Probably because he has a low threshold of tolerance for ambiguity and error in general. It's rather irritating to consider the probability that the universe is random when one prefers order.
Okay Michael, you have got to stop with the ruthless and utter certainty of your own inherent rightness here, because your sense of self-righteousness is blinding you to the situation. Basil's mother thought he was talking about HORSES at first. How well do you think a middle-aged mother, who when told names for various Android ports thinks of ponies, is going to read a Wikipedia page full of hyperlinks, bolded text, and little textline commands? If you honestly think that it's going to be easy as pie, then why do you feel you need to offer your assistance via Skype, if not to hold her pretty little hand during the process and show off how "easy" it is (and incidentally how brilliant you are).
You get off on other people being aware of how awesomely smart and knowledgeable you are, which forces you to exercise this constantly lest someone actually catch you at a mistake (god forbid that should happen, you probably throw a temper tantrum to end all tantrums) and your sense of certainty blinds you. A little humility would go a long ways here. Basil's not exactly a n00b here, and he's been through this rodeo before.
You sir, hit it on the head. A lot of the so-called Super Rich don't actually have a whole lot of cash on hand. They live on credit, investments, and dividends, plus money market accounts.
Damn straight. Them shallow water sailors are badasses, not only do they sail into hurricanes for fun and heroism, they also take on the drug trade directly.
Because it has always been that way, it will always be that way, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. It is human nature. No matter how fool-proof of a system you build, someone will try and succeed to subvert it for their own gain, or that of the ideology they follow. You can try to crusade against it, and I'd encourage you to, but be aware that you will never actually solve the problem. For every "Chair Owner" you displace, another will take its place. If you're truly successful, then one of those chairs you take will be for you, and then YOU will be the enemy you rail against. The only way to fight it is to go with it, make the differences that you can, and hope for the best.
The problem with your logic is that someone's going to try and subvert it in the name of profit. And they're going to succeed. Then others are going to follow. And before you know it, protectionism and reshoring has failed, and we're right back where we started.
Just once, I would like to see a recipient of this question answer: "Yes, as a matter of fact I AM a dickwad! Moreso, I am proud of being a dickwad. I enjoy dispensing small streams of misery from my curdled penis onto the foreheads of those I despise on a daily basis. The sounds of my name being cursed brings me horrid joy, and I get great satisfaction from masturbating all over newborn kittens. Abuse is my middle name (when it isn't Wrong, Arrogant, Mean, or Prick), and I delight in making everyone around me feel why I earn it. In fact, my day isn't complete until I have thoroughly shafted someone with a tree branch, taken a piss in someone else's coffee, and generally act like a complete tool to those competent and nice assholes that I have the misfortune to be surrounded by. And when I die, I hope my grave gets pooped on by the descendants of those I have wronged."
Maybe I should consider a career in trolling. Could be lucrative.
And the world STILL sucks. We do not live under an uber-American world totality where we all sing the National Anthem at breakfast and those of the wrong skin color, temperament, or with irritable bowel syndrome have been quietly taken out back and shot.
Fat lot of good that super-secret quantum supercomputer in the hands of a secretive US government agency did
I'm not going to dispute your experience, Supercrisp. I had three courses during my ME that were total jokes, and those were the thesis classes. My Master's Thesis is a total joke, and I flat-out said so in my closing argument, because I had to poop out surveys via Surveymonkey (just like you point out), and basically go through the experience of writing a Master's Thesis. Yay me. And of course, I got an A on that thesis, which was ridiculous, if nothing else than if anyone had bothered reading my closing statement then I wouldn't have even gotten a grade. Not just that, I also found out what general ME programs are like, and I have to agree with you on them. They are a joke.
What wasn't a joke about my program were all the other courses I was taking. It was clear my instructors were moonlighting, but they were competent. All of them were education professionals in management positions within various school districts in the US and Canada, and they knew their stuff. I'll flat-out admit it to you: I lucked out. Out of all the possible traps I could have walked into in the higher education racket, I walked into one that had a rigorous program. I wrote my ass off, had to follow APA guidelines religiously, and I had to do in-depth researching.
