That's my biggest gripe with most libertarians I've met -- when they finally do concede that large corporations are as much of a threat to liberty as government, they blame government for creating them. Which might be true in some instances (eg, government granted monopoly) but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not, or much less so (and depending on the libertarian philosophy, some are opposed to copyright & patent in any form, which may nullify that answer).
But it strikes me as too easy to *just* blame the government without questioning corporate power at all.
Why do you need to find something "he did" to charge him?
I'm sure if "they" wanted to, "they" could toss him in a maximum security prison under a false name with a false conviction for something unsavory, like raping toddlers, with a complete faked background (criminal record, trial transcripts, etc).
What's he gonna do? Call the media and say he's in prison under false charges? And they'd believe him or even begin to prove otherwise?
And I'm sure for the smallest of considerations the word could be put out to prison gangs that this guy has a price on his head. And then a few weeks later, he's another guy killed in prison who fades into anonymity faster than they can stick his body into a Potter's Field.
"The Rolling Stones are the greatest white R&B act ever. This point is indisputable."
After that, you get into disputes. The problem for the Stones wasn't that they weren't good, but they just weren't very innovative -- they weren't doing a whole lot new, although you might argue that they were the first to synthesize pop, R&B and blues into rock and roll and do it very, very well. They kind of set the standard.
Not to mention the possibility of large fines when my (commercial) websites aren't compliant with some obscure requirement in the new guidelines.
As the fines and penalties becomes stiffer and the rules become more complex and difficult, will we end up with ADA trolls who find ADA issues and then either offer "remediation consulting services" or an anonymous phone call to whoever enforces the ADA?
I'm not sure what it is. Part of me thinks it might be growing nationalism on the part of Chinese visiting English language web forums, part of me thinks it might be the sort of general anti-Western self-loathing common to Slashdot.
And part of me thinks that if the Chinese government wanted to, they could probably easily fill a propaganda ministry building with a few thousand English speaking Chinese who did nothing all day but cruise English language web forums and slag America(ns) and work to suppress negative opinions of China & the Chinese.
When the planes are rolling off the assembly lines and ready for passengers, what happens is that minibuses roll up to the homes of the leaders of passenger jet corporation. Some nice men in a smart uniforms collect the family from their home and drive them to the airstrip connected to the plant.
At the plant, a few families are loaded onto a half-dozen planes awaiting delivery. The planes are then flown to the delivery point specified by the airlines and the families get joy ride on the newest product of the prosperous new passenger jet industry! The leaders of the passenger jet industry get to stