Cold, but not COLD. I think it got into the mid 50s yesterday and I expect more of the same today. It was low 40s when I went to bed.
I spent most of the day Sunday dealing with HVAC issues at my rent house. Then I did a bit of thrifting on my way home. Got a framed map of Skyrim for D1. She wanted me to frame my map from the game disk box, but I said no, so finding one already framed was a bit of niceness in the day. I picked up a couple of things that will sell really well, for nice margins the next time I can get stuff into an auction.
No word from my storage unit on any video evidence. I’ll ping her again today and maybe I can start cleaning up and find out if any of the high value stuff got left behind. My suspicion is only the more esoteric, harder to sell stuff got left behind.
The problems with the heat at my rent house point out the benefit of having backups. When your heat goes out, you may not be able to get a service guy to see you for a while, and he may not be able to get parts for a while… so having some alternative heating (or cooling) methods makes good sense. The grid doesn’t have to be down for you personally to need backups. That goes for drinking water too.
Today is a disjointed mess. I should be hanging some TVs for my client but IDK if the painters got done, given the shutdown for freezing Friday. It’s also my short workday because of time with my daughter in the afternoon, and I would like to be there when the HVAC guy is at my rental. I will probably prioritize daughter, and just let him do his thing. Tenants are both work-from-home, so they’ll be there to let him in.
I should get my burgled storage unit back in shape and get more stuff out of the house too. And during the week, we’ve got a plumber coming to install a tankless hot water heater (which I have to prep for by clearing the work area, and putting up a mounting board). AND I have to get my client’s house back together, AND get stuff pulled for my non-prepping hobby’s quarterly mini-swapmeet. AND school has early dismissal Thursday and Friday for some reason, AND all the other normal things as the social and economic structure of our world shifts around us….
So, busy week ahead.
Start building on your backups for your critical systems and supplies. Stack them high and deep.
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43F and only 87%RH. Pretty chilly in my book.
Whole family is tired and not getting up… waaaaah.
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@lpdbw
I'd hate to trigger them.
Who is now known as Ebic.
I've noted before that when I left the Death Star about a dozen years ago, Sears stores were still dependent on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for some piece of their IT infrastructure.
MUMPS is in [The EMR Company That Shall Remain Nameless]’s products somewhere, but the business logic gets morphed into some other OO layer language and all kinds of hacks have been thrown in over the years written in God-knows-what.
EMR has been yet another area of software where the dream is to fire the expensive developer and replace him/her with B-school interns. TECTSRN is well known to have some real weirdness going on at their campus in Madison, which is already a freak show of a city.
In my first attempt at grad school, one of the CS students was a Mainland Chinese MS Mech. E. grad who found his prospects limited upon graduation in 2010 so he essentially extorted the department into giving him a slot in the MS Comp Sci program. Two years later, when he finished the MSCS, he still wasn't marketable — with two Masters — so one of the faculty came up with a position for him at TECTSRN through friend-of-a-friend. I think he is still there.
Maybe he's a Chinese intelligence plant. They're going to steal US EMR secrets! 🙂
Conscientious coding takes time, and the financial incentive just isn't there at the physician level for a GP in a large group where giving short shrift and five minute visits is the goal.
Specialists don't care. They're tough to replace.
GPs aren’t that much easier, but a lot of big groups try to fill the gaps with nurse practitioners. Primary care under Medicaid for All will probably be all NPs with a few doctors supervising … or worse.
Ironically, the nurses are even worse about coding, and they are usually paid hourly — shift ends and they hit the exits whether or not charts are closed out.
Subbing again today. Mostly English 1, freshman. It is astounding the number of kids, mostly male, that have no desire to learn anything. All they want is 4-wheeling stuff, trucks, and goofing off. The concept of actual work, or learning is foreign. I am certain it was fostered by their loser parents. Probably on welfare as a career choice. The inability to follow simple instructions, comprehend simple social behavior, is quite troubling for the future.
