Musk pretending he cares about rail while in reality his worst recurring night mare is him being in public transport with poor people. Classic.
Musk pretending he cares about rail while in reality his worst recurring night mare is him being in public transport with poor people. Classic.
The dumbest thing is the mentality between workers sometimes. "Don't be a pussy" some will say when you ask for masks/goggles/ear plugs/etc but none of them will be there when you eventually get injured or sick. None of them will congratulate you, hand you a tough-guy-trophy and pay your medical bills + pension.
When I was an intern in IT in the olden days a manager once decided to send an apology gift to every single employee for his botched project. It was a switch from analog phones to VoIP with Skype that really wasn't so complicated but left a bunch of people without working phones for days. The gift? A snickers bar in a big paper bag with a sticker on it. I had to put three hundred stickers on those bags and then hand them to people who were very confused to find a tiny snickers in them. Now they told me to hand it out with a smile and tell them we're really sorry but I'd hand them out with my best I'd-really-rather-be-somewhere-else-face and say "trust me, nobody finds this more stupid than me."
When I was in 7th grade I was given the honor of "paper duty". The fuck is that you ask? Well, our school was giving out free paper-anything (think notebooks, folders, anything a kid could need to write stuff for school) to every student because no student should suffer from his poor family background and a lack of writing utensils. Fantastic concept if you ask me but it had an issue back then. The unlimited power of the paper kid. As such your job would be to hand out paperproducts to those who needed them for the entire school year. How this hasn't been abused until shithead teenage me came along is a mystery to me. I took a lot and I handed it out to friends, filled up a closet at home and would slip notebooks to kids for personal favors. The corruption was absolute. If I liked you a simple nod would be enough to get some juicy paper ware. If I didn't care about you, you'd have to show me your full old notebook to get a new one as was protocol. If I didn't like you I'd give you some anyway but not before breaking your balls for a bit. I was drunk on paper power and loving every second of it. In hindsight I feel very bad about abusing a social system intended to help kids like myself who didn't have wealthy parents but with 13, growing up poor as fuck I'd take everything I could get. Anyway, at the end of the school year they noticed how many supplies had vanished despite no increase in students but they couldn't tell who had taken more because guess who had the responsibility to fill up the paper closet with new paper from the unsupervised storage room? They just handed us all the keys and let us do our thing. My thing happened to be paper embezzlement. End of the story was an overhaul of the paper duty concept. From that year onwards it was done in teams of 2 who had to promise not to take anything and keep a detailed inventory spreadsheet that was checked once a month. Additionally only the teacher had the key to the storage room. The moral of the story is that no 13 year old should wield that much raw power.
We'd bring this down just because we already dropped 68 others and need one more to complete the set.
Finally the iconic red phonebooths can shine again and big ben will be the primary source of the time in London. Oy, it's seven bong.
My parents would watch a channel that had little pro Russia news segments thrown into commercials. The damage this constant little poking with misinformation does is not easily undone. They didn't even notice how their opinion was formed by those few lines in-between their favorite shows. Then suddenly they had issues with their satellite dish and when I fixed it somehow, for some totally unknown reason that channel was no longer there. Woops. They found other shows to watch and don't support the war anymore.
It's a bit misleading. They're not private contractors but employees of a different company instead. The union busting in the US is pretty extreme. I just hope these people can put their talents to work in a company that doesn't have so many issues complying with the rule "don't be evil".
The vampires of the Nestlé board don't like being blinded by bright screens as they roam the night in search for the blood of the innocent.
Every day some engineer would have to answer his questions. "Can we remove brown?" "Pardon me?" "The color, brown, can we remove it?" "I'm sorry I don't understand, remove it from where? I don't think our rocket has any b-" "No, I mean from the world. Maybe with our satellites?" "I...don't think that's something we'll be able to-" "How about birds? I don't like them. They remind me of god." "We....we'll look into it."
Privacy Enhancing Technologies. A blanket term for anything protecting your identity (Onion, VPN, etc.) I feel like the people asking for this either have a very limited technical understanding of it or completely different motives. You can't ban encryption. What they could do is ban VPN services from officially operating or certain protocols but that would mostly hit your regular user.
There's some irony in all the comments that participate in this thread by posting "lurker"
Username checks out. Didn't mean to offend your people. At least you suck blood for nourishment and not just for fun.
I think the idea would be to have machines replace people wherever possible and then have multiple people split the work time where it isn't. Why does one farmer have to work 24/7 if two could split the work and actually have a life outside of work?
How much are we talking here? If it's a shitfuckton I'm pretty sure it would get warmer as ice and land mass would get covered by less reflective water and more water vapor would accumulate in the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. Also Kevin Costner would be out there doing his shenanigans trying to find some land so we just generally want to avoid this whole scenario because the man is too old for this shit at this point.
Alright how about this: mandatory health insurance for pets. This could have multiple positive effects. People wouldn't carelessly get pets without considering the costs as often. Any insurance would ask for very high rates for any of the incredibly defective breeds people keep buying. I know people find that flat faced pug funny/cute but they literally can't breathe ffs. This might lead to less demand and less breeding. Vets and their customers wouldn't have to worry about costs so much which would take a lot of the stress out and make many currently difficult decisions a lot easier. As a responsible per owner you have these costs either way.
Maybe he's not a full on idiot but just idiot curious.
I for one am ready for a public servant AI that gives you form Y34-b and sends you to another AI that then tells you it should've been form Y34-a and only the third AI can fix it but they're currently on vacation so you'll have to comeback another time on a Monday or Wednesday between 10:00 and 10:30am.
The amount of bullshit jobs that exist is insane. So many people in offices that either don't do anything or barely anything. Then even more who could easily get all work done in half a work day. Then a gigantic amount that could easily do their work in 4 instead of 5 days or 6 instead of 8 hours. I'm typing this at work because of all the downtime I have and I still believe I get more work done then most of my colleagues.
Bold of you to assume he's not already doing that.
They store unencrypted passwords in the year of our lord 2023? Be this real?
Same here when it comes to food/taste. I criticised vegan mortadella(mostly water and oil) at some point and people absolutely lost it. Got some angry DMs by vegans explaining the concept of enjoyment to me. Not doing that again.
So I can't speak Russian? That's rough. I guess I'd try to stare everyone down until they get nervous and leave. Sometimes nod when people talk to me, sometimes just walk away from them. Oh no, he's giving me the silent treatment they'll think. Better not make him mad. Let them worry about the windows. Meanwhile I plan my escape through South America to LA where I live as a not-Putin impersonator. Hide in plain sight.
I for one appreciate that ubisoft chose the top down view of poop as their logo. it's the perfect symbol for everything they represent and they're incredibly brave for wearing it proudly on their chest.
There are plenty of games like this from the last few years. Elden Ring, Zelda, TLOU2, GoW2 just to name some AAA titles. Many indie games too. It just got a bit more annoying to filter out the cash grabs.
good job
Hold up, bear with me here, what if, ULTIMATE FIGHTING SUBS! Two billionaires have to build and pilot their own submarines to fight to the death in front of the titanic.
What are you doing honey? I'm ironing the iPod. Wha-why? I HAVE TO FINISH THE CYCLE!
It was when his (step)Mamaw got stuck in the washer that he truly learned he wasn't gay.
High availability and security are the bane of IT infrastructure jobs. It makes me anxious to think about my MSP days when I'd sit on my couch on a Saturday fully aware that I'm one phone call away from having my day, weekend or even the next two weeks ruined because some customer CEO has full domain admin rights and would give them to anyone who'd ask on the phone or via email.