funny that most of project management skills in organizations I worked for last few years are considered useless or (god forbid) 'old way of working'. Not sure why. After all most of the projects that are meaningful for large organizations are also large i.e. require considerable skill in managing. One can of course claim that such projects can be split into set of smaller ones but this again requires quite some knowledge not only in management but also in involved technology.
Other than that I consider bett a 'success' in uniting/.ers - I have never seen such majority agreeing here on anything.
I call it a success. It is incredibly difficult to unite more than 1 person and if you look on any/. thread you will see that besides tons of frist pr0st and side discussions there is not one where there was an absolute majority agreeing on a topic and in short time. This is rare, almost none-existing occurrence, where so many agree on one thing. It may be a failure for the new looks but it is a success in this sense that so many people agree. Now if we could move this rare moments of unification into something useful like tearing off heads of hydra that industrial-financial-military-spying complex has become. Ohhh sweet dreams....
So if a system evolves from kind of democratic and respecting human rights into police state and we lose all the control possibility we should just agree with this and silently protest? Maybe we should. Gandhi did that after he found out military response to British rule is pointless. OC problem here is that oppressors are difficult to send away as they live among us. Another thing is - government agencies doing things that other cannot, operate under specific rules that are there to ensure no violations occur and if they do then they are handled appropriately. What we see now is that governments of today developed ways to bypass this - they hide their activities or if that is impossible they reinterpret the law. Considering abysmal record of British justice system I'd say the moment where a direct actions may be necessary, becomes close. I do not want to be around when that happens tho.
so a group of classmates decide what was missing in the course you took 30ya. I doubt this 'if we did it again we should have learned this and that too' approach. It is counterproductive as it is pure waste of time for majority. I wonder for instance about these two things:
How big part of your original group was this visiting party? Do you think all of them would need this English writing course now?
How applicable would this English writing course be now - things change, ways of communicating do too. We use the same words but we know (I hope) about some golden rules like that majority of what you say is lost anyway, keep it simple etc. Some good teachers back then could have sensed or known this but chances are that they would not.
One more thing:
literally doesn't mean what you think it does.
Indeed: if you look at m-w or any other dictionary then you may notice that the modern use have two opposite meanings. That belongs to the richness and sophistication of modern language. It may be that English writing course could have indicated this back in 80ties but I doubt if that would have helped you. Maybe you should take the course now? The way I see it, old courses we took as young people were meant to give us two things: some background knowledge in subject we chose as well as ability to learn things that we need in working life. Overloading the course with shit has added advantage of making sure you can learn how to ignore things you do not need but that is an expensive course and possibility of added value is small as some people would have learned the stuff anyway instead of having constructively critical approach.
You have management position and your buddies too - fine, try to make the world a better place instead of trying to enforce literal use of the word 'literally'.
20years ago I still had a documentation to speak of, now I have piece of garbage that kind of works but not really but to make thinks cheaper does not have any documentation at all. Gosh, today, even when I move between projects in the same company, I even have to spent week or two every time to reverse engineer their build system because every time it is different and every time it is not documented while it is also made interdependent in places where one would not expect it. Most of the problems I had 20ya were compact comparing with wide spread shit of modern decentralized systems. This is true with technology I work with as well as with the state administration I have to fight with to have the right to see my kids or get my insurance company to pay. All these was simpler back then. I am pretty sure that when my Pa tried to collect money from his account he was not confronted with BS as HSBC customers are today.
