Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:So backwards... (Score 1) 227

You can use many medications as directed and die. Doctors have been complaining about Tylonol usage being a leading cause of liver failure for years now. People die during routine dental operations. There is risk all around you. You can walk outside and get hit by a bus. A bus driver can fall asleep at the wheel and drive his bus into your living room. Right now. Life kills.

Comment Re:Plain stupid sentence (Score 3, Interesting) 358

Some mistakes you don't get to make. Mistakes have consequences. To real people. We can't just ignore them and pretend it didn't happen.

The other day one kid hit their sibling on the head with a toy truck. The hitter was yelling "Sorry!" at their crying sibling who yelled back "Sorry doesn't help!" You can be sorry. But "sorry" doesn't magically make it better. It doesn't roll back time.

Mistakes can cost you your job, your family, your reputation, and your freedom. That is why you have to think before you act.

Comment Re:Autopolit, should have been called Assistpilot! (Score 2, Insightful) 187

TV and movies also tell me that I can fall 10 stories onto an awning and live, that cars explode when they flip over, that if you call the police they can trace your location within seconds, and that you can "enhance" grainy security camera images enough to see pimples. You can also be close enough to an explosion to get thrown through the air and walk away with only superficial injuries because shrapnel and gravity only happens to bad guys.

Comment Re:Threshold (Score 2) 409

People actually pay people to fold laundry for them. Perhaps you should get out of your bubble. They also pay people to mow their lawn. Yes, I can paint my bedroom myself. But I would rather spend that time playing with my kids instead of yelling at them to not dump the paint on their heads. So I pay someone who has the ability to focus on the task at hand.

Carpenter, electrician, plumber... All these things need done. When my sink starts dumping water into my basement, I *could* fix it myself. Or I can call my handyman and he'll fix it. Just because *you* have never looked for one, doesn't mean they aren't around or that other people don't value them. My office mate is so happy I gave her my guy's name because now shit around her house is getting fixed.

We just paid a guy to bring lunch to the office. Because while we could go out ourselves, we didn't want to.

Stop being so demeaning to the people that make life easy. They do important work.

Slashdot Top Deals

The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Working...