You forget! Here on Slashdot, we all read every page of every 400-page contract we have to sign before we sign it. We also have perfect credit, no consumer debt, and have sex with supermodels.
Hahahah LOL. Try it. I did. HR called me in a week later and asked why I "altered" my employment agreement. I told them I did not agree to some of the terms. They looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead and then informed me that none of the terms were negotiable, and that she's never in her life seen someone do anything like that.
The monopolistic telecom wouldn't be "delivering" anything. The government and is delivering broadband (paid for by taxpayers) and the monopolistic telecom gets to profit.
It's the American way: socialize costs and privatize profits.
That is sad. It's probably becoming more and more common for the next generations to never have experienced how we are in this dish of stars, and to see our neighboring galaxies. A big loss in understanding the bigger world.
Not really that sad. It's what we have the Internet for. I've lived most of my life in urban areas, and have myself never seen the Milky Way (or, really, more than about 30 or so of the brightest stars), but now I can if I want to, online. Plus, if for whatever reason one simply has to go see it in person, it's probably a 6-7 hour drive from most major metro areas. Not the end of the world.
Let's explore this complicated problem in depth. Question 1. Do you think the intern is the only person in the office with a computer capable of "putting in a ticket?"
Oh my god, when you select "West" it draws a blue square to the west of where you clicked, and when you select "East" it draws a blue square to the east. That's incredible. This must have taken five PhDs 2 months to make.
I'll have to correct this little bit of your (otherwise spot-on) post. The "tea party" is far from wanting small government. Sure, they talk the talk when it comes to economic issues, but bring up any of the wide variety of "moral" and "family values" issues, and they'll tell you all day how great it would be to have big government come in and force people to be straight, force women to have unwanted pregnancies, force everyone to obey Jesus, etc.
Unfortunately, all the major (and most of the minor) political parties in the USA are huge "big government" supporters, as long as the big government is dictating things on their favorite issues.
You have it nailed. I've never EVER seen a company where the top-earning technical role's salary was more than the top-earning non-technical role. Or where the top tech had more bonus or stock than the top non-tech. I highly doubt they exist.
Really, one interesting way to address it would be "if your company causes a disaster, or even a near disaster, because you decided to cut costs by cutting safety corners, the entire upper management of your company goes to jail for life."
That would be a great way to make sure that there is no nuclear industry in your country.
Of course, that philosophy would work well extended to all corporations, not just the nuclear industry;)
...if you like having no corporations. Who would be willing to risk jail to take a job as an "upper" manager?
Really? Hands up if you're actually surprised that they use actors in advertisements. Jeez, people were you born yesterday? Newsflash! Everything in advertising is a lie designed to get you to buy a product you don't need. I thought parents taught this shit to kids when they start watching TV...
Wow, that's a pretty good gig. Congrats.. Hopefully the rest of the software engineering industries take a hint and starts adjusting their salaries to be competitive with the financial industry. I think I might start updating my resume soon...
1. Microsoft platforms - DirectX, C# 2. Everyone else - OpenGL, C, C++
The problem here, as usual, is Microsoft. As they have done for decades now, they are deliberately pitting home-grown competing technologies against common standards to drive a wedge into the developer world. The outcome is wasted effort and less innovation.
I went to a mobile developer talk hosted by MS a few weeks ago, and they insisted that developers will just love to abandon industry standards and get locked into their proprietary techs, re-writing all of their existing code just to run on Windows Phone 7. It would have been hilarious if I didn't think they were serious.
Trains don't come to my front door, which is rather necessary when I'm carrying a load of groceries to feed my household.
Maybe part of the problem is Americans' apparent cultural need to carry "loads" of things and/or the terrible urban planning that necessitates that behavior. If American communities were laid out sensibly, you could take a short walk to the grocery store every day and carry back the small bag of goods you needed for the day. Since communities are laid out retardedly, you have to climb into the SUV, drive 30 miles to super-mega-ultra-mart, and haul back four weeks of food at a time.
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You forget! Here on Slashdot, we all read every page of every 400-page contract we have to sign before we sign it. We also have perfect credit, no consumer debt, and have sex with supermodels.
Hahahah LOL. Try it. I did. HR called me in a week later and asked why I "altered" my employment agreement. I told them I did not agree to some of the terms. They looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead and then informed me that none of the terms were negotiable, and that she's never in her life seen someone do anything like that.
our jobs are such that we visit our clients across the country
That's that sense of self-importance thing, again. Grinding yourself in the gears of the machine for a few more shekels is a psychological issue.
Can you please stop texting and make me my latte already, kid?
You also have to take into account the degree's cost.
The monopolistic telecom wouldn't be "delivering" anything. The government and is delivering broadband (paid for by taxpayers) and the monopolistic telecom gets to profit.
