The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

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It really depends on the purpose for which you want to use the oil. Olive oil has a stronger flavor, which can be good in some dishes and bad in others. Olive oil is healthier, but it also starts to burn away at a lower temperature.
 
My boss asked everyone to join him in the conference room, and he made it out to be a huge deal by saying things like "TWO MINUTES! CONFERENCE ROOM" and being all intense and crap.

So I get there in 3 minutes and people are standing around the conference table, with the boss at the head, and everyone's kind of chatting amongst themselves, waiting for everyone to arrive.. So everyone's finally there, and the chatter slowly dies down.. There is a brief period of complete silence

But before my boss has a chance to speak, I strike! "This is all because of your new haircut, right?", half-wondering whether he actually got one (he might, I haven't figured it out still). Anyway, there was of course laughter and a quip back from my boss.. It was something like "Yes, we are all here to give me feedback on it. You can leave now warpus"

So of course you have to understand that our office is like.. a big family a guess? We treat eachother like friends and family members, including the boss, which.. leads to situations like that.

Is that healthy? Did I cross the line? I used to be a big introvert around the office and have been slowly getting more adventurous in my social escapades with my office colleagues. And my boss is an arse, he will pick on new people in front of everyone else as a form of "initiation".. So now I pretty much treat him as a friend, I guess. I'm professional and all, especially if there are non-department people around, but

yeah.. it's a bit weird. It's like having a friend with benefits. What would you guys do?
 
My boss asked everyone to join him in the conference room, and he made it out to be a huge deal by saying things like "TWO MINUTES! CONFERENCE ROOM" and being all intense and crap.

So I get there in 3 minutes and people are standing around the conference table, with the boss at the head, and everyone's kind of chatting amongst themselves, waiting for everyone to arrive.. So everyone's finally there, and the chatter slowly dies down.. There is a brief period of complete silence

But before my boss has a chance to speak, I strike! "This is all because of your new haircut, right?", half-wondering whether he actually got one (he might, I haven't figured it out still). Anyway, there was of course laughter and a quip back from my boss.. It was something like "Yes, we are all here to give me feedback on it. You can leave now warpus"

So of course you have to understand that our office is like.. a big family a guess? We treat eachother like friends and family members, including the boss, which.. leads to situations like that.

Is that healthy? Did I cross the line? I used to be a big introvert around the office and have been slowly getting more adventurous in my social escapades with my office colleagues. And my boss is an arse, he will pick on new people in front of everyone else as a form of "initiation".. So now I pretty much treat him as a friend, I guess. I'm professional and all, especially if there are non-department people around, but

yeah.. it's a bit weird. It's like having a friend with benefits. What would you guys do?
What was the announcement?
 
A change in our head academic honcho person, due to a one year sabbatical. Nothing incredibly amazing - I thought the meeting was going to be about our move to a new space which is happening this summer.. and which has got me anxious because there are rumours of an open concept layout. I'm a programmer and that would not suit me at all.. So I guess I'm a bit anxious about it. I have already begun assaulting my boss and supervisor with my thoughts on the subject (they know I think it is BS and I have used that exact word), but anyway, we are supposed to be getting a new academic addition and it is supposed to be somebody cool who has a phd in sociology

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It's cool, cherish the relaxed attitude.

For the most part I love it, but it's just that sometimes you *have* to be more professional than that but everyone in the office is used to a lighthearted sort of atmosphere and sometimes it's just not easy going from one to the other I guess. Or maybe I'm just new to social office dynamics and everyone else handles this sort of thing just fine
 
Open concept layouts are basically an excuse for employees to slack off and for employers to save money.

Only one step better than cubicles.

What? Open concepts make it harder to slack off, the more walls around you the less obvious it is.
 
Slacking off is much easier to determine by the amount of work that's complete at the end of the day, not by how busy someone looks at any given point in time.

As a programmer my productivity drops when there's less of a chance to concentrate. I might spend less time on sites like reddit if it's open concept, but I will get less done.

I don't think people who don't program, write, create in other ways, etc. generally really understand how all of that works... and a lot of people who don't are in management.

Not to say that my boss is going to totally screw me over - he has already acknowledged that me and another person (our data analyst) have special needs in terms of space. So I have no idea what's going to happen - there are politics and if one person gets a private space, everyone might want one too.. It's really r-ed but that's office life, I guess. I'd much rather work with a group of developers in that regard - at least we all understand eachothers needs in what kind of space works for us. This leads to a lot of quiet and not much talking, which I like (the occasional socialness), but.. Our office is a zoo. I have compiled stats and hard data from studies about the space needed for programmers from reliable sources and am going to present everything to my boss and supervisor soon.. I just need to put it together in some sort of a coherent form
 
Anyone else ever get those messages from wikipedia telling you someone at your IP address made a change to an article you've never seen before?
When I was in high school, I got that message all the time.
 
