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PantsB · May 2012

Yeah I gave up trying to do work from home a few years ago mostly. Because if you get extra shit done, that sets a baseline you either get more work or fewer resources. The expectation to work 50, 60 hour weeks is what kills you. But lately the other highly competent programmer in my area has been signing up for 2nd/3rd on-call shifts (for which he gets paid) so the extra work has to go elsewhere. And its hard to tell your boss's boss's, his boss, her boss, and half a dozen director level staff plus the CEO of the client who paid your company 8 figures for a product and pays 7 figures a year for maintenance that you're busy watching Dr Who on Netflix.

The last call I was literally one of two sub-Director level people on the call, and they haven't even gotten around to giving me a "Senior" in my title because there's 8 out of 20 guys with at least 2 years more seniority than me in my module without it, and only 1 in 20 that has been with the company in my area that is less tenured than I am in general. The CEO is railing about not having our most senior people working on an issue (when a competent 22 year senior programmer is) so they call me, the 5 year non-senior, in for reinforcements.

/probably won't do much today as passive aggressive revenge

Form of Monkey! · May 2012

spool32 wrote: »

Donkey Kong wrote: »

I still think BJJ stands for blowjob jitsu.

... doesn't it?

"No," and now that you know that, you'll understand why I can never go back to the Gracie Academy in Houston.

Winky · May 2012

OnTheLastCastle wrote: »

You just be, Winky. You can't be mopey one day then all manic the next so... fix that.

It's like you've never heard of bipolar disorder

amateurhour · May 2012

Form of Monkey! wrote: »

amateurhour wrote: »

I suddenly want to buy a Diamond...

I heard they are always a great way to show someone how much you love them.

I'm going to spend all of my money and then take out a loan for 100 thousand dollars just to buy a diamond so big it puts strain on my wife's finger, just so she knows that I love her.

Also it has to be a blood diamond, because those are more rare.

Dynagrip · May 2012

and it's almost time for another dude's going away lunch. Hope I don't seem like I'm trying to upstage him.

Winky · May 2012

Organichu wrote: »

i'm just gonna say submission grappling from now on because you're all abominable preteens

especially the gorilla

submission grappling sounds pretty homoerotic too

look why don't you be like pony and just embrace the gayness of it

spool32 · May 2012

Ludious wrote: »

Elendil wrote: »

the trick is to accept the fact that you are no one and no one else is anyone and nothing matters

Thanatos · May 2012

I need to play Alpha Centauri. Never have.

OnTheLastCastle · May 2012

Winky wrote: »

OnTheLastCastle wrote: »

You just be, Winky. You can't be mopey one day then all manic the next so... fix that.

It's like you've never heard of bipolar disorder

Dude, we're talking about a mythical concept. I am saying it's like a unicorn since everyone suffers from being sad then happy to varying degrees. I realize that comment could've used some sort of sarcastic emoticon as maybe you thought I was actually believing in MPDGs or MPDGs. OH SHIT THE ACRONYM IS THE SAME FOR GUYS AND GIRLS. AIIIIEEEEEEEE.

Anyway, if you have bipolar, I hope you're being treated! I lost a friend to it.

Organichu · May 2012

Winky wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

i'm just gonna say submission grappling from now on because you're all abominable preteens

especially the gorilla

submission grappling sounds pretty homoerotic too

look why don't you be like pony and just embrace the gayness of it

i guess i am sensitive to this because some dudes at my gym are gay and do not find this funny

Winky · May 2012

You guys have no idea how much deep spiritual pleasure it gives me that our communication has become so absurdly multimedia.

OnTheLastCastle · May 2012

where the straightlaced white women at.

spool32 · May 2012

Organichu wrote: »

i'm just gonna say submission grappling from now on because you're all abominable preteens

especially the gorilla

Isn't that from a scene in Fifty Shades of Grey?

electricitylikesme · May 2012

Thanatos wrote: »

I need to play Alpha Centauri. Never have.

You are missing out. It is the Omega of Civ games.

It also feels cool as hell when the tech you research leads to the "Edit Universe" project.

Winky · May 2012

Organichu wrote: »

Winky wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

i'm just gonna say submission grappling from now on because you're all abominable preteens

especially the gorilla

submission grappling sounds pretty homoerotic too

look why don't you be like pony and just embrace the gayness of it

i guess i am sensitive to this because some dudes at my gym are gay and do not find this funny

Well keep in mind that when I make fun of it that you could totally beat the shit out of me.

GnomeTank · May 2012

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

OnTheLastCastle · May 2012

Chu is gentle. Like Fezzik.