You first say, you forget what you've said then you say it is not forgetting but being unable to complete search before new one comes. Maybe that is already a sign you know:)
I also noticed that wandering about is (in my case) more of a character trait, than age related thing. I was mind wandering much more, when I was young. It took years till I learned, that I do and few more to learn how to control that. Learning that I do wander about was a tough part but few 'friends' were very helpful in teasing me into discussions because it amused them how I wander about connecting more and more of new aspects. They had golden moments of entertainment out of that which I noticed years later when I changed environment and they became less careful and more blunt. Come to think of it, this maybe the same process: my thinking was faster than the search process - I was just made that way. Reading Encyclopedia (does anybody here still knows what that is and how did it look like without looking in wikipedia or asking dr Google - young colleague of mine I interrogated on the subject yesterday, knew what that is but have never seen one) was one of the things that would help create effect by overloading brain with shit in relatively young age already. Which then leads me to the point where I think it is not really the amount of information but rather the spread of it - most people do not gather knowledge and brain is good in storing only some facets of events (sort of mp3 of nature), problems with search is much more visible when you have to search in this chain of memories and then the other etc.
interesting subject early in the morning. I suppose I spent early ours at work thinking about that and not about verifying why the system is f.ed up again and who did it.
these are good arguments for (social sort of) insurance that you state there. You know: the high risk gets covered by community of those that take a risk sort of insurance. Only the insurance system is not what it used to be in old good times. I thought first modern insurance was organized in establishment of Mr Lloyd but that does not seem to be true and first schemes which can be called insurance are as old as organized civilization. From one perspective it is really amazing how far we went with this sort of schemes. Yet it is also said to see how complex and unforgiving these systems have become. Maybe that was inevitable and expanding and extending them means that they lose most of its supportive character and get more vicious 'get back my dollar and then two more' schemes to get rich by some private entities or 'we get back our dollar and yours too' by the state. Rules ensure social cohesion that allows us to live in peace. Too many of them make life difficult and matters like these in TFA just look inhumane, patronizing and devoid of any compassion the social systems suppose to have.
It is not much different here on this side of the pond so this trend is everywhere.
That is possibly OT but this sort of situation can be also seen as typical for systems that support marriage and family. For good or bad our societies changed and family is not the papa, mama till death does them apart system that it used to be. Maybe we shall concentrate these systems on supporting the kids and thinking about what we really want. Do we want a healthy society with social bonds and kids growing in it or not. The same applies to people needing support at times. Do more of shit like the Kansas authorities and you may see your society dissipating in worse case or just plain ugly and painful to live in, in good one. The authorities being part of the society are lost in the see of rules and choices and do not know anymore what to do or rather what is the good thing to do.
why should any private party pay is beyond my understanding. It is the state that is bullying people into paying cash for services that the state should have been providing for the tax etc money in the first place. I wonder if the 6l$ actually justifies the expenses that this has caused so far. I mean the lawyers etc and to me it looks like the case will go on.
not sure what goes for good living in US really. If you paint nails for living here in Europe then you will have problems with paying the bills without kids and with them this is becoming a major problem. This goes for all other occupations you mentioned too. There were few legal arguments already about social support for people who work full time in Germany and yet cannot afford to pay for membership in football club for their sun not too mention going to a cinema once in a while (which I personally do not see any sense in at all anyway - shit from shittywood is just unbearable these days).
I do not even think that this is going to be fate of majority of us (and of work as we know it) any day soon but it is enougfh for society to have 20% structural unemployment to become unstable unless people find place to migrate too.
just one thing more to this. It is silly that FBI arrested the guy on this basis. It is silly that we are starting to wonder around in things that constantly record what we do and where/when that is done.
that is incorrect. There is no omnipotent force bringing lack of privacy on us all. There can be laws and rules that govern the use of private data. We can of course give up and bend over hoping for lubricant to be used. The one thing that I am certain about is that the silly laws will not be scraped. There is no reason for that - people using them are happy, prisons are full (in US they are at least) and public (in US again) is happy to give up any privacy they ever had over without even asking for a glass of 'free' beer.
There is case against all these laws and practice. We in Europe are always behind and that is good - we can see how fucked up the situation in US is and do it better. Whether we do and will is of course another matter.
