September 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
bitbucket-25253 (9/2/2011)
I will point out that my Dad worked for wages, hard work, and bought me up to never, ever expect a had out for doing nothing. My thoughts on the last 2 generations, they expect too much for doing nothing, and worst of all they get the something.
Thanks for sharing, Ron... and unfortunately I have to agree with this, but it started a while ago. Everyone's finally figuring out how to game the system.
"I did my job." "Party time! The entire office!"
Yeesh. I'm only 35 and *I* want to start complaining about 'kids these days'.
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September 2, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Trey Staker (9/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (9/2/2011)
We also have a Road Runner that builds nest on people's cars. The other day when I drove in there was a coyote chasing the roadrunner. Yes...the roadrunner got away. No... the roadrunner wasn't using acme stuff.
I was really surprised how tiny road runners are.
When I was growing up I had a road runner living in my yard and didn't know that it was a road runner. They don't look anything like they do in the cartoon and they don't say Meep-Meep. The also can fly/glide a bit but not very high or far. They do run fast.
Stefan: You need to get the new genus of Coyote in town. I saw one outrun me on the highway the otherday with a giant red something strapped to his belly.
Trey: LIES! All road runners are the size of Ostraches! It's why we call them Ostraches... errr... wait. That made sense 5 minutes ago...
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September 2, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Evil Kraig F (9/2/2011)
Trey Staker (9/2/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (9/2/2011)
We also have a Road Runner that builds nest on people's cars. The other day when I drove in there was a coyote chasing the roadrunner. Yes...the roadrunner got away. No... the roadrunner wasn't using acme stuff.
I was really surprised how tiny road runners are.
When I was growing up I had a road runner living in my yard and didn't know that it was a road runner. They don't look anything like they do in the cartoon and they don't say Meep-Meep. The also can fly/glide a bit but not very high or far. They do run fast.
Stefan: You need to get the new genus of Coyote in town. I saw one outrun me on the highway the otherday with a giant red something strapped to his belly.
Trey: LIES! All road runners are the size of Ostraches! It's why we call them Ostraches... errr... wait. That made sense 5 minutes ago...
On the same trip to Albuquerque that I saw the road runner, I saw a coyote. We were in a large lot where building was going to occur and there was still a lot of scrub. We were there so my friend's dog could run about for a little while. The dog was chasing a jackrabbit when a coyote stood up from behind a bush not five feet from us. It was so quiet! It looked at us, looked at the dog spoiling his chances for a dinner and loped off like Pepe lePew, seemed to be hopping away.
As soon as the jackrabbit saw the coyote, it doubled its speed and left the dog in the dust.
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September 3, 2011 at 7:45 am
GilaMonster (9/2/2011)
GSquared (9/2/2011)
So, I've probably had wildlife closer than Gail has, despite the fact that she lives in a grass hut and hasn't ever even heard of electricity or running water. :w00t:Mud. Grass doesn't stand up well to highveld thunderstorms.
And in high veldt thunderstorms I guess you do see plenty of electricity (leaping from ground to cloud and going "bnagggg!!!") and running water (trying to erode the hut walls)?
Tom
September 3, 2011 at 7:51 am
I prefer a cave over a hut. It is cooler and you are protected from Thunder Storms.:hehe:
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September 3, 2011 at 8:08 am
Stefan Krzywicki (9/2/2011)
"Amazingly high wages"? I guess the US isn't a "real, modern country".
Three years ago we had a guy in Mumbai who had a good honours degree in Computer Science and a couple of years of useful experience. He was over the moon when we told him he could hire another guy (also with a computing degree) to assist him, and gave him a pay rise to make a clear demarcation in salary between himself and his new assistant (he had to pay income tax; the assistant didn't that year).
I'll bet you don't see anyone in the USA working for as little as we paid the two of those guys put together (a bit less than $US 6000 for two people - annually, not monthly; and these guys were working 8 hour or longer days, 6 days a week, and on call 24/7). That was pretty high pay for the levels of qualifications, experience, and responsability. OK, salaries in India will be higher now that in 08, but the amount that almost anyone in the USA gets will seem amazingly high to most people there (there are rich people there; but most people still have much less than 1 lakh per annum - that's about $2000).
Tom
September 3, 2011 at 8:57 am
Tom.Thomson (9/3/2011)
GilaMonster (9/2/2011)
GSquared (9/2/2011)
So, I've probably had wildlife closer than Gail has, despite the fact that she lives in a grass hut and hasn't ever even heard of electricity or running water. :w00t:Mud. Grass doesn't stand up well to highveld thunderstorms.
And in high veldt thunderstorms I guess you do see plenty of electricity (leaping from ground to cloud and going "bnagggg!!!") and running water (trying to erode the hut walls)?
Oh yes. Think American mid-west storms, without the tornados.
p.s. Veld doesn't have a 't' the way it's spelt here (Afrikaans) and Highveld is the name of the region.