I remember thinking Chu was like six inches taller than I was but maybe that was incorrect.

amateurhour · May 2012

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

Vanguard · May 2012

GnomeTank wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

I think there are legitimate concerns, particularly about existing plants. Indian Point, for example, seems like it exists in a pretty absurd location.

/notanuclearphysicist

TL DR · May 2012

Chu, I would like to fight you in an MMA-style gym setting.

I'd want a few adderall to even the odds, obvs.

AngelHedgie · May 2012

Pony wrote: »

AngelHedgie wrote: »

So, Conrad Black was let out of the pokey.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577383863937811168.html

Thanks, Roberts Court conservatives, for selling out justice yet again.

what is it like to be you

Awesome, thanks for asking.

AManFromEarth · May 2012

GnomeTank wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

Yeah, we went over for pages why the anti nuke crowd is dead wrong in the global warming thread.

The constant retort was BUT RADIATION! GOOD JOB PLAYING POKER WITH OUR LIVES!

So

UGH

Winky · May 2012

Wikipedia wrote:

The second and third volumes are entitled Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed respectively.

This series has 150 shades of grey in it.

Inquisitor · May 2012

I'd do chess-boxing with Chu.

...

The round of chess comes first... right? Right?

spool32 · May 2012

amateurhour wrote: »

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

OK look. If your wife is talking about Fifty Shades and you haven't tied her to the bed recently, It's a good bet you have missed out on some important hints she is dropping.

OnTheLastCastle · May 2012

amateurhour wrote: »

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

Oh god, can we get Donkey Kong to read some more stuff. I miss his movie trailer tones.

Winky · May 2012

Wikipedia wrote:

The Fifty Shades Trilogy was developed from a Twilight fanfiction originally entitled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fanfiction websites under the penname "Snowqueen's Icedragon". The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material James removed the story from the fanfiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she decided to rewrite Master of the Universe as an original piece with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and shortly prior to its publication withdrew the fanfiction version from her website.[1]

This reworked and extended version of Master of the Universe was split into three parts. The first, entitled Fifty Shades of Grey, was released as an e-book and a print-on-demand paperback in May 2011 by The Writers' Coffee Shop, a virtual publisher based in Australia. The second volume, Fifty Shades Darker, was released in September 2011, and the third, Fifty Shades Freed, followed in January 2012. The Writers' Coffee Shop had a restricted marketing budget and relied largely on book blogs for early publicity, but sales of the novel were boosted by word-of-mouth recommendation. The book's erotic nature and perceived demographic of its fanbase as being composed largely of married women over thirty led to the book being dubbed "Mommy Porn" by some news agencies.[2][3]

By the release of the final volume in January of 2012, news networks in the United States had begun to report on the Fifty Shades trilogy as an example of viral marketing and of the rise in popularity of female erotica, attributing its success to the discreet nature of e-reading devices.[4][5] Due to the heightened interest in the series, the license to the Fifty Shades trilogy was picked up by Vintage Books for re-release in a new and revised edition in April 2012.

oh

my god

AngelHedgie · May 2012

Donkey Kong wrote: »

The IRS sent my Tax forms back! AGAIN!!! I guess it was because of my response to the question : "List all dependents?" I replied -"12 million illegal immigrants; "3 million crack heads; "42 million unemployable people on food stamps, "2 million people in over 243 prisons; "Half of Mexico ; and "535 fools in the U.S. House and Senate.”
Apparently, this was NOT an acceptable answer

Have you learned your lesson about getting tax advice from Wesley Snipes.

GnomeTank · May 2012

Vanguard wrote: »

GnomeTank wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

I think there are legitimate concerns, particularly about existing plants. Indian Point, for example, seems like it exists in a pretty absurd location.

/notanuclearphysicist

Indian Point isn't on an oceanic flood plane. I do agree it's an interesting place to put some reactors, but the likelihood of there being a major tidal event there are quite a bit smaller than Fukashima. I know they found that fault in 2008, and that's a concern, but Indian Point was built years before that fault was found. I think the biggest risk of Indian Point is that it's so close to NYC, it makes it a huge target for attack.

I'll concede it's not where I would have built that plant though.

RMS Oceanic · May 2012

The problem is radiation is a fucking scary thing. A flood or an oil fire you can understand, because you can see the dangerous thing and get out of the way, but radiation is mostly invisible, and by the time you might discover you're covered in it, you might be already dead.

Elendil · May 2012

Winky wrote: »

Wikipedia wrote:

The second and third volumes are entitled Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed respectively.

This series has 150 shades of grey in it.

