Posts by Triggerfish 2452 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010
No other job in the world can you get away with saying you'll do something, not do it for four years, and then get re-hired on the basis of promising to do it "this time around".
Hell one of 'em lost his seat, and then went bitching about only 35K redundancy.
Lost seat = Fired for being incompetent, and still gets redundancy? and then whinges at an amount that's more than the average wage.
As my friend used to say.
Shithouses the lot of them.
OR, you know, anesthetics.
I had emergency root canal work done without any really, due to having been anesthetised earlier. In fact the last thing I really remember is the dentist saying we are going to have to drill the nerve out and we can't give you any more anesthetic. Can't remember anymore than that but I can tell you fight or flight kicks in before the dentist even gets near me with a needle now, sitting in the chair and having someone in a white coat approach me is enough.
Agreed. I am working at getting past my fear but when I was suffering from it badly, it was basically narrowed vision that focused on you escape routes, and a weird part of your mind in the background working out the best way to take out the dentist and nurse if they tried to stop you, going through escape option 1 the door, rational was not a part of this, pure survival reflex thinking at that level. I'm pretty sure someone trying to put glasses on me so I couldn't see what was actually going to happen, would not have elicited a calm response. Realise they had some reactions like that in the trial but yeah think they could do with a bigger sample size.
But some people like demonising.
There's more than a few people who think first strike on NK or glassing parts of the Arabian desert would solve problems.
Maybe we should wonder why this lot seem to have a decent voting block in the UK?
Banning the Daily Heil as hate speech would be tempting.
Firefighters often don't have to go into incomplete buildings, working on incomplete structures where one needs to step carefully to avoid falling, with potentially loose and heavy stuff over one's head.
Actually I'd say they do, plus have other fun things to deal with like car crashes.
But you make a fair enough point, and having worked on sites it's back breaking as well. Although I'd still say a building on fire is more hazardous. However if you start making it unattractive to be a firefighter telling them they are still going to do this when they are 65. How many firefighters are you going to get?
What about if your home built server goes TITSUP? Surely that's downtime as well?
We still have a DC sitting in the office. If we can't collaborate because something like the sharepoint services went to pot, we'd just do it the old way we did before.
Our work can be done and stored on our NAS if it comes to it, email down would be a problem but so far (fingers crossed) we have not had issues, occasionally we have comms problems with the ISP in the US but that's it.
Apart from the exchange services we mainly use 365 for collaboration on things or just for the exchange, and because we have people on the road sometimes it's more useful to have docs and stuff needed on sharepoint rather than someone having to VPN in from somewhere especially if they are abroad to access the file, especially as with our work you can end up wanting to browse through photos and CAD files.
The operating expense thing is a good point, sometimes its better to have a monthly cash flow cost using office 365 written of as a service, than a big chunk going out on hardware. Been a while but once worked with a guy who ran a factory and was also a chartered accountant, he was always trying to reduce his monthly profit and write it off against costs, I could see him loving something like this as a monthly expense. (He considered himself an accountants accountant interpret that as you will).
Have to say as well it does have some uses like freeing up time, I was a bit no don't put everything in the cloud etc but in general as long as you make sure that's not your only data storage and you back up like you should then it does free some time for people to play with tech a bit, and not worry as much about day to day admin duties, our lot certainly use that time to do stuff that we think will work for our company and it seems OK to me. We also have people who contract for us and its quite nice to be able to expand and contract as needed relatively simply and bill it against a project that used them.
I still couldn't find myself wanting to really subscribe to something like a monthly office licence I'd rather just buy that software right out, but exchange online and the like has its uses.
AC is right though. I have worked with SMEs for a few years, and generally speaking thats what happens, you may get them upgrading if the company grows and suddenly they have a few more office staff but until then something like 365 is perfect and for the most part works pretty well.
You can complain they do not understand, and you are correct in the same way you may not understand what they do.
It's also a cost thing, say for example you have someone running a small manufactory it has a dozen staff, most are on the shop floor, office wise you have the owner of the company and a office staff member that does everything else. Now lets say he has a few K to spare (unlikely), he could either go out and get a new overlocker for the shop floor, an essential bit of kit for his business and that brings in money, or some IT guy could come up and say, hey I'll convert you across to libre office and build you your own personal cloud give the money to me, yeah I know office 365 is costing you only £30 a month and is not causing any problems, but let me build you a server, set it up maintain it and so on.
Hows that going to turn out?
"There are no US jobs in coal. It's a dead industry."
Q: what is the recipe for steel?
A: iron + coal (and a few other things thrown in)
You realise you can get carbon in other sources yes?
You also realise this is more a talk about the use of coal for power which would use a lot more quantities of coal up daily than steel production does?
People still defend windfarms, especially on shore! Some people still defend the Eurozone.
Windfarms
Are they not controversial? There seems to be no consensus on them yet.
Although worth noting a lot of the rabid supporters tend to ignore the science and engineering side because it doesn't fit into their world view.
Eurozone
What the heck has that got to do with scientific consensus?
all the world's creatures
All the worlds creatures, are you sure on that? are you saying there have been no extinctions since year dot?
