Having a root canal Tuesday..... What should I expect?

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@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

What happened to Halley's Comet? I missed that one. Did it get hit by something else somewhere else?

Nothing. Halley's comet will return in 2061 July-ish.

Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens was born in a Haley Comet year 1835 and died 76 years later in a Haley comet year. Which he predicted he would do.

Yeah, I make a lot of predictions too hoping that one will come true and I'll be quoted

See I just quoted you.

@jaredbusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

What happened to Halley's Comet? I missed that one. Did it get hit by something else somewhere else?

Nothing. Halley's comet will return in 2061 July-ish.

Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens was born in a Haley Comet year 1835 and died 76 years later in a Haley comet year. Which he predicted he would do.

@jaredbusch said in IT Project Consultant:

@penguinwrangler said in IT Project Consultant:

The old law firm I worked at used it because the three IT staff were at full capacity with about 200 staff to support. We literally didn't have the time.

Oh, it exists, just rare.

I believe it is really common in Legal IT. If a firm is large enough to support their own IT department they are usually under heavy load so they take advantage of consultants in this way. However, a lot of IT departments will hang your ass out to dry if it goes awry.

The old law firm I worked at used it because the three IT staff were at full capacity with about 200 staff to support. We literally didn't have the time.

@dashrender said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@penguinwrangler said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@scottalanmiller said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@wirestyle22 said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@dashrender said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@wirestyle22 said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

I don't understand why "HEY USERS, STOP WATCHING YOUTUBE ALL DAY!!!!" isn't the obvious solution here. Your coworker wants to use tech to solve a people issue. No video streaming = no more bandwidth issues.

I'm using youtube as an example, I have no idea what they are watching or on what platform. I just know it's not hosted by them and they access it over the WAN

His point was - when people complain (or logging servers send alerts about issues) you look at who and what is happening and tell those people to knock it off.

I have been told it's for business purposes. It's a foster care non-profit so i have no idea how or why, but let's assume they are right for now

Ouch. But since they are a non-profit, tell them to have fun calling up their ISP to ask for more bandwidth pro bono.

They are paying you to work there, right? Don't fall for their "can I get that for free" BS.

What would be better is getting a second line just for the voice.

Voice takes so little that it doesn't cost that much usually. I would go this route.

A second business line will still have a minimal cost, that could be like $80/m

I meant VOIP takes so little bandwidth. Sorry bad wording.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

@irj said in Copying Content from other sources:

This isn't right... This is the opposite of how intelligent people think. As professionals we should want to be challenged. Scientists, engineers, IT, etc all do better with challenges. If I am wrong about something point it out!

We are generally talking about making decisions with hundred of thousands or millions of dollars daily. Who the hell wouldnt want to be called out if they are doing something wrong?

So sick of this snowflake mentality where everyone's feelings matter. Fuck your feelings. There is wrong and there is right...

There is an issue of a lack of listening and there is an issue that we can't challenge someone's ideas. I have my beliefs/positions, you want to have a polite discussion I will have it with you. I will listen to you and I want you to challenge the hell out of me and you know what, you might change my mind. If someone challenges you and you are forced to logically defend your positions it will make you flush them out more. I also have the right to challenge your positions. You challenge what some people believe they don't want to defend it. They immediately smear you or say you have offended them. There is a lack of thinking in today's society. They just take what someone says and run with it without investigating it for themselves.

I think this is always how people have been, hardly a new thing. We just see it differently now that so many things that used to be private discussions are now public, and recorded.

Some element of it might have always been there but it is worse now. I believe there was a time where it was better. When I went to college for my history degree (first degree) I remember the various religious groups coming together with the freethinkers (mostly atheists) having lively debates. Then we would all go out and do fun stuff together, frisbee football, scavenger hunts, etc. Also, the College Democrats and the College Republicans would get together have debates and then do things together. They would also pick a charity together and we all would work together to raise money for the charity. I would say that is not the norm anymore.

Yes, but prior to that.... Protestant Reformation, for example.

So probably best to say it ebbs and flows.

@scottalanmiller said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@wirestyle22 said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@dashrender said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@wirestyle22 said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

I don't understand why "HEY USERS, STOP WATCHING YOUTUBE ALL DAY!!!!" isn't the obvious solution here. Your coworker wants to use tech to solve a people issue. No video streaming = no more bandwidth issues.

I'm using youtube as an example, I have no idea what they are watching or on what platform. I just know it's not hosted by them and they access it over the WAN

His point was - when people complain (or logging servers send alerts about issues) you look at who and what is happening and tell those people to knock it off.

I have been told it's for business purposes. It's a foster care non-profit so i have no idea how or why, but let's assume they are right for now

Ouch. But since they are a non-profit, tell them to have fun calling up their ISP to ask for more bandwidth pro bono.

They are paying you to work there, right? Don't fall for their "can I get that for free" BS.

What would be better is getting a second line just for the voice.

