WTF? I got the flu like every other year in college. Then I got a job and they gave out flu shots every year for free, which got me in the habit. Haven't caught the flu since, including when I went back to grad school and congregated with those same disease bags. My conclusion is that flu vaccines work just fine.
None of those have anything to do with what he wrote and all of those have everything to do with the (I'm inferring from context) deliberate mischaracterization of his document by Google's C suite and a good half of the mainstream media that reported on it initially. That last one ("sausagefest") can also be taken as a sexist slur if I squint at it hard enough and was in a mood to play word games.
Do yourself a favor and play along with the following exercise: define those three terms for me and in fewer than 200 words, tell me exactly how each of them fit, using citations from his memo where appropriate. Then do it again without referring using the term "dog-whistle" and if you can still come up with a cogent explanation, I'll buy that you've actually read and understood what he wrote.
I'm not a coward. I assume slashdot won't let it through unfiltered since I don't think I've ever seen it unfiltered in here. Blocks stuff with too many all-caps words, too.
Oh, I'm not surprised he was fired, and truthfully, I might have fired him too if I was in those shoes. But I wouldn't have made a point of lying about reasons why and confirming every accusation in the memo with the snowflake coddling nonsense that he sent out company-wide after he canned the guy. That's an actual insult, as opposed to one perceived only by people of a certain political bent. In my younger and stupider days, I also said things out loud at work that I shouldn't have. And the boss didn't insult my intelligence about it either, he didn't put words in my mouth and he didn't make shit up. He sat me down, told me what exactly it was that I did wrong, told me to go to HR and explain it to them in my own words so it would sink in, and made it clear to not fuck up again or I was outta there.
Oh, so it's not so fun being on the receiving end of a vicious misapprehension, is it now? That's why you hear "you didn't read the paper." Because all the noise around it sounds like insults materializing out of the quantum vacuum and not a counter-argument. Of course he stepped on every landmine: he said he was going to in his first paragraph. That was the point.
On a completely unrelated note, I think I'm going to start reading 'bro' as 'n1gger.' That's how it's intended, no?
And in my workplace that's actually true, which is why I keep my comments on politics bland and inoffensive during business hours. Incidentally I can't say my left-leaning colleagues are quite as scrupulous, but they are respectful. My understanding from reporting on this and from friends who've worked at Google is that Google encouraged a free-wheeling adversarial style in the workplace.
You've seen it so many times because it's obvious that many people who claim to have read it are also claiming that it says things that it clearly doesn't. So they either didn't read it and are lying or tried to read it and substituted their own caricature of what was on the page for what was actually on the page. And they keep refering to it as a "screed," a "manifesto," a "rant," and all sorts of loaded words that don't comport with neither the style nor the substance of the actual document. So no, you didn't read it. If you think you did, then you've failed at reading comprehension.
Yeah, well, people tend to get worked up about a company they view quite fondly and whose products they use daily turning out to be a cult of Maoist fanatics who revel in their disdain for core American values like civil discourse and deeply ingrained cultural norms like the separation of the personal and the political from the professional. Quite a punch to the gut, frankly.
There is no such thing as "hate speech." It was a term invented by wannabe fascists for the sole purpose of intimidating their opposition away from challenging their hold on power. But I digress. And I do mean digress because what you claim is "hate speech" wasn't said or hinted at in the memo.
I'll give it a shot: looking only at tax revenue from people working at the plant is incorrect accounting. A large factory creates more jobs in the supplier ecosystem it supports, everyone from vending machines to lighting to plastics and on and on. That's people recouping more money, and that's people who aren't as likely to end up on the welfare roles than if the factory weren't there.
Here's the Republican math: the best social program is a job.
Of course! "Let's exterminate and sterilize all the undesirables" is practically an anagram for "Let's not get hung up on quotas and hire and nurture the best talent we can regardless of demographics."
Incidentally, prayer in public schools may not be the best thing in a secular state, but it sure as shit helps guard against that kind of insane moral relativism.
flying for a few hours and then landing and then taking off again, for several days straight, I suppose I could buy that. But if you mean it's been in the air for several days straight, then you're wrong.
Power to the pavement is optimized by a bigger engine. Aerodynamics is optimized by smaller drag area and thus a smaller engine compartment. Try again.
