I worked in different software houses for quorter of a century and I have seen many people, even young people taken to a hospital from the floor because they could not move due to back pain. I also have seen some just falling unconscious and never coming back too. Back pain is only sometimes caused by heavy lifting. Usually life style choices and lack of fitness and proper technique at lifting is a problem. Wrong bad is also a factor. It is a quite physical job at times but unless leeches make you do more than you can and you do not take care of your body, you are good. As in any other job brains are important. Cohders may be good at coding but that is monkey job anyway - you need much more to stay on top of things. Taking care of fitness of your body and mind is your task - IT or plumbing.
OC if you work in an uranium ore mine in china or wolfram mine in Andes and your wage is only good for a bit of food then this is different. It has nothing to do with job itself but with pay and work conditions. That is why offshoring actually works in many cases. You offshore jobs to countries with lots of desperate people, not much legal rights for workers, no rules for environmental protection - you save on all these costs. Plumbing is in a sense the same as any other job. Skill and organization of your work is vital. You cannot work for leeches of course as emptyheads will suck all juice out of you and dump you as soon as their last offshoring bonus went up in the nose or out trough the door with a hooker. You need to learn other things, new tools in plumbing there are new materials too. At some point you can become Master and let other 'help' you.
Claims that plumbing does not work are exaggerated. It does - you just have to do it right. It is the same with being a lawyer. There are many lawyers that do not earn enough too because they went on to do family law in some odd place.

You mean Sweden or France? Just wondering. It is of course OT but interesting anyway - delegalizing prostitution in any way is just a scam like war on drugs is - it is self propelling process in which all wrongs, that are done while executing it, are blamed on others so that more power is given to the executor.

Not sure if that is true. My body was deteriorating too and I worked in 'IT' - the reason was the ugly bitch standing in the way of all things that can be good for you including forcing common TV sessions so that we enjoy time together which I hated for the brainlessness of TV shows. Bitch is gone, money too but with limited amount of care I went back to reasonable levels of fitness. Stopped drinking too so my doctors tell me I am better than the average 30yo. Most of people doing 'plumbing' that I know are doing things in a very unhealthy way and they eat shit that makes them fat. No wonder that when they are 40, they cannot catch breath for 10mins after fetching a beer from fridge. We are not talking working in a coal mine either. Besides it already works like this. Most of the guys in the corp I work for bread and butter live well but that is probably only half of them only. Most of the families in settlement I live in have income coming not from high eduction jobs. Some do but that is a minority. Most of them do exactly what has been said - do 'plumbing' etc become a master and others work for your or because you are a specialist you do only your special well paid and not so tough on your body thing. Works for most of them it seems. Bottom line is this - if you stay at the bottom of a ladder you are most likely fcked but even there with little brains you can manage. Only you cannot let the leeches do what is common in IT - doing more and more job for the same money while not even being allowed to improve your work environment to make it possible without extending work day. The same as in IT actually. The emptyheads in your software house will lay you off eventually. This is unavoidable. Each company goes trough offshoring phase as it goes trough down sizing - cost cutting phase etc.When it goes better you start using slack to look for a new job. Has a chance to go well as long as your team at home is on your site and you do not fall for becoming loyal to your company and some other bullshit like this. There is no real reason why we are here on this planet - your life purpose is to live with possibly little pain and suffering and enough good time - loyalty to your company is not anywhere there. If going gets tough and you see no escape, being old and sick is not nice especially if it is not your fault to become sick - think if you cannot take some asshole politician or drug dealer at local school to the grave with you without harming bystanders - at least you go with a bang. Other than that 'plumbing' job is as good for your body and mind as your average IT job is.

The linked article (about Berlin Tegel) is simply wrong or at least confusing. Berlin Tegel is an old airport within city limits that was supposed to be closed when new Berlin Brandenburg airport opened. As the later data is not in sight thanx to incompetence, political corruption, changing requirements and some other disasters the old airport is still open and its opening dates are like weather - change. Take any other airport if you want to show successful creation of a new airport outside city limits replacing an old one within.