Voice takes so little that it doesn't cost that much usually. I would go this route.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

@irj said in Copying Content from other sources:

This isn't right... This is the opposite of how intelligent people think. As professionals we should want to be challenged. Scientists, engineers, IT, etc all do better with challenges. If I am wrong about something point it out!

We are generally talking about making decisions with hundred of thousands or millions of dollars daily. Who the hell wouldnt want to be called out if they are doing something wrong?

So sick of this snowflake mentality where everyone's feelings matter. Fuck your feelings. There is wrong and there is right...

There is an issue of a lack of listening and there is an issue that we can't challenge someone's ideas. I have my beliefs/positions, you want to have a polite discussion I will have it with you. I will listen to you and I want you to challenge the hell out of me and you know what, you might change my mind. If someone challenges you and you are forced to logically defend your positions it will make you flush them out more. I also have the right to challenge your positions. You challenge what some people believe they don't want to defend it. They immediately smear you or say you have offended them. There is a lack of thinking in today's society. They just take what someone says and run with it without investigating it for themselves.

I think this is always how people have been, hardly a new thing. We just see it differently now that so many things that used to be private discussions are now public, and recorded.

Some element of it might have always been there but it is worse now. I believe there was a time where it was better. When I went to college for my history degree (first degree) I remember the various religious groups coming together with the freethinkers (mostly atheists) having lively debates. Then we would all go out and do fun stuff together, frisbee football, scavenger hunts, etc. Also, the College Democrats and the College Republicans would get together have debates and then do things together. They would also pick a charity together and we all would work together to raise money for the charity. I would say that is not the norm anymore.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

Once upon a time I wrote an article that was linked a lot called something like "If you don't challenge me, you don't respect me", but man I can't find it anywhere. I probably have the title all wrong.

I read it when you posted it.

@irj said in Copying Content from other sources:

This isn't right... This is the opposite of how intelligent people think. As professionals we should want to be challenged. Scientists, engineers, IT, etc all do better with challenges. If I am wrong about something point it out!

We are generally talking about making decisions with hundred of thousands or millions of dollars daily. Who the hell wouldnt want to be called out if they are doing something wrong?

So sick of this snowflake mentality where everyone's feelings matter. Fuck your feelings. There is wrong and there is right...

There is an issue of a lack of listening and there is an issue that we can't challenge someone's ideas. I have my beliefs/positions, you want to have a polite discussion I will have it with you. I will listen to you and I want you to challenge the hell out of me and you know what, you might change my mind. If someone challenges you and you are forced to logically defend your positions it will make you flush them out more. I also have the right to challenge your positions. You challenge what some people believe they don't want to defend it. They immediately smear you or say you have offended them. There is a lack of thinking in today's society. They just take what someone says and run with it without investigating it for themselves.

@wirestyle22 said in Copying Content from other sources:

@minion-queen You support us and we support you

Most definitely agree with this, I appreciate what Mangolassi.it does and for @Minion-Queen. I think what gets us worked up about it is that there is an inherent unjustness to it and it just doesn't sit well. However, like @Minion-Queen said it is not worth our time. They are not worth our time.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

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@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

Quoted from: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

Which means, if we link to said insanity for our "I can't even" topic it's fair use since we are criticizing it. Which is protected under fair use!

Oh yes, and anything that is posted for review, to dispute, to record against abuse, all fair use for sure.

The issue is, would it be worth the court fight. Mangolassi.it would have to make that decision. I have worked in Legal IT now for almost 8 years and what I have learned is that courts are for the rich people. I can't honestly afford an attorney and if one side has a lot more money than the other they will drag it out to cost the other side too much money. This happened in my divorce. My ex-mother-in-law worked for a divorce attorney. I was a prison guard making 27,000 a year. They bankrupted me. Then did it a second time a few years later when I bought a "new" car that was already four years old. The one I had replaced had over 300,000 miles on it. The thinking was that I had too much money and so they were trying to raise my child support. My child support was set at 783 a month. Made my yearly income 17604 before taxes, health insurance, etc. My take home pay for two weeks was $385.

@rojoloco said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

Quoted from: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

Golly, that sure sounds like the way we were "using" content from [the site that shall not be named]. I'd go so far as to say I believe everything on ML qualifies as "fair use" under that definition.

That is true, but Mangolassi.it would most likely have to prove that in court. Which I don't think it is worth it. That site is junk anyway.

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Raises should always be at least 2% per year. If not for job related reasons, then for cost of living increases.

Honestly, if you don't get 3% a year then you are losing money.

It would be my belief that the fair use doctrine could be pushed in this case. However, I am not a lawyer.

Quoted from: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

@scottalanmiller said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video:

Youtube Video

One of the most shocking revelations you find once you dig into the IT field is the high percentage of fake or semi-fake job postings and listings that you will find. How can this be? Why would this happen? Is no one overseeing these things and doing something about this?

This literally happened to me. However, I had a good job at the time that I was very very hesitate to leave in the first place. I was really looking for something better. I told them to go fly a kite. It shocked them.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.

A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.

Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.

Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?

That was my first printer.

9 pin Epson Dot Matix Printer was my first printer. How I miss those days.