we'd like to wish it would be.
If you were to take to google, you'd find that carriers routinely open, inspect, and reseal packages - often at the request of law enforcement, and without a warrant being required. This is especially prevalent in Colorado and Washington, where LE assumes everyone is trying to ship marijuana out of state.
Returning to the same google-fu, missing packages aren't a rarity - which is what insurance is for. He did have insurance on the package, but not nearly enough.
I should add that FWIW, my stance on environmentalism is such that I wish (for example) that police would fingerprint or DNA litter, then fine the owners. Or that if I saw someone throwing a cigarette butt out of their window, it was legal for me to get out of my car, retrieve their cigarette butt, and put it out in their eyeballs.
That doesn't make me see Al Gore as any less of a douche than he is.
If everyone would stop speculating what they think OTHER people with opposing views would think as a means to build a strawman argument about how smart they are and how stupid people with opposing political views are....this conversation wouldn't be so hard to read.
I read through some of the comments on this story, and I couldn't help but notice there were quite a few that related Gore's politics and finance. None gave him any credit at all for financial acumen.
Yet not only did Gore make a lot of money by accepting (at the time cheap) stock for sitting on Apple's board, he made 'way more when he and another guy started up Current TV. Gore built it up and wound up selling it for major bucks.
So basically, Gore showed real financial chops. But because he's an unapologetic hypocrite, there's all kinds of sniping about private jets and save the whales by the same people who venerate Donald Trump. Yet Trump's main claim to fame is the number of times he's declared bankruptcy in ways allowing him to screw contractors over without losing any of his own money.
Fixed that for you.
That's because fast food workers aren't sitting around on work hours taking surveys. Truck drivers aren't driving down the road taking surveys. Taxi drivers and uber drivers aren't carting people around while taking surveys.
Office workers... ...people who generally have some sort of responsibility that involves decision making outside of a yes/no matrix - and thus don't see how their jobs can be automated due to complex troubleshooting and decision making - CAN sit around and do surveys.
In other obvious news, a recent survey of heavy drinkers shows that a whopping 65% don't believe they have a drinking problem, while only 3% thought that they did.
I documented all of this, got supporting statements from my colleagues, and went to HR
Aha, I see your mistake.
When your "I went to..." statement does not end with "the troublesome's persons direct supervisor", then you have done nothing except cause grief for yourself.
Companies don't change in response to HR reported threats. They clam up and protect the status quo. Hint: you reporting a problem is not the status quo...
If instead you report to a manager above the troubled employee, well now you are giving the company a chance to quietly sweep a problem under the rug... there is nothing large companies and high level executives like more than some good rug sweeping. Heck, they might even lay off her whole division just to be sure!
Actually, in both cases I did go to the person's direct supervisor.
In the incident of the poker game at my house, there were 10-15 other people there - all co-workers. The story made it to her boss (my boss' boss) before I talked to him next. He was an empty suit - GE has its share of people who talk a good talk, but don't follow through on anything.
In the incident of the finance lady, I actually started with my boss. I was so enraged that I wanted to violence this person - I went to talk to my boss, took his advice to write it all up, go to HR....and while I called and left a message (and sent an e-mail) to her boss, my own boss had warned me that he was an empty suit, and nothing would happen. True to form, he didn't even bother to return my call or respond to my e-mail.
It was a poker game - at my house - with most of our department - and it was our Christmas get-together.
So...is she an ex-manager because you moved on, or someone did something about that behavior?
I got the fuck out. I took a demotion and a pay raise and moved to another team....which was difficult because of the "You're my best project manager so I'm going to give you a shitty performance review so that you have to stay on my team and make me look good" problem.
That said, I'd have taken the easy way out, if HR told me what you claim they told you, and sue. Especially, if she had been abusive to you. Jackpot!
One doesn't really sue GE. Especially an individual...or at least me - with a fairly long military career behind me, where I've been called worse and hurt worse. I'm just pointing out that it goes both ways. Stories like mine don't make national media...unless I'm a woman. Then I can blog about it, sue my employer for sexual discrimination, and even when a court rules against me - still make national headlines.
That said, your tone really stands out as misogynistic. Not saying you are, but it just comes across that way. Perhaps, it was the rant about affirmative action and focused on women and minorities,
No - not a misogynist....this story is about men mistreating women in a corporate culture. Stories like this make national headlines. The reverse stories do not. Just like domestic violence - news only reports one side of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
What's her name accuses men at Uber of sexually harassing and holding her down and it makes national news. I report women at GE assaulting and physically abusing me, and I'm a misogynist. See my point?
"Another manager threatened to beat an underperforming employee's head in with a baseball bat."
Now, that's what must be a highly motivating work environment :/
One must wonder how their hiring process works, i.e. letting such characters through the gates, since recent reports don't paint a pretty picture.