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September 3, 2011 at 11:37 am
Evil Kraig F (9/2/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (9/2/2011)
I will point out that my Dad worked for wages, hard work, and bought me up to never, ever expect a had out for doing nothing. My thoughts on the last 2 generations, they expect too much for doing nothing, and worst of all they get the something.Thanks for sharing, Ron... and unfortunately I have to agree with this, but it started a while ago. Everyone's finally figuring out how to game the system.
I agree too - not everyone is doing it, but a lot of people are.
As well as agreeing with Ron and Craig I have to say thet Gus was correct about definitions of poverty: the definition in the UK is ludicrous (someone is in poverty if they would be counted as merely extremely rich if they had the same lifestyle in most of the world) but no more so than the US definition. Yes we have people who are homeless, who have pretty well nothing - but we have a welfare state that makes even people who are unemployable very rich by second world or third world standards unless decide that they want to be outside the system and forgo the welfare. Typically someone in a low-waged job who has a family - low-waged up to quite some way above the minimum, and our minimum wage is considerably higher than any legal minimum in the USA - would be better off without any work living on welfare benefits; that has encouraged systematic abuse of the system, which in theory requires those capable of work to seek it). Certainly anyone on welfare will be very rish by 2nd or 3rd world standards (which of course is why we have so many illegal economic immigrants - the system will pay them welfare until they are deported, in the rare event that that happens).
"I did my job." "Party time! The entire office!"
Yeesh. I'm only 35 and *I* want to start complaining about 'kids these days'.
I'm pretty close to twice that age, and I don't think it's "kids these days" - I know people my age who are busy working the system, who believe that the nation owes them a living while they owe the nation nothing, the whole "I have rights but ro responsibilities" thing that seems infuse the thinking of the talking heads on our TVs.
Tom
September 3, 2011 at 11:44 am
GilaMonster (9/3/2011)
p.s. Veld doesn't have a 't' the way it's spelt here (Afrikaans) and Highveld is the name of the region.
It's that man Bradbury - reading him has corrupted my spelling! Typical American author, he spells coulur withu a u as well as veld with a t.
Tom
September 5, 2011 at 12:13 pm
This is a nice way to SPAM. 🙂 Very creative with links. 🙂
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September 6, 2011 at 5:13 am
Anyone else get this wonderfully coded message from PASS in the past couple of days?
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We look forward to hopefully seeing you as a speaker for SQLSaturday #{SAT#}. If you have any questions feel free to contact the Event Admins at sqlsaturday{SAT#}@sqlsaturday.com
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September 6, 2011 at 5:15 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/1/2011)
jcrawf02 (9/1/2011)
Wow, this is a great idea. Someone should do this for SQLInteresting. I think we're not consistent, but I do see a lot of
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What about #SSIS #SSAS #SSMS and #SSRS?
September 6, 2011 at 8:33 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (9/2/2011)
That was the calm before the storm (Irene).That was our 2nd storm of the century here in 6 months.
Nice year 2k11 😛
Now that is a great picture. Thanks for sharing it with us!
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September 6, 2011 at 8:37 am
WayneS (9/6/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (9/2/2011)
That was the calm before the storm (Irene).That was our 2nd storm of the century here in 6 months.
Nice year 2k11 😛
Now that is a great picture. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Ya, I have to keep reminding me of why I love leaving here... 18 inches of water in the subfloor / floor after Irene (first flooding in 60+ years since construction).
Insurrance is overloaded, couldn't come at home even after 8 days.
September 6, 2011 at 8:46 am
Evil Kraig F (9/2/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (9/2/2011)
I will point out that my Dad worked for wages, hard work, and bought me up to never, ever expect a had out for doing nothing. My thoughts on the last 2 generations, they expect too much for doing nothing, and worst of all they get the something.Thanks for sharing, Ron... and unfortunately I have to agree with this, but it started a while ago. Everyone's finally figuring out how to game the system.
"I did my job." "Party time! The entire office!"
Yeesh. I'm only 35 and *I* want to start complaining about 'kids these days'.
Whereas I'm 42, and I complain about "people, regardless of age, these days!"
Why limit it by age? I know plenty of boomers, X-ers, Y-ers, millennials, et al, who are absolutely convinced someone else owes them their daily luxuries, much less daily sustenance. And it's not just Americans, either. Plenty on both sides of the Pond. And plenty of countries whose leaders figure America owes them a life of luxury. And so on.
There are also a lot of people, the vast majority, who want to work for a living. Let's not forget that about 80% prefer to support themselves and their families. It's just a very, very vocal minority who give any given demographic a bad rep. Well, except politicians, where 99% are giving the rest of them a bad name.
Edit: And I should point out that "these days" is also horribly misleading. This isn't a new problem. Just ask the Roman Empire, for example.
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