Useful

• 1. Code reviews.
• 2. Design and architectural meetings for projects.
• 3. 1 on 1's with the boss (maybe once or twice a month at the most).
• 4. Project meetings (to an extent).
• 5. Quarterly department meetings that update us on what's going on. I find these very useful, others may not.

Useless

• 1. Status meetings - Just send an email with your status to the team. Some team members just like to talk and take up most of the meeting time. (Yes, the boss should be limiting that, but not always).
• 2. Rah-rah meetings - Don't care. Waste of time.
• 3. For-a-purpose meetings - Recent phenomenon due to covid where everyone who are still working from home (and we still are at my company) are required to meet to “see” each other and have a meeting about something. We can do that on video. I'd rather just do an ad-hoc get together after work with my peers, i.e. not work related!

I'm sure there are others, but these are off the top of my head.

And you're the guy we probably fired.

If you want to see dot.com Bust 2.0, this will contribute to it. Do you remember the dot.com era? Most of those people with no technical or coding background who tried to learn how to code in 1 year (or less) and obtained some flea-bag certificate were the first ones to be let go. And yes, there were a lot of them. Without having the fundamentals of data structures, coding style, documentation skills, and good logic and problem solving skills, those new "coders" will have a very short career, if any. Most companies learned their lesson from dot.com 1.0.

Q. What did Mr. Spock say to Captain Kirk?
A. Captain, there are Klingons Uranus.

Yes, I know, I know, lame ... booooo!

I haven't had cable in over seven years, and I don't miss it. I refuse to pay for commercials.

... the best two are Verizon and US Cellular. Verizon gets the edge for variety of cell phones to choose from and nationwide coverage, but US Cellular gets the edge for better service although their regional coverage is just as good if not better than Verizon's.

Sprint and T-Mobile only care about getting customers to sign a contract. Their service is atrocious and cellular coverage is spotty around the city and really crappy in the rural areas.

The only thing going for AT&T is the iPhone. If it weren't for that, they'd be down there with Sprint and T-Mobile.

The Vatican is run like a business and has done so since its inception. It is one of the richest entities in the world that is its own country, has its own army and has its own economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_city.

How in the heck can a religion do this? It seems to contradict everything Jesus stood for: Peace, love, and helping people, not killing countless millions and building an empire in the name of God. What a bunch of hypocrites! It wouldn't surprise me that the Vatican will try and copyright (trademark, too) the name Vatican or even Jesus Christ one of these days.

...remaking old sci-fi shows and movies. No imagination anymore. Sheesh!

We should be focusing on building the infrastructure on Earth first before doing anything in space. What I mean by this is building space ports around the world, developing new propulsion and material technologies, and encouraging young people that math and science is cool. While our current space infrastructure (in the USA) is decent, it's far from robust. A spacecraft shouldn't have to worry about the weather during take-off or landing, for example. That's retarded in this day and age. A side-effect of building an infrastructure like this is the creation of literally millions of jobs around the world: building of new roads, buildings, and materials, more education funding in the sciences, restaurants popping around the new spaceports to feed the people, etc.

Personally, KDE and Gnome both suck. They're both heavy-weight X-Window environments. I like XFCE better because it's simple, doesn't contain all of those "extra applications" I will never use, and is lightweight (IMHO).

If you mean useful work, then it's about 4-6 hours per day. The rest is spent chatting, eating, or surfing the web. If you mean scheduled work, then it's 8 hours.