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[Hueristic]

Once I figured out that's how the corporate world works, I couldn't wait to get out. What a total waste of my brainpower dealing with all that crap.

I only did about a decade of corporate slavery but because I never searched it out nor cared (GE called me out of the blue and offered me a position I couldn't turn down) I never had a day of stress in the corporate world because of zero fear of surviving without them. As an example one day I was writing an online resume because we were getting acquired and the director walked into my office and saw it and asked what I was doing and I told him we were getting bought so I was getting ready and did he want me to do one for him while I was at it. He laughed and said no but the next day they called me in to HR and gave me a 3.5% raise.

[strawbs]

bitcoin goes to the moon. for sure. this youtuber will send 30 btc up to the moon with a rocket:


https://cryptonews.com/news/major-youtuber-mrbeast-wants-to-sent-bitcoin-to-the-moon-lit-9001.htm


earthlings can have fun staying poor...


imagine this stash when btc price is north of $1mio. folks will get itchy to go to the moon and collect this stash...

"moon price" of bitcoin will be reached when price is high enough to make it profitable to collect this moon/btc bounty...  

https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-moon-landing-2024-costs.html

"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told Senate appropriators... that while the administration is not yet ready to release a revised budget that accommodates an accelerated [2024] human lunar landing program, the costs will not be as high as some rumors."

"He downplayed reports, though, that claimed NASA would seek an additional $8 billion a year for five years. "I will tell you that is not accurate," he said. "It is nowhere close to that amount. But I don't want to throw out a number until we have gone through the process with OMB and the National Space Council."

"Speculation has focused on a smaller, but still significant, increase of about $3 billion to $5 billion a year."

So, let's assume it costs $4b a year for five years = $20b to achieve a moon landing.

For 30btc to be worth $20b, one btc would be worth $666 million. At that price, a moon landing expedition to recover those bitcoins would break even.

So....official moon price is anything over $666 million. Nice and easy to remember and pretty fitting, given the old battles for $666.

#OtherNumbersAreAvailable
#OnlyMarginallyBetterThanPluckingNumbersFromMyAss

[Dabs]

Also will be looking to set up a low-key private wireless ISP service for the area (will at least have a single Starlink satellite system, in addition to whatever runs we decide to have the local telcos make)

Take a look at unify / ubiquity products. ui.com

I have their UAP-AC-Lite as my own separate wireless access point at home.

You will still want to install hard wire cables on your property, at least CAT6 ethernet (good enough for gigabit speeds or faster).

And fibreglass linked switches everywhere!

Did you mean fiber optic? That may work, you could check out their air fiber things, they allow you to connect one point to another up to 22 miles away (you'd need to set up little towers on both ends). That would be your own backhaul.

But one location can handle a bunch of CAT6 cables just fine.

If you ever spend any significant time around mid-level managers, VPs, or C-Level executives (or if you are unlucky enough to be one yourself), you see how their entire workday is just slammed full of meetings. Meetings meetings meetings. And boy do they ever love to go to meetings, and talk and pontificate about pointless shit. All day, every day. And they view this as "productive time", as "work". But of course it's not actual work, because they never have any real action items to actually *produce* something from the outcomes of all these meetings (except for more fucking slide decks, lol). They are not the ones that actually have to go off and produce something tangible, it's all the worker-bees that do the actual work.

That's why executives, VPs, and mid-level managers can go home at 5 or early, workout, eat well, enjoy being with their family, get a good nights sleep, and get paid lots of money... because they never really have to take actual "work" home with them, or stress about it after hours or on the weekends. They are not really on the hook for getting the real work done. And they are totally fine with that. Why do you think they are smiling and laughing all the time?

Once I figured out that's how the corporate world works, I couldn't wait to get out. What a total waste of my brainpower dealing with all that crap.

It's not all like that. Maybe in the bigger corporations maybe. The smaller ones, we actually do some work, even if there are a lot of meetings. I was at VP level about 5 years ago (in a small company in a 3rd world country), then I decided I wanted to do my own thing. I was the IT Manager type who did all the network cabling too, LOL, and set up a computer semi-manually every week. No real servers. It was that small.

Before I left, I set up a single 24 port switch for them, and I think it died last year. (I'm sure they replaced it with something else, the guys I left there to run the IT dept knew what they were doing.)

[Biodom]

he he..GME is up 94.4% today....pushed up by a billionaire who bought calls on this. LOL
EDIT:
well, btctalk takes so long to post...only 85% now  
btc is an island of stability comparing with this "madness"
TSLA would probably be up or down 200 points tomorrow.

[serveria.com]

this, basically. i always had enough hobbies and interests to never be bored working or not. and you may find areas of interest that you never would of though of once you dont need to keep someone elses schedule. once your time is truly yours and not someone elses you might be surprised where your wanderings take you. i havent worked for years and never have had more fun and new interests. its vastly more satisfying to invest your time into your projects rather than try to fit your lifestyle around some corporations daily schedule.

The thing that used to annoy me most about conventional corporate wage-slavery was the 9-5 hours, specifically the 9 part. We all know that some people are morning people, some are night owls. I'm definitely the latter.  No less productive, just more productive in the evening than mornings.  Yet employers insist that everyone starts at 09.00. There was hardly any point me starting work at that time, I had no ability to focus until at least 12.00.  And just when my focus was starting to really come together at 17.30, it was time to go home. Ridiculous working system reflecting a bygone era

And why is it always seen as a virtue to be a morning person, yet it's assumed that night owls just sit around watching TV or playing video games late into the night?

And busy-ness - why is that seen as a virtue? There seems to be an underlying assumption that the busier a person is, the more virtuous they are. Why is so little value attached to making time to do nothing, to think, to slow down and to ponder the big questions?

