Mayor Bloomberg's other controversial law is called "Stop And Frisk". Basically, NYC police officers don't need any probably cause.........or any cause.....just their own subjective suspicions to stop and search people. The majority of the people stopped are non-white.
Interestingly, Bloomberg makes a law saying that people can't buy a soda out of a large cup and it is talked about NATIONALLY. A law he makes, essentially making a police state in NYC is barely know about.
I think soda is one of the worst things people are consuming given how much people are having.
That said, I don't want tin pot dicators like Bloomberg telling me as an adult what I can and can't have. I think the government can have a place with changing bad eating habits which are hurting the country, but not through ordering people around. Through education yes, taxes maybe.
I also don't like who is fighting this law. The (other NRA) and the food industry in general have manipulated people to make bad choices for their own profit.
This is a case of two villians going at each other so I will not be rooting for either side.
I think you are asking the wrong questions. There are a lot of people who enjoy doing tech work ( computer repair, netowrking, programming, etc ) and who would consider management to be a step down..........doing something they do not want to do while being pulled away from what they enjoy.
Are those people underachievers too?
Only if that is what they WANTED.
All these years where you haven't become a manager, is that you wanted? Did you try HARD to become manager? If not, maybe you didn't want it or want it more than other things. How can you have failed at something you haven't tried or never wanted?
Even if you wanted to be a manager and tried hard, that only means you underachieved at one thing, it doesn't mean all of you and all of your life is a failure. Look at Hillary Clinton, all her life she wanted to be President. She didn't make it. She did become Secretary Of State. Is she an underacheiver.
Before you go off and read every self help book that the Slash Dot community suggest mayber you want to talk to a professional..........spend the extra money and find a GOOD one that comes highly recommended. Work these thoughts out.
Most of the human race doesn't get everything they want or achieve big things. They are happy and don't think of themselves as underachievers.
Most of the human race is poor, doesn't have everything it needs, lives without freedome, etc.
Take some time to appreciate the good things you already have in your life.
I respect Fareed Zakaria of CNN, he seems to be one of the few journalists around these days who does not have an agenda. He is about presenting facts, no matter how flattering or not the facts are or where the facts fall.
In this short clip from his show Zakaria shows that the United States has been rated by international organizations as one of the MOST FRIENDLY PLACES TO DO BUSINESS in the WORLD.
The video also shows that the conservative meme of high taxes is not only false, but opposite of what is true. Taxes are at a historic low.
Zakaria blames the sluggish economy on 1. Long term neglect of the American infrastructure 2. Long term insufficient investments in education 3. Long term devaluation among people for saving money
You forgot the main feature Google+ didn't implement: privacy and control over your information.
Google was and still is, trying to sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. Diaspora's main goal was to make a social network where you didn't have to worry about what you posted coming back to haunt you.
I have been programming a long time. I know how much work and how hard it is to make even something decent, but ordinary.
I have to admit that I was offended by the hubris of the original Diaspora group. That some college kids, with no real world programming experience who haven't even completed their educations yet were going to pull something like that off.
To be fair, I am still offended by Mark Zuckerberg's existence, that an ignoramus in his mid 20s who hasn't finished growing up is where he is.
I saw both of these contributing to the bullshit expectations bosses and others have that programmers can just "whip out" something nice, useful, reliable, interesting, etc.
Okay, I ranted my ugly rant.
I wish the kids from Diaspora the best. Their heart was in the right place. They can feel good knowing that they stood up to Zuckerberg, which somewhere along the lines will likely inspire others to do the same. It is also much better to try and fail, then never to try. They will have no regrets, be happier and enjoy victories other people will not for not having given it a shot.
It probably already is, but forget about the source code that didn't happen and make it into an ongoing FOSS project.
Get some enthusiastic and veteran programmers to take it over. There have to be more than a few uber geeks who don't like Facebook and who want something to replace it.
Some Google programmers may even contribute some of their spare time as it will chip away at their rival.
Its a step in the right direction, but it wont gain any sort of sustainable foothold until the technology can get the half-life of the waste down to within a single lifetime.
Any toxin/poison that requires long term human management for containment is not suitable. Sooner or later people fuck up, cut corners or get corrupted.
The nuclear power industry has to come up with a process of making nuclear waste inert in under a year.
I was surprised a few months ago to find out that diamonds are NOT valuable. Diamonds, even natural ones, are not rare. Diamonds are in plentiful supply and the price is kept Artificially HIGH by the DeBeers family who buys up or otherwise controls the excess.
When you buy that engagement ring, you may be showing your fiance that you are willing to sacrifice a large portion of your savings to give her a conventional symbol for the extent of your love..........but you aren't giving her anything value.
The original article isn't so much about developers hooking up with other developers as it is about the relearning the time tested advice to avoid getting into a romance where you work.
If someone was saying something meaningful or the author of that clip was putting HIS life, not other people's lives on the line I might sympathize with your point.
I don't want to get killed because some misfit wants to childishly piss people off
Google's only fault here is not doing it soon enough....before people got killed ( I guess that isn't as serious as a copyright violation which they are usually fast and efficient with )
People can say whatever they want. It doesn't need to be meaningful. Who the hell are you to dictate what people are allowed to say?
