slim the fuck down to focus on the parts of the business turning a profit
That is what companies or professional managers would normally do if they had a solid fundamental business. Yahoo is.....I don't know what it is but a website with tons of residual accounts and users who are not cool. It reminds me of AOL and it will be around for a long time due to the accumulation of certain assets. Assets are not a business though. Sell.
If you really want to make an extra contribution outside the business world you should probably start your own project(s). In the end your contribution will probably fuel the activity related to the "financial-obsession of the business world." This "financial-obsession" is just an aspect of nature which I'm sure would take the forefront in your mind should you lose your nice paycheck.
disillusioned with the financial-obsession of the business world and would like to work for the overall betterment of humanity instead.
The business world IS engaged in an overall betterment of humanity. Generating economic activity is paramount to people surviving and having the extra time to sit around and whine about their great job as a software developer. I suggest a book by John Paul Getty called "How To Be Rich" where he lays this stuff out in simple terms that makes a lot of sense. To sum it up, the worst thing a company could do to its employees is not turn a profit~~roughly paraphrased. Meaning it would eventually go out of business and you would be out of the job and no one would be left to fund researchers. Nothing wrong with being a researcher at all, just don't wine about all the people who bust their ass to assure that you have that opportunity.
I just follow the golden rule when in groups, especially if I'm the leader. What would happen if someone gave Linus a good lashing because they didn't like something he did?
I believe that its better to not have the need to carry than to carry just in case.
Yes, but as we exist on the physical plane this is never going to be a part of our reality. What foggy area of your mind eludes to a remote possibility of a utopia where free people don't have to protect themselves from nature?
Because he and his cabinet, even if it was their goal, are incapable of mustering the political resources to start another war--and the Bush clan already used up all the good easy enemies.
We'll see a post soon where Sun's unsuccessful marketing is blamed for their demise. If you hadn't noticed, people use a certain technology because it works to solve their problem. Marketing can help spur this but hardly determines the success of any technology. It is adopted/purchased/used because it works and is needed. Don't point to Microsoft either--they have a monopoly that they leveraged successfully, a trait that is baked into that company by the founder and current CEO.
I acknowledge the nature of an "unseen" world where ideas and thought originate but for which we have no physical proof--some call it "spiritual." I do not believe in it however as I'm still learning more about nature every day. I do not secretly long for the death of those who do not see as I do like the acolytes of these fundamentalist sects do. I grew up in a fundamentalist sect which many people have great things to say about its people, but the truth is that they taught their people that those not in the sect where damned to certain death by god and those real, live, grown up, supposedly adult people believe it and in essence hate and judge their fellowman in their hearts as unworthy of life (while acting perfectly nice to their face). If you think that devout religious people do not view you as a piece of shit then you are wrong. In their eyes you are as good as dead and deserve worse.
True, they will be very quick to jump on and support you without examining any of your background given that you espouse something in line with their judgments and beliefs. As soon as they find someone with whom they do not agree on a particular subject they go into spook mode digging up everything in their background that allows them to vilify that person.
That's not paranoia it is just a logical and innovative way of analyzing this strange story. Maybe I'm slipping but normally I would think of something like that given such an odd report.
For large businesses it also very cheap. Look at the amount they spend on politicians compared to the revenues and profits earned. The amount used for lobbying is money well spent.
They are not YOUR records, they are merely records of your health care. They belong to the doctors or the medical institutions. The medical records are not for your consumption and most practitioners will not let you have them. Sometimes people get a peek at the records but you are not going to get a copy typically. You have no choice about their propagation.
There is a problem though. My mother is involved with an independent home care startup. Home care is part of the new push to provide better care and keeps costs under control. Like I said, there are some problems. First, you need experienced nurses (which are retiring) to provide in-home care since they are often by themselves driving from patient to patient--new grads can not do the job and there is not enough money involved to pay two nurses to travel around while one is in training. The older nurses like home care because it frees them to work their own schedule and frees them from the politics of working in an institution (any experienced nurse is already sick of that). The drawback is the amount of work required to get paid for home care. After these older experienced nurses travel to patients all day they have ten hours of paper work to look forward to in order for the company to get paid. Now, the idea behind all of this detailed paperwork is great as it is meant to establish a meticulous record in order for the healthcare to be tracked and evaluated but I see this emerging industry bending under the need for experienced nurses who are willing to bust their ass and then spend an entire day completing detailed charting for a paycheck that figures out to minimum wage (or close to it when you consider the hours involved). These experienced nurses drop like flies and each loss is a hard hit to these home care providers. My mom loves it but she says she has to get out.
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I was squinting, shaking my head, and wondering how the hell they thought we got gold in the first place. Isn't this ridiculously obvious?
I just drive off even if I can't see. Just stick your head out the window.
going forward its going to be a lot of internal politics
Don't say that, I'm about to join a maturing start-up.
slim the fuck down to focus on the parts of the business turning a profit
That is what companies or professional managers would normally do if they had a solid fundamental business. Yahoo is.....I don't know what it is but a website with tons of residual accounts and users who are not cool. It reminds me of AOL and it will be around for a long time due to the accumulation of certain assets. Assets are not a business though. Sell.