I don't blame you being nasty towards me. I imagine you've ran across some retarded Phoenix graduates. I've got to overcome that bias. But I will tell you this: I outcompete and outperform most of my coworkers (some of whom have MBAs from big name universities). I took the steps to improve myself, and that attitude paid off big. Yeah, I got burned by a school with a dubious reputation. But damn it, I DID IT. You want to imply that I'm stupid for going to Phoenix, go right ahead. At the time I went in, I did my research and Phoenix looked great. People talked wonderfully about them. There was no way in retrospect that I could have known what was going on. So if you're going to burn me for not knowing in retrospect what seems obvious now, then either you're the Second Coming of Christ and perfection incarnate, or you've forgotten that sometimes bad things happen to good people, and when that happens you make the best of it, finish what you started, and move on.
Yeah, thanks for the potshot across my bow. I don't know you, so I'm not going to personally insult you. Instead, I'm going to explain the following:
1) I'm a Phoenix. I went to UOP and got a Master's in Education from them.
2) I did so because I wanted a Master's degree in something I found interesting, AND it'd help me with the 'checkbox' issue. Which, I will point out, is far more prevalent in society than just certain institutions as you allude to. These days, you have to have a Master's degree in ANYTHING in order to get noticed. You can thank the glut of craptastic MBA's out there for that.
3) I'm not stupid, but you're implying that because I'm a Phoenix, I am stupid and deserve no respect. That's an awfully big assumption to tar someone with. I worked my ass off for my degree because Phoenix happens to be the university of choice for current educators to go back and get their Masters degrees in Education. That means their Education curriculum is brutal, taught by current educators who know what they're doing, and they don't pull any punches. I won't deny that there were a lot of diploma mill courses at the time in Phoenix. I'm saying that the program I went through wasn't one of them.
I got hired by my employer into a good paying Financial Analyst position BECAUSE I took the initiative and effort to get my Master's degree. Believe it or not, a lot of employers value employees who go out and do such programs on their own time, with their own money, because that's a sign that the employee is motivated, hard-working, and willing to improve themselves. My boss doesn't consider Phoenix to be a mark of shame. He hired me BECAUSE I went there, and he hired me over the multiple UW finance grads I was competing with.
So, I'm going to suggest to you that perhaps you should re-evaluate your opinion of Phoenix. Yes, Phoenix did some stupid, stupid shit last decade. Yes, those of us who are Phoenixes have to bear that shame. Yes, there are Phoenix grads who don't have the IQ of a pinto bean. It makes those of us who gave a damn and are proud of what we did work all the harder to prove ourselves. And if you can't see past that, then you might be the one who doesn't deserve any respect.
And wouldn't that just set the white sheeters on fire. "Hey you! Yeah You. Greatest defender of the white race! For one, you're our worst example, and two, you're hating representatives of the only TRUE human bloodline there is? How's that for kicks, MUTANT!"
you do realize you've outted yourself as a girl on/. now, right? Prepare for the onslaught of misogynistic date requests couched as invitations to impale yourself on whatever can be conceived of...
And yet the world is still full of bad guys. Tell me oh wise one, if the CIA is so powerful and has ALWAYS worked this way with unparalleled success and competency, then why isn't our world a better place right now?
How about this: embrace doubt, you moron. You're not perfect, you do not know the truth, and your theories reek more than a little of paranoia, indicating that you're spouting baseless conspiracy theories. Furthermore, you are ignoring a well-documented history of similar behavior in order to push your pet ideology. You appear to be incapable of admitting you might be wrong, which means you have a problem with doubt. I understand right now you feel you're right, but just consider that your default operating mode is *always* right, until you are wrong. So, you may very well be wrong. And if you could argue your case with some humility, and accepting the possibility that you could be wrong and NOT know it, then we wouldn't be on here calling you a moron and casting aspersions on your ideas.
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Oh dear gawd that's AWESOME!!!!!
Okay, yeah, this is a troll, but this is a damned funny troll. Good job!
Probably because he has a low threshold of tolerance for ambiguity and error in general. It's rather irritating to consider the probability that the universe is random when one prefers order.