My position on most of these kids is, if they don't want to be in high school, fine, toss them out. However, there will be no welfare, no public assistance, no handouts from the government of any kind for 20 years. And no driver's license until the age of 18 (a law now, but really enforce). Leave high school for the kids that want to learn.
And I took up a cell phone. Not 5 minutes earlier I told the class if I see a cell phone I am taking the phone. Boom, someone took out their cell phone. Clueless.
Pavlov…. they heard the word "phone" and it triggered the need to have the phone in their hand.
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@Ray Thompson
“However, there will be no welfare, no public assistance, no handouts from the government of any kind for 20 years. And no driver's license until the age of 18”
How about no handouts.
and
No license until 21, with thirty days mandatory on the third offense and the fourth offense a felony?
Did anyone ever think that it would start in Canada?
Where's Trudeau? Still in hiding?
https://www.rt.com/news/548498-ottawa-police-seize-fuel-arrests/
This one slipped in under the radar last week. Of course, Spikevax vials will be MIA in the US just like Comirnaty has been since it was approved because of liability concerns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-grants-full-approval-modernas-covid-vaccine-rcna14237
More like in denial. This is still, in his head, a very small minority. He's probably flabbergasted the whole thing lasted more than one weekend.
I don't even sweat this. Give them all enough rope to hang themselves. There's a lot of shit jobs out there that need done… Let those jokers do them.
I agree. Most of them shouldn’t be there. Baden Powell "A boy is not a sitting down animal". When my sons were 12/13/14/15, they were anxious to work. Not to sit still in a chair and read or write or listen to "content", but to be up and about doing work with their hands and using their new-found strength for something other than "organized sports".
Apprenticeships and trade schools would be the best line of education for most kids starting at about age 12 or 14. A huge majority of them would have happier teen years, and more successful lives. The tech revolution makes some branches difficult, but we are always going to need humans who understand how to build things.
From what I understand, the classes for Epic training are closed unless you are an employee of a customer hospital or group with a signed contract and under NDA.
You can't get the job without the Skillz, but you can't get the Skillz without the job.
I don't care if some other organization besides the federal or state government wants to give handouts. That is not with my tax dollars so I really don't care.
Agreed. School, as currently exist, is not an environment for many young males. They are old enough to be doing real work. The crap they have in high school now in some of the classes is just silly and a waste of time. Trying to be "woke" I guess.
Another point of agreement. My son had a friend during high school who loved working with his hands. My son was a good candidate for college, his friend not so much. And that is basically how it turned out. Both are doing well, even the one without college.
This governor's push to have everyone go to college is just stupid. Lots of kids can leave high school into a trade and make a good living doing what they like doing. Spending four years in college, spending thousands of dollars, on a degree they will never use. College would just delay their earning potential and cost a lot of money.
Colleges are designed to employ the unemployable. Where else can someone with a degree in ancient Egyptian art get a job? Give them a job at the college or university and make their class mandatory for two years. Win-win. School gets money for something a student will never use, book publishers get lots of money for books no one else would buy, the teacher has a job teaching something no one would use, student spends an extra year learning worthless crap.
This will be my third year of funding a scholarship for vocational school. $1K is not a lot of money. It will quite possibly help a student going for a vocation. The money can be used for tools or tuition. The money is paid directly to the school. The awardee is chosen by school staff based on who would benefit the most. Some kids are not from families with extra money and that little amount I provide may be the little boost that gets the student working and making a living.
The money is basically a wash. I get paid about $1.2K a year for sports pictures for the school yearbook. I am just returning some of that money and getting a small tax deduction. Most importantly I am helping some student succeed in their goals.
It didn't take long for "The Rock" to drop his support for his good friend Joe Rogan. Rogan said *niggler* a bunch of times during his comedy years. Just like almost every other comedian, but the wokies are after him. Fcuk "The Rock". Who would want him as a friend after this.
Speaking of *niggler*, one of the Twins wanted to watch "Blazing Saddles" so I torrented it. How many times is *niggler* used: let me count the ways. Mel Brooks was never cancelled. Or anybody else in it. Let me repeat, fcuk "The Rock". I hope someone digs into his past. Probably a bunch of shite there.
