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Thought for the day...
- Thread starter Wendy
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I thought about posting this on the weird thread:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44855696
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44855696
But man ... this is just too serious... ouch! ... whatever was it that drew the producers to bring this failure to reality?
Was it that obvious that it would be a failure? If so, why?
No, it wasn't that obvious. At least not to me.
I'm not Chinese, but considering their population, a movie about a traditional legendary hero should've been a slam dunk... someone miscalculated, obviously, but it also tells me their culture is looking for novelty.
I have no idea what it tells me about their culture. Hollywood has certainly had some pretty big flops and I don't know that many of them have ever told us anything about OUR culture.
Wait. A kid walks 20 miles to a job, and he gets fame and a new car?
Damn, how far our standards have collapsed.
It's an improvement over 'go fundme' pages for missing noses. http://abc13.com/woman-accused-of-biting-off-victims-nose-and-swallowing-it/3772898/
Go fund me? Shouldn't Ms. Collins be required to purchase (or maybe walk 20 miles for!) a new nose for her victim? Again: standards.
The advice to "work smarter, not harder" comes to mind as well. Was walking the best idea he could come up with? Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, and that's worth recognizing, but was there really no bicycle, no friend, no ... any other choice?
My daughter often has the chore of interviewing candidates at her work. She's always amazed at how many fail to show, arrive late, are unprepared and on and on. I'm sure she would be impressed with someone showing this level of responsibility.
How many of us had times where we did what we had to do -- and we didn't expect someone to feel sorry for us and give us a damn car!
When I was on active duty I got permission to take an off-base job at a Pizza Hut. It was 8.8 miles away (just checked with Google Maps). For the first couple months I was working 40 hours a week there and I had no transportation so I had to walk each way. That was on top of working normal duty hours on base. On M-W-F I would go to work on base by 7 am and get released at 4 pm. I'd take a quick shower at the shop and then walk three hours to the Pizza Hut getting there shortly before my 7 pm start time. I would then close the restaurant, usually getting off somewhere around midnight and walk home getting to the barracks around 3 am. Three hours of sleep and then up for work again. I usually had T-R off from Pizza Hut so that was nothing but straight to the barracks and crash. On weekends I didn't have duty on base, but almost always worked a 6/6 split shift at Pizza Hut both days so it would be leave base about 6 am and get to Pizza Hut around 9 am to open and work until 3 pm. Then an hour off and work 4 pm to 10 pm then three hours walk home. I had zero time for anything else. The biggest hassle was laundry, but I worked out a way to do that over lunch. That went on for about two months until I had enough to buy a bicycle. That was a god-send! If I remember correctly it reduced that three hour walk to reliably less than an hour bike ride (and OH how I didn't realize how different the muscle groups are on a bike versus walking!). That freed up 20 hours a week right there. I worked out a different schedule at Pizza Hut so that I worked 8 hours a day three days during the week and an 8/8 open/close split on Saturday, giving me Sunday off. I still remember how I felt like I had all the free time in the world even though I was still working 80 hours a week -- of course, my free time on Sundays was mostly spent hanging around the barracks. After about six months I dropped my hours back to twenty or so a week and bought a $400 motorcycle. That freed up the time and gave me the wherewithal to start taking classes at the community college.
But on top of all that -- I wasn't alone. There was an E-5 that was working at the same Pizza Hut and he and I sometimes walked home together. We were simply both in situations -- of our own doing -- where we needed all the extra money we could make and neither of us had a car and there simply weren't enough off-duty employment opportunities on base (though in retrospect I bet I could have found something had I known then what I know now). So we did what we had to do.
Ah, but to be young and vital enough to be able to do something like that -- it would be a death sentence, now!
When I was on active duty I got permission to take an off-base job at a Pizza Hut. It was 8.8 miles away (just checked with Google Maps). For the first couple months I was working 40 hours a week there and I had no transportation so I had to walk each way. That was on top of working normal duty hours on base. On M-W-F I would go to work on base by 7 am and get released at 4 pm. I'd take a quick shower at the shop and then walk three hours to the Pizza Hut getting there shortly before my 7 pm start time. I would then close the restaurant, usually getting off somewhere around midnight and walk home getting to the barracks around 3 am. Three hours of sleep and then up for work again. I usually had T-R off from Pizza Hut so that was nothing but straight to the barracks and crash. On weekends I didn't have duty on base, but almost always worked a 6/6 split shift at Pizza Hut both days so it would be leave base about 6 am and get to Pizza Hut around 9 am to open and work until 3 pm. Then an hour off and work 4 pm to 10 pm then three hours walk home. I had zero time for anything else. The biggest hassle was laundry, but I worked out a way to do that over lunch. That went on for about two months until I had enough to buy a bicycle. That was a god-send! If I remember correctly it reduced that three hour walk to reliably less than an hour bike ride (and OH how I didn't realize how different the muscle groups are on a bike versus walking!). That freed up 20 hours a week right there. I worked out a different schedule at Pizza Hut so that I worked 8 hours a day three days during the week and an 8/8 open/close split on Saturday, giving me Sunday off. I still remember how I felt like I had all the free time in the world even though I was still working 80 hours a week -- of course, my free time on Sundays was mostly spent hanging around the barracks. After about six months I dropped my hours back to twenty or so a week and bought a $400 motorcycle. That freed up the time and gave me the wherewithal to start taking classes at the community college.
But on top of all that -- I wasn't alone. There was an E-5 that was working at the same Pizza Hut and he and I sometimes walked home together. We were simply both in situations -- of our own doing -- where we needed all the extra money we could make and neither of us had a car and there simply weren't enough off-duty employment opportunities on base (though in retrospect I bet I could have found something had I known then what I know now). So we did what we had to do.
Ah, but to be young and vital enough to be able to do something like that -- it would be a death sentence, now!
What about statics on panels? Does it work there as in Earth?
"foot travel in a thermal area" What does it actually mean?
I don't see why statics would work differently on Mars ... but what's your idea on statics on panels?
Dust seems harder to blow away I guess.