Depending on network setup, several computers could share the same outside IP. They'd have their own unique IP on the internal network but to the outside world they would have exactly the same IP.. It usually happens in home networks set up with simple routers and places like schools or offices
 
Is that healthy? Did I cross the line? I used to be a big introvert around the office and have been slowly getting more adventurous in my social escapades with my office colleagues. And my boss is an arse, he will pick on new people in front of everyone else as a form of "initiation".. So now I pretty much treat him as a friend, I guess. I'm professional and all, especially if there are non-department people around, but

yeah.. it's a bit weird. It's like having a friend with benefits. What would you guys do?

I think it's entirely reasonable. You don't have an obligation not to have a laugh at his expense from time to time and the comment was very mild. I actually find the whole "respect" for the boss thing a bit lame. My style when dealing with my salespeople is that the only "respect" they owe me is not to f... with my income. And I owe them the exact same respect.

So we take the piss out of each other all the time. They are free to tell me if they think I'm making a bad decision and vice versa. I cop heaps. But if you think you are going to cost me money or not allow me to do what I'm paid to do, either through laziness, dishonesty or an inability to follow instructions, then we are not going to have much of a future together. I really do me absolute best to ensure the salespeople have every chance to succeed and make money so it's not unreasonable to expect it back.

Sorry.....rant.
 
How did Europe's Jewish population increase during the period between the 1938-1948 census if 6,000,000 were allegedly killed during the Holocaust?
 
How did Europe's Jewish population increase during the period between the 1938-1948 census if 6,000,000 were allegedly killed during the Holocaust?
Europe's Jewish population increased?
 
According to the World Almanac, these are the numbers of Jews around the world in 1938 and 1948. It lists Jews by ethnicity as well as religion. It would seem no Holocaust happened at all.

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One Holocaust denial argument is the comparison of the population of Jews before and after the Holocaust. They state that the 1940 World Almanac gives the world Jewish population as 15,319,359, while the 1948 World Almanac gives the world Jewish population as 15,713,638. They therefore claim that either the figures are wrong, or the Holocaust, meaning the deaths of millions of Jews, cannot have happened to any extent similar to the claimed 6 million. Ken McVay writes:

Only in 1949 are postwar estimates employed, the figures given are for estimates made in 1948. A year or two lag seems to be common for various other population estimates given by the World Almanac. The difference between the 1938 and 1948 figures is thus 4,481,491. In 1949, however, the World Almanac gives a revised 1939 population of 16,643,120 giving a difference of between 1938 and 1947 of 5,376,520. Where the extra population between 1938 and 1939 came from is not cited, though one might speculate that it was based upon the Nazi estimates made in 1942 for the Wannsee Conference. Despite the apparent exactness of the numbers listed, the World Almanac warns that all numbers listed are estimates.[53]

Other sources confirm similar numbers—and earlier than the 1949 World Almanac—for the Jewish population before and after the war. The 1932 American Jewish Yearbook estimate the total number of Jews in the world at 15,192,218, of whom 9,418,248 resided in Europe. However, the 1947 yearbook states: "Estimates of the world Jewish population have been assembled by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (except for the United States and Canada) and are probably the most authentic available at the present time. The figures reveal that the total Jewish population of the world has decreased by one-third from about 16,600,000 in 1939 to about 11,000,000 in 1946 as the result of the annihilation by the Nazis of more than five and a half million European Jews. In Europe only an estimated 3,642,000 remain of the total Jewish pre-war population of approximately 9,740,000." These numbers are also consistent with the findings of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Appendix III, in 1946.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Holocaust_denial#Jewish_population
 
A change in our head academic honcho person, due to a one year sabbatical. Nothing incredibly amazing - I thought the meeting was going to be about our move to a new space which is happening this summer.. and which has got me anxious because there are rumours of an open concept layout. I'm a programmer and that would not suit me at all.. So I guess I'm a bit anxious about it. I have already begun assaulting my boss and supervisor with my thoughts on the subject (they know I think it is BS and I have used that exact word), but anyway, we are supposed to be getting a new academic addition and it is supposed to be somebody cool who has a phd in sociology

If it had been serious, you could have looked rather silly doing that.
 
Does anyone else find it strange that you might be a grown ass man or woman with adult siblings but when you visit your parents house (fortified with the salutatory effects of alcohol) you end up bickering over something like say the tv remote, (who watches tv anymore), almost as though being on the mere premises makes you regress?
 
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