Indeed. I work any amount of hours in order to do a good job--no a great job--and I enjoy it. I consider myself passionate, and good luck competing with me. Most do not have the ambition.
This is major bullshit. I bought into that/. ageism paranoia until I got on my first dev team (I used to be in infrastructure...yuck)...most of the people are over 40...just had a guy retire from the dev team. This is at a very young, small company with high dev standards.
I guess this is all that this great technology is going to amount to? A shuddering, messy orgasm of advertisements shot into our faces from every angle and service. All the great minds of the world and the engines of wealth creation are focused on displaying shitty ads to everyone; following them around like little digital cookie stalkers. My fucking god this is getting old. Has anyone else stopped to think about the market cap on targeted ads? Is there enough room for Pintrest, GoatBook, FaceBrick, and everyone else to provide the wonderful service of delivering targeted ads? I don't know about you but I do not find any of this exciting. The great scifi minds of our age and ages past forgot to include the dominance and great feat of plastering ads in everyone's face before the downfall. I don't really like FaceBook, at all, but I would pay to not see a single ad on the damned abyssal social cathulu.
I really don't get why--even on a site filled with smart people--people buy into the propaganda surrounding the Tea Party. Look at the facts: They have subverted one of the parties and have effectively gained a good portion of control over it to the point where the mainstream component is mobilizing to fight them and they have caused more debate outside the talking points of both parties than any single force since Ross Perot. I am not politically active but I get the impression, from what I have seen watching from the outside, that the Tea Party is just a bunch of regular people who are sick of mainstream politics and they are doing something about it. It stems from the republican party because those people are traditionally the most politically active and aware. The media and all the establishments of mainstream political control are not interested in really having this system upset and so they all band together to attack the Tea Party, and they do a damn good job dragging a lot of people with them. Just my observation.
(give any two adults that want legal marriage rights those rights, or give no two adults those legal marriage rights, don't selectively define who can and can't have them based on religious law)
Why does the government grant marriage rights at all? What is marriage? Why do we need to codify it?
I chose a Windows Phone for personal use because I selected a iPhone 5 for work. The Windows Phone fucking blows the iPhone out of the water. Much easier to use, larger (Nokia 928) so you can actually read books and browse the internet without using a microscope, and actually looks pleasing (seen iOS 7, Jesus-Christ). I didn't even pay for the iPhone and I'm sorry I didn't get a Samsung S4 instead.
The Republicans in the House have been trying to use various tactics to shut the US government down completely and then fund only those things that they think should be kept in place, at a rate of approximately once every 3-4 months, for the last 3 years.
Indeed, I got a Nokia 928 Windows Phone just to buck the norm--I already had an iPhone 5 and Motorola Android as well--and it is by far the best phone for eas of use. I LOVE that phone whereas before I could really give tow shits less about a smartphone. The iPhone is completely unimpressive and the useability stinks compared to Windows phone--I could give examples of why but I will not, get one, live with it, or shut up. Android is fine, it is just a phone and they generally work good--I recommend the big Samsungs to everyone. My go-to phone is definitely the Windows Phone and I pay the data bills on it. iPhone? WAY too small these days as people actually *use* their phone to connect with people and browse the internet. The 4.5" screen is the sweetspot--maybe a tad bigger even. Every time I fire up my SSH client on my Windows Phone a grin organically appears on my face.
You aren't counting the techs who keep a local copy to install on every single person's computer that they know with Windows 8. When it hit I had people bombing me to help them "get rid" of Windows 8. It sits on many a old lady's new computers in my town happily making things normal and sane.
Tempting...hell grandiose fist pounding while barking demands to deploy....there wasn't even enough thought put into that for one to entertain that the person doing this reasoned through a mental pathway that could have involved contemplating a temptation (yes, I've experienced this). I attribute this to wild-eyed animalistic stupidity.
The only acceptable opinion of government is suspicion and loathing. When people like government it becomes this icky thing where the figurehead turns into a god and that figurehead's actions are revered by those who aren't getting killed or robbed by him/her.
Roads. Sewers. Electricity. Water delivery. Education. Hopefully decent health care. Working law systems. And yes, even something as basic as package delivery. Internet?
Slice out education and healthcare....those are far to complicated to compete as a government manged with a properly functioning market-based solution...and add in banking which should be boring and quite uncomplicated and devoid of profit. Straight-forward deliverables the government can handle...if it takes innovation and involves complex economic interactions you can pretty much guarantee the government will fuck it up--it simply can't help it. You can't micromanage things like that.
Doesn't work that way. People act like taxing a big profitable company is the end of the line, it is not. Those big profitable companies sell you nearly everything you consume. They do not take a hit to the bottom line from taxes, shrug their shoulders and move on with life. Instead they program the taxes into product and service prices--so YOU are paying the taxes, NOT the company. If you know anything about corp accounting/finance you will know that a certain percentage of return is required on products, raising taxes on them is just going to transfer the expense back to you and everyone else. If you really want to tax the rich progressively then you should tax purchases with a federal sales tax. Corporations makes jobs for people, real jobs where you can buy a house and cars, and toys---so yeah smack them with a 35%, hell 90% tax, and witness economic malaise. I don't think corporations should be taxed at all, no one who employs should be taxed.
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Indeed. I work any amount of hours in order to do a good job--no a great job--and I enjoy it. I consider myself passionate, and good luck competing with me. Most do not have the ambition.
This is major bullshit. I bought into that /. ageism paranoia until I got on my first dev team (I used to be in infrastructure...yuck)...most of the people are over 40...just had a guy retire from the dev team. This is at a very young, small company with high dev standards.
I think it was +0 results.