If you ever spend any significant time around mid-level managers, VPs, or C-Level executives (or if you are unlucky enough to be one yourself), you see how their entire workday is just slammed full of meetings. Meetings meetings meetings. And boy do they ever love to go to meetings, and talk and pontificate about pointless shit. All day, every day. And they view this as "productive time", as "work". But of course it's not actual work, because they never have any real action items to actually *produce* something from the outcomes of all these meetings (except for more fucking slide decks, lol). They are not the ones that actually have to go off and produce something tangible, it's all the worker-bees that do the actual work.

This. So true. I also used to work for a corporation and I've never understood those meetings. What's the point? What a total waste of time you could have used to do some actual work! Worked there for about 3 years and I must admit I haven't participated in a single meeting that would result in a (tangible or intangible) outcome, action or product. And guess what? The higher level manager there was the more meetings he had. Head of our department had EXCLUSIVELY ONLY meetings on his timetable.   

[HI-TEC99]

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If you ever spend any significant time around mid-level managers, VPs, or C-Level executives (or if you are unlucky enough to be one yourself), you see how their entire workday is just slammed full of meetings. Meetings meetings meetings. And boy do they ever love to go to meetings, and talk and pontificate about pointless shit. All day, every day. ...

I read about some executives having a meeting to arrange a meeting.

[serveria.com]

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If you ever spend any significant time around mid-level managers, VPs, or C-Level executives (or if you are unlucky enough to be one yourself), you see how their entire workday is just slammed full of meetings. Meetings meetings meetings. And boy do they ever love to go to meetings, and talk and pontificate about pointless shit. All day, every day. ...

I read about some executives having a meeting to arrange a meeting.

What I hated most was when some exec guy added me to the meeting participant list because he wanted to ask me something. So I had to attend and sit there for like 40 minutes to answer a single question. Pfff... 

[serveria.com]

It's not all like that. Maybe in the bigger corporations maybe. The smaller ones, we actually do some work, even if there are a lot of meetings. I was at VP level about 5 years ago (in a small company in a 3rd world country), then I decided I wanted to do my own thing. I was the IT Manager type who did all the network cabling too, LOL, and set up a computer semi-manually every week. No real servers. It was that small.

Before I left, I set up a single 24 port switch for them, and I think it died last year. (I'm sure they replaced it with something else, the guys I left there to run the IT dept knew what they were doing.)

Yeah but I'm pretty sure Torque mostly meant huge global corporations for one of those your humble servant used to work as well.  

EDIT: Smaller companies for sure have to do some real work sometimes as they're forced to work in order to survive. 

[serveria.com]

We need a new poll ASAP!

[HI-TEC99]

We need a new poll ASAP!

We could have a poll to decide what the following poll should be about.

[nutildah]

Question: What should the next poll be about?

A. Numbers
B. Roach
C. An official poll about the next poll
D. Open poll. Fill in the blank:____________________________

[serveria.com]

We need a new poll ASAP!

We could have a poll to decide what the following poll should be about.

I have a better idea... a meeting... wait no... opsec and stuff... 

[OutOfMemory]

Also will be looking to set up a low-key private wireless ISP service for the area (will at least have a single Starlink satellite system, in addition to whatever runs we decide to have the local telcos make)

Take a look at unify / ubiquity products. ui.com

I have their UAP-AC-Lite as my own separate wireless access point at home.

You will still want to install hard wire cables on your property, at least CAT6 ethernet (good enough for gigabit speeds or faster).

And fibreglass linked switches everywhere!

Did you mean fiber optic? That may work, you could check out their air fiber things, they allow you to connect one point to another up to 22 miles away (you'd need to set up little towers on both ends). That would be your own backhaul.

But one location can handle a bunch of CAT6 cables just fine.

No no, classic fibre optic cables, just between switches (or floors, buildings, server rooms) to circumvent throughput bottlenecks. IIRC hewlett packard built them too.
I wired some two decades ago, but they were made by some other vendor (cisco, maybe?)...

[OutOfMemory]

We need a new poll ASAP!

We could have a poll to decide what the following poll should be about.

I have a better idea... a meeting... wait no... opsec and stuff... 

Maybe a zoom meeting (over tor, LOL).
No, of course not zoom, but something more trustworthy 

[serveria.com]

We need a new poll ASAP!

We could have a poll to decide what the following poll should be about.

I have a better idea... a meeting... wait no... opsec and stuff... 

Maybe a zoom meeting (over tor, LOL).
No, of course not zoom, but something more trustworthy 

Well, I could agree but note I'll be wearing a Guy Fawkes mask 

[OutOfMemory]

We need a new poll ASAP!

We could have a poll to decide what the following poll should be about.

I have a better idea... a meeting... wait no... opsec and stuff... 

Maybe a zoom meeting (over tor, LOL).
No, of course not zoom, but something more trustworthy 

Well, I could agree but note I'll be wearing a Guy Fawkes mask 

Everyone on the meeting should 

[Hueristic]

I wired some two decades ago, but they were made by some other vendor (cisco, maybe?)...

Mine from that period is nortel.

[serveria.com]

Another breakout attempt for ants? 

[El duderino_]

Another breakout attempt for ants? 

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[lightfoot]

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If you ever spend any significant time around mid-level managers, VPs, or C-Level executives (or if you are unlucky enough to be one yourself), you see how their entire workday is just slammed full of meetings. Meetings meetings meetings. And boy do they ever love to go to meetings, and talk and pontificate about pointless shit. All day, every day. ...

I read about some executives having a meeting to arrange a meeting.

Need to have a meeting about that. More seriously I like to have pre-meeting meetings where we hash out all the details. Then meeting goes smoothly and is over in 10m giving us 50 to sleep.