Actually, it isn't true that "people can say whatever they want", there are laws about slander, libel, yelling fire in a crowded theater, inciting riots and much more.
Who is dictating? I'm exercising MY free speech to express the opinion that if you are going to get people murdered over childishly baiting others, you should at least put your own life at risk or saying something meaningful.
If you can't handle MY free speech without distorting what I said, maybe you aren't all that different from the angry mobs in the Mid East.
I see videos disappear from youtube all of the time. I guess youtube values copyright infringement of 30 year old videos of pop music performances more than they do human lives. Mabye one of the relatives of the slain Americans should have a lawyer write to youtube threatening to sue, then youtube would care enough to remove it.
When oil used for other sources diminishes, oil is going to become even more expensive for fertilizer, raising food prices and putting food out of reach for many people.
Amazon changed its mind, offering to let people pay the $15 price difference to make the ads go away.
Like the way many people just don't care what FB does to them, many people will not care that Amazon spies on them and then throws ads in their face. There will be people happy with that and the reduced price of their kindle.
Other people will want the reduced price, but without the spying and with the ads. Eventually someone will make something to remove those things like they do for iPhone, Android and Chrome.
When people use a recompiled, de-loused version of Chrome, cyminogod (sp?, de-loused version of the Android OS ), etc they aren't costing Google money, the way they will with Amazon subsibidizing the lower cost of the ad based kindle.
So, maybe, at some point Amazon will decide that ads on the kindle will not make financial sense.
All we have to do is to stop believing that we MUST have these things. Just tell businesses that we will not have ads forced on us after PAYING money to make something OUR property.
If I buy something, I consider it to be mine. I don't want ads on it and I don't expect to have to pay to get rid of the ads. This isn't an ideal situation, but at least Amazon had enough intelligence to change their mind to at least offer to let people pay to get rid of the ads instead of forcing it on them while asking a customer to buy a product at the same time.
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Can we please get rid of this obnoxious and worse, ineffective legacy of George W Bush?
Mayor Bloomberg's other controversial law is called "Stop And Frisk". Basically, NYC police officers don't need any probably cause.........or any cause.....just their own subjective suspicions to stop and search people. The majority of the people stopped are non-white.
Interestingly, Bloomberg makes a law saying that people can't buy a soda out of a large cup and it is talked about NATIONALLY. A law he makes, essentially making a police state in NYC is barely know about.
Google on it
I think soda is one of the worst things people are consuming given how much people are having.
That said, I don't want tin pot dicators like Bloomberg telling me as an adult what I can and can't have. I think the government can have a place with changing bad eating habits which are hurting the country, but not through ordering people around. Through education yes, taxes maybe.
I also don't like who is fighting this law. The (other NRA) and the food industry in general have manipulated people to make bad choices for their own profit.
This is a case of two villians going at each other so I will not be rooting for either side.
I think you are asking the wrong questions. There are a lot of people who enjoy doing tech work ( computer repair, netowrking, programming, etc ) and who would consider management to be a step down..........doing something they do not want to do while being pulled away from what they enjoy.
Are those people underachievers too?
Only if that is what they WANTED.
All these years where you haven't become a manager, is that you wanted? Did you try HARD to become manager? If not, maybe you didn't want it or want it more than other things. How can you have failed at something you haven't tried or never wanted?
Even if you wanted to be a manager and tried hard, that only means you underachieved at one thing, it doesn't mean all of you and all of your life is a failure. Look at Hillary Clinton, all her life she wanted to be President. She didn't make it. She did become Secretary Of State. Is she an underacheiver.
Before you go off and read every self help book that the Slash Dot community suggest mayber you want to talk to a professional..........spend the extra money and find a GOOD one that comes highly recommended. Work these thoughts out.
Most of the human race doesn't get everything they want or achieve big things. They are happy and don't think of themselves as underachievers.
Most of the human race is poor, doesn't have everything it needs, lives without freedome, etc.
Take some time to appreciate the good things you already have in your life.
A Guide To Rational Living By Dr. Albert Ellis
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/books/book-review-a-guide-to-rational-living/
Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns
The Now Habit by Dr. Neil Fiore
I respect Fareed Zakaria of CNN, he seems to be one of the few journalists around these days who does not have an agenda. He is about presenting facts, no matter how flattering or not the facts are or where the facts fall.
In this short clip from his show Zakaria shows that the United States has been rated by international organizations as one of the MOST FRIENDLY PLACES TO DO BUSINESS in the WORLD.
The video also shows that the conservative meme of high taxes is not only false, but opposite of what is true. Taxes are at a historic low.
Zakaria blames the sluggish economy on
1. Long term neglect of the American infrastructure
2. Long term insufficient investments in education
3. Long term devaluation among people for saving money
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/politics/zakaria-the-real-burden-on-the-u-s-economy/
I am never surprised reading headlines like this one before discovering the person is a Republican.
You forgot the main feature Google+ didn't implement: privacy and control over your information.