50 shades or i freed

Organichu · May 2012

castle i am like two inches taller than you, you are funny like marmaduke

Winky · May 2012

Oh good god

The plot traces the relationship between recent college graduate Anastasia Steele and manipulative billionaire Christian Grey. Steele is required by Grey to sign a contract allowing him complete control over her life. As she gets to know him she learns that his sexual tastes involve bondage, domination and sadism, and that childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual. In order to be his partner she agrees to experiment with BDSM, but struggles to reconcile who she is (a virgin who has never previously had a boyfriend) with who Christian wants her to be: his submissive, to-do-with-as-he-pleases partner in his "Red Room of Pain." [6][4]

Vanguard · May 2012

GnomeTank wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

I think there are legitimate concerns, particularly about existing plants. Indian Point, for example, seems like it exists in a pretty absurd location.

/notanuclearphysicist

GnomeTank wrote: »

Vanguard wrote: »

GnomeTank wrote: »

AManFromEarth wrote: »

Look guys, you can build the best house you want but if an asteroid hits it you're still going to die.

YAWN

Wake me up the next time we have a-quite literal-perfect storm of horrible events like Fukushima.

Every American thinks Chernobyl is going to happen in their backyard, because they don't understand nuclear power or reactor construction. Our worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, was a partial meltdown, and to this day, medically negligible amounts of radiation are all we can find. This was in 1979, when the regulatory climate was quite a bit more lax than it is today.

I'm not saying it can't happen, shit happens, but it's pretty fucking unlikely in the US. We build our reactor chambers to stand up to a 747 slamming in to them. This isn't soviet era Russia, and we don't generally build our reactors on oceanic flood planes.

I think there are legitimate concerns, particularly about existing plants. Indian Point, for example, seems like it exists in a pretty absurd location.

/notanuclearphysicist

Indian Point isn't on an oceanic flood plane. I do agree it's an interesting place to put some reactors, but the likelihood of there being a major tidal event there are quite a bit smaller than Fukashima. I know they found that fault in 2008, and that's a concern, but Indian Point was built years before that fault was found. I think the biggest risk of Indian Point is that it's so close to NYC, it makes it a huge target for attack.

I'll concede it's not where I would have built that plant though.

It's more because it exists very close to a fault line. Granted, they were unaware of this when it was constructed, that doesn't mean shit couldn't go wrong because of it.

AngelHedgie · May 2012

Thanatos wrote: »

I need to play Alpha Centauri. Never have.

Let me go fetch the flamethrower...

emnmnme · May 2012

amateurhour wrote: »

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

It's not that the book is erotic or well-written; it's all to do with timing. There hasn't been a romance novel to melt women like butter in such and such years so the next novel publicized as erotic will be regarded as erotic by default even if it isn't good at all. It scratches an itch and that's good enough.

Vanguard · May 2012

Winky wrote: »

Oh good god

The plot traces the relationship between recent college graduate Anastasia Steele and manipulative billionaire Christian Grey. Steele is required by Grey to sign a contract allowing him complete control over her life. As she gets to know him she learns that his sexual tastes involve bondage, domination and sadism, and that childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual. In order to be his partner she agrees to experiment with BDSM, but struggles to reconcile who she is (a virgin who has never previously had a boyfriend) with who Christian wants her to be: his submissive, to-do-with-as-he-pleases partner in his "Red Room of Pain." [6][4]

I just don't understand why people can't read good BDSM literature. Like De Sade or Sacher Von Masoch.

TL DR · May 2012

amateurhour wrote: »

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

Middle class, suburban wives are long overdue for a sexual revolution.

America in general, really, still has huge issues with a Puritan conception of sex and sexualit.

amateurhour · May 2012

spool32 wrote: »

amateurhour wrote: »

Okay, what the fuck is up with the Fifty Shades of Grey?

My wife was talking about it last night and some a-hole on tv was saying it's going to cause the next baby boom because erotic books make women horny and then they fuck and have babies.

I like me some books, but I don't get how a book is ::movietrailervoice:: So erotic, it changes the course of a civilization's breeding habits...

OK look. If your wife is talking about Fifty Shades and you haven't tied her to the bed recently, It's a good bet you have missed out on some important hints she is dropping.

She hasn't read it yet. Are you saying that I'm in for sexy times? Cause I'm all about that.

Inquisitor · May 2012

Winky wrote: »

Oh good god

The plot traces the relationship between recent college graduate Anastasia Steele and manipulative billionaire Christian Grey. Steele is required by Grey to sign a contract allowing him complete control over her life. As she gets to know him she learns that his sexual tastes involve bondage, domination and sadism, and that childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual. In order to be his partner she agrees to experiment with BDSM, but struggles to reconcile who she is (a virgin who has never previously had a boyfriend) with who Christian wants her to be: his submissive, to-do-with-as-he-pleases partner in his "Red Room of Pain." [6][4]

Oh.

So that's the book I overheard two mom's at work talking about!

Penny Arcade

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