You're going to have to explain why you think I said anything of the sort. Monetary costs are not the problem. There's plently of "housing" in all cities that costs next to nothing. But most people who can afford to wouldn't live there because there are other overriding factors. In most cities, there's a nice slice of real estate that's desirable to some urban-loving types, but small. And then there's everything else that's cheap, but undesirable.
You think you can just have stuff for free made by low-rent "other" people, in perpetuity, with no cost to you or your children? Aren't we a little entitled? And by we I mean you and every other armchair economist who's never set foot inside a factory and has to call a repairman to plug in your refrigerator.
Or the jobs follow the people out. See Detroit, Philadelphia, just about any large American metro area. The moment people could move out, they did, and the jobs followed. Not all. A lot of the white collar office tower stuff never left, and some more has come back, but a lot of the growth has not been inside city limits. You can't force people to do anything they don't want to do.
Billing, general utilities that at one point had to be done in flash or java because there was no other good way to do them in a remote accessible manor. Spread across industry, government, academia. Not just games and animations you made in high school in the 90s. "Killing" it would cost billions.
A ton of not-so-obscure companies (cough SAP cough cough) have been releasing front ends to their products that run in a browser with...FLASH! So EOLing it is just going to cost everyone else more money to work around it.
So...inferior range, inferior charge time, and higher cost. A gasoline powered car will go "500km" guaranteed, all-weather, every time. With about two or three minutes to fill up to 100% range. With gasoline that's just as good on the thousandth fill-up as on the first. That you can fill up out of a man-portable container in case of an emergency. Without riding on a half-ton of fuel and oxidizer packed in close proximity. At a cost of about 25k for a decent vehicle instead of 45k *with taxpayer subsidy.
Sorry guy. Star Trek and real life are vastly different things. Automobiles are not purchased for the average case; they're purchased for reasonable worst case. And the reasonable worst-case performance of a car that runs on man-portable liquid fuel is lightyears beyond the worst-case performance of a glorified golf cart. SJW logic notwithstanding.
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WTF? I got the flu like every other year in college. Then I got a job and they gave out flu shots every year for free, which got me in the habit. Haven't caught the flu since, including when I went back to grad school and congregated with those same disease bags. My conclusion is that flu vaccines work just fine.
There you go again!
"ranting," "alt-right," "activist," "sausagefest"
None of those have anything to do with what he wrote and all of those have everything to do with the (I'm inferring from context) deliberate mischaracterization of his document by Google's C suite and a good half of the mainstream media that reported on it initially. That last one ("sausagefest") can also be taken as a sexist slur if I squint at it hard enough and was in a mood to play word games.
Do yourself a favor and play along with the following exercise: define those three terms for me and in fewer than 200 words, tell me exactly how each of them fit, using citations from his memo where appropriate. Then do it again without referring using the term "dog-whistle" and if you can still come up with a cogent explanation, I'll buy that you've actually read and understood what he wrote.
I'm not a coward. I assume slashdot won't let it through unfiltered since I don't think I've ever seen it unfiltered in here. Blocks stuff with too many all-caps words, too.
Oh, I'm not surprised he was fired, and truthfully, I might have fired him too if I was in those shoes. But I wouldn't have made a point of lying about reasons why and confirming every accusation in the memo with the snowflake coddling nonsense that he sent out company-wide after he canned the guy. That's an actual insult, as opposed to one perceived only by people of a certain political bent. In my younger and stupider days, I also said things out loud at work that I shouldn't have. And the boss didn't insult my intelligence about it either, he didn't put words in my mouth and he didn't make shit up. He sat me down, told me what exactly it was that I did wrong, told me to go to HR and explain it to them in my own words so it would sink in, and made it clear to not fuck up again or I was outta there.
Oh, so it's not so fun being on the receiving end of a vicious misapprehension, is it now? That's why you hear "you didn't read the paper." Because all the noise around it sounds like insults materializing out of the quantum vacuum and not a counter-argument. Of course he stepped on every landmine: he said he was going to in his first paragraph. That was the point.
On a completely unrelated note, I think I'm going to start reading 'bro' as 'n1gger.' That's how it's intended, no?
Where are you that you are surrounded by illiterate people that you seem to want to always pick on?
The internet.
Hitler breathed oxygen. You breathe oxygen. You're just like Hitler.
And in my workplace that's actually true, which is why I keep my comments on politics bland and inoffensive during business hours. Incidentally I can't say my left-leaning colleagues are quite as scrupulous, but they are respectful. My understanding from reporting on this and from friends who've worked at Google is that Google encouraged a free-wheeling adversarial style in the workplace.