I feel your sentiment too but you know it is not working this way, do you not? I mean whatever that is at the beginning - mass but mostly failed attempts to fight the IP crime (funny how that has a different meaning in my and their worlds) or just exercises in using certain laws, it all may change into silent mode in which most will not be bothered but some chosen ones will be, because law allows it. I know it from old good times under communist regime. The laws guaranteed us all the freedoms people in the West (allegedly) had. Law enforcement could chose to follow them or to interpret the laws in their own different way. In their interpretation for instance any expression of criticism against ruling party was a violation of some law. There is a good case for laws that are broad and vaguely defined so that authorties can use them to subdue people at will as everybody is a criminal. They do not have to do it but they can because it is easier this way and so comes a police state. It is not inevitable but likely. It does not have to be an evil NK style police state but for people put on register of pedophiles as in operation Ore it did not make such a big difference. They authorities got more sophisticated these days but this does not mean it is better for us citizens, especially for those that try to correct evil actions of said government. In Europe we are not that far yet but we are also going this direction.
I did not understand GP's post in a way that NSA v. Stasi argument is limited in some silly administrative way after all they were/are synonyms for their respective regimes and US does not have such a pristine record as you think it does. If you look at history of the country - take last 50 years you will get: wars, support of terrorist organisations (who gave stingers to Osama???), selling and smuggling weapons to places where the US thought it had business to support, As for assassinations - looking at the way drones of different US organisation kill people around the world I wonder how that compares with Stasi. The special techniques used to get info out of prisoners such as not allowed on US soil were applied in friendly NATO countries and when this irritated the public there it was moved to less scrupulous ones. I guess I can continue but for me US is not a beacon of freedom and all the good things as it pretended to be for years. It is certainly true that friends of NSA are doing the same shit here as the NSA does - the sending of data around to process in legally friendly environment is similar in ethical sense to washing money by sending it abroad. Still EU counties (some of them) have some privacy laws that are better than free for all in US. Whether these laws are respected is another matter. Jerk knee reaction of US citizens to anything gov does is in my view one of the reasons their gov is doing things ineffectively and violating rights of everybody along the way. You can take any policy - if it is needed it will be done anyway and if principled citizens do not accept it even if due to wrong reasons, then the workarounds are used - this is the way health systems seems to 'work' in US and that is the way saving of private data is done too: I am sure that if not possible in legally controlled way in the country for say for 3 months and available only under court order then they just send it offshore to say British friends and have free access as much as needed without hassle. And do not even get me started on death penalty, war on drugs, three strikes and you are out and general way the US justice systems seems to work. You seem to be a quite dangerous folk considering how many of you have to be put in jail compared with the rest. A country of the free that serve their time indeed.
US is increasing hated among less civilized nations and disliked among 'friends'. There are not enough marines and drones to change that. I am not saying that your country is falling apart. It is not and if you are careful it will prosper. Some of your citizens will prosper too with the rest just trying. As said - you are not a beacon for us no more. Instead you with your powerful economy are more of a threat for the rest of the world. Maybe less than some other countries and you still have quite some useful function for the 'free' world still your aura is not positive anymore.
Either all the same premiums or the US system where the insurance is just a tax on your genes, habits and lack - both systems are extreme and to much so for me.
I like the idea of an insurance as it were - where a group of like minded people decided to share the risk. OTOH health insurance is so different and should on one hand be regulated and on the other should allow increase of premiums in certain cases: smoking, obesity and skiing would be some options not because they are risk taking, but because we know they increase costs on general population. Yet an additional premium on all skiers should be acceptable up to certain point at least. Obesity maybe questionable but smoking and skiing are perfect candidates for a premium - they do have different risk profiles and not only significantly so but also voluntarily. This said I would exclude e-cigartes as they get rid of the unpleasant consequences and give nicotine pure.
Actually only the last sentence makes sense and your post does not cover the technological advance either.