Google was and still is, trying to sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. Diaspora's main goal was to make a social network where you didn't have to worry about what you posted coming back to haunt you.
I have been programming a long time. I know how much work and how hard it is to make even something decent, but ordinary.
I have to admit that I was offended by the hubris of the original Diaspora group. That some college kids, with no real world programming experience who haven't even completed their educations yet were going to pull something like that off.
To be fair, I am still offended by Mark Zuckerberg's existence, that an ignoramus in his mid 20s who hasn't finished growing up is where he is.
I saw both of these contributing to the bullshit expectations bosses and others have that programmers can just "whip out" something nice, useful, reliable, interesting, etc.
Okay, I ranted my ugly rant.
I wish the kids from Diaspora the best. Their heart was in the right place. They can feel good knowing that they stood up to Zuckerberg, which somewhere along the lines will likely inspire others to do the same. It is also much better to try and fail, then never to try. They will have no regrets, be happier and enjoy victories other people will not for not having given it a shot.
It probably already is, but forget about the source code that didn't happen and make it into an ongoing FOSS project.
Get some enthusiastic and veteran programmers to take it over. There have to be more than a few uber geeks who don't like Facebook and who want something to replace it.
Some Google programmers may even contribute some of their spare time as it will chip away at their rival.
Any toxin/poison that requires long term human management for containment is not suitable. Sooner or later people fuck up, cut corners or get corrupted.
The nuclear power industry has to come up with a process of making nuclear waste inert in under a year.
The government can't even get Facebook to completely delete your account when you ask to them deleted.
I want to chime in like others on this point.
I was surprised a few months ago to find out that diamonds are NOT valuable. Diamonds, even natural ones, are not rare. Diamonds are in plentiful supply and the price is kept Artificially HIGH by the DeBeers family who buys up or otherwise controls the excess.
When you buy that engagement ring, you may be showing your fiance that you are willing to sacrifice a large portion of your savings to give her a conventional symbol for the extent of your love..........but you aren't giving her anything value.
I haven't really found dating other programmers to be something special apart from dating non-programmers. I haven't ever been able to articulate why
The original article isn't so much about developers hooking up with other developers as it is about the relearning the time tested advice to avoid getting into a romance where you work.
If someone was saying something meaningful or the author of that clip was putting HIS life, not other people's lives on the line I might sympathize with your point.
I don't want to get killed because some misfit wants to childishly piss people off
Google's only fault here is not doing it soon enough....before people got killed ( I guess that isn't as serious as a copyright violation which they are usually fast and efficient with )
Actually, it isn't true that "people can say whatever they want", there are laws about slander, libel, yelling fire in a crowded theater, inciting riots and much more.
Who is dictating? I'm exercising MY free speech to express the opinion that if you are going to get people murdered over childishly baiting others, you should at least put your own life at risk or saying something meaningful.
If you can't handle MY free speech without distorting what I said, maybe you aren't all that different from the angry mobs in the Mid East.
Have a good weekend
Whenever I hear free speech come up in popular conversations the "speech" being defended is usually something adolescent bereft of meaning.
The video that started all of this wasn't about meaningful ideas. It was about purposefully jerking the chains of Muslims. Childish.
If you are going to people's lives at risk for freedom of speech, put your own life on the line and at least do it to say something meaningful.
I see videos disappear from youtube all of the time. I guess youtube values copyright infringement of 30 year old videos of pop music performances more than they do human lives. Mabye one of the relatives of the slain Americans should have a lawyer write to youtube threatening to sue, then youtube would care enough to remove it.
Care to explain your comment more?
Some places don't like to hire overqualified people as they are afraid of them leaving or being demanding.
It is possible that someone along the way didn't like him as much as they say they did.
What other possibilities are you thinking of?
When oil used for other sources diminishes, oil is going to become even more expensive for fertilizer, raising food prices and putting food out of reach for many people.
Amazon changed its mind, offering to let people pay the $15 price difference to make the ads go away.
Like the way many people just don't care what FB does to them, many people will not care that Amazon spies on them and then throws ads in their face. There will be people happy with that and the reduced price of their kindle.
Other people will want the reduced price, but without the spying and with the ads. Eventually someone will make something to remove those things like they do for iPhone, Android and Chrome.
When people use a recompiled, de-loused version of Chrome, cyminogod (sp?, de-loused version of the Android OS ), etc they aren't costing Google money, the way they will with Amazon subsibidizing the lower cost of the ad based kindle.
So, maybe, at some point Amazon will decide that ads on the kindle will not make financial sense.
+1
I feel 100% the same. I wish I could mod your post up even more.
It is not inevitable.
All we have to do is to stop believing that we MUST have these things. Just tell businesses that we will not have ads forced on us after PAYING money to make something OUR property.
If I buy something, I consider it to be mine. I don't want ads on it and I don't expect to have to pay to get rid of the ads. This isn't an ideal situation, but at least Amazon had enough intelligence to change their mind to at least offer to let people pay to get rid of the ads instead of forcing it on them while asking a customer to buy a product at the same time.