AC tries using a ball bearing on a tank, it has no effect.

This is why recruiters are nothing like agents. The recruiters do not give two shits if a developer is good at their job, or if the job is a good fit for the developer. As long as they can make it look good enough to get the commission.

In fact, if the guy quits or is fired even better, they get to put someone else in the position and make the commission again! One would think that companies and employees would learn their lesson.

That's a different story altogether... I had to beat them to death with their own shoes...

I have an agent filtering out the crap for me.

It is the spam filter, were all emails from headhunters go.

Seriously. The assholes have a perpetual motion machine and yet still have an ice age. (Truth is I did not see the movie, but decided to skip it when I heard the plot was about a train that goes around the world... to solve... an ice age? Huh?)

Except for ever amateur astronomer ever.

So the solution to too much pollution in the air is... to put more pollution in the air! Brilliant!

And I thought the chemtrails people were just paranoid.

Well you can only make people that are paying attention move. If there is plenty of room on the sidewalk and they are not walking against the flow, whatever. I don't even recall the last person I bumped into, accidentally or not. But, I think the theme of this thread is the people walking around with their head down deserve to get run into.

Perhaps they will learn to pay attention in the future. If they are lucky they will run into a person and not into a car.

Though, it does remind me. I once saw a cellphone-walker walk straight into the side of a stopped city bus that was blocking a crosswalk. Multiple people saw it coming and did nothing to prevent it. Everyone (including the person involved) had a good laugh.

I would be fine with assigned lanes with everyone keep-to-the-right (or left if you are in a country that leans that way). I usually stick to the right even when there is plenty of room to move if someone is on the wrong side. They usually figure out to get on their side of the walk by the time we meet.

However the city I live in is laid out rather dumbly with every store putting tones of shit all over the too-narrow sidewalk, or those trap door to the basement things that are corroded and look dangerous to step on. You are lucky to have a single lane to get past.

In that situation I am totally good with taking turns as long as everyone is keeping their head up and paying attention. If some douche is going to stick his head in his phone while moving through the one-lane section... he might get introduced to mister shoulder. Catch them in the arm, makes it more plausible you did it on accident, and more likely to knock the phone out of his hand.

Agree, got to put your weight into it. Disappointed that website had nothing to do with hockey, though.

Read the list of articles on the front page, still have no idea what the movement is about. Though I can take a guess since the only article that had a picture of a guy on the homepage started with "A stay at home dad..."

Learn from hockey. Lead with the shoulder, if you are a bit taller crouch down a bit to catch them in the chest. If you are short, jump a bit right at the moment of contact, the refs will never call charging on the short guys.

I am with you on this. If you have a place to go, walk with determination. Don't look like you are in a hurry, just go. If you are just aimlessly wandering around, pretend you are trying to get somewhere. Obviously I am not being a dick and running people over.

Being over six feet tall does help, but anyone of any size or gender can do it. Works great at concerts too.

Though sometimes the lady in red grabs my attention and I walk face first into an agent... doh!

I found what you wrote to be Bitter Sweet.

That is probably the most reasonable explanation. None of the hardware was upgraded since the 90s when a weak-ass password and no way to perform updates was enough to keep people out.

So, you can't stick a credit card into the thing. And when it breaks down nobody gets alerted.

Traffic lights: No ability to know when they are working or not, no way to synchronize lights across the city.

Think about it. Devices need to be connected. Security isn't hard, companies need to start giving a shit about it.