Something about it being a monday is pissing of people about april fools. Instead of shaking their head and moving on they're spewing forth crap... it's happening all over the place today.
"Management" as being the worst part of I.T. fits right into my career experience.
I've worked providing computer resources to non-technical (or at least not technical in computer areas) people during my career, and I have had a number of bosses who just would not listen. Some of it was that computer work was so outside their experience that it was magic, and if something is "magic" it takes no time or money to do. Users and management see too much stuff in I.T. as nothing more than flipping a switch because of their low knowledge level.
For other bosses it was a more fundamental problem that's seen everywhere: management not listening to an expert when he/she says something they don't like.
My advice to managers of all sorts: you should choose between two states with experts: trust the person you hire and listen to what he/she says or get rid of that expert. There should be nothing in the middle. You are going to lose those experts if you constantly second guess them or force them into situations that they have told you are not sustainable. Learn to listen.
The thing you mention about the book is obvious B.S., but I can't see how you can not give some of the blame for that clusterfuck of a response to the Bush administration. It's a textbook case of giving an important job to an idiot crony.
John Wayne, oddly enough did perform in the last movie Howard Hughes made which was called "The Conqueror."
It's relevant here because they chose a site that was downwind from a nuclear test site. There are pictures that exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter on set.
As IMDB notes: As of November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne.
John Wayne, oddly enough did perform in the last movie Howard Hughes made which was called "The Conqueror."
It's relevant here because they chose a site that was downwind from a nuclear test site. There are pictures that exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter on set.
As IMDB notes: As of November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. -- I know my posts are good because of all the "Overrated" mods...
Corporation is our common shorthand for "Limited Liability Corporation." It started as a legal trick for owner of a business so that if their company got sued then they wouldn't be responsible or thrown in jail.
It's that "Limited Liability" part that is the root of some pretty tremendous evil in the modern world.
That is a valid position. The problem is that the vast majority of people taking it (like most political positions currently) are disingenuous. They're absolutely fine taking the position when it suits their needs (IE they don't like research into alternative fuels) and forgetting about their "firmly held belief" when it doesn't (for instance corporate welfare to their oil contributors). It's worse when these same people have a constituency that allow them to get away with it.
I respect people who hold non-hypocritial beliefs. You have to look at the histories and the every Washington politician that makes claims that they are following their beliefs. It's all about lobbyists, not beliefs.
you know what is progressive? Saying that an individual's rights is more important than a corporation's rights. Right now that is right off the chart progressive.
There is virtually no public outcry when a corporation violates their contracts with their employees in the U.S. That's why I make the statement. I can't speak for other countries that I don't live in.
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Something about it being a monday is pissing of people about april fools. Instead of shaking their head and moving on they're spewing forth crap... it's happening all over the place today.
complainer:
"Be a serious news organization"
I hear:
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Offtopic on this is bullshit moderation.
Now redundant, I might understand.
Put big fucking X marks on the side of posts of people who obviously haven't read the earlier Rot13 post.
The only person in the world that is so bad that his NORMAL writing looks like Rot13...
"Management" as being the worst part of I.T. fits right into my career experience.
I've worked providing computer resources to non-technical (or at least not technical in computer areas) people during my career, and I have had a number of bosses who just would not listen. Some of it was that computer work was so outside their experience that it was magic, and if something is "magic" it takes no time or money to do. Users and management see too much stuff in I.T. as nothing more than flipping a switch because of their low knowledge level.
For other bosses it was a more fundamental problem that's seen everywhere: management not listening to an expert when he/she says something they don't like.
My advice to managers of all sorts: you should choose between two states with experts: trust the person you hire and listen to what he/she says or get rid of that expert. There should be nothing in the middle. You are going to lose those experts if you constantly second guess them or force them into situations that they have told you are not sustainable. Learn to listen.
I have to give the thumbs up to taking Dell private. It's the best hope of survival.
They need less corporate idiots ruining it and more radical thought.
You are never going to get people to pay attention to those instructions. That's human nature.
The thing you mention about the book is obvious B.S., but I can't see how you can not give some of the blame for that clusterfuck of a response to the Bush administration. It's a textbook case of giving an important job to an idiot crony.
Just announced: iPhones will now feature a permanent pop-up message that says "A new version of the IOS is available, do you want to install?"
Corporate Socialism, of course, is AOK!
John Wayne, oddly enough did perform in the last movie Howard Hughes made which was called "The Conqueror."
It's relevant here because they chose a site that was downwind from a nuclear test site. There are pictures that exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter on set.
As IMDB notes: As of November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne.
John Wayne, oddly enough did perform in the last movie Howard Hughes made which was called "The Conqueror."
It's relevant here because they chose a site that was downwind from a nuclear test site. There are pictures that exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter on set.
As IMDB notes: As of November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne.
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I know my posts are good because of all the "Overrated" mods...
Serious question... is this the first time an exec was ousted for a mistake with DRM?
Corporation is our common shorthand for "Limited Liability Corporation." It started as a legal trick for owner of a business so that if their company got sued then they wouldn't be responsible or thrown in jail.
It's that "Limited Liability" part that is the root of some pretty tremendous evil in the modern world.
And "The Island" sounds a lot like Clonus, but that's a different story altogether.
"It's obviously very hard for the employees concerned, and we are committed to helping them through this difficult transition."
Helping them == Walking with them to the car in the parking lot.
GTFO!!!
That is a valid position. The problem is that the vast majority of people taking it (like most political positions currently) are disingenuous. They're absolutely fine taking the position when it suits their needs (IE they don't like research into alternative fuels) and forgetting about their "firmly held belief" when it doesn't (for instance corporate welfare to their oil contributors). It's worse when these same people have a constituency that allow them to get away with it.
I respect people who hold non-hypocritial beliefs. You have to look at the histories and the every Washington politician that makes claims that they are following their beliefs. It's all about lobbyists, not beliefs.
you know what is progressive? Saying that an individual's rights is more important than a corporation's rights. Right now that is right off the chart progressive.
Science can *not* tell you when life begins. It's a philosophical/moral matter.
This is why it is an issue of rights. You don't have the right to push your philosophy or moral system on me, full stop.
If working was home was part of the agreement with certain employees when they started working there I hope those employees sue.
How is babby formed?
...is if they're truly feeling suicidal or not.
If you think that they could get through anything like that alive you're smoking something.
It's not only the US or NATO that would strike either, it would be Russia and their buddies in China as well. There would be nothing left.
Go read Dune. When one family uses "atomics" then everyone else combines and destroys them.
Has a fine like this *ever* been paid in the U.S. though in actuality?
It either gets fed to the appeals system which reduces it or ties the payment up for so long it's meaningless or it gets ignored and forgotten.
I can't remember one example of a company just paying the fine and moving on, actually. Does someone else here remember anything like this?
There is virtually no public outcry when a corporation violates their contracts with their employees in the U.S. That's why I make the statement. I can't speak for other countries that I don't live in.
This while she was building a nursery in her office so she could spend time with her kid at work.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/how-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-building-a-nursery-by-her-office-and-dissing-working-moms/
If that's not her giving her workforce the finger then I don't know what is.