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Topic: Things you don't care about, but should. (Read 12217 times)
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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I also don't care about dead celebrities.
typical. you probably only care about undead celebrities.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Signe
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Muse.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Azaroth
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Edit: Late to the party.
PS: That smilie is awesome.
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation? You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto. F says: don't know what this is Az says: I think it's like Az says: where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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Everyone should be concerned about 'all the best intentions"
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lamaros
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So has this thread turned from the original concept already? Did people just read the title?
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stray
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I thought the title was the concept? 
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lamaros
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I thought the title was the concept?  Things that irritate/ worry you from your field, shared for the rest of us and why we should worry and how it affects us. Idea from: Trippy's concern about the Blizz win over the Botters, and my recent education on a few "minor" upcoming building code changes. So the title is really, 'things I care about that I don't think most of you do, but should'. Not 'things I know I should care about, but don't'.
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stray
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Oh.. Well, I'm following the rules anyways, I guess? I don't have a "field" at the moment. Everything is fair game for me to be irritated with/care about/not care about/etc.. Also, just to give another answer: This thread's rules, for instance.. 
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Signe
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I don't care what a title reads or what the intent is of the original poster, I bob my head to the beat of a different drum.
Bob bob bobobobob bob bobobob bob. So shuddup, lamerasso!
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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lamaros
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You make it sound like I should be wielded by a cowboy.
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NowhereMan
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Don't mind Signe, she's just a Maverick.
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"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Get involved with local politics.
Our (R) mayor ran unopposed and is now running amok cutting budgets and "ZOMG NO TAXES EVAR". He's about to fuck over the city pretty hard. I'm biased, since part of our revenue is from the city, but he'll hit police and fire, too. I just hope it pisses off enough people that someone better runs next time. I'm betting people are selfish enough to want lower taxes at the expense of police and fire. The focus should be on reform, not budget slashing.
Also, remember libraries are great places for people with lower incomes (well, everyone, really!) and in shitty financial times we help a lot of people with adult education and job location. But we also get hit for budget slashing at the same time. I think my library is almost back to 1980s funding with this year's cuts - we've already had to close one day a week, can't replace two positions and will probably start layoffs next year.
And all those shiny computers at the library? Probably grant money. If we went on public funding, we'd have no computers. At all. Every computer I install, staff or public, every software package and every bit of network gear, is all granted money from charitable foundations.
So I guess the gist is care a bit more about your local community and try to give a little back.
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Nebu
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More and more state universities are dependent on private donors and grants for their budgets. What you're feeling at the library level is similar to what most state universities are feeling as well. We had an increase of 15% in our teaching loads this Fall and were asked to do it on a 7% budget cut. This zero sum game is starting to really piss me off.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Tige
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Get involved with local politics. I completely agree that local governments govern best. Unfortunately the game show host form of politics usually found in Washington has infected all levels. In the spirit of the thread title; people should care about politics becoming a career path resulting in a never ending campaign. Politics is fun and amusing during elections but just like beer, too much makes you stupid and dangerous no matter what the party affiliation.
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Ingmar
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Something that should keep you up at night:
Data backups. Backups are a shitty job that at many companies get foisted off on the most junior member of the IT department, because nobody wants to do it. Just about all of everything in the world at this point relies on these backups for disaster recovery, which means things like your entire financial history might be (and probably are) resting in the hands of the IT employee equivalent of Fry from Futurama. It is really just a matter of time before some big company fails in the wake of a natural disaster like Katrina wiping out their servers and then discovering that, oops, they can't recover.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Merusk
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Someone on here had a lovely story about just that. They work for some company called "hal" though so they can't talk about it.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Yegolev
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Backups are incredibly useless. It's the restores that are critical. Few things make executive assholes tighten more than looking at the data storage budget.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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stray
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Get involved with local politics.
Our (R) mayor ran unopposed and is now running amok cutting budgets and "ZOMG NO TAXES EVAR". He's about to fuck over the city pretty hard. I'm biased, since part of our revenue is from the city, but he'll hit police and fire, too. I just hope it pisses off enough people that someone better runs next time. I'm betting people are selfish enough to want lower taxes at the expense of police and fire. The focus should be on reform, not budget slashing.
Also, remember libraries are great places for people with lower incomes (well, everyone, really!) and in shitty financial times we help a lot of people with adult education and job location. But we also get hit for budget slashing at the same time. I think my library is almost back to 1980s funding with this year's cuts - we've already had to close one day a week, can't replace two positions and will probably start layoffs next year.
And all those shiny computers at the library? Probably grant money. If we went on public funding, we'd have no computers. At all. Every computer I install, staff or public, every software package and every bit of network gear, is all granted money from charitable foundations.
So I guess the gist is care a bit more about your local community and try to give a little back.
I'm actually considering library science as an eventual career. Hopefully they're still around by the time my ass graduates...not that public libraries are the only route, but it's the obvious one. You're out in the boonies somewhat though, right (no offense.. honest question)? We're I'm at, they're pretty well supported, with over a dozen (city) of them to this city alone, and a huge downtown one. Not that I necessarily plan to be here...
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lamaros
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I went to a couple of my local libraries over the weekend and was really pleased to see how useful and popular they seemed to be. It obviously depends on area so I'm not sure what the system is like generally, but I was heartened. Lots of people using the computers and reading areas provided. Efficient, modern and useful technology. And a pretty decent selection of books. Compared to what I remember of them the last time I used to visit a lot, which was when I was a teenager, they've only improved.
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rattran
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My local Alderman (City Councilman type thing) always runs unopposed. People try to run against him every couple years, but bad things tend to happen to them/their families/their property. This is considered 'Politics as Usual' in Illinois.
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stray
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As long as he supports his local library, then aggressive mob tactics seem OK to me.
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