What I see in 90% of homes are families that have a laptop for the mother, tablets for the little kids and smartphones for teens. Dad tends to be in the "man cave" drinking, or uses a work provided laptop, typically both.

It has become extremely rare to see desktop PC's in a home unless the person telecommutes or operates a home business on the side. Gamer's are really the only group left that stick to PC's but there is a growing trend to go with gaming laptops since they are easier to take to a friend's house/dorm.

We see everyday how rumors cause Democrats to lose their collective shit and attack innocent people.

If a company gives an employee more than $500 ($600 for US?) in "gifts" in a year it has to be reported on taxes. A designated parking spot counts as a gift and the company would need to calculate the value of it. That's one of the reasons so many people get in tax trouble for things like free tickets to an event. It's also why employment anniversary gifts are typically cheap crap (although, I really do like the alarm clock I got for my 5 year reward, it's a Sony Dream Station.)

The only upside to working at IBM's old Cottle Road site (sold and demolished now, sadly) was the office buildings were 100% offices, zero cubicles. It wasn't very pleasant though, long white hallways with white ceilings, white floors, white doors, and black door frames. Also, the office I was in had a wall of windows... that faced an area between buildings filled with pipes, weeds, and cracked concrete with a view of... the other building. The lighting in the hallways was nothing but flourescent tubes, and the only decoration was an occasional poster of yacht races.

There's a woman going through a divorce in the cubicle next to me who spends the entire morning on the phone bitching with someone about her incompetent husband and lazy kids that won't lift a finger to help her at home. Within 30 minutes of arriving at work I have to throw on earbuds and start listening to music to drown her out.

I could turn off the lights during the day. I don't need to read anything that isn't on a computer monitor so there is zero reason to have the lights on. All they are doing is wasting electricity, generating electrical noise (flourescent light hum), and attracting insects indoors.

I've had a corner window office before, they are not all that great, especially if they are South or West facing. There is nothing you can do to escape the heat generated and the glare from sunlight is tiresome.

Just download the Youtube-dl utility, it downloads video & audio directly from Youtube, it even has a simple GUI. Works great on Playlists as well and has an automatic download resume. The occasional error crops up but a simple re-download solves that.

Yo Mama' so fat, they have to use the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of her atoms.

Summer weather causes ice to melt, and water to heat up, film at 11.

You don't need to worry about Russian's interfering with the mid-term elections, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram are all doing that domestically themselves by continuing to censor Republican candidates.

I've worked in HR before, when jobs were scarce it was more like 150-300 candidates per job. Not just direct applicants but recruiters and headhunters as well, faxing, mailing, and digitally submitting resumes. The culling process consisted of take the first 50 that arrived and toss out everything else. Of the first 50, glance over them to see if they had the educational requirement, once the first 10 had been found that met the requirement, toss the rest. Hand those 10 over to the HR rep. for review from which they would select 3-4 for an interview.

One thing that working in Silicon Valley taught me is that loyalty is worthless. Companies don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them. I was a no-show for the first day of work at Nvidia, I took a job with Electronic Arts instead. The pay at EA was less but the benefits were better and I wasn't sure that Nvidia was going to keep me around for more than a year. No regrets.

I've never failed to show up for an interview though. Even if I had zero intention of taking the job I always felt that it was worth the time to gain experience interviewing at as many different companies for as many positions as possible to improve my ability to cope with the social awkwardness of the interviewing process. My dad had the same sentiment, he was let go from a major company and would take any interview that he was called for simply to get comfortable with the job hunt process again.

I've had interviews where I could tell right away the the person doing the interview had zero intention of hiring me, their disappointment was immediately obvious and they struggled to come up with questions to ask. I simply focused on remaining confident and spent the time practicing good interview techniques, looking at a person's forehead, being mindful of my posture, asking a few select questions of my own, etc... I always felt like I got something out of the process and if anything, impressed the person interviewing me such that they might consider me for a different position if one were available.

For $159 you can get a Nokia 3.1 running pure Android (Oreo) with zero bloatware. It's part of the "Android One" program. The only real downside is that Nokia removed the NFC chip from the US model and it doesn't have any biometric authentication. At that price don't expect flagship performance either.

For $100 more you can get the Nokia 6.1 which includes NFC and a fingerprint reader.

Both phones have a beautiful design accented with metal. They are sleek and can take great daylight pictures. Their nighttime picture taking ability is poor though.

The Air National Guard receives airplanes that are passed down by the USAF. Since the USAF has been getting F-22's they have had F-15's to pass down. There is actually a concern right now that with the Air Force getting so many F-22's there will be a gap in available aircraft for the USAF to pass down for a number of years as the F-22's are expected to have a long service life.

Another Liberal off their "meds". Legalize more drugs, surely that will help! SMH