The times, they are achangin'

Post #392,704 by crazy 8/1/14 1:38:06 PM Reply	The times, they are achangin' http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/08/01/pa-senator-colorado-trip-included-taking-hits-of-pot/
Post #392,708 by drook 8/1/14 2:21:08 PM Reply	Here's one I hadn't thought of Drug testing. Pot is illegal in your state, it's legal five minutes away in the neighboring state. You pop positive on a test. Your defense is now, "Yeah, so?" -- Drew
Post #392,710 by crazy 8/1/14 2:48:04 PM 8/1/14 3:17:18 PM Reply	doesn't matter If your company had a federal contract, they have federal drug law standards. If they have a "drug free workplace" standard, same. There is no defense against arbitrary workplace rules. Some will fire cigarette smokers, no appeal. If you are not part of a protected class and fired specifically for membership, you are screwed. In his case he gets to determine his office's drug rule policy. He's an "owner". Most of us do not have that flexibility. Same for mmj. https://www.google.com/search?q=fired+medical+marijuana Edited by crazy Aug. 1, 2014, 03:17:18 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #392,721 by rcareaga 8/1/14 4:12:05 PM Reply	Ayup BDS'd fire my elderly arse in a heartbeat to stay on the side of the angels as construed by the federal standards. If, as I'm now fairly confident, California legalizes in another couple of years, I'd bet the rent that the policy will remain quite implacably in force. cordially,
Post #392,724 by crazy 8/1/14 4:53:07 PM 8/1/14 4:58:11 PM Reply	whenever I see BDS I read it as Brain Damaged Software, my first non-Unix C compiler. http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C Edited by crazy Aug. 1, 2014, 04:58:11 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #392,726 by Ashton 8/1/14 6:07:33 PM Reply	Ed Ziemba.. A co-worker at BDS ... last-name; one I'd heard; odd-names I seem to recall better than most. (You have to Find:(name) within that link) Was a 25 yo MIT grad; as you see in those few sentences: had he not drowned in a weird snorkeling accident ... In a Pond!? way-back: Well.. if not hyperbole: imagine OS X vastly-earlier? Some Z-guy steals all of Jobs' early-thunder? Strange Universe we inhabit: it forks; every mSec.
Post #392,733 by Another Scott 8/1/14 7:23:28 PM Reply	InfoWorld had a short story on him. August 17, 1981 issue. It's amazing what those folks were able to do with such tiny amounts of memory. Cheers, Scott.
Post #392,743 by Ashton 8/2/14 4:45:25 AM Reply	Ever since WordStar in 58k.. have we not seen that slick tight code.. the brash young Billy crowed about, balloon into the n-million lines: in a bloody OS!? ... (not some gigundo-App.) Sure, new high-res graphics etc. but in practice: has not practice become sloppier?, thus ever-bloated--with all the consequent problems of Finding, amidst tens-of-thousands: those regular 'buffer overflows, created by 'Team' fragmentation of every project?'? (and how many new grads of computer-munging have ever read The Mythical Man-Month?) I mean: when Billy decided that "640K is LOTS of memory", (so let's make that the next-10-year Std) was not already.. Moore's Law a shibboleth? 20/20 hindsight and all, it's eerie to contemplate just this odd happenstance: an innocent 'BDS' TLA mentioned here, leading to comment about the random loss of just One promising innovator. (Then I imagine all the talent (and their discoveries) adsorbed into M/Soft and, simply buried.) All these Years! and M/Soft remains: the Pinnacle of sustained-Mediocrity. They HAD the Power to rapidly excel/advance on all fronts--controlled by an arrogant/rich child-dropout whos aims were: merely to be The Monopolist. In that he succeeded as all of the world Lost (unknowable Things.) (The World got.. DLL-Hell, bogus drivers-roulette, inane Naming of processes!--merely to be Different--and All Those Oversights in every design!) It seems another clear indictment of the Vulture-capitalist process: which always places the Greediest/not the Smartest at the apex of all bizness pyramids :-/ {sigh} Can't we do Anything? beyond mere system-gaming cleverness, as Brilliance gets no Respect (certainly little Power.) We won't handle the looming existential matters via this Model of stark-Incompetence. I wot.