There are some other aspects of that which not so well educated and overly self-focused US citizens tend to ignore. It is not only pay but also work conditions, living conditions that the poor cannot improve all that much but also such things like fresh water to drink, not poisoned food to eat and air that one can breath without dying directly or in short term. All these things we regulated in the West because they were disturbing us or maybe the communists provided a healthy threat to the oligarchs at the top. Besides I do not see all that many positive aspects of US American culture. Fail and stand up again is one of them but it is clearly visibly in other societies too albeit not in all. I also do not think that US will be what we used to call 3rd world country by 2050. Looking from Europe it never was part of 1st world which one can see by late removal of racial laws, no social services to speak of, big income gap to the point that wealth distribution cannot be properly shown in any normal graph, hostile political environment, attitude to death penalty, police state and generally missing social cohesion. Shall I continue? It is not that European countries are much better but there is a huge difference and that is good so.
bollocks - the level of complexity in fields of modern technology is matched only by level of automation and increased ability to relocate production fast and cheap. This means that all new stuff needs few very brainy individuals, few more of high capacity brains and the rest of us are seen as consumers of this shit with some low lives assembling the shit in inhuman conditions or for 10% of sensible pay or both. It is possible that some societies will move into post-production era (which does not mean nothing will be produced of course) without much of violence and killing and usual suffering.
The story of shortage is always the same - give us more. When looking at the figures one realizes that indeed there is a shortage of:
engineers of very particular skill
engineers ready to be paid peanuts, sometimes these conditions are augmented with:
willingness to relocate to uranium ore mine or some civil strife ridden country
I still have a well paid job which does not require me to exercise my brain all too much (hence/.). I could imagine doing what we do now in much more efficient way with fewer people. This would require some low & middle level management effort which in this time and age is not possible as all these people have been fired or moved to other tasks.
I also see every other year or so, waves of 'career change' actions where company doing relatively well financially offers packages to get rid of people. Closer look at these people and those left at work shows that the main difference is not really age but pay. Which confirms point about pay, made above. Trying to look for a better job (in terms of interest not pay) I see also that the openings often require skills and do not provide for opportunity to learn. It is not brains that count but skills that you have already. You are paid for doing a job that could have been outsourced/automated but it is possibly cheaper to hire a moron for a year to do it instead.
I do not think all is doom tho. First the reports of demise are exaggerated. Second we can all become nail painters as so many geeks here proposed lately. The old option of becoming a taxi driver is also there albeit google is working on it. Quite frankly I do not care but I do think we are up for more police state and more violence and more drugs. I find it good then that fucking US police state is slowly, very slowly getting to senses (or realizing that the whole war on drugs costs too much) and starts legalizing pot - it releases part of the tension at least for a period of time.
We had this discussion here lately about how technology changes our working world. OC a lots of BS has been thrown to feed flame-war like technology will replace 100% jobs and other nonsense but I think we have reached the stage of development where we no longer need so many highly educated people at least not in economical and technological sense. This combined with globalization make a difference. I can see this with my friends and family but also in statistics of labour market as well as wealth stratification in society. In the West at least there is a huge pressure to decrease wages and remove burden of huge workforce on companies. There are still some earning well or even more than they used to but this is in my view minority. OC we can always change our skill-set and become all nail painters as so many morons here proposed lately but I warn morons proposing exactly that, not to try to too hard to have their nails polished and painted any day soon after I am replaced by whatever system (automatic or offshored) - they will be sorry to ever have nails in the first place.
yes I looked at that many times. With all this duplication the common part is - almost fitting commercial or open source tools have this small little thing i.e. they are not a perfect fit. They cover maybe 90% of needs leaving 10% unattended of which maybe small part but still is vital for the project. You can chose to dig into it, write new version yourself or buy commercial tools. In big corporation I worked for we did all three paths sometimes: commercial software to cover our asses in case all other options backfire, open source fixes and hacks to make transition and at the end almost always own tools - that did not fit exactly either but were good enough. For stability and high load tests that was usually a blessing because you almost always had at least two sets of tools that you could use and double amount of servers which almost always was necessary to achieve meaningful load levels in SUT.
TFA is badly written in this sense that so called irational is in fact not the way choices are made but our thinking about the choices themselves as it is apparently detached from the past and future. As in example they gave: if you usually have preference a b,c etc then in situation when different combinations are presented choices are still to be made consistently but apparent choices are not and the reason is not that the animal is less consistent but that the preference is not absolute but depends on the past so in fact you do not have only a,b,c but a occurring frequently of late and a occurring less frequently of late. So in reality you have 6 single options (in simple case) that can be mixed in different ways and decisions based on those.