Also, fcuk Whoopsi. Cancel her, too.
Ray, you missed an important reason to push everyone into four (or five) (or six!) years of college to get a worthless Bachelors degree: it keeps them out of the job market. The US has more workers than jobs, so anything that reduces the workforce is a good thing. Sure, it's just postponing the problem, but the problem is postponed past the next election and that's all that matters.
By 14, the schools should have taught sufficient English grammar, basic math including percentages, basic geometry, simple equations, and a little of physics/biology/chemistry/computers (at a minimum typing (keyboarding lol), google, word, excel, perhaps basic programming), home economics or whatever they call it now, and some kind of practical shop experience. Enough for a person to get by in most jobs. That's what I use in my job. I studied a lot of math and never use it.
Include useful things like history and reading the constitution etc. No extra credit. Then the kids can go to vocational school or continue on an academic path.
Fcuk The Rock. There's video of Biden using the N word multiple times. Is he next? (and the recent "you ain't black", pure racism)
Whoopsi's real name is Caryn. Seems appropriate.
Have you been in a high school lately? The inability to distinguish between "their", "there" and "they're"; switching "except" and "accept"; "one" and "won". Not knowing the difference between "sell" and "sale".
Ask a student if something costs $3.50 with a tax rate of 10% if $3.75 is enough money to make the purchase. Most would have no idea.
Even adults that have graduated suffer the same problem. The dumbing down of schools is very much real.
She is so full of shirt(-r) that she doesn't poop, she just sheds.
From SRW in the Fort Bend Herald, "Count me in!".
"It would be wonderful if we could put ourselves in the clothes dryer for ten minutes, then come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller."
LOL! Me, too. I almost stayed and got a PhD in Maths. DrAtoz would look good on a business card, but that's about it. I decided on another flying tour instead.
The kids are so stupid they don't realize that turning the thermostat to 90 will not make the room warmer any faster than setting the thermostat on 72. Or the students are just being jerks. Stupid jerks.
I did confiscate another phone. The principal’s son. I suspect that will not go over well. The parent has to retrieve the phone which will be easy. A second offense is alternative school.
A lot of adults think that also.
Oh, yeah, I got my antibiotics from Jase Medical. They reside in my fridge.
>> The kids are so stupid they don't realize that turning the thermostat to 90 will not make the room warmer any faster than setting the thermostat on 72.
A lot of adults think that also.
Pushing the elevator call button repeatedly still makes the elevator come faster though, right??
Pushing the elevator call button repeatedly still makes the elevator come faster though, right??
— depends. Same with crosswalk. If the elevator logic counts presses to assign priority, as if there were a bunch of people vs 1 person, it could make a difference.
There is a hack that will let you avoid stopping at every floor on the way down at lunch time, when your car is already full… that is a secret button press combo.
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@MrAtoz. Congrats on the antibiotics! Got mine when RBT mentioned a feller for my aquarium. Eventually he had major difficulty keeping a payment service and has fallen off the map.
Got up to 25F today in the Northland.
Cybertruck? What Cybertruck??
https://gearjunkie.com/motors/truck/tesla-cybertruck-delay-optimus
Oh, and don't worry about those $100 deposits (conservatively estimated at at least $50M), Tony is earning a nice return on that money.
While stationed at RAFB I worked in the HQ building, three floors plus a basement. My dorm was across the street and I had a key for night access.
One night while bored I removed the button cover in the elevator exposing all the buttons. I removed the buttons caps and reversed the order. B on top, 3 on the bottom, and replaced the cover. It was really funny the next day watching people trying to go from 1 to 3, actually winding up in the basement. People from 3 that wanted to get to 1 wound up on the second floor. It was hilarious.
The night I replaced the buttons in their correct order. No one was ever the wiser.
No.
As evidenced by social media. The schools should be teaching these words correctly. Why don't/can't they?
