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(...) You have 150 employees working helpdesk? My God, how many students do you have? What kind of services do you provide to your students via the helpdesk? Might be scary to admit, but at a school of more than 25k students, we have 5 full-time (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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(...) I'm not convinced. I think we basically had to really drive home that we don't view the world the way they did, and that we were willing to do anything possible to destroy them. I think we managed that with as little loss of value as possible. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
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(...) I would say that it's the norm for a midwestern public university in a town where the ACCRA cost of living index is .9 or so. People move from here to industry in St. Louis or Kansas City and typically pick up a %50+ raise. Moving to the west (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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(...) Pearl Harbor wasn't destroyed. Messed up, yes. But vital strategic assets were untouched--the oil tank farms most prominently. Had those been knocked out, it would have taken the USN *years* to rebuild those fuel oil stocks. The sub pens, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Those are marvelous! I'm off to London on Tuesday to do work in the British Library Map Library and the War Office...er, DoD. So I do historical charts too, in a sense...I just look at charts of colonial holdings and dissect them in a dry, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's not a pun! l.o-t.d is "anth"athema to punnery, anyhow. LFB. (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: stunningly geedy people
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(...) Well, if you're a graduate student, you can show a jury your car and get the sympathy vote. The other guy being in an Explorer won't go over well in comparison; having no proof of real damage and no contact will sink him if jury sympathy (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Stunningly ignorant people
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(...) I've got news for you: I'm an academic, and we have so many of the Pavlovian non-net.savvy it would make you *freak out*. They'll open anything, even though they don't even use the restrooms in the Department office because they're afraid! (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Stunningly ignorant people
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(...) In New Jersey, we'd usually call 'em "Flat." Red means stop, green means honk. LFB (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't answer specifically until and unless you are about to get a job offer from a specific firm. Do your research about what you are worth, then answer the "what do you make" question from a headhunter with "well below market, which is 90K (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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