It's the American way: socialize costs and privatize profits.
I'm not equating anything. "Thing A is as bad as Thing B" does not mean "I think things A and B are identical in all ways."
That is sad. It's probably becoming more and more common for the next generations to never have experienced how we are in this dish of stars, and to see our neighboring galaxies. A big loss in understanding the bigger world.
Not really that sad. It's what we have the Internet for. I've lived most of my life in urban areas, and have myself never seen the Milky Way (or, really, more than about 30 or so of the brightest stars), but now I can if I want to, online. Plus, if for whatever reason one simply has to go see it in person, it's probably a 6-7 hour drive from most major metro areas. Not the end of the world.
When we waltz into someone's country and kill their people, we're no better than the people who waltzed onto our planes to kill ours.
We've also set a terrible precedent: "It's A-OK to assassinate someone on foreign soil." But only when we do it, I guess...
Really?
Let's explore this complicated problem in depth. Question 1. Do you think the intern is the only person in the office with a computer capable of "putting in a ticket?"
If they get upset that he spent $100 of his own money on RAM, *that's* the sign they don't care about initative.
Or, it's a sign that they don't want some intern fucking around and modifying company property just because he wants to open ten browser tabs at once.
Oh my god, when you select "West" it draws a blue square to the west of where you clicked, and when you select "East" it draws a blue square to the east. That's incredible. This must have taken five PhDs 2 months to make.
and the tea party, who want a small government
I'll have to correct this little bit of your (otherwise spot-on) post. The "tea party" is far from wanting small government. Sure, they talk the talk when it comes to economic issues, but bring up any of the wide variety of "moral" and "family values" issues, and they'll tell you all day how great it would be to have big government come in and force people to be straight, force women to have unwanted pregnancies, force everyone to obey Jesus, etc.
Unfortunately, all the major (and most of the minor) political parties in the USA are huge "big government" supporters, as long as the big government is dictating things on their favorite issues.
You have it nailed. I've never EVER seen a company where the top-earning technical role's salary was more than the top-earning non-technical role. Or where the top tech had more bonus or stock than the top non-tech. I highly doubt they exist.
"Base plan?" Hmm... Good luck if you actually get sick and learn the hard way what they don't cover.
Reminds me of the story of Louis Slotin, who at Los Alamos, while doing criticality testing using a screwdriver to keep the hemispheres separate, accidentally fatally irradiated himself when the screwdriver slipped. Talk about an "oopsie".
Really, one interesting way to address it would be "if your company causes a disaster, or even a near disaster, because you decided to cut costs by cutting safety corners, the entire upper management of your company goes to jail for life."
That would be a great way to make sure that there is no nuclear industry in your country.
Of course, that philosophy would work well extended to all corporations, not just the nuclear industry ;)
Really? Hands up if you're actually surprised that they use actors in advertisements. Jeez, people were you born yesterday? Newsflash! Everything in advertising is a lie designed to get you to buy a product you don't need. I thought parents taught this shit to kids when they start watching TV...
Wow, that's a pretty good gig. Congrats.. Hopefully the rest of the software engineering industries take a hint and starts adjusting their salaries to be competitive with the financial industry. I think I might start updating my resume soon...
Just curious, what kind of yearly salary is considered "good money" for software engineers at Goldman?
It is easy to say that the US should not interfere with other countries, but: "with great power comes great responsibility".
Would you say the same thing if North Korea had the world's largest army? Might is very rarely right.
So, it's a (probably colluding) oligopoly, which is so much better...
Or, in other words:
1. Microsoft platforms - DirectX, C#
2. Everyone else - OpenGL, C, C++
The problem here, as usual, is Microsoft. As they have done for decades now, they are deliberately pitting home-grown competing technologies against common standards to drive a wedge into the developer world. The outcome is wasted effort and less innovation.
I went to a mobile developer talk hosted by MS a few weeks ago, and they insisted that developers will just love to abandon industry standards and get locked into their proprietary techs, re-writing all of their existing code just to run on Windows Phone 7. It would have been hilarious if I didn't think they were serious.
Trains don't come to my front door, which is rather necessary when I'm carrying a load of groceries to feed my household.
Maybe part of the problem is Americans' apparent cultural need to carry "loads" of things and/or the terrible urban planning that necessitates that behavior. If American communities were laid out sensibly, you could take a short walk to the grocery store every day and carry back the small bag of goods you needed for the day. Since communities are laid out retardedly, you have to climb into the SUV, drive 30 miles to super-mega-ultra-mart, and haul back four weeks of food at a time.
Someone traveling the legal speed limit is not an obstacle, they are a responsible, law-abiding citizen.
OK, so they're law-abiding assholes. If you are obstructing the flow of traffic, you are, by definition, an obstacle. Move over, grandpa.
I heartily agree. If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's permits.