Or he might be ex-Navy/ex-Army/other ex-military. I had a polite vocabulary *before* my 4-year enlistment in the good old U.S.N. Now I have to make a conscious effort NOT to "swear like a sailor". It's a cultural thing, and has been since humans started organizing militias.
There's a name for it: Defensive Driving. Assume the other drivers on the road are all idiots and be ready for them to do stupid, unlikely things. It works.
It encourages you to do things like maintain situational awareness ("The cars a mile up the highway are all backed up in a jam. Maybe I should slow down"), maintain proper separation ("The guy ahead of me may suddenly have to brake for a deer bounding across the road" -- has happened to me), keep a safety margin on your speed ("Wheee, hydroplaning is fun!"), don't coast in someone's blind spot ("That semi wants to change lanes NOW, and he doesn't know I'm here. Oops"), DON'T assume the guy looking your way before pulling out on the road actually sees you (I smashed a car up making that mistake, once), etc.
If you're over worked and can't handle the job, take a day off. But people don't for all sorts of reasons. They need the cash is one of the biggest reasons. So lets think about this from the bigger picture. Personal responsibility is everyone's own responsibility. We as people need to know how to say when we need a break or help. Then and only then can the industries really see where the flaws are in their systems to begin to provide better support to those individuals.
You seem a trifle naive about the work conditions on some jobs. People have to eat and pay the rent, so if telling the boss they can't do the job at the pace they're required to is likely to get them fired or "let go" for underperformance ("not a team player" is another classic), they'll just keep their mouths shut and work around the problem. They may be rushed, they make take shortcuts, they may dump the entire mail shipment in a ravine and mark it as delivered, but they will do what it takes for them to survive. Or, they may just snap one day.
In a bad economy, where jobs are hard to find and there's a hundred people who'd love to have your job, you are not going to tell your boss you need a break or can't keep up the pace.
Ideally, nurses aren't working 12- and 14-hour shifts back-to-back because of critical understaffing and/or cost-cutting, and aren't responsible for about 2-3 times as many patients per nurse as they ought to be. Ideally, said nurses aren't fatigued and stressed to hell and gone. Ideally, no one ever makes a mistake when they are exhausted, rushed, and stressed. Ideally, if anyone makes a mistake, it will be completely innocuous and won't kill or maim anyone or cause massive property damage.
Unfortunately, I don't live in that ideal world, and neither do any nurses I know of. That doesn't make them "purely incompetent"; it makes them human beings living in the real world.
Based on this NY Times article, the current state of things in the medical devices world is fucking retarded! In the electronics world, we carefully make incompatible devices with incompatible plugs, and/or use color coding for similar plugs (keyboard/mouse and microphone/speaker/line-in come to mind). Apparently making sure customers don't fry their home electronics is more important than making sure patients don't die. Apparently the medical devices industry hasn't heard of something like "industry standards". How bloody hard is it to get together with your industry standards organization and publish a standard that says all IV tubes have a plug type A, all air tubes have plug type B, etc?? This is basic industrial and safety engineering--it's not rocket science.
You are aware that the Pacific Northwest is not the only lumber and pulpwood producing area on the planet? You did see the part where I described conditions in the Deep South of the U.S, right? Down here, pulpwood is farmed, not clearcut from public lands.
Ditto here on customer pre-sort reducing participation. Local trash collection requires us to sort out recyclables ourselves (unpaid labor), and then has the effrontery to charge us MORE on our sewer & water bill for recycling. Uh, no, thanks. I may have to pay the count-imposed recycling fee, but I'm not going to give them my free labor on top of it.
It was nice of them to give me that pretty blue recycling bin, though. It makes a good storage container in my attic.
Note: just because you are ignorant does not make other people "mind-bogglingly stupid".
Old growth fir and redwood is not used for paper-making, it's used for construction and furniture-making. Paper is made from pulpwood, which comes from fast-growing softwoods--which are farmed. Down in the Deep South, Georgia-Pacific and Weyrhauser own thousands of square miles of tree farms covered with slash pines and loblolly pines, and they buy additional pulpwood from local landowners who farm the same pines.
Paper is a renewable resource; far batter to use paper than non-renewable plastic.
I don't think "normal" human beings can concentrate on anything much more than four hours straight, so don't feel bad. That's why we have lunch breaks, snack breaks, surfing
Yeah, it's called "caffeine withdrawal". Why anyone is surprised by it, when it has been documented that caffeine is addictive as heroin, I don't know...
If you think the grunts don't know better than anyone else just how sharp or stupid their bosses are, I can't help you...
The no-USB rule is because higher-ups got tired of constant security breaches because someone plugged a virus-infected USB into a military computer. (And/or carelessly used an infected USB drive to circumvent the low-to-high or high-to-low transfer rules.) The use of write-once media is for transfers from low-to-high, because there is no way you can accidentally write classified info onto the UNCLASSIFIED transfer media if it is a fixated write-once CD or DVD.
Makes perfect sense to me. What's your problem with it?
Also, the NMCI contract is a boondoggle for the benefit of the company that's running it. Navy would have been better off doing the whole thing in-house.
That is an awesome idea! You wouldn't happen to have a link to any especially high-res online copies of Brady's and other contemporary photos, would you? Otherwise, time to Google.
As someone who grows fresh kitchen herbs, I can add that fresh herbs are expensive because you have to sell them FRESH, not "chill-preserved for weeks in a refrigerator car". Sweet Basil, for example, has NO (zero, none, nada, zip) shelf life. It rots a day after picking it and putting it in the vegetable chiller in the refrigerator. You can freeze it or dry it, but you can't keep it fresh without keeping the whole plant alive.
The SKS also does this, and its cheap semi-auto knock-offs that were sold in the U.S. for a while are a bit more modern than WWI.
No, AdBlock does not work that way unless you subscribe to the blacklist. If you don't opt for someone else's blacklist (I don't, because maybe they don't like stuff I'd like to see), you have to choose to block ads from each source. Of course, once you blook all *.swf and ads from the major adserver domains, that covers most of the annoying stuff. Also, I don't like strange scripts playing without my permission, so I block scripts with NoScript by default and whitelist later, which just happens to block most of the ads.
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