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Other than that I consider bett a 'success' in uniting /.ers - I have never seen such majority agreeing here on anything.
I call it a success. It is incredibly difficult to unite more than 1 person and if you look on any /. thread you will see that besides tons of frist pr0st and side discussions there is not one where there was an absolute majority agreeing on a topic and in short time. This is rare, almost none-existing occurrence, where so many agree on one thing. It may be a failure for the new looks but it is a success in this sense that so many people agree. Now if we could move this rare moments of unification into something useful like tearing off heads of hydra that industrial-financial-military-spying complex has become. Ohhh sweet dreams....
So if a system evolves from kind of democratic and respecting human rights into police state and we lose all the control possibility we should just agree with this and silently protest? Maybe we should. Gandhi did that after he found out military response to British rule is pointless. OC problem here is that oppressors are difficult to send away as they live among us. Another thing is - government agencies doing things that other cannot, operate under specific rules that are there to ensure no violations occur and if they do then they are handled appropriately. What we see now is that governments of today developed ways to bypass this - they hide their activities or if that is impossible they reinterpret the law. Considering abysmal record of British justice system I'd say the moment where a direct actions may be necessary, becomes close. I do not want to be around when that happens tho.
One more thing:
literally doesn't mean what you think it does.
Indeed: if you look at m-w or any other dictionary then you may notice that the modern use have two opposite meanings. That belongs to the richness and sophistication of modern language. It may be that English writing course could have indicated this back in 80ties but I doubt if that would have helped you. Maybe you should take the course now? The way I see it, old courses we took as young people were meant to give us two things: some background knowledge in subject we chose as well as ability to learn things that we need in working life. Overloading the course with shit has added advantage of making sure you can learn how to ignore things you do not need but that is an expensive course and possibility of added value is small as some people would have learned the stuff anyway instead of having constructively critical approach.
You have management position and your buddies too - fine, try to make the world a better place instead of trying to enforce literal use of the word 'literally'.
20years ago I still had a documentation to speak of, now I have piece of garbage that kind of works but not really but to make thinks cheaper does not have any documentation at all. Gosh, today, even when I move between projects in the same company, I even have to spent week or two every time to reverse engineer their build system because every time it is different and every time it is not documented while it is also made interdependent in places where one would not expect it. Most of the problems I had 20ya were compact comparing with wide spread shit of modern decentralized systems. This is true with technology I work with as well as with the state administration I have to fight with to have the right to see my kids or get my insurance company to pay. All these was simpler back then. I am pretty sure that when my Pa tried to collect money from his account he was not confronted with BS as HSBC customers are today.
I also noticed that wandering about is (in my case) more of a character trait, than age related thing. I was mind wandering much more, when I was young. It took years till I learned, that I do and few more to learn how to control that. Learning that I do wander about was a tough part but few 'friends' were very helpful in teasing me into discussions because it amused them how I wander about connecting more and more of new aspects. They had golden moments of entertainment out of that which I noticed years later when I changed environment and they became less careful and more blunt. Come to think of it, this maybe the same process: my thinking was faster than the search process - I was just made that way. Reading Encyclopedia (does anybody here still knows what that is and how did it look like without looking in wikipedia or asking dr Google - young colleague of mine I interrogated on the subject yesterday, knew what that is but have never seen one) was one of the things that would help create effect by overloading brain with shit in relatively young age already. Which then leads me to the point where I think it is not really the amount of information but rather the spread of it - most people do not gather knowledge and brain is good in storing only some facets of events (sort of mp3 of nature), problems with search is much more visible when you have to search in this chain of memories and then the other etc.
interesting subject early in the morning. I suppose I spent early ours at work thinking about that and not about verifying why the system is f.ed up again and who did it.
