It is possible. Due to the diaspora that is the Cherokee nation, which is pretty unique, we have a bunch of people with some ancestor from the nation. This is why the nation uses Dawes Roll. I am white as the driven snow, but I can trace back my family history to someone on the roll. Main reason is the Scotch-Irish…

I am calling BS on this. I am very familiar with some of these cities. Unless you are prior service military with a security clearance (which most are transfers and the pool of candidates are small), there are no jobs in Augusta, Ga. Their largest employer right now is a temp staffing agency. It is bad in that town…

considering I still get side work... no...

Be careful of being too much of a niche employee. I did that and was pigeon-holed for years because of it, being too valuable to promote. Your only choice then is to move to another company.

I do see a chance for terrorism / hijinks. Specifically, if you can take a high speed / high traffic area (the watermelon 400, I am looking at you) and engage the breaks on the front section of cars and disable on the rest... just significant percentages would be needed, we would see havoc.

It will be the elite thing to have, until some hacker zero days the breaks and 88 becomes a mass grave. Fix the IoT security first. Open sourcing will not fix it, due to the tragedy of the commons... heartbleed anyone?

Found that the best solution is to walk away. However, I was a bouncer in the 90s and you need to decide whether that is where you want to hang out. Look at the bar staff, they will let you know the quality of the bar.

With me behind you in Coach... Don’t...

Forgot the “wtf... why does this straight out of college kid think they deserve the salary of someone with 10+ years experience?”

The upshot is that you should chunk information, give a summation at the top (above the fold as it were), and use clear language.

Kansas had a couple counties that had student drivers in the early eighties. They were fine, but probably because they were allowed to drive the combines at 12. A bus was easy after that.

I am so sad I missed the stories. Had to travel to a job site around Augusta, Ga during Master’s week... shutter. My department admin assistant books me on a flight to Atlanta and for some ungodly reason gets me a car on Budget... (Did I forget a birthday or something?) Standard corporate, intermediate car, etc..

More for the general comment besides you mentioning the fire extinguishers. Don’t mean to impune your training, you only have 13 less than me. :p

Depends on the fire extinguisher... PK (baking soda) sucks to be sprayed with, Carbon Dioxide or other gas-based ones (whatever the halo replacement is) can kill... and that also can mean you in an enclosed space...

Yep, I noticed that too. The group of most satisfying jobs is extremely limited and almost luck based. (Opportunity is a function of skill, social connections, and pure damn luck in those jobs - look at the data behind birthdays and sports success, for example)

Of course, talk to your doctor before taking a painkiller before a procedure.

That is the best political analysis I have seen since tuesday night.

Good one!

Bernie is jewish? Who would of though. I would have guessed atheist. Most of us don’t really pay attention to stuff like that, busy with issues and voting history and stuff like that.

Ethnic and gender diversity does not stop groupthink. It can help, unless you keep hiring from the same pool of people. I will let you in on a secret about diversity... I don’t care if you hire a mix of genders and ethnicities, if the all are engineers taught at LSU, then they will think like engineers taught at LSU.…