"Fix the backup system" "what backup system?" "What? the one our director put in 3 years ago" "Right ... as I said, what backup system? its just a tape drive with a tape in it, there's no software, no schedule, and the tape has glued itself to the tape head it hasnt been used/ removed in 3 years" "oh shi...."

"no worries, dont know how to use chayenne arcserve but I'll give it a shot" .. at the same time said history of art in science student is explaining to the managing director to leave the protective tape on laptop screen on to help "protect the colour balance"

was he just trolling on the last one?

No.

oh

oooooooh

oh no

no no no

I had to explain that particular banana skin to the MD 6 months later ... without sounding like a knob and dobbing the idiot in it

then I found out why there was tape on the laptop heat sink exhaust slots .. to stop the data from falling out when it was vertical in the bag. quick fix, hurried explanation then out the door to run to the server room so I could die laughing

did you make sure that you installed adobe reader before you left?

you're not a real IT guy unless you do

😏

this was like 20 years ago when I started the job 😃 I dont remember the boring day to day stuff .. I remember the standouts, like payroll servers shooting 10 feet of flame at me (ok it was probably less than a foot of flame but still), oh and learning that HPUX servers didnt do hardware raid, they did software raid ... and the IT director who'd been hired partially due to his HPUX knowledge, didnt know this either when he set up the server (also a payroll server though this was much later than the flamethrower server)

*should prob shut up now, he does work for the largest (albeit multibrand) fast food company on the planet*

hpux, you poor guy

it got replaced 4 years ago .. with a windows / sql server :\

lol

hpux probably ran for 15 years without a problem

let's switch to windows 😃

pretty much, no one really knew how to maintain it properly but it was a lot more stable and faster than what replaced it

Why does Tim practice how he titles his videos like news stand tabloids ?

Habit?

He's a newsie.

A newsie?

I think the practice cheapens his brand.

I think he does a good job of having the title reflect the main point/opinion of the video

https://mises.org/library/democracy-schoolroom

https://twitter.com/ColinKahl/status/1078829953674895360?s=19

Saudi sucks

https://youtu.be/QiwscwV2Fh8

https://youtu.be/MKEgG6sJ968

I think @Timcast really needs to put a lot more thought into his support of the Green New Deal. It just seems like a bad policy to me. Firstly, there seems to be credible evidence emerging all the time that shows that the climate change models exaggerated the extent of the problem. But mostly, I want to point out that it sounds like the most reckless thing that you could do. We already know that no matter what we do, we can only make a trivial difference to whatever climate change is coming, so why risk destroying the entire economy just to make a meaninglessly small impact to the climate? It would be so much smarter to just accept climate change and then improve our emissions slowly. We could spend money on improving infrastructure to better cope with natural disasters and minimise the potential for damage. That would generate actual outcomes. The problem with leftist policies like Obamacare and the New Green Deal is that they seem to be guided by a noble cause but the people who write these policies are clearly more concerned with being able to virtue signal about the policy after the fact, than in making decisions that would lead to the best possible outcomes.

that's fair. America isn't the big problem here. it's developing countries like China and various African Nations. And India maybe

there's still a potential boon to our economy... but trump is already in the process of mending the economy, and a green new deal could destabilize it back into a recession

for all we know

A green deal would do much worse than a recession. Hell, the original New Deal prolonged the depression

ATM, I want to see more economic recovery, a bitchslap to the silicon cartel, and border security.

gotta love major democrats like Obama and Pelosi having walls around their estates when Pelosi says walls are immoral

Yeah I think the economic recovery will speed up once the battle with China advances a bit more. The tariffs will go away (or at least be reduced significantly) and the markets will become less tense

I just don't understand Democrats for allowing their leaders to be so hypocritical. I know people accept this sort of thing all the time in office politics, but that's just people being conniving so they can get a promotion. Why would you actually want to vote for people who might destroy your way of life?