Today, Alec S. made these interesting comments ...
Why are you so bitter and taking this so personally? I was
giving advice to the OP. Calm down!
I'm not bitter, I'm happy as a clam. You attacked me, I attacked
back. Live with it.
That's great for you. Obviously you lived your life in the
past when things were easier. Today it is infinitely harder
to get a job and make a living than it was even 20 years ago.
Poor baby! Got news for you, my company is hiring engineers /today/
both experienced and entry level, salaries are what you might term
"extravagent", so don't tell me there are no jobs. Just curious,
but what degree(s) do you hold in what field(s)? None, maybe? Or,
some breadless arts shit like Business, English, Creative Studies,
Music, et al. They ain't called "breadless arts", i.e., B.A.,
degrees for nothing.
Yes, I've got a degree. I live in Canada. Yes, I've
literally worked me butt off, broken my back, and busted my
hump working hard. Yes, I've applied myself to getting a good
job. However there is only so much one can do, when there is
nothing available, there's nothing available. And, it's not
like I can just pack up and move either. I'm not pissed off
that I can't live the good life you took a lifetime to get by
25, I'm pissed that the human population is going up and the
number of jobs is going down, which makes it impossible for
everyone to make a living. Yet, I am stuck having hope for
the future even though by all counts I should not.
So, solly, you're a Canuck. Why don't you send your complaints to
that socialist woman PM you just elected, I'm sure she'll help you
out of your expensive electricity dilemma.
Canada, BTW, is not all that different than the United States in
one /really/ big regard - jobs, including high paying ones with
lots of bennies, go begging because 1, 4, 10 years ago, people like
you took the easy way out and learned what you thought would be fun
and not what the job market needed.
Let me give you a personal example:
I come from blue collar stock, so I knew that the best I could
expect was my parents to /help/ me get through college, so as a
H.S. Junior, I asked my counselor to give me a list of the top 10
jobs in the U.S. then - that was 1963 - in decreasing order by
starting salary with just a bachelors degree. The hard sciences
were at the top, the liberal arts crap was at the bottom, just as I
expected. Of what I liked, engineering was by far the most
lucrative, so that's what I chose. Six years later, after some
fearfully tough competitition for grades - and jobs - I landed
myself a good job.
Ain't nuttin' changed since then. The time to think about your
life's calling isn't now, it was a /minumum/ of 4 years ago, maybe
8 if you count taking the right curriculum in H.S.
Don't insult my intelligence with crap about the population going
up but jobs going down. Get off your dead ass, retrain yourself,
relocate to some other city or even some other country, and get on
with living the rest of your life. The Chinese say that a journey
of 1,000 miles starts with a single step, and the old salesman's
acronym - YCDBSOYA (You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Ass)
still applies. So, stop crying in the beer you can't afford to buy,
get off your duff and get moving! And, leave your problems at the
border, I ain't interested.
Who the Hell is talking about cars?
It is an analogy or metaphor to illustrate unnecessary-but-fun ways
to spends lots of money.
"Morality"? "To you"? You might want to reread the posts. I
was just giving reasonable advice to the OP.
No, you weren't, you were lecturing me about being green and about
how much money I was wasting running my PC 24x7. Let me see if I
have this right: I earned it, I spend it as I please, so what's
your beef, with or without the OP?
Um, yeah, and? You just proved my point for me, thanks!
Eventually hardware will break down when used. If you keep it
on 24x7, then you will pass that barrier sooner than if you
turn it off when it's not being used.
You're an obvious idiot or troll - there's only 8760 hours in a
year, so with a MTBF of 50,000 hours, my PC can be expected to run
for - you ready for this? - 5.7 years, beyond its useful
technological life.
Everything has a finite life, including computers. Why would
you make an exception for them? Besides, computers put out a
Hell of a lot more heat than TVs do. (Don't talk about fans,
and stuff. Cold ain't free, just because the computer's cool
because you use fans or water cooling or whatever, doesn't
mean the heat it was generating disappeared into thin air, it
just got transformed and released somewhere else or some other
way.)
I am a pragmatist, read what I said about engineers, they are the
greatest pragmatists on earth. So, I conserve what makes sense, use
what makes sense to me as to how I want to use it, and waste what I
don't care about.
I can sure tell you aren't an engineer. My PC gives off more BTUs
than my 48" rear projection TV? Get real! Yeah, I know cold ain't
free, but get this through your sorry ass brain if you can - the
guy with the most toys when he dies wins the game, and you can't
take it with you. So, I spend it now for what pleases me and to
hell with you. My daughter sounds just like you and I am certainly
not going to reward her "woe is me" lifestyle with a large
inheritance.
When I got married, I almost literally had a zero bank balance.
Less than a year later, I'd paid off my car and put a 15% down
payment down on a 1650 sq. ft house. There ain't no magic to this,
it is called plain hard work, thrift for what is important to
accomplish a goal - which for my wife and I was a house - and
astute investing.
Well let's just hope bitter, selfish, live-for-the-moment
people like you are in the minority (although I know your
not.)
I am NOT bitter, but you clearly are. And, you're not only green
for the environment, you're green with something else - it is
called envy or jealousy. I have it, you don't, you want it, but you
can't have it. Learn to live with disappointment. I don't know how
old you are, nor do I care, but you are in for a LOT of
dissapointment staying in a socialist state that by your own
admission is going to hell in a handbasket.
And, numb nuts, your 15 minutes are up. Bye!