That sounds like the sort of thing where someone is quoting Bon Qui Qui (Mad TV; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) and says, "I will cut you!" or something, and the receiving end takes it as a threat.
Granted: The first rule of public speaking (or just about any kind of presentation) is to Know Your Audience. KYA. Applies to everything. You shouldn't tell jokes to people who may not get them, or may take offense at them...unless you're a stand-up comic. KYA. But that sort of professionalism isn't taught at any MBA school, and we have an entire generation or two of managers who are missing fundamental characteristics of leadership.
And my ex-manager (woman) was at a poker game at my house, raving drunk and after losing a hand to me, threw a handful of ceramic poker chips in my face as hard as she could. Not that it surprised anyone because she occasionally comes to work drunk. Not that anyone will do anything about it because she's a she.
And then there's the manager of our finance department (black woman) who doesn't feel unprofessional screaming at me on the phone and calling me names - while I'm on speaker phone with her - while people in other offices come to listen in amazement. She developed a billing workflow for our entire business unit, and after deploying it at the END OF THE QUARTER with no testing - which caused no end of headaches - I dug through to figure out the errors, drafted a corrective action plan to fix it and sent it to her - which culminated in this legendary phone conversation where she was screaming at me on the phone about how I was too stupid to figure out how to use the workflow...
I documented all of this, got supporting statements from my colleagues, and went to HR - who basically said that she's untouchable because she's a minority and a woman. I work for GE; not exactly a small-time company. We have all the expected training, HR-enforced compliance...hell, when someone does something that grabs the attention of a regulatory body in a bad way, people get fired. The people involved get fired. The people who weren't involved but heard about it punitive career action for not proactively taking steps to report it up the chain of command. The people who weren't involved and didn't hear about it, but were in a position that they theoretically SHOULD have heard or known about it get formally reprimanded.
But God help that there be a woman, or for double damage a minority woman...and rules go out the window.
"The tiny implant, about the size of a baby aspirin"
Is 'baby aspirin' supposed to be a unit of measure we are all familiar with? WTF is that even?
That would be 1.7 × 10-17 football fields, or 6.8 x 10-175 libraries of congress.
Plot twist, the government doesn't manage their own networks anymore, for a while now they've been getting rid of military trained personnel and replacing them with civilian contractors.
Keep in mind that Department of Homeland security != Military; the Department of Defense (military) is a separate department. And many DHS personnel are unskilled, uneducated workers. TSA and all the security theater is part of DHS. This news article is as special as "Exxon gas station cashiers locked out of computer network."
Baggage handlers, X-Ray viewers, clerks, and even janitorial staff proudly introduce themselves in public as "I'm with Homeland Security." It sounds a lot better than "I'm a baggage handler at the airport."
I agree that education at all levels should be an entitlement. But it's not, and that wasn't the OP's point - it was that his daughter is going to pay an assload for college that won't do her any good, then spend a decade slaving for someone to pay it off and struggling for a livelihood.
My point in return was that this isn't the only path available - nor even the most appropriate...just an example of the sort of entitlement mentality that adds to the struggle that the OP was complaining about.
@Altrag: You said that military service = murder and die because a world leader mouths off. I'm guessing you're from North Korea and thinking America works the same way. It doesn't.
rsilvergun, you're going to hate me for this - but I read in what you write the sense of entitlement causing a generation of people to think rewards come without work. Breaking it down:
-Your kid just hit college and she'll not only spend her life making someone else rich, but the first 10 years paying for the privilege.
There's a lot going on in that sentence. Starting with the fact that your kid hit college unprepared - sounds like she didn't push or excel in school, so doesn't have academic or athletic scholarships. And if that's the case, perhaps you should have encouraged her to try an alternative method to adulthood; vocational training. Learning a useful skill? My wife made some poor choices when she was younger, and isn't going to college until now - in her 40s - which her employer is paying for as long as she maintains As. Your daughter could do the same?
Then there's the assumption that she'll spend her life making someone else rich, but the first 10 years paying for the privilege. Again - you're structuring this around the idea that your daughter is entitled to college, and a career afterwards - likely without having any distinguishing characteristics at all. And given your verbage, it doesn't sound like you have much hope that she'll break out of the mold and do something innovative or worthwhile.
Here's an idea - if you want your daughter to be economically sound, enlist her in the army. I hear Trump is staffing up. Not only will she get a big fat enlistment check that she can use to pay off most of your mortgage, she'll get a steady career, steady pay, cut and dry promotional requirements - and instead of struggling to pay off her college, she can have the military pay for her college, then double dip to tap the G.I. Bill when she gets out / retires in case she decides she wants to go after an MBA.
There's a path for everyone - but it's often not a glamorous path full of coddling, hand-holding, and the "everyone wins" shit that they teach in schools. I *TOO* want Americans to stop settling for less - but the only way for them to stop settling for less is for them to get off their collective asses, and go get more.