Apparently, Bruce Willis has been nominated for so many Razzies that he now has his own category. This year there are 8 movies nominated in the category "Worst performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie." lol
You can teach someone all sorts of things but you can't make them retain it or apply it.
"National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago"
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/National-Archives-had-to-retrieve-Trump-White-16837766.php
"The recovery of the boxes from Trump's Florida resort raises new concerns about his adherence to the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president's official duties."
"Trump advisers deny any nefarious intent and said the boxes contained mementos, gifts, letters from world leaders and other correspondence. The items included correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump once described as "love letters," as well as a letter left for his successor by President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the contents."
So, everything you do as prez belongs to the people. Interesting. I am not sure that would stand up to a SCOTUS case. Gifts, sure, as those are in the Constitution. But letters, not sure about that at all.
And prosecuting Trump for destroying letters, not cool.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Apparently, Bruce Willis has been nominated for so many Razzies that he now has his own category. This year there are 8 movies nominated in the category "Worst performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie." lol
Bruce Willis only has three real good movies: Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, and Armageddon. The rest of the hundred are good to outright freaking horrible. Apparently he will make anything for a million dollars now.
Too many classes in "woke" disciplines. I also think some of the teachers really don't know or more likely don't care. The teachers have too much other junk piled on by the district and the state to spend a lot of effort on correcting the students.
My granddaughter was in a magnet school in a gifted program. I met her teacher on one grandparents' day open house.
The obese black woman "axed" us a bunch of questions and demonstrated lots of deficits in organization, classroom management, and knowledge of English and Math. I questioned her intelligence and wondered how she ever graduated from college. And this was supposed to be a showcase day!
I can only imagine what "normal" schools are like, full of "normal" kids.
Depends.
My heat pump system usually idles along with the blower running on Low. Tap that t-stat up or down about five degrees and it gets to work. High speed outside and Hurricane Speed on the blower.
Though setting the system to 90 for heat isn't a option. I dug into the secret menus and the coldest it will cool is 70 and the warmest is 75.
Hey, my Mom would go sit on the porch to smoke, get hot or chilled and start pecking on the t-stat. With the sliding door open.
>> As evidenced by social media. The schools should be teaching these words correctly. Why don't/can't they?
One reason is the proliferation of chat as a primary means of communication, both personal and business.
When our MD pings with "can u call me asap" I don't have a problem responding "give me 1 min wrapping up a mtg, on ur cell?"
Neither the kids, nor the teachers, have English as a first language. They have"education" degrees, not subject knowledge.
They have so many state and fed social engineering requirements there is no time left to teach.
Then the games begin. Our district added a few minutes to every day, so they could reduce the number of days in the school year. No one thinks those few extra minutes are useful.
Every couple of years they change the systems being used, like switching to "Singapore math". Takes a long time tho get back up to speed and then they change again.
Rinse and repeat.
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WRT knowing all the things, especially in the realm of physics and quantum physics… if you can read this quotation and still believe that…
–CONDENSING PHOTONS INTO A LIQUID. That then behaves as if it was making choices, and the opposite choices of other particles.
That is some crazy shirt right there.
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You're not a Hudson Hawk fan? lol 🙂 I watched him in Moonlighting which I enjoyed. I also enjoyed him in most of the Diehard franchise, Fifth Element, Sin City, Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Red, and Looper. I haven't seen Moonrise Kingdom yet, but it gets good reviews. Pretty much everything he has made since Looper (2012) has been crap.
Just now watching the news. There is such a shortage of IT people. Why won't companies hire people who have attended those 12-week boot camps?
Meanwhile, I'm grading exams, and still seeing the usual: 10% really good, 40% could play a supporting role, 50% of wannabe IT people need a different career. The 50% with a chance still need the rest of their college degree to be potentially useful. Who thinks you can learn anything useful in 12 weeks?
You're not a Hudson Hawk fan? lol I watched him in Moonlighting which I enjoyed. I also enjoyed him in most of the Diehard franchise, Fifth Element, Sin City, Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Red, and Looper. I haven't seen Moonrise Kingdom yet, but it gets good reviews. Pretty much everything he has made since Looper (2012) has been crap.
