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“Social credit is like a

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 03:11:11 +0000

oops wrong thread, deleted.

Not everyone was peak IP boom

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 05:41:17 +0000

In reply to I was treated well for the

Not everyone was peak IP boom either - there were winners and losers and the mass also-rans. Some were very good with the hype, most just got by. I remember the toughest thing for me was figuring out what *other* people could do as so many were middlin' or full of bloat & shit, or just lacking any energy or knowledge. There wasn't much time to *fire* them, but many didn't get far past the 1st rung. Though some played the game or had a sponsor to carry them along. If you read Wired or some such shit, you'd think everyone was a success.

Having not voted for a

Flavius — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 04:22:33 +0000

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Having not voted for a Republican since I made the mistake of marking my absentee ballot for Ike I can't attest from my remembered personal reaction but my strong suspicion is the most right wing attendees would have been also the most enthusiastic. "As I told Barack ,where you are completely wrong............."

As we used to say "nearest to church, furthest from God" which might not have been exactly true but....

I think I'm being honest in saying that as the hour got later the higher the percentage became of executives who sounded they'd be home here. Not true of board members whose sense of outrage was focussed on the inequity

of infants being allowed into first class.

No , I can't leave that . I recall the dinner which my college age daughter attended. The director next to her pushed her to defend her support for nuclear disarmament.Which she did, ably until the very end when he said

"Well , I'm on the board of the blank theological seminary and we agree with you. I just wanted to see how far you would go in defending yourself."

Hey, Hal, you never know.

I certainly wouldn't go see

ocean-kat — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:55:06 +0000

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I certainly wouldn't go see Obama if he was only getting paid 100k for the speech. What would be the point? At that price he'd slack off and wouldn't do his best work.

high stress for sure, hence

artappraiser — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:48:18 +0000

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high stress for sure, hence the perks, only the natural schmoozer office politiker types doing like this and they are not just rare but can't last long when skills performance is part of the program...

I never fully understood why

ocean-kat — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:41:00 +0000

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I never fully understood why companies had these gatherings. I suppose most people liked them and saw it as a reward for good work. Or CEO's saw them as team building. Being in a large social gathering was hard enough for me and being there with co-workers when I had to carefully consider every word I spoke made them seem like a devious form of torture to me.

A 100k speech, even from an

NCD — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:17:21 +0000

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A 100k speech, even from an ex-Prez, wouldn't be worth listening to, a 400k one, yeah oh yeah, for sure.

However, I'm not convinced your testimony would be sufficient exculpatory evidence to save the Democratic Party (and it's generously compensated speech givers) from liquidation as a counter-revolutionary criminal organization according to our sites 'corrupt duopoly' zealots.

Completely accurate.

Flavius — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:00:57 +0000

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Completely accurate.

I ran a company and, same thing. Usually I spoke .Snore. Then the headliner. Famous for something. It didn't matter what.

One was a former prisoner in Vietnam. OJ was I think a regular on the circuit but never came to us although I med him when he was covering a Hurley match in Dublin for the Wide World of Sports. ( He said that his reaction when he got the offer was to go to the Buffalo Library to learn about the social significance of Hurley). At the other extreme Diane Nyad. Maybe ,mis spelled.

Her very professionally delivered story:

As a record- setting swimmer her way of supporting herself in retirement was covering aquatic events for one of the networks. The first was a surfing competition. Honolulu. Despite her background she wasn't equipped for the length of time she had to hold her breath under such waves and swimming before the competition a she had to hold her breath so long that when she was finally cast up on the beach she was without her bikini.

But there she lay until someone-presumably from her crew-brought her some sort of cover,

When she got back to New York and was being introduced one of her new colleagues remarked

"Ah, Diane. We got to see a lot of you in Hawaii."

Don't know whether Barack is a swimmer!

I was treated well for the

ocean-kat — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 02:46:30 +0000

In reply to This was a fun read. You

I was treated well for the nearly two years I worked the job but from everything I've read about google and other global high tech companies they'd think the company was mingy. If you're asking a profession to leave home for a couple of weeks several times a year and work long hours with no overtime pay (salaried employees usually don't get overtime pay) you can't expect them to live in a dingy hotel with a crappy tv. You give them a nice room with a nice bed and good sheets and blankets. A good tv and a complimentary breakfast buffet. You can't expect them to eat slop. You give them good food. Most of the hotels I stayed in had an indoor pool in the basement. Which I never had a chance to use even though at the time when home I swam laps most days at the gym. Too busy on these jobs. It was a good life and I could have gone far if I stuck with it. I was right there when the tech revolution started to take off. But I couldn't fit in with the culture. Too introverted with inadequate social skills. Some years later that nerdish personality became more acceptable in the tech world I guess.

This was a fun read. You

artappraiser — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:20:47 +0000

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This was a fun read. You computer guys were obviously treated like royalty back in those days because: no rubber chicken! Especially back in the early 80's, I would think it was quite unusual not to serve rubber chicken at banquets.