Comment I owe my soul to the company store... (Score 1) 25
Has there ever been a more dystopian phrase uttered than "childhood-to-career education program"?
Has there ever been a more dystopian phrase uttered than "childhood-to-career education program"?
I haven't read the study yet, but I wonder whether any of the findings (especially the one in the
You must not live in a part of the world where the weather forecast includes phrases like "Snow and sleet above 3,000 feet tonight."
Nope. Illinois, elev. 600±not a whole hell of a lot unless you're in a tall building.
E.g.: A barometer can give more accurate elevation data than GPS, so that when you are in a high-rise building and make an emergency call, first responders know what floor you are on.
Not sure this is why it is included, but it's a possible application.
A few years later, there was even a bill to establish a 30-hour workweek that made it through Congress: http://www.alternet.org/labor/...
if the company doesn't care enough to have a replacement hired, or a system in place to store this knowledge
I almost took this attitude the last time I changed jobs, but I realized it wasn't to help the company as a whole or my manager. It was for my immediate colleagues and juniors who would have to fill in. They were the ones who could make the most use and who appreciated the extra transition effort.
BTW, they usually don't call.
And if you check in on them, it's likely to be like This scene from the film About Schmidt .
I don't know what the information is, or how it could be organized, but maybe you could add a series of PST data files in Outlook to categorize the emails, and then save each PST at appropriate, somewhat permanent network locations.
Yes, price discrimination is probably part of it. Amazon is probably also involved, since Netflix runs on AWS, and a "virtual DVD" would compete directly with Amazon Instant Video.
I would have liked to hear from Ric Weiland but it's not possible since he died in 2006. He was responsible for the BASIC that I learned on: The Microsoft BASIC-in-ROM that came with my family's Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P (a 6502-based system from 1978 that had hardware similarities to Commodore systems). It also featured the first "Easter Egg" I remember: The system's boot prompt was "C/W/M?" (i.e. cold boot, warm boot, monitor). If you selected "A", it responded with "WRITTEN BY RICHARD W. WEILAND."
Did the anonymous submitter disclose their ties to Wikipediocracy?
Wait, this is Wikipedia. How could they not be confronted, when anyone can do the confronting, even the writers at Wikipediocracy.
...cellphones are at least as common as wallets at this point.
For comparison, we should see the statistic for how many robberies involved a wallet, and then perhaps some legislation to require mandatory kill switches on our money.
Who else has the money?
Giant corporations?
A few foreign governments?
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.