Yawn.
If you really want to make an extra contribution outside the business world you should probably start your own project(s). In the end your contribution will probably fuel the activity related to the "financial-obsession of the business world." This "financial-obsession" is just an aspect of nature which I'm sure would take the forefront in your mind should you lose your nice paycheck.
disillusioned with the financial-obsession of the business world and would like to work for the overall betterment of humanity instead.
The business world IS engaged in an overall betterment of humanity. Generating economic activity is paramount to people surviving and having the extra time to sit around and whine about their great job as a software developer. I suggest a book by John Paul Getty called "How To Be Rich" where he lays this stuff out in simple terms that makes a lot of sense. To sum it up, the worst thing a company could do to its employees is not turn a profit~~roughly paraphrased. Meaning it would eventually go out of business and you would be out of the job and no one would be left to fund researchers. Nothing wrong with being a researcher at all, just don't wine about all the people who bust their ass to assure that you have that opportunity.
The market is setting the right price. If Spotify needed to pay more it would simply have to pay more.
No one will take over. The kernel has a life of its own and is mature enough to be forked without looking back.
I just follow the golden rule when in groups, especially if I'm the leader. What would happen if someone gave Linus a good lashing because they didn't like something he did?
Most of us can only dream of ever reaching such a point in our lives.
Reaching the point of being an irrelevant bitchy douche?
Chicken or egg, which came first?
I believe that its better to not have the need to carry than to carry just in case.
Yes, but as we exist on the physical plane this is never going to be a part of our reality. What foggy area of your mind eludes to a remote possibility of a utopia where free people don't have to protect themselves from nature?
Because he and his cabinet, even if it was their goal, are incapable of mustering the political resources to start another war--and the Bush clan already used up all the good easy enemies.
He has the power to reduce Gitmo to nothing more than an empty act of congress with no real operations.
I second that. I just got through telling my wife they should withdraw it. I wonder if anyone else will nominate Snowden.
We'll see a post soon where Sun's unsuccessful marketing is blamed for their demise. If you hadn't noticed, people use a certain technology because it works to solve their problem. Marketing can help spur this but hardly determines the success of any technology. It is adopted/purchased/used because it works and is needed. Don't point to Microsoft either--they have a monopoly that they leveraged successfully, a trait that is baked into that company by the founder and current CEO.
I acknowledge the nature of an "unseen" world where ideas and thought originate but for which we have no physical proof--some call it "spiritual." I do not believe in it however as I'm still learning more about nature every day. I do not secretly long for the death of those who do not see as I do like the acolytes of these fundamentalist sects do. I grew up in a fundamentalist sect which many people have great things to say about its people, but the truth is that they taught their people that those not in the sect where damned to certain death by god and those real, live, grown up, supposedly adult people believe it and in essence hate and judge their fellowman in their hearts as unworthy of life (while acting perfectly nice to their face). If you think that devout religious people do not view you as a piece of shit then you are wrong. In their eyes you are as good as dead and deserve worse.
True, they will be very quick to jump on and support you without examining any of your background given that you espouse something in line with their judgments and beliefs. As soon as they find someone with whom they do not agree on a particular subject they go into spook mode digging up everything in their background that allows them to vilify that person.
That's not paranoia it is just a logical and innovative way of analyzing this strange story. Maybe I'm slipping but normally I would think of something like that given such an odd report.
For large businesses it also very cheap. Look at the amount they spend on politicians compared to the revenues and profits earned. The amount used for lobbying is money well spent.
They are not YOUR records, they are merely records of your health care. They belong to the doctors or the medical institutions. The medical records are not for your consumption and most practitioners will not let you have them. Sometimes people get a peek at the records but you are not going to get a copy typically. You have no choice about their propagation.
There is a problem though. My mother is involved with an independent home care startup. Home care is part of the new push to provide better care and keeps costs under control. Like I said, there are some problems. First, you need experienced nurses (which are retiring) to provide in-home care since they are often by themselves driving from patient to patient--new grads can not do the job and there is not enough money involved to pay two nurses to travel around while one is in training. The older nurses like home care because it frees them to work their own schedule and frees them from the politics of working in an institution (any experienced nurse is already sick of that). The drawback is the amount of work required to get paid for home care. After these older experienced nurses travel to patients all day they have ten hours of paper work to look forward to in order for the company to get paid. Now, the idea behind all of this detailed paperwork is great as it is meant to establish a meticulous record in order for the healthcare to be tracked and evaluated but I see this emerging industry bending under the need for experienced nurses who are willing to bust their ass and then spend an entire day completing detailed charting for a paycheck that figures out to minimum wage (or close to it when you consider the hours involved). These experienced nurses drop like flies and each loss is a hard hit to these home care providers. My mom loves it but she says she has to get out.
Yes corporations are people. Lots of people. Did you think that monkeys were answering the phones and making your products? (Don't answer that.)
Kevin Turner looks like he emerged from somewhere in middle management at the department of homeland security.