If they won't directly compensate you, work it into your goals for the new year. Then "slowly" work on the software. Give management a schedule and give releases prior to the dates given. This way you'll always have extra time to figure out your next goal you'll accomplish.

I only suggest this because I don't imagine you have a lot of upward mobility in your department. I have also had that underwhelming feeling when handing over software and not being compensated. Never again.

I agree about the 13 month calendar. The last month should be 29 days. Leap years the last month should be 30 days. It's fairly easy to remember and there would be no fudging of the days. Plus the computer algorithms would be fairly straight forward.

Surprisingly, there would be a lot of people bitching about not getting 3 paychecks in one month. Interest on loans would be more understandable to the common man.

I am overjoyed there is no more sense of shared purpose. Otherwise, I might have been drafted to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or attack the Libyans from afar. This idea that countries must have a purpose or a goal is ridiculous. You'll end up with a state like China, where talking heads decide what the next goal is and then the people blindly follow. And in following that goal, the path is only the vision of the talking heads. When the US was founded, the philosophers who wrote the Constitution didn't talk about how the US was going to be first in education or dominate another country in GDP. The philosophers spoke about a country where each man would be able to follow his passions with in the law. The 13 colonies fought the war of independence for mutual benefit. It's hard to see the benefit in beating other countries in subjective goals.

Oh shit, now I'm rambling, but I hope you get the point.

"This leads to things like Phillip Morris killing people for profit for millions of years, because they did the cost/benefit analysis and realized that in reality they can get away with human life and suffering costing them many orders of magnitude LESS than they should, all because they have the power."

The smokers are to blame for killing themselves. I don't care if their "addicted" to their drug. It's a choice to smoke. The stuff about businesses polluting, I agree.

Is there another term besides corporate that you could use? Maybe business? Does business not have enough insinuation for you?

I think the test should be who is currently in office.

One would vote for president. Then a screen with 5 names and the option none of the above would appear on the screen. Pick the correct one and your vote counts. Pick the wrong one and your vote does not count.

democracy at its best. I'm so happy I live in a republic.

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Ah... No worries. It really made me think how one would read a 3D font.

Are you talking about the thickness of the ink on the page?

Open a book. Rotate the book to only view the thickness of the book. You could be looking at the page in four orientations: the first line of the top or bottom of the page, the first letter of each line from the left side of the page, or the last letter from the right side of the page. From the top or bottom, you could possibly read those lines, but how would you read the next line on the page? From the left or right you would be able to read one letter, maybe decipher the next letter, but you could not read the whole line. The information that the eye is trying to find, while reading, is in 2D.

Is that more clear or less clear? Could you give me an example of a font that is read by it's thickness? Can you read your computer screen from the side?

I never could understand how anyone would use a 3D desktop efficiently. The user can't really move through the space. The mouse or whatever you would use currently does not have a depth function. I don't like wading through files in 2D, let alone 3D. I've done a lot of reading and none of it seems to be in 3D. As it turns out, that's what matters. The way in which I learn and do work is an abstracted 2D technology (fonts, silly). Until the alphabet takes the next step to 3D, I doubt you'll see really efficient 3D desktops. I'm not saying it won't happen, I saying I have no clue how it would work.

I'd really like to use a big 3' by 4' 2D desktop with handwriting recondition software. I would be awesome to annotate class notes, do scratch work wherever, and not lose character sheets. Yeah, you'd be sitting at a table, but don't worry. There's a tablet that you can drag your work off of or on to it.


A little OT, I've seen print in the fourth dimension i.e. scrolling signs, but never really in the third. Who gives a shit if letters have depth?

Ha!

In a proper libertarian society, government does not have a monopoly on force. Each Citizen has a small monopoly on force, distributing the force across the system.

OT: Lots of folks complain about businesses having monopolies. Why is okay for government to have such monopolies i.e. schools, money, possibly health care?

stole from the government and gave to the overtaxed. This guy is copying from the government and pasting to the people. He's more like a "Neo the Document Liberator?"

for snail mail as well. You never know when you'll need that year old coupon.

My ma, an RN, was very annoyed at the "death panels" part of the legislation because most hospitals already counsel old folks on their wishes for end of life treatment and living wills with their doctors. As for government euthanasia, I'm all for it. How else are the United States going to pay their Social Security?