Yes, more SOPA.
Rants & Ideas
Hats are awesome. Lay off.
I understand that a place like Switzerland would have a high Big Mac Index position – it’s always been expensive, still suffers from stupid customs rules and weird regulations, has high salaries and a culture that historically equates expensive with “good”, and still has fairly limited competition in a lot of areas. But why would this be the same for, for example, a pair of Levi’s in the UK, which are up to 50% cheaper in the US?
Re-posted from kc3.com in the hopes that someone will see and appreciate it.
Jan 132011
I know that I said “no politics”, but this is important to me. Read some nice rants here, and here. Warning: contains self-important vitriol and some big words.
Dec 262010
Just a friendly reminder that those who would sacrifice a lot of your liberty for the ability to make idiotic noise about how they are fighting a largely imagined enemy, are still out there, feeling up your mothers and daughters.
Remember kids, when it comes to hiring engineers, technicians, programmers, even managers, you get what you pay for. And that said, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Oct 202010
I am currently employed as an external consultant, under a contract that prevents me from invoicing more than 8 hours per day. I’ve been given various reasons for this, most significant among them being employment law governing temporary contracts for foreign workers (presumably geared toward reducing exploitation of Moroccan cleaning staff) to budget restrictions / [...]
Oct 202010
You take a small bucket.
This is something I realized around 1995, and never bothered to write down, so I’m claiming it now.