I could not make it past the first five minutes of Hudson Hawk. Moonlighting was inconsistent. I forgot the awesome Fifth Element. And I have not seen Looper yet.
I think that his last five or ten movies went straight to video. And they were not even campy, they were so bad.
Shoot, I forgot Blind Date, that was pretty good also. And the 12 Monkeys movie was awesome, I forgot he was in that also. And Die Hard 3 (the one with Samuel Jackson) was awesome.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/?ref_=tt_cl_t_1
In Tony's defense, the deposits have to be kept as cash in case anyone wants a refund. The return isn't that great.
You are ignoring:
– Pulp Fiction
– 12 Monkeys
– Beavis and Butthead Do America (voice)
– Unbreakable
– Sin City
– Moonrise Kingdom
– Red
and somone already mentioned “Looper”.
I’d also throw in “Glass” because I’m sure he thought he was signing up for a quality project and brought his ‘A’ game. After that failure, it seemed like he decided to just make some cash for a while.
I was done with High School in 10th grade. Having American History "taught" by a football coach with the "read chapter 5" style, that well, maybe English was his third language but that sealed the deal.
I coasted the next two years. Sure, had fun with the Drama Club. We took the One Act Play to State twice.
I wanted to learn more in shop because arc welding is pretty cool stuff. But this white boy wasn't exactly welcome. Mostly because they all spoke Spanish and had grown up together.
But it was cool. I hung out in the library. Hey, who got to read the new books before they ever made it to the shelves? That would be moi.
Learning how to un-jam the Xerox machine, the only copier in the entire school district had perks. I really didn't mind being called out of English or any other class to fix the copier.
The Adults got tired of dealing with Xerox so I would call for service. They came from Corpus Christi and yeah, they'd show up in a few weeks. One day, not the first time either, I had the machine gutted. Drum sitting on top of the machine, corona wires and other parts scattered around me on the floor. It was making a funny squeak. I found that, gave it a tiny drop of 3-In-One oil and fixed that. All of a sudden the Service Guy that I had been calling weekly for over a month, showed up and demanded to to know what was I doing.
Telling him Preventive Maintenance like it says in the book went over like a boat anchor without a rope. Blah blah blah…. Hey man, go talk to Mr. Salinas. He's right there in his office. Guy stomped off. About ten minutes later they both came to the library just as I slid the drum into position. Shut the doors, turned it on, and made a "perfect" copy. Grin. Of course he did the PM again to make sure. I showed him where it was squeaking and yeah, I used the wrong oil. He left a small bottle of Xerox oil and I got a "good job" from him. Hey, and you know what? Xerox never took 5 weeks to show from being called.
Quitting HS was an option. Dad was insistent I finished. But if I had quit, what to do? I had no money, just a bicycle. We lived in the middle of nowhere. Google Map 107 and Texan Ave. Ok, try https://www.google.com/maps/search/Texan+Ave+Hidalgo+County/@26.3211646,-98.4014542,291m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Mom and Dad built that house. 1972, 1973. Ten acres including the canal easement. The row of trees is along the irrigation canal are growing on the edge of the overflow ditch. The round thing is the water cistern. That was fed with water from the canal…. couldn't drink the stuff, they would put fertilizer and whatever in the water. When I was in HS there was NOTHING around but orange groves until you got to Edinburg or Mission or LaJoya other than a random gas station.
So I stayed in school.
Some well-meaning but idiotic person on the left decided that the trick to lifting people out of poverty is to teach them all to code. Everyone needs to learn how to code! EVERYONE! Single mom barely making ends meet waiting tables? Learn to code! Grew up in the inner city and barely graduated high school? Learn to code! Living in a trailer in Appalachia and missing most of your teeth? Learn to code! Liberal Arts degree not paying off? Learn to code! If everyone in the world learns to code then everyone in the world will become a six-figure earning software engineer/architect. Makes perfect sense.