What about the Permian extinction?
Also some creature will definitely die if the temperature changes that much, we have a advantage being quite an adaptable mammal, and also being able to shed clothing or put it on as necessary. Not all animals handle temperature ranges so well.
Also the equatorial regions you don't get four seasons, you get hot, and wet and its damn hot then as well.
Also have you heard of drought? How are they going to drink more water? An elephant drinks something like 30 gallons a day.
What about deserts?
Do you think evaporation might be a concern?
Sorry meant to reply got busy.
Apologies because I thought you were going to free market aryn rand type things :) BUt I agree with a lot of your reply, and you are correct Venezeaula doesnt really have a socialist democracy, pretend democracy would probably be closer. :)
Sorry mate, but I think socialist democracy is not necessarily a bad thing, I'd rather have that say than rampant free market economics where corporations get to do everything and anything they like because people don't want the government to interfere, look at some of the issues America has with this.
My comment about letting it slide is because people like the Tories currently seem to be looking at how restrictive regimes police their internet and seem to think it is a good idea.
Someone I was talking with a week or so ago, was commenting on how some regimes which are basically dictatorships are not that bad so maybe democracy is not that good, nice theory and maybe they are right when you dictator is benevolent, but go down that route and when the right bastard gets in your are fucked, in fact you have actually made the means of oppression easier for him.
This is why we should not let it slide here.
I know someone whose daughter is going out with a Cuban student who lives over here now, he gets asked to smuggle in things like cat5 cable, as well as toilet roll etc, when he returns, (which is apparently infrequently because of fear of being drafted into national service).
Oh yeah TBF that razor still worked and it took a lot of abuse, on and off of small boats, sand, dropped out of pocket while riding dirt tracks, it put up with some harsh usage.
But as a piece of shiny to look at after all that, distinctly knackered rather than ooh would be a good description.
My smartphones in cases have worn their looks a lot better, of course you have to strip all the casing to see it.
My Motorola razor was aluminium, after a couple years hard use it looked like it had come under fire, it had dents, nicks, scratches the works. I mean it still worked like a charm but if you are leaving the case of to show that phone off, it's not going to look so shiny after a few months.
Agree with the comment about titanium watches as well, it's nice and light but tough as a metal no.
He has a point though, it's hardly a new paradigm in design. I am wondering with that if my current phone a z3 failed would I fork out the extra for that and the answer is why, whats different enough about it? I think I'd rather save the cash and buy a new z3 or phone of similar age but spec again, there's been nothing really new in phones for ages, and everyone is too cautious in their design houses to try an outlier.
Kata is a form you do in martial arts where you run through the moves you have been taught in a set order you often do it as part of a Karata belt grading, Tai Chi is a bit like doing a Kata (though usually a lot slower).
The op was referring to that, sweeping the floor and setting up in a martial class is usually done by the least senior students if it's very traditional.
Fortunately to be certified airliners have to prove capable of operating with one engine inoperative, and for certification purposes that happens before take-off at a point at which it's no longer possible to stop in the remaining runway available.
However should be noted this is not counted as optimal flying conditions. :)
I could believe it, infrastructure is pretty good, people seem pretty well educated as well, and they are sinking a fair chunk of their gdp into things like education. It's one to watch.
Also I would have thought that for phone markets Asia is where it is at to some degree, uptake of smartphones and all the things that can be done with them seem to have penetrated more (IMO) throughout SE Asia far more than the UK.
There is the thought as well if he did a pic whilst on duty they may be slapping him a bit for dereliction of said duty? Also they may be a bit upset about agents in secure places (even if he wasn't at the time) being so free and easy with their phones and photos? Might explain why they have slapped such a large sentence on him.
This may be from a comedy list type site, but every now and again they interview some interesting people.
The link below was written by the former head of security for Israels airport
http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-reasons-tsa-sucks-a-security-experts-perspective/
I realise the above may have been a little sarky.
But the point is, in some places it is one of the number one messaging apps, YMMV but for me its pretty necessary to have whatsapp at the very least on my phone. I even though I have been avoiding it may have to put the facebook app on.
It's just the way it is and it's not going to change this way anyway soon around in SEA.
It is also a lot easy to talk by text sometimes, due to language barriers.
Cheap phone packages are available; Mrs Commswonk has one to talk to her daughter abroad.
Yes still not cheaper than leached wifi, receivers in some countries may have to pay charge to recieve and it would be prohibitively expensive for them.
"Facebook tends to be a lazy way" might be more accurate. Apart from anything else if I want to communicate with specific friends I do not world + dog listening from the sidelines; if all the friends are mutual there might be some excuse for using Facebook but individual friends deserve individual attention.
A good point I shall inform the whole of South East Asia to change their habits immediately.
I'll also set up a deal with various people to make sure their English is up to scratch, meanwhile I shall be working on my languages, (sometimes typed is better).
If we operate in other countries we have to pay attention to the law. Facebook might say they are an internet company but if they are marketing directly to french subscribers and buying advertising in France to market to them, then are they not operating in that country?
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