Okay Michael, you have got to stop with the ruthless and utter certainty of your own inherent rightness here, because your sense of self-righteousness is blinding you to the situation. Basil's mother thought he was talking about HORSES at first. How well do you think a middle-aged mother, who when told names for various Android ports thinks of ponies, is going to read a Wikipedia page full of hyperlinks, bolded text, and little textline commands? If you honestly think that it's going to be easy as pie, then why do you feel you need to offer your assistance via Skype, if not to hold her pretty little hand during the process and show off how "easy" it is (and incidentally how brilliant you are).
You get off on other people being aware of how awesomely smart and knowledgeable you are, which forces you to exercise this constantly lest someone actually catch you at a mistake (god forbid that should happen, you probably throw a temper tantrum to end all tantrums) and your sense of certainty blinds you. A little humility would go a long ways here. Basil's not exactly a n00b here, and he's been through this rodeo before.
You sir, hit it on the head. A lot of the so-called Super Rich don't actually have a whole lot of cash on hand. They live on credit, investments, and dividends, plus money market accounts.
Damn straight. Them shallow water sailors are badasses, not only do they sail into hurricanes for fun and heroism, they also take on the drug trade directly.
For Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, Finding Nemo, Up, Wall-E, Ratatoille, Cars, The Incredibles. Oh, and for all the shiny toys :-)
And you are in dire need of a diarhetic. Dude... chill. It's just a story, it's not like I'm banging your woman.
Because it has always been that way, it will always be that way, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. It is human nature. No matter how fool-proof of a system you build, someone will try and succeed to subvert it for their own gain, or that of the ideology they follow. You can try to crusade against it, and I'd encourage you to, but be aware that you will never actually solve the problem. For every "Chair Owner" you displace, another will take its place. If you're truly successful, then one of those chairs you take will be for you, and then YOU will be the enemy you rail against. The only way to fight it is to go with it, make the differences that you can, and hope for the best.
Get rid of all those people, and the system will fix itself!
The problem with your logic is that someone's going to try and subvert it in the name of profit. And they're going to succeed. Then others are going to follow. And before you know it, protectionism and reshoring has failed, and we're right back where we started.
Just once, I would like to see a recipient of this question answer: "Yes, as a matter of fact I AM a dickwad! Moreso, I am proud of being a dickwad. I enjoy dispensing small streams of misery from my curdled penis onto the foreheads of those I despise on a daily basis. The sounds of my name being cursed brings me horrid joy, and I get great satisfaction from masturbating all over newborn kittens. Abuse is my middle name (when it isn't Wrong, Arrogant, Mean, or Prick), and I delight in making everyone around me feel why I earn it. In fact, my day isn't complete until I have thoroughly shafted someone with a tree branch, taken a piss in someone else's coffee, and generally act like a complete tool to those competent and nice assholes that I have the misfortune to be surrounded by. And when I die, I hope my grave gets pooped on by the descendants of those I have wronged."
Maybe I should consider a career in trolling. Could be lucrative.
And the world STILL sucks. We do not live under an uber-American world totality where we all sing the National Anthem at breakfast and those of the wrong skin color, temperament, or with irritable bowel syndrome have been quietly taken out back and shot.
Fat lot of good that super-secret quantum supercomputer in the hands of a secretive US government agency did
Not necessarily in this universe.
I'm not going to dispute your experience, Supercrisp. I had three courses during my ME that were total jokes, and those were the thesis classes. My Master's Thesis is a total joke, and I flat-out said so in my closing argument, because I had to poop out surveys via Surveymonkey (just like you point out), and basically go through the experience of writing a Master's Thesis. Yay me. And of course, I got an A on that thesis, which was ridiculous, if nothing else than if anyone had bothered reading my closing statement then I wouldn't have even gotten a grade. Not just that, I also found out what general ME programs are like, and I have to agree with you on them. They are a joke.
What wasn't a joke about my program were all the other courses I was taking. It was clear my instructors were moonlighting, but they were competent. All of them were education professionals in management positions within various school districts in the US and Canada, and they knew their stuff. I'll flat-out admit it to you: I lucked out. Out of all the possible traps I could have walked into in the higher education racket, I walked into one that had a rigorous program. I wrote my ass off, had to follow APA guidelines religiously, and I had to do in-depth researching.