Everybody makes mistakes. But I had to work with shit made by OMA 'experts' on other issues and quite frankly if I got my hands on them they would be running around: without balls and smeared in tar and feathers. The OMA specs or at least those few I have seen are abomination - hyperlinked documentation written by people with attention span of a chicken after its head been cut off. I actually have no problem believing the security hole is as big as said in TFA.

I knew I was missing something - thank you!
No day is complete without paying respect to the great leaders of this world.

I do not mind their models of business whichever which way - license fee for buying products or license fee for using - I do not have any. Corp I work for may have issue with that tho if more money is spent on it and/or if more problems are created this way. Then again they outsourced all infrastructure anyway so it is subcontractor that have to deal with this shit. I do not mind if they switch to linux or whatever is out there as long as browser, mailer, wireshark and eclipse work there.

Come to think of it I have not had much to complain about m$ for years now. Admittedly mostly because I got used to their ways but also because their software got much better than it was originally. Then I say this while still on updated win7 so I guess the big blood pressure spike others had out of win8 was spared on me.

I suppose if the general version number is missing then somebody will deliever baselining tool and provide DB for it thus all us mortals that need to know which baseline was for sure the one that worked with particular software can refer to it. I have seen this sort of rogue tools being developed in my corporation when some asshat decided no system version is needed too but ever since we also have 'first time right' policy I lost hope in humanity anyway. I cannot really wait for the machines taking over from protein based life form. Although I suppose idiocy is a nature constant so while one source of it goes away it just moves on to another available. Interesting thought for the start of the weekend - I guess all this nonsense was not for nothing.

Considering the fact that German federal institutions cooperate willingly in violating constitution of Germany and rights of its citizens in extreme cases cooperating in putting innocent citizens into cages in GITMO, I would be careful - Canada does not have its GITMO but they can throw you into one of the tailings ponds from sand oil production that they have so many in Alberta.

But let 'em sodomites open new abortion clinic in Texas we see how far that will go without violence.

You are right but also you miss some. YOu are spot on with quality of critical software - I used to work for a company producing telecom infrastructure. We were obliged by customers who were obliged by the states to produce software of good quality with low outage times and some odd characteristics. We paid hefty fines for outages and interoperability was a must. Over last few years I have moved away from that and at the same time I have had to deal with number of students from different universities coming to 'learn' to the company I worked for. Some of them were intelligent but none of them knew anything about software quality for critical systems. Their view of critical system is a smartphone FB app or some such. That it crashes once or 3 times a day did not concern them - this is how they view quality of software. For most of them this will stay so and there will be no need to learn what actual quality with robustness etc does mean
There is also this other thing that software people often miss completely thinking that having an app for something actually solves the problem. There is this nasty thing about real life where complexity is no only in software but also in physical rules for subcomponents (like airplanes for instance which are everything but simple) as well as those things called traffic rules - these can pretty much limit what the amount of traffic in certain area can be. In other words software is only one part of the system that has limiting factors in different places. Again most of 'software people' I had to deal with in my life were simpletons even if some of them were real programmers with very high standards (this is a tiny minority of course). They are of course no different from anybody else. There are reason why humans need regulations - otherwise 'experts' that is me and my brother in law would fuck up all there is to fuck up after all we are flight control experts because we have no clue about huge software and real life systems which contain software among other complex parts. The good thing is /. is still the place where some critical and wise comments are made albeit with diminishing frequency.

Maybe they are similar I would not know but I object to this statement:

We live in modern times where all reality is produced by FB. Besides in all movies I have seen for years everything of value is produced by click of a mouse or stealing of fort Knox gold or some other such thing. In other words physical limitations do not apply on reality created by Zuckerberg & Co.

They fucked up, got caught and prevailed - seems to me that they passed the exam.