Yea, but are those really known as Bruce Willis films? Sure, he was in them, but I seem to recall Brad Pitt getting most of the love for 12 Monkeys and Samuel L. Jackson getting most of the love for Pulp Fiction. Both good movies, but I'm not sure they really come to mind as Bruce Willis movies to the degree that Diehard does.
Uh, I did the MCSE program at SMU. Learned a lot. Had a friend working at the Ericson training center in Richardson and yeah, he would call with a problem and I tell him blah blah blah… They thought he walked on water.
Yeah, some folks play video games. I played with Windows.
I also learned I wasted the money as for getting a job. Yeah, so I'm 35 but the guy hiring is 25.
Anyway. I studied the stuff and I'm not a Paper MCSE.
"Pulp Fiction", yes. At the time, Wilis was the marquee name that put a lot of butts in seats and arguably got the film considered for competition in Cannes.
As for “12 Monkeys” the legend is that Terry Gilliam asked Willis not to be “Bruce Willis” and the actor obviously delivered.
To me “12 Monkeys” is memorable for several very sly “Hitchhikers Guide” book and BBC 80s miniseries references if you pay close attention.
Microsoft has made a lot of changes to their certifications since I last browsed them. MCSE, MCSD, and all of the other ones that have been around forever are all retired now.
My first programming job was as a MUMPS-11 programmer for a lab software company. I really liked it. And yes, the database was blazingly fast.
Ah, y'all got to 12 Monkeys before I could respond. I think that was probably his best performance as an 'actor' and not as Bruce Willis. He was stunning in the role for that reason. He was so good it kept taking me out of the movie thinking "but wait, that's Bruce Willis". Brad Pitt was also very good, but it wasn't such a change for him to play a manic..
Did you forget Sixth Sense? [lotta movies with numbers in the title] I didn't like that the whole movie hung on the 'trick' but no one spoiled it for me and it got me…
I can't fault any actor for getting paid, especially if they're having fun and don't take themselves too seriously. It's damn hard to be a working actor, and the money goes pretty fast, if you actually see it in the first place. When I lived in Hollywood, we accidentally got mail for a previous tenant. It got opened before we realized it, and it was a residual check for an actor. It was 63 cents, iirc. We didn't try too hard to forward it.
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Single mom barely making ends meet waiting tables? Learn to code!
— yep and how absolutely denigrating and disparaging of programmers. The job is so easy anyone, no matter their education, interests or talents, can learn to do it in a few weeks…..
Why would anyone WANT a job that was so easy Julio the carjacking 'banger can learn to do it?
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My memory of Blind Date, it was the one with the drunk woman? Who told a sheik's wife she could get divorced while in the toilet? That is everything I remember about that movie.
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Why not? Everything I did on paper/email while I was working belonged to my employers, it was part of my employment terms. If it is sent to him as president, it's our property, not his property. Nixon challenged the laws around records retention and lost at the Supreme Court. It's been recodified since then (in part to clarify computer data/email, from what I can tell), but I can't see any direct challenges. There are some cases that upheld the validity of the law in lower courts on peripheral issues.
Some well-meaning but idiotic person on the left decided that the trick to lifting people out of poverty is to teach them all to code.
— @Chad, I think it is way more nefarious than that. They got tired of late night conference calls with India, and weird smelling food in the breakroom microwave, and dealing with H1B visas, so they decided to drastically increase the supply of local talent and drive down wages until they could onshore the work again. They truly think anyone can do it, and they know the product from the code monkeys in india is no good, so why not hire local and get no good code without the dirty foreigners?
As the meme goes, 'make me change my mind'….
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When I joined Auntie Beeb, with a degree, they sent me to Engineering Training, at Wood Norton, near Evesham, in the English Midlands, where I took 2 courses, D.E. and C part 2 (D.E. for direct Entry). After that, I was considered a Broadcast Engineer. Any such animal was considered a plug-in component (or so it seemed to me), capable of holding down any engineering job, anywhere within Auntie, given a modicum of local training.