I guess this is all that this great technology is going to amount to? A shuddering, messy orgasm of advertisements shot into our faces from every angle and service. All the great minds of the world and the engines of wealth creation are focused on displaying shitty ads to everyone; following them around like little digital cookie stalkers. My fucking god this is getting old. Has anyone else stopped to think about the market cap on targeted ads? Is there enough room for Pintrest, GoatBook, FaceBrick, and everyone else to provide the wonderful service of delivering targeted ads? I don't know about you but I do not find any of this exciting. The great scifi minds of our age and ages past forgot to include the dominance and great feat of plastering ads in everyone's face before the downfall. I don't really like FaceBook, at all, but I would pay to not see a single ad on the damned abyssal social cathulu.
I really don't get why--even on a site filled with smart people--people buy into the propaganda surrounding the Tea Party. Look at the facts: They have subverted one of the parties and have effectively gained a good portion of control over it to the point where the mainstream component is mobilizing to fight them and they have caused more debate outside the talking points of both parties than any single force since Ross Perot. I am not politically active but I get the impression, from what I have seen watching from the outside, that the Tea Party is just a bunch of regular people who are sick of mainstream politics and they are doing something about it. It stems from the republican party because those people are traditionally the most politically active and aware. The media and all the establishments of mainstream political control are not interested in really having this system upset and so they all band together to attack the Tea Party, and they do a damn good job dragging a lot of people with them. Just my observation.
(give any two adults that want legal marriage rights those rights, or give no two adults those legal marriage rights, don't selectively define who can and can't have them based on religious law)
Why does the government grant marriage rights at all? What is marriage? Why do we need to codify it?
I hold the policy that all elected officials are the enemy--whether I voted for them or not. To be watched and scrutinized at every turn.
I chose a Windows Phone for personal use because I selected a iPhone 5 for work. The Windows Phone fucking blows the iPhone out of the water. Much easier to use, larger (Nokia 928) so you can actually read books and browse the internet without using a microscope, and actually looks pleasing (seen iOS 7, Jesus-Christ). I didn't even pay for the iPhone and I'm sorry I didn't get a Samsung S4 instead.
I consider Windows 7 a business OS and Windows 8.1 a consumer/home OS.
What the shit!? Someone is making sense. Please get healthcare off the backs of employers....AND taxes!
The Republicans in the House have been trying to use various tactics to shut the US government down completely and then fund only those things that they think should be kept in place, at a rate of approximately once every 3-4 months, for the last 3 years.
That is awesome....who do I vote for?
Indeed, I got a Nokia 928 Windows Phone just to buck the norm--I already had an iPhone 5 and Motorola Android as well--and it is by far the best phone for eas of use. I LOVE that phone whereas before I could really give tow shits less about a smartphone. The iPhone is completely unimpressive and the useability stinks compared to Windows phone--I could give examples of why but I will not, get one, live with it, or shut up. Android is fine, it is just a phone and they generally work good--I recommend the big Samsungs to everyone. My go-to phone is definitely the Windows Phone and I pay the data bills on it. iPhone? WAY too small these days as people actually *use* their phone to connect with people and browse the internet. The 4.5" screen is the sweetspot--maybe a tad bigger even. Every time I fire up my SSH client on my Windows Phone a grin organically appears on my face.
You aren't counting the techs who keep a local copy to install on every single person's computer that they know with Windows 8. When it hit I had people bombing me to help them "get rid" of Windows 8. It sits on many a old lady's new computers in my town happily making things normal and sane.
Now I know where all the old slashdot users went.
Tempting...hell grandiose fist pounding while barking demands to deploy....there wasn't even enough thought put into that for one to entertain that the person doing this reasoned through a mental pathway that could have involved contemplating a temptation (yes, I've experienced this). I attribute this to wild-eyed animalistic stupidity.
Yeah...and 1% is way too much.
The only acceptable opinion of government is suspicion and loathing. When people like government it becomes this icky thing where the figurehead turns into a god and that figurehead's actions are revered by those who aren't getting killed or robbed by him/her.
You CAN build your own routers....it may not be 1U but it will be secure.
I'm enjoying Lync personally.
Yeah, I think the revenue stream is very one they are refusing now.
I don't think there's a "doped up wacko party" in the US
Uh...it's called the Democratic and Republican Parties.
Free market competition has worked out how to put those legal requirements into a car without it looking like a 1980's Chevy.
fixed that for ya....
It's like everyone at the American car companies had a stroke in 80's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Malibu
I noticed at a very early age that big companies resembled governments.
Roads. Sewers. Electricity. Water delivery. Education. Hopefully decent health care. Working law systems. And yes, even something as basic as package delivery. Internet?
Slice out education and healthcare....those are far to complicated to compete as a government manged with a properly functioning market-based solution...and add in banking which should be boring and quite uncomplicated and devoid of profit. Straight-forward deliverables the government can handle...if it takes innovation and involves complex economic interactions you can pretty much guarantee the government will fuck it up--it simply can't help it. You can't micromanage things like that.
Doesn't work that way. People act like taxing a big profitable company is the end of the line, it is not. Those big profitable companies sell you nearly everything you consume. They do not take a hit to the bottom line from taxes, shrug their shoulders and move on with life. Instead they program the taxes into product and service prices--so YOU are paying the taxes, NOT the company. If you know anything about corp accounting/finance you will know that a certain percentage of return is required on products, raising taxes on them is just going to transfer the expense back to you and everyone else. If you really want to tax the rich progressively then you should tax purchases with a federal sales tax. Corporations makes jobs for people, real jobs where you can buy a house and cars, and toys---so yeah smack them with a 35%, hell 90% tax, and witness economic malaise. I don't think corporations should be taxed at all, no one who employs should be taxed.