Just out of curiosity....how many ppl in tech jobs, other than myself, ever think to themselves that you wish you had kept computers as a hobby and learned a trade instead?

Maybe it is just idle grumbling when I am hating 12 hour days at a desk....but if I had it to do over again I would have done electrician/plumber/carpenter/millwright instead of keyboard banger. (I list millwright just because a great uncle of mine was a millwright. He almost never worked....but when he did, wow he made a lot of money).

I have a neighbor who is a plumber that I have been helping with computer questions for some time now because it's always good to have a plumber that owes you favors. I envy him coming home and being excited about getting on his computer. I remember that.

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Ever? No, not likely. In our lifetimes? Absolutely not.

It wasn't as cold and it probably wasn't at as busy of an airport, but ramp hand (or lineman in the US) isn't a particularly hard job. I did it for several years when I was younger. It's really no different than working at a full service gas station. Except you pump a lot more fuel into far more valuable vehicles.

In the US (I would hope that linemen at northern Canadian airports got paid more) it is a very low paying job in any instance other than working for/at a major airport. The only advancement opportunity was to buddy up with some pilots and get them to teach you to fly and not charge for the lessons.

Not really, if you like it the go with it. I am just giving you a hard time. I am sure you are used to it. I just recall the first (and only actually) time I saw one of those. I said "wow, look at that badass neon"...someone else in the car said "what the hell did you just say?" and we had a good laugh. I am sure it's a great car. Just about all sports cars are impractical.

What's my best quarter mile time? You don't know what I got!

....actually my current situation does not require a car so I don't have anything at all. Thinking about looking for a mid 90's to early 2000's tacoma. One of those 4 cylinder 4wd ones. People hang on to those damn things, they are hard to find. Anyway, the point I am making here is that you and I need different things out of our vehicles...no reason to argue about it.

Hey, you bought one of those! I always wondered who in the hell would want one of those cars. I am not making fun, just pointing out how outlandishly impractical they seem to be. Also, to nitpick, I don't think that car will do 150 in a manner that you would want anything to do with unless you were in a fire suit with an ambulance following you.

Nonsense.

R&D spending: Hrair dollars.

you countless comment reminded me I guess

I have an iPad and I really enjoy it for what I use it for....but if I hadn't already known how to turn it off because it probably worked like the iphone did I am not sure I would have immediately gone for the lock button either. Here's another handy one....double click the home button, touch and hold an app, the red dash that appears on the icon will kill that app.

Hehe, the company I work for did the exact same thing and were all excited about it (and it never went anywhere because nobody used it). I am working with a client of ours now who also doing this exact thing. At least we will make some money on it this time.

Unless you are Julian Assange, then it's not a statistical matter, it's an international ordeal. (ducks)

I am nitpicking I guess...but that is a little low. When you say gov't payers I assume you are only talking about Medicaid, and there are only a few states that hover around or below 30% of what they would have been paid by a non-gov't payer for the same service. Most are well above 30%

I don't disagree with your point, just that 30% figure.

More info here http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2012/08/21/the-real-tragedy-of-obamacare-has-yet-to-be-felt-by-the-poor/

Yeah, I live next to a real piece of work. I will leave the ridiculous argument he started with me one day....but he threatened me and his "old lady" said she was going to kill my dog. I went in the house before I wound up in prison. The neighbor saw it all and called the cops and they were arrested. Nothing really came of it....but they were arrested.

Unless the reason was that people that knew him called to say that he needed help. I don't know, I can't look at that because I don't have a facebook login. I had to deactivate it because I kept getting drunk and saying stupid shit on facebook (see what I did there). So, I am more than willing to believe he is harmless...here's hoping that he is checked out, determined to be batshit crazy but harmless...then let go.

However, it doesn't bother me at all that they detained him to check him out.

Lemme check......yep, I can still make it say boobies!

It reminded me of this though...which is a lot funnier than I remember.