I don't blame you being nasty towards me. I imagine you've ran across some retarded Phoenix graduates. I've got to overcome that bias. But I will tell you this: I outcompete and outperform most of my coworkers (some of whom have MBAs from big name universities). I took the steps to improve myself, and that attitude paid off big. Yeah, I got burned by a school with a dubious reputation. But damn it, I DID IT. You want to imply that I'm stupid for going to Phoenix, go right ahead. At the time I went in, I did my research and Phoenix looked great. People talked wonderfully about them. There was no way in retrospect that I could have known what was going on. So if you're going to burn me for not knowing in retrospect what seems obvious now, then either you're the Second Coming of Christ and perfection incarnate, or you've forgotten that sometimes bad things happen to good people, and when that happens you make the best of it, finish what you started, and move on.
Yeah, thanks for the potshot across my bow. I don't know you, so I'm not going to personally insult you. Instead, I'm going to explain the following:
1) I'm a Phoenix. I went to UOP and got a Master's in Education from them.
2) I did so because I wanted a Master's degree in something I found interesting, AND it'd help me with the 'checkbox' issue. Which, I will point out, is far more prevalent in society than just certain institutions as you allude to. These days, you have to have a Master's degree in ANYTHING in order to get noticed. You can thank the glut of craptastic MBA's out there for that.
3) I'm not stupid, but you're implying that because I'm a Phoenix, I am stupid and deserve no respect. That's an awfully big assumption to tar someone with. I worked my ass off for my degree because Phoenix happens to be the university of choice for current educators to go back and get their Masters degrees in Education. That means their Education curriculum is brutal, taught by current educators who know what they're doing, and they don't pull any punches. I won't deny that there were a lot of diploma mill courses at the time in Phoenix. I'm saying that the program I went through wasn't one of them.
I got hired by my employer into a good paying Financial Analyst position BECAUSE I took the initiative and effort to get my Master's degree. Believe it or not, a lot of employers value employees who go out and do such programs on their own time, with their own money, because that's a sign that the employee is motivated, hard-working, and willing to improve themselves. My boss doesn't consider Phoenix to be a mark of shame. He hired me BECAUSE I went there, and he hired me over the multiple UW finance grads I was competing with.
So, I'm going to suggest to you that perhaps you should re-evaluate your opinion of Phoenix. Yes, Phoenix did some stupid, stupid shit last decade. Yes, those of us who are Phoenixes have to bear that shame. Yes, there are Phoenix grads who don't have the IQ of a pinto bean. It makes those of us who gave a damn and are proud of what we did work all the harder to prove ourselves. And if you can't see past that, then you might be the one who doesn't deserve any respect.
Hmmm... does that mean you'll take the long walk when it comes your time then?
And wouldn't that just set the white sheeters on fire. "Hey you! Yeah You. Greatest defender of the white race! For one, you're our worst example, and two, you're hating representatives of the only TRUE human bloodline there is? How's that for kicks, MUTANT!"
you do realize you've outted yourself as a girl on /. now, right? Prepare for the onslaught of misogynistic date requests couched as invitations to impale yourself on whatever can be conceived of...
because the average user here is anything but a self-righteous, techno-libertarian looney.
Anything? Does that mean we have pedo-cannibalizing transvestigial mule-fornicators coming to /. as well?
And yet the world is still full of bad guys. Tell me oh wise one, if the CIA is so powerful and has ALWAYS worked this way with unparalleled success and competency, then why isn't our world a better place right now?
How about this: embrace doubt, you moron. You're not perfect, you do not know the truth, and your theories reek more than a little of paranoia, indicating that you're spouting baseless conspiracy theories. Furthermore, you are ignoring a well-documented history of similar behavior in order to push your pet ideology. You appear to be incapable of admitting you might be wrong, which means you have a problem with doubt. I understand right now you feel you're right, but just consider that your default operating mode is *always* right, until you are wrong. So, you may very well be wrong. And if you could argue your case with some humility, and accepting the possibility that you could be wrong and NOT know it, then we wouldn't be on here calling you a moron and casting aspersions on your ideas.
It's so awesome that reading it makes me feel like a koala farted a rainbow in my brain.
But I'm still fucking awesome.
Hope he's still tight up there. After a while he tends to wear thin.
Neither. The executive with the stock options and the direct number to his peer with the competition is the most dangerous, and always will be.