You've seen it so many times because it's obvious that many people who claim to have read it are also claiming that it says things that it clearly doesn't. So they either didn't read it and are lying or tried to read it and substituted their own caricature of what was on the page for what was actually on the page. And they keep refering to it as a "screed," a "manifesto," a "rant," and all sorts of loaded words that don't comport with neither the style nor the substance of the actual document. So no, you didn't read it. If you think you did, then you've failed at reading comprehension.
Yeah, well, people tend to get worked up about a company they view quite fondly and whose products they use daily turning out to be a cult of Maoist fanatics who revel in their disdain for core American values like civil discourse and deeply ingrained cultural norms like the separation of the personal and the political from the professional. Quite a punch to the gut, frankly.
JFC, "I'm so woke" followed by "Tibetans and Indians all look alike." You really are this fucking stupid.
There is no such thing as "hate speech." It was a term invented by wannabe fascists for the sole purpose of intimidating their opposition away from challenging their hold on power. But I digress. And I do mean digress because what you claim is "hate speech" wasn't said or hinted at in the memo.
I'll give it a shot: looking only at tax revenue from people working at the plant is incorrect accounting. A large factory creates more jobs in the supplier ecosystem it supports, everyone from vending machines to lighting to plastics and on and on. That's people recouping more money, and that's people who aren't as likely to end up on the welfare roles than if the factory weren't there.
Here's the Republican math: the best social program is a job.
Of course! "Let's exterminate and sterilize all the undesirables" is practically an anagram for "Let's not get hung up on quotas and hire and nurture the best talent we can regardless of demographics."
Incidentally, prayer in public schools may not be the best thing in a secular state, but it sure as shit helps guard against that kind of insane moral relativism.
flying for a few hours and then landing and then taking off again, for several days straight, I suppose I could buy that. But if you mean it's been in the air for several days straight, then you're wrong.
No. But since that's what popped into your head and out of your fingertips, you seem to want to be.
Power to the pavement is optimized by a bigger engine. Aerodynamics is optimized by smaller drag area and thus a smaller engine compartment. Try again.
You're going to have to explain why you think I said anything of the sort. Monetary costs are not the problem. There's plently of "housing" in all cities that costs next to nothing. But most people who can afford to wouldn't live there because there are other overriding factors. In most cities, there's a nice slice of real estate that's desirable to some urban-loving types, but small. And then there's everything else that's cheap, but undesirable.
You think you can just have stuff for free made by low-rent "other" people, in perpetuity, with no cost to you or your children? Aren't we a little entitled? And by we I mean you and every other armchair economist who's never set foot inside a factory and has to call a repairman to plug in your refrigerator.
Or the jobs follow the people out. See Detroit, Philadelphia, just about any large American metro area. The moment people could move out, they did, and the jobs followed. Not all. A lot of the white collar office tower stuff never left, and some more has come back, but a lot of the growth has not been inside city limits. You can't force people to do anything they don't want to do.
Billing, general utilities that at one point had to be done in flash or java because there was no other good way to do them in a remote accessible manor. Spread across industry, government, academia. Not just games and animations you made in high school in the 90s. "Killing" it would cost billions.
A ton of not-so-obscure companies (cough SAP cough cough) have been releasing front ends to their products that run in a browser with...FLASH! So EOLing it is just going to cost everyone else more money to work around it.
Why? Because people's time is valuable. Also: greenie commies don't get to dictate how free citizens are or are not allowed to spend it.
So...inferior range, inferior charge time, and higher cost. A gasoline powered car will go "500km" guaranteed, all-weather, every time. With about two or three minutes to fill up to 100% range. With gasoline that's just as good on the thousandth fill-up as on the first. That you can fill up out of a man-portable container in case of an emergency. Without riding on a half-ton of fuel and oxidizer packed in close proximity. At a cost of about 25k for a decent vehicle instead of 45k *with taxpayer subsidy.
Sorry guy. Star Trek and real life are vastly different things. Automobiles are not purchased for the average case; they're purchased for reasonable worst case. And the reasonable worst-case performance of a car that runs on man-portable liquid fuel is lightyears beyond the worst-case performance of a glorified golf cart. SJW logic notwithstanding.
Take that, lefties! Now let's tax everything organic too!
Take that lefties. What goes around comes around.