There was another route. It required a school-leaver, with certain A-Level exam passes (equivalent, I think, to a US high school diploma) This required more extended training at Evesham, the so-called A, B, and C courses, 3 months each, after which the resulting Broadcast Engineer was considered equivalent to his Degreed colleague. The latter half of the C course in this path was the same as the C part 2 course I took.
The whole required science-based A levels (at least) and was unavoidable. It was also considered Gold standard within UK broadcasting, and trained BBC engineers could not infrequently obtain an increased salary by moving to one of the commercial TV companies. I never opted to do that, not until Auntie made me redundant, in 1989, with the closure of BBC Enterprises' programme copying department.
After that, "BBC trained" was still an easy route to other jobs. In retrospect, my best years were at my last employer, where I had considerable input to operational practice. In fact, some procedures I instigated, in 1990, were still in use 26 years later, when I retired, in 2016.
And I agree that blanket University education is not a good thing, at least half of undergraduates are educated beyond their level of competence. The problem is, "Which half".
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Why not? Everything I did on paper/email while I was working belonged to my employers, it was part of my employment terms.
— partly because at the end of your workday you went home and what you did there was none of your employer's business, including who you corresponded with or talked to. There HAS to be a separation between Official and job related business and personal/family business.
I don't know what they are alleging, or what they think they need to grab, or if they have a right to it, but it's been 5 years of prying and fishing expeditions against the guy. Where is the ongoing investigation of Bill Clinton? Or his wife? Anyone go thru Hillarity's office looking for letters from the investment that made her rich? Or maybe something about Vince? Or check if anyone kept one of the 'w' keys the cool kids stole from all the keyboards when they left the Capitol?
They aren't looking for national security issues, they're looking for leverage and blackmail.
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@nick:
and the amount written thereon is a result of "Hollywood Accounting". aka “It’s all mine!!!”
Which also applies to the Democrats in the US. Or, indeed, politicians everywhere,
G.
More confirmation, more warning…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-never-seen-market-goldman-sees-shortages-everything-you-name-it-were-out-it
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So far my HVAC guy has been unable to source a replacement control board locally. I may have to actually repair the board myself, replacing the bad relay, as I joked to him that I'd like to do to have a spare…
I fixed the control board here once, replacing a failed diode… and it worked fine until we could get a replacement board. I even talked about it here.
For some schools, both.
I seem to recall that Obama only gave digital records to the National Archives. Maybe I misunderstood, but at the time it shocked me. Quick search: News reports said Obama was keeping all his records locked up and that some private foundation will be administering them, not the National Archives. And only digital stuff would be available to researchers.
https://rightedition.com/2019/02/22/the-obama-presidential-library-that-isnt-obamas-paper-records-will-be-digitized-with-zero-archivists-on-site/
Also… Obama records went missing…
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html#!
>> Some well-meaning but idiotic person on the left decided that the trick to lifting people out of poverty is to teach them all to code. Everyone needs to learn how to code! EVERYONE! Single mom barely making ends meet waiting tables? Learn to code! Grew up in the inner city and barely graduated high school? Learn to code! Living in a trailer in Appalachia and missing most of your teeth? Learn to code! Liberal Arts degree not paying off? Learn to code! If everyone in the world learns to code then everyone in the world will become a six-figure earning software engineer/architect. Makes perfect sense.
…If everyone in the world learns to code then everyone in the world will become a six-figure earning software engineer/architect permanently working from home in their jammies…
FIFY
I'm pretty sure I could make a good stab at deciding that after talking with the candidate for half an hour in a job interview or otherwise. The problem is that most HR people cannot do so, on account of being in the "bad half" themselves.
>> — partly because at the end of your workday you went home and what you did there was none of your employer's business, including who you corresponded with or talked to. There HAS to be a separation between Official and job related business and personal/family business.
How about companies that penalize you with higher health insurance rates if you are (and admit to being) a smoker, even if you only smoke on your 'own' time?
Why would the time of day have any bearing on the health issues involved with smoking?
Yeah, maybe less/shorter breaks during the work day. Maybe reduces the number of packs/day. But still health issues, IMHO.