Post #392,739 by a6l6e6x 8/1/14 11:36:18 PM Reply	Good catch! No wonder there was a vague recollection of BDS. But, back in those days, I used an assembler. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #392,858 by crazy 8/6/14 10:28:27 AM Reply	like here http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/05/pima-county-official-wants-to-stop-hiring-smokers/13626509/ And I am somewhat supportive of this. At my last job I paid an extra $100 per month for my health insurance for being a smoker. It does cost more to take care of us in the health system. I also knew my productivity was less due to me taking smoke breaks because I could not smoke in the building, which is why I actually quit smoking my final month when I was there. On the other hand, some people smoke strictly on off hours, maybe an occasional cigar or pipe and manage not to have it affect their job, and for those people, this sucks.
Post #392,860 by a6l6e6x 8/6/14 10:44:20 AM Reply	On the other hand... those smokers huddling outdoors get a chance to network with their kind. I had seen that pay off at IBM. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #392,863 by crazy 8/6/14 11:01:17 AM Reply	for sure Even when I did not smoke, I would take an occasional outdoors break. At that point I could bullshit with top level execs with no boss mediation.
Post #393,009 by Ashton 8/10/14 12:15:22 AM Reply	Passed along.. +5 Smart I think that's a valuable insight for anyone under the thrall of corporate--who wants to survive. Think also that it's indicative of your ability to crunch some topic via an unusual overview (of what affects it.) All this despite the alleged drain bamage you have suffered via science-experiments-on-self. (Who Knows!? how affable, get-along puppy-friendly (and banal..) you might have become..) had you merely submitted to pop-ƒeare ... of anything not Authorized by er.. you know. Personally I'lll trade insight for that warm-fuzzy-acceptance gained by reinforcing the mob/local or larger. Cheap endorphins are like Two-Buck chuck, I wot: ersatz. Luck on Tues. ... ... (Whatever happens, you know you couldn't have let Puritanism be a guide other-than: No! Don't conform to institutionalized sanctimony-in-all-things. Right?) Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all.
Post #393,026 by crazy 8/10/14 12:07:26 PM Reply	No idea level of drain bamage, but On my 1st week of the job (8 years ago) I was talking to a very attractive blonde corp project manager at my 1st after work bar gathering. I was not touching anything in those days, so sipping coke while they all got trashed. I explain that I had over indulged in my youth, so I was staying away from it for now. I assume she was in ass kiss mode, since she said it was probably a good thing I did so many drugs in my youth, it knocked off enough IQ points that I could deal with mere mortals at that point. On the other hand, I felt I had merely hit the age that my testosterone was dropping and my verbal skills were increasing, along with a self confidence level achieved through many years of accomplishments, which allowed me to speak to her without being afraid. She was gorgeous. And fucking her boss' husband who also worked at the company. Damn, that was a blowup when it all came out.
Post #393,301 by Ashton 8/17/14 5:28:25 PM Reply	Heh.. Tardily.. it more and more seems that that Corporate Experience (which I have luckily evaded all-aong) creates its own Alt-liff wherein, the glands supersede all the pop-psych mores with a wink/nudge. I (merely) suspect that this constitutes also some sort of just-revenge against the utter boredom of contemplating: that all one's daily efforts are sucked into the multiplying-riches of some of the more odious personalities on the planet. er, Tit.. for Tat -tered-dreams of say, authentic compensation for efforts made? but only on behalf of the monumentally ungrateful, mentioned dregs of humanity. Love. It. gratefully from ... ... afar. (Unsure whether I could have coped with the onion layers there; still there was.. this grand-daughter (?) of Otto Hahn--Nobel chemist, discoverer of fission) --so maybe all 'Enterprises' are alike. It's where we spit in the eye of the first Puritan ever spawned.
Post #393,041 by scoenye 8/10/14 10:36:46 PM Reply	Not how it works It was quite common for 0 got hauled off to jail and charged with underage possession of alcohol.

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