Things you mount aren't located in /mount, no it is /mnt. Ahh well that is so easy, I can't believe it didn't know that right off the top of my head!

That's what makes the *NIX command line even worse as a tool (not saying the Windows command line is better, but you needn't use it) is that commands are all kinds of random abbreviations. You can't make the argument with a straight face that it is "intuitive" or people can "use commands that seem natural." You don't list directories, you ls them, you don't put user programs in "Programs" you put them in /usr and it isn't short for "user" it is short for "unix system resource" of course that isn't what it originally meant since it used to be where user stuff is that is a backronym.

You really have to already know how to do what you want before you can do it. You can't stumble through things by looking through a list of menu options and finding the one that says what you want.

If they want to change your job description, which is what is needed for you to be responsible for something different, they are also required to provide you with any and all training necessary to be able to do that (HR policy). So they suddenly say "You are responsible for X OS now!" you say "Sorry I don't know that," they say "We are changing your job to require it," you say "Off to training I go!"

I'm not saying that is the way everything works, but it is not uncommon. Companies decide to do something new and they retrain the workforce to do it.

And document it all. Then, when the problem happened, I'd show them the documentation. I wouldn't get all asshurt about it though and bitch at people. I might look for a new job, but I wouldn't need to ask Slashdot for help.

I'm not a zealot about it. If it was making me unsatisfied in my job, I'd look for a new one, but that it true no matter what the situation is. If I found I liked, or at least could tolerate, working in that environment to the extent it was worth the other job benefits, I'd stay.

Even if you like, or dislike, a given technology you can work with it. For example I hate Macs, their enterprise support is shit. However, we have some faculty that use them, so I support them. I've worked out how to integrate them in to our system. I feel we would be better without them, and I'll advocate that, but I'm not a dick about it and I'll work with them.

What I mean is consumers like them because they feel they are saving. For tracking your purchasing habits they just use your credit cards. Much easier and more reliable. That's why Albertsons didn't need loyalty cards. They finally got them not out of need for tracking, but because people bitched they weren't getting discount prices.

Was when funds had to have massive amounts of losses on the books because there was no market for what they had at the moment. If something has to be marked to market, and the market is frozen at the moment, that gives it zero value, even if there is real value (like it is property or something). That can then create a feedback cycle of "Oh shit this is worthless!" and so on.

I'm not saying mark to market is never of any value, but there are serious downfalls and we saw them both on the phantom gains and phantom losses side with the recent financial shit.

See here's the problem: You start taxing wealth, then you start taxing all kinds of shit. Your house would now not only have a property tax, it'd have a wealth tax. It goes up in value, you have to pay tax on there. You don't realize any of that gain, of course, but it still increased in value, at least in theory, and thus you owe money. Now imagine that during the real estate boom. You suddenly owe income tax on an additional $100,000 because our "wealth" increased that much in theory because your house went up.

That's the thing is that having assets, having wealth, doesn't magically kick in at some number. Most of the middle class has some, just less than the rich. If you own any asset that appreciates in value, like a house, a retirement fund, etc, you have wealth. Maybe not much, but you have some. So anything that places a tax on having it is something that you'll be paying.

Have to be careful of unintended consequences.

My phone was made in Taiwan. Maybe it was made with sweatshop labour, I haven't checked, but I know that Taiwan is a high income nation and generally uses advanced manufacturing.

"Best in China" doesn't mean much, turns out things ARE made elsewhere, yes including the US (if you don't know what's made in the US that is your failing, not the US's).

It sets them up for rejection. Nobody likes rejection, and women have generally been conditioned that they don't have to take the risk of it in the start of a relationship. They wait for men to contact them so they can do the rejecting.

Hence very, very few do it.

That's not VHS. It is, well, ADAT, as you noted. I can't release an ADAT tape to the masses and have people able to play it. Also it requires S-VHS, not VHS, tapes.