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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Boss flew off the handle about his religion today
Found this on Reddit and thought it was sort of amusing.
During an emergency
meeting, he sweeps in with the CFO, both of them casually late as usual.
At least this time they had an excuse - they just met with the CEO, who
finally stopped worrying about the PR and asked some problematic VPs to
resign, which will clear a lot of red tape for us later. We try to
bring both of them up to speed on the discussion. We just suffered an
attack that compromised important proprietary data. Rolling out any
changes to our recent implementation of the relevant systems would
require delays we can't afford, so we're talking about increased
defenses just to cover our butts from exploits. Rule of law won't be
enough if the upstarts nipping at our heels pay some kids to hit a
vulnerability.
My boss won't have any of it, though - he thinks we can contain the information. As if nobody's made copies yet! All the technical people shift about uncomfortably, and I try to make the best of it by saying we're probably fine regardless. Everything goes online ASAP and we can ruin the other guys once it's all running smoothly.
He then declares that all our infrastructure is window-dressing compared to the innate protection of his faith. We would be fine not because of all the employees and contractors running the show, but thanks to some mystical seance bullshit that he looks to for guidance and references entirely too often in private conversation. I don't even think it's an organized religion - just vague pagan nonsense with creepy voodoo overtones, like he's the last devotee of a cult from the 70s. I must've been sleep-deprived, because I don't even hesitate to call that a bunch of crap. Ass Hat choked me from across the room.
Original Link - Reddit: My Boss
Don't get it - think Star Wars
My boss won't have any of it, though - he thinks we can contain the information. As if nobody's made copies yet! All the technical people shift about uncomfortably, and I try to make the best of it by saying we're probably fine regardless. Everything goes online ASAP and we can ruin the other guys once it's all running smoothly.
He then declares that all our infrastructure is window-dressing compared to the innate protection of his faith. We would be fine not because of all the employees and contractors running the show, but thanks to some mystical seance bullshit that he looks to for guidance and references entirely too often in private conversation. I don't even think it's an organized religion - just vague pagan nonsense with creepy voodoo overtones, like he's the last devotee of a cult from the 70s. I must've been sleep-deprived, because I don't even hesitate to call that a bunch of crap. Ass Hat choked me from across the room.
Original Link - Reddit: My Boss
Don't get it - think Star Wars
Friday, August 12, 2011
Foto Friday - August 12, 2011
I present to you stuff I found on the web, that I did not create nor do I own.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Star Wars - The Empire Won
It's 3:30 in the morning, my MS is acting up and I can't sleep - so why not go on a bit of Star Wars rant.
Recently, Greenpeace produced a satirical commercial - poking fun at the Star War - Darth Vader Volkswagen commercial that appeared in Super Bowl 2010.
I happened to like the Volkswagen commercial - It was cute.
Tonight, I Stumbled Upon an article in AutoBlog titled, Greenpeace parodies Little Vader ad to show dark side of Volkswagen. The article, in a non-biased way, explains that Greenpeace is upset at Volkswagen trying to squelch the EU laws on CO2 admissions and created a fake commercial, where Volkswagen is the new Empire. There's even a huge VW logo on the Death Star. To tell you the truth, it's not that funny - I mean it's okay I guess - but that's not what this post is about.
Even though the article was published a few days ago, it seems that George Lucas got his panties in a wad, a real tight wad and demanded the video be removed. Now, I'm not going to go into the political argument of whether Greenpeace is right or wrong about Global Climate Change. And it is a political arguement, because the science is conclusive. Maybe the CO2 laws in the EU are too strict .. I have no idea.
Here's what this post is about. Greenpeace suggests that Lucas has sold his soul to the Dark Side commercial marketing and become the Empire of capitalization. So, what does George Lucas do? He immediately turns around and proves it's all true by lawyering up and forcing GP to shut down the video. It is the highest form of douchebagness to shut down a parody.
In Star Wars 4 - A New Hope, which is really chronologically the first Star Wars movie. There's a great line by Princess Leia.
The Empire a-hole, Governor Tarkin says "... No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now."
To which Leia replies, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Is this not a perfect analogy of what Lucas is doing to GP? The video Lucas is so desperately trying to shutdown is popping up all over the Internet.
The purpose of a parody is to provoke thought and conversation using comedy. And look, I don't really think the content of the GP's parody succeeds - first, I don't consider VW to be one of the big offenders of CO2 emissions and the video is too far reaching and over the top to be effective.
However, George Lucas reacting to the video in such a draconian way validates the parody. In sense VW may not be the evil empire but Lucas my be the Emperor.
Article in AutoBlog
Recently, Greenpeace produced a satirical commercial - poking fun at the Star War - Darth Vader Volkswagen commercial that appeared in Super Bowl 2010.
I happened to like the Volkswagen commercial - It was cute.
Tonight, I Stumbled Upon an article in AutoBlog titled, Greenpeace parodies Little Vader ad to show dark side of Volkswagen. The article, in a non-biased way, explains that Greenpeace is upset at Volkswagen trying to squelch the EU laws on CO2 admissions and created a fake commercial, where Volkswagen is the new Empire. There's even a huge VW logo on the Death Star. To tell you the truth, it's not that funny - I mean it's okay I guess - but that's not what this post is about.
Even though the article was published a few days ago, it seems that George Lucas got his panties in a wad, a real tight wad and demanded the video be removed. Now, I'm not going to go into the political argument of whether Greenpeace is right or wrong about Global Climate Change. And it is a political arguement, because the science is conclusive. Maybe the CO2 laws in the EU are too strict .. I have no idea.
Here's what this post is about. Greenpeace suggests that Lucas has sold his soul to the Dark Side commercial marketing and become the Empire of capitalization. So, what does George Lucas do? He immediately turns around and proves it's all true by lawyering up and forcing GP to shut down the video. It is the highest form of douchebagness to shut down a parody.
In Star Wars 4 - A New Hope, which is really chronologically the first Star Wars movie. There's a great line by Princess Leia. The Empire a-hole, Governor Tarkin says "... No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now."
To which Leia replies, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Is this not a perfect analogy of what Lucas is doing to GP? The video Lucas is so desperately trying to shutdown is popping up all over the Internet.
The purpose of a parody is to provoke thought and conversation using comedy. And look, I don't really think the content of the GP's parody succeeds - first, I don't consider VW to be one of the big offenders of CO2 emissions and the video is too far reaching and over the top to be effective.
However, George Lucas reacting to the video in such a draconian way validates the parody. In sense VW may not be the evil empire but Lucas my be the Emperor.
Article in AutoBlog
Saturday, July 17, 2010
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