these are good arguments for (social sort of) insurance that you state there. You know: the high risk gets covered by community of those that take a risk sort of insurance. Only the insurance system is not what it used to be in old good times. I thought first modern insurance was organized in establishment of Mr Lloyd but that does not seem to be true and first schemes which can be called insurance are as old as organized civilization. From one perspective it is really amazing how far we went with this sort of schemes. Yet it is also said to see how complex and unforgiving these systems have become. Maybe that was inevitable and expanding and extending them means that they lose most of its supportive character and get more vicious 'get back my dollar and then two more' schemes to get rich by some private entities or 'we get back our dollar and yours too' by the state. Rules ensure social cohesion that allows us to live in peace. Too many of them make life difficult and matters like these in TFA just look inhumane, patronizing and devoid of any compassion the social systems suppose to have.
It is not much different here on this side of the pond so this trend is everywhere.
That is possibly OT but this sort of situation can be also seen as typical for systems that support marriage and family. For good or bad our societies changed and family is not the papa, mama till death does them apart system that it used to be. Maybe we shall concentrate these systems on supporting the kids and thinking about what we really want. Do we want a healthy society with social bonds and kids growing in it or not. The same applies to people needing support at times. Do more of shit like the Kansas authorities and you may see your society dissipating in worse case or just plain ugly and painful to live in, in good one. The authorities being part of the society are lost in the see of rules and choices and do not know anymore what to do or rather what is the good thing to do.
not that much of these trouble concerns the geeks sitting in their mom's cellar anyway....
why should any private party pay is beyond my understanding. It is the state that is bullying people into paying cash for services that the state should have been providing for the tax etc money in the first place. I wonder if the 6l$ actually justifies the expenses that this has caused so far. I mean the lawyers etc and to me it looks like the case will go on.
good god - luckily I did click on it when I was at home and wife is gone otherwise there would be problems. Still better than goatse
I do not even think that this is going to be fate of majority of us (and of work as we know it) any day soon but it is enougfh for society to have 20% structural unemployment to become unstable unless people find place to migrate too.
just one thing more to this. It is silly that FBI arrested the guy on this basis. It is silly that we are starting to wonder around in things that constantly record what we do and where/when that is done.
that is incorrect. There is no omnipotent force bringing lack of privacy on us all. There can be laws and rules that govern the use of private data. We can of course give up and bend over hoping for lubricant to be used. The one thing that I am certain about is that the silly laws will not be scraped. There is no reason for that - people using them are happy, prisons are full (in US they are at least) and public (in US again) is happy to give up any privacy they ever had over without even asking for a glass of 'free' beer. There is case against all these laws and practice. We in Europe are always behind and that is good - we can see how fucked up the situation in US is and do it better. Whether we do and will is of course another matter.
I feel your sentiment too but you know it is not working this way, do you not? I mean whatever that is at the beginning - mass but mostly failed attempts to fight the IP crime (funny how that has a different meaning in my and their worlds) or just exercises in using certain laws, it all may change into silent mode in which most will not be bothered but some chosen ones will be, because law allows it. I know it from old good times under communist regime. The laws guaranteed us all the freedoms people in the West (allegedly) had. Law enforcement could chose to follow them or to interpret the laws in their own different way. In their interpretation for instance any expression of criticism against ruling party was a violation of some law. There is a good case for laws that are broad and vaguely defined so that authorties can use them to subdue people at will as everybody is a criminal. They do not have to do it but they can because it is easier this way and so comes a police state. It is not inevitable but likely. It does not have to be an evil NK style police state but for people put on register of pedophiles as in operation Ore it did not make such a big difference. They authorities got more sophisticated these days but this does not mean it is better for us citizens, especially for those that try to correct evil actions of said government. In Europe we are not that far yet but we are also going this direction.
US is increasing hated among less civilized nations and disliked among 'friends'. There are not enough marines and drones to change that. I am not saying that your country is falling apart. It is not and if you are careful it will prosper. Some of your citizens will prosper too with the rest just trying. As said - you are not a beacon for us no more. Instead you with your powerful economy are more of a threat for the rest of the world. Maybe less than some other countries and you still have quite some useful function for the 'free' world still your aura is not positive anymore.