How about companies that penalize you with higher health insurance rates if you are (and admit to being) a smoker, even if you only smoke on your 'own' time?
— if you meant the employer, I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Everyone in the group plan pays the same. That is why everyone wants to be in a group, it dilutes their own "bad" behaviour.
If you meant the insurance company providing an individual policy, the underwriter will base the rate on lots of factors, tobacco use being one.
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Just when I thought that the Jesus Truck hype couldn't get any more bizarre …
https://electrek.co/2022/02/07/tesla-cybertruck-accessory-turn-electric-pickup-truck-into-boat/
Maybe they will make the pontoons out of Flex Paste.
I wonder if the monstrosity would have to have vehicle and boat registration. Or vehicle and boat insurance. Coast Guard requirements for flotation devices, fire extinguisher, throwable preserver, running lights (green, red and white).
I always enjoy Paul's stories! That's definitely not like where I grew up.
@lynn: what is this?
from the Bruce Willis filmography wiki:
Selling his name on the marquee for $1 million is pocket change. His films have grossed $2.5 billion (IMDB), $3.2 billion (IMDB), $5 billion (wiki), or cite your own with another number. Selling his name on the marquee for $1 million is pocket change, and getting seven figures for a day or two of work isn't bad wages. You can bet he is stacking.
Blasphemy! This is the Jesus Truck!
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"Nixon challenged the laws around records retention and lost at the Supreme Court."
Bit more to it than that:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/433/425.html
Burger and Rehnquist dissented, the latter confining his dissent to what he considered the most important issue, separation of powers. Burger was more wide-ranging, citing in detail the precedents, including the Bill of Attainder and private property arguments:
–Burger's dissent, Section IIIB
One can only wonder what the seven Nixon-haters ruling in the majority would have done if the same bill had stripped the justices of their prerogative with respect to their own papers.
Fired coach walking before he's even started.
https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Lovie-Smith-Texans-coach-need-to-know-beard-name-16839258.php
My memory of Blind Date, it was the one with the drunk woman? Who told a sheik's wife she could get divorced while in the toilet? That is everything I remember about that movie.
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John Larroquette (sic) went nuts in that movie. Absolutely freaking nuts. Stalker Boy big time.
Good movie to show your daughters when they get old enough for a guy to a stay a LONG way away from.
I always enjoy Paul's stories! That's definitely not like where I grew up.
@lynn: what is this?
At first I thought those were transformers but I now think that is a homebuilt three phase capacitor bank to steady the load on the wires and allow those big a/c chiller motors at the high school to not drop the voltage down to zero.
More confirmation, more warning…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-never-seen-market-goldman-sees-shortages-everything-you-name-it-were-out-it
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So far my HVAC guy has been unable to source a replacement control board locally. I may have to actually repair the board myself, replacing the bad relay, as I joked to him that I'd like to do to have a spare…
I fixed the control board here once, replacing a failed diode… and it worked fine until we could get a replacement board. I even talked about it here.
I thought the post scarcity society was utopia. I did not realize it was back to the woods society.
HVAC guy found a board in town and will go back tomorrow to install it. I'm more inclined to keep and repair the old one than ever.
My first thought of the pic was 3phase transformer rack, but my second was 'capacitor bank'. I've seen almost the exact same structure in several places along FM roads in TX.
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HVAC guy found a board in town and will go back tomorrow to install it. I'm more inclined to keep and repair the old one than ever.
My first thought of the pic was 3phase transformer rack, but my second was 'capacitor bank'. I've seen almost the exact same structure in several places along FM roads in TX.
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They are freaking huge capacitors.
@lynn, could be inductors too, to correct power factor? Can be an issue with certain loads, like LED lights.
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In my experience capacitor banks are square cornered rectangular boxes.
https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/shunt-capacitors-locations-power-system
All of them in this article are too.
I've got some small inductors (shoe box sized, 50 pounds) that I thought were transformers. Since those look like transformers, but they are not feeding anything, I'm betting inductors.
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