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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 15:23:14 GMT -5
oopseffing thing even changes the url inside the like!
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rockpickerforever
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 21, 2016 15:29:54 GMT -5
Yeah, still don't work. What a tenacious, PIA piece of software that is!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 23:35:21 GMT -5
Yeah, still don't work. What a tenacious, PIA piece of software that is! The solution is to use goo.gl or tinyurl to redirect for us. But, I'm lazy... ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by OregonBorn on Sept 22, 2016 14:42:52 GMT -5
As for your time in Sandy Eggo, my dad worked at GD from 1955 to 1994. 39 years, you may have known him! He was mostly at the Kearny Mesa plant, but did move around and work for them at several different locations over those many years.
They had everything you mentioned, great benefits, etc. A lot of the big companies in those long forgotten days actually cared about their employees. They did a lot of things for those employees and their families. Remember going to the Missile Park often as a child, great memories. Only wish I was into rocks way back when, I understand they had quite the lapidary setup. So did Rohr. Field trips... It was a different era. Jean
I was in San Diego and at GD until 1993. I went to SDSU and UCSD. The only job I had in San Diego was at GD. It was certainly a different era and company that cared about its employees. I would probably still be there if the defense spending had not vaporized. Best management I ever worked for was there. I mostly worked in Kerney Mesa for GDE: the electronics division. I also spent time at a secure facility in Rancho Bernardo. I was also loaned out to work at Space Systems and Data Systems. I lived in Del Cerro. Yes, Missile Park. I took my niece and nephew there to ride the train. They loved it. I left GD after I had a 3 year contract with the Japanese in hand to develop the F-16/J fighter jet, and then Mitsubishi Heavy Industry arrived one day and completely cancelled the program. I had an offer at another defense contractor in the SF Bay area to work on the NAVAIR proposal, so I headed north. I collected rocks when I lived there, but mostly small amounts of tourmaline up around the Alpine area after a friend showed me his collection of the stuff that he had collected up there. I collected some rocks while off-roading in Anza Borrego. I also collected silver coins when the beaches were carried away by the large storm swells there one winter. I never thought to look in Ramona or Oceanside for rocks. I never go into lapidary at GD either. I wish I had that job there now! Job security and at a people company.
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Post by OregonBorn on Sept 22, 2016 14:59:14 GMT -5
Amusing also that the FBI came out this week and is advising that everyone cover their webcams with tape. I also found this on the web today. Seems that internet apps and security/privacy issues are going places I never dreamed of. www.markeoopsch.com/story/bad-vibrations-your-sex-toy-may-be-collecting-information-about-you-2016-09-20I mean, really? Actually I never had a clue as to where the internet would go from where it was back in the 1980s. Or even the 90s. As for Google, I lived in the Silly Valley for 12 years. I have been to the Googleplex (what was the SGI campus in Palo Alto) and eaten at several of the lavish Google "cafeterias"/restaurants. Good food. Insane benefits there. Though we actually had better benefits at General Dynamics in Sandy Eggo in the 1980s. At GD we has 100% medical and dental coverage for any doctor anywhere in the world, a company retirement benefit plan, as well as a 401-k matching plan. We had 12 paid holidays a year, and 21 paid sick days a year. My master's degree courses at UCSD were paid for 100% by the company, including text books and parking fees. We also had lots of company and gov't paid for lunches, parties and events, usually one a week, as well as tix to football and baseball games, and local theme park tix. Per diem and travel expenses there as paid for in advance for all company trips. We were paid salary for a 40 hour week, which was actually a 40 hour week. I was also approved for overtime, for which I was paid a straight hourly scale, but I was later paid for the added half time. That was during the RayGun days before the military contractor meltdown on the early to mid 1990s. You url has an embedded curse word. Have a look market watch (one word) is a curse word here? Give me a f'ing break. Maybe I should move on to a less restrictive forum? I mean, really? TWA*T? I can see why some of the content in that link would be objectionable, but the link to a respectable site like Market Watch... I give up. Draconian censorship has gone amuk here.
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Post by captbob on Sept 22, 2016 16:52:19 GMT -5
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Post by susnlar on Mar 30, 2017 6:37:11 GMT -5
I'm very interested in final pics of the second to the last one. I found a couple similar ones in WA states tri-cities area, (outside my moms nursing home. I was wondering what they might be and especially the pea soup Green part. Thanks! I'm so new to the tumbling/vibing of rocks I'm afraid to keep going on my tumbles!
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 30, 2017 9:58:12 GMT -5
I'm very interested in final pics of the second to the last one. I found a couple similar ones in WA states tri-cities area, (outside my moms nursing home. I was wondering what they might be and especially the pea soup Green part. Thanks! I'm so new to the tumbling/vibing of rocks I'm afraid to keep going on my tumbles! Tumble away,that's how you learn and experiment...Two thumbs up.......
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Post by 1dave on Apr 5, 2017 7:41:26 GMT -5
You url has an embedded curse word. Have a look market watch (one word) is a curse word here? Give me a f'ing break. Maybe I should move on to a less restrictive forum? I mean, really? TWA*T? I can see why some of the content in that link would be objectionable, but the link to a respectable site like Market Watch... I give up. Draconian censorship has gone amuk here. It is NOT this forum, it is GOOGLE!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2017 8:55:49 GMT -5
market watch (one word) is a curse word here? Give me a f'ing break. Maybe I should move on to a less restrictive forum? I mean, really? TWA*T? I can see why some of the content in that link would be objectionable, but the link to a respectable site like Market Watch... I give up. Draconian censorship has gone amuk here. It is NOT this forum, it is GOOGLE!Huh?
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Post by 1dave on Apr 5, 2017 9:10:09 GMT -5
It is NOT this forum, it is GOOGLE!Huh? What do you mean Huh? Aren't you the one that pointed this out?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2017 9:30:56 GMT -5
What do you mean Huh? Aren't you the one that pointed this out? No. It's an ill advised curse word filter on proboards.
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Post by 1dave on Apr 5, 2017 9:49:52 GMT -5
Oh! Proboards is the culprit!
Thanks for clarifying that!
Has anyone tried to correct them?
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