Either all the same premiums or the US system where the insurance is just a tax on your genes, habits and lack - both systems are extreme and to much so for me. I like the idea of an insurance as it were - where a group of like minded people decided to share the risk. OTOH health insurance is so different and should on one hand be regulated and on the other should allow increase of premiums in certain cases: smoking, obesity and skiing would be some options not because they are risk taking, but because we know they increase costs on general population. Yet an additional premium on all skiers should be acceptable up to certain point at least. Obesity maybe questionable but smoking and skiing are perfect candidates for a premium - they do have different risk profiles and not only significantly so but also voluntarily. This said I would exclude e-cigartes as they get rid of the unpleasant consequences and give nicotine pure.
there are schools in Texas!!!
or maybe I just have as bad day as you did.
bollocks - the level of complexity in fields of modern technology is matched only by level of automation and increased ability to relocate production fast and cheap. This means that all new stuff needs few very brainy individuals, few more of high capacity brains and the rest of us are seen as consumers of this shit with some low lives assembling the shit in inhuman conditions or for 10% of sensible pay or both. It is possible that some societies will move into post-production era (which does not mean nothing will be produced of course) without much of violence and killing and usual suffering.
I still have a well paid job which does not require me to exercise my brain all too much (hence /.). I could imagine doing what we do now in much more efficient way with fewer people. This would require some low & middle level management effort which in this time and age is not possible as all these people have been fired or moved to other tasks.
I also see every other year or so, waves of 'career change' actions where company doing relatively well financially offers packages to get rid of people. Closer look at these people and those left at work shows that the main difference is not really age but pay. Which confirms point about pay, made above. Trying to look for a better job (in terms of interest not pay) I see also that the openings often require skills and do not provide for opportunity to learn. It is not brains that count but skills that you have already. You are paid for doing a job that could have been outsourced/automated but it is possibly cheaper to hire a moron for a year to do it instead.
I do not think all is doom tho. First the reports of demise are exaggerated. Second we can all become nail painters as so many geeks here proposed lately. The old option of becoming a taxi driver is also there albeit google is working on it. Quite frankly I do not care but I do think we are up for more police state and more violence and more drugs. I find it good then that fucking US police state is slowly, very slowly getting to senses (or realizing that the whole war on drugs costs too much) and starts legalizing pot - it releases part of the tension at least for a period of time.
We had this discussion here lately about how technology changes our working world. OC a lots of BS has been thrown to feed flame-war like technology will replace 100% jobs and other nonsense but I think we have reached the stage of development where we no longer need so many highly educated people at least not in economical and technological sense. This combined with globalization make a difference. I can see this with my friends and family but also in statistics of labour market as well as wealth stratification in society. In the West at least there is a huge pressure to decrease wages and remove burden of huge workforce on companies. There are still some earning well or even more than they used to but this is in my view minority. OC we can always change our skill-set and become all nail painters as so many morons here proposed lately but I warn morons proposing exactly that, not to try to too hard to have their nails polished and painted any day soon after I am replaced by whatever system (automatic or offshored) - they will be sorry to ever have nails in the first place.
That was my experience. ymmv of course.
marriage is a transient state and trust you can only yourself so married or not you need indiacted phone urgently.
Or did you mean thrust?
if they rejected it so strongly
TFA is badly written in this sense that so called irational is in fact not the way choices are made but our thinking about the choices themselves as it is apparently detached from the past and future. As in example they gave: if you usually have preference a b,c etc then in situation when different combinations are presented choices are still to be made consistently but apparent choices are not and the reason is not that the animal is less consistent but that the preference is not absolute but depends on the past so in fact you do not have only a,b,c but a occurring frequently of late and a occurring less frequently of late. So in reality you have 6 single options (in simple case) that can be mixed in different ways and decisions based on those.