lemming Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Change is BAD! Especially a lot of pennies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, yeah. Heavy. But the other kind of change is good. You can't get life without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Here in the US, change is mostly fomented by people with power in order to extract more money from, and inflict more misery upon, those who are less powerful than they are, especially in social, political, and business contexts. I used to think that it was just the money-extraction piece, but my experience in the big insurance company led me to decide that for those who've clawed their way well up the hierarchy, the misery part is quite literally an important part of why they're there. That realization (among others) has led me to be much more sympathetic toward the Bolsheviks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Communism doesn't work a lot better, though yeah, I sympathize, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh, I didn't mean Communism. I meant greasing House Romanov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh. Okay, then. Yes, I can fully sympathize with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . And the Capets that lost their heads . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ok. For a more serious take: Change for its own sake is usually not all that great. If one is changing things to see if they can be better, I can sympathize, but it depends on why the change. For instance: At work, we used to have $40/day for meal expenses just given. Now it's $30/day, but we have to prove it with reciepts, tape them neatly on a blank sheet of paper, fill out an expense report, and turn them in within ten days. I now have three expense reports per trip. For Meals, Other expenses, and Hotel. It's amazingly annoying with me going out every weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ugh. Yeah, that's annoying. And it went DOWN? Yeesh. Change is something that happens to me on a rather regular basis. Sometimes I actually have a choice in what I end up with. So I can either accept it or curl into a ball and pull the covers over my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Mmmm, covers . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yeah, they have their uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Duck And cover! Burt the Turtle, eh . . . ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Er. Before my time, I suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word I never actually saw a "duck and cover" ad from that era, but yes, before your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . I think it was made by Disney . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word No idea what either of you are on about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Duck and Cover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah. Yeah, I'd heard of it (and seen video footage of drills), but it's all history to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm not sure I ever went through one of those drills. I remember getting under my desk in drills a couple of times, but that was in California and it could have been earthquake drills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Could be. Apparently they're way more useful for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word With earthquakes, you tend not to get any warning, and so drills are best preparation you can have. When the Nisqually quake happened here in 2001, I ended up having to get out from under my desk (that much I'd retained) and go snatch the emergency situation flyer I kept tacked up above my desk and read it. Since then, I've made a photocopy of the earthquake directions, and taped to the underside of my Designated Hiding Surface so I won't have to move next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Cool. I've actually experienced a few earthquakes. Nothing above a 4 on the Richter scale, but we do get them here on the Eastern side from time to time. The one that happened on the Cape was so slight that the only thing it affected was the washing machine. The thing started to make this awful banging noise, so I went down to check whether the load was unbalanced. It stopped after a bit, so I shrugged and went back upstairs. I only heard about it the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word There's been three here in Seattle while I was here that happened while I was living here and awake and the quakes were strong enough to notice while they happened. One of those caused one of the very few suspended baseball games in the old Kingdome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Twenty years ago, that would've made me jealous. I used to pine for more excitement. Now I just pine for time to take a nap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word The Nisqually quake was enough that I don't need to experience any greater ones. It broke one of the skywall windows (which we didn't realize for months) and caused us a little trouble that way. What relieves my curiosity was being on the 14th floor in an office tower during a quake like that, and wondering at the time when and how one would get out if it had been more serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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