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OriginalGriff wrote: Jerry seemed to have a good time.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking fu[Tweety Bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety) certainly did not!
Must be the difference between Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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What did you mark this as in the timesheet? Reconfigure new hardware? 
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Dis-configure existing hardware?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Now people will be pranking each other like this.
modified 4-Apr-23 22:40pm.
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Too many mice? Do not blame the hamsters!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I wonder if the hamsters have been... sent to a farm upstate?
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Contrariwise, I always get irked when they issue a stapler and a lifetime supply of staples to every new employee.
There is no need for everyone to have a stapler. Just put one in each printer station.
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Let's be honest, for some management types a stapler is about the most complicated machine they can actually use.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nah, they delegate that tricky stuff.
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exactly my point. Although I agree wit not issuing everyone a stapler, the fact that senior management rants about it was my point 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It disappears in someone's desk drawer in 0.001 ns.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First job out of college (Univac) I needed a stapler a couple weeks after I started. Went to the office supply room and there were none. The supply person said they'd been on back order for months, no idea when they'd be in. I went to a colleague to borrow his. He opens a drawer and hands me one of his ~6. "Why do you have 6 staplers?" Because last year they couldn't get staples, but all the staplers were fully loaded. Run out of staples, go get a new stapler. Apparently lots of people did just that. There were probably 3 staplers per person in the building, just hidden in people's desks. 
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My stapler does more than 2 sheets.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Or printed business cards for that matter. It's all digital these days...
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i do not work in an office so this stapler business is beyond me but i am confused as i assumed paper is a thing of the past . why would any modern office not utilize electronics instead . i assume paper is wasteful cost-wise environment-wise perhaps other-wise as well . by coincidence last nights' "The Good Doctor" had our hero print 100s of pages on his wifes' printer . made no sense to me . -Best
modified 5-Apr-23 12:56pm.
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Sketching designs, printing pinouts and error tables... when working in an engineering context paper is definitely helpful as it doesn't require to switch between multiple windows or having multiple monitors (often we need to move in labs with only our laptop), reading from an instruments (like digital oscilloscopes or other specialized equipemnt) and having right there the decoding cheatsheet, having the wiring on hand while soldering at the solder station and so on.
Even while debugging it's useful since you can have some special values or a blank space to decode from hex to binary while having your eyes glued to the watch window - consider that IDEs for embedded systems are usually comparable to VisualStudio 6 or earlier in terms of features, and many embedded platforms can support only 2 active breakpoints at any given time. Having something to jot down while using the horrible debugger and the oscilloscope without constantly switching window or requiring a 42" monitor to have all the windows to a human readable size is golden.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I use tools to document designs. Often the designs are fairly easy. But when they are complex insuring that the boxes get to the right place on the virtual paper does nothing to help the primary problem of figuring out what boxes I need in the first place.
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charlieg wrote: Where is that dilbert cartoon when you need it?
Closed and moved to a private (and presumably pro-racist) site behind a paywall.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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seriously? SA is about as non-racist as you can get. Humanity gives him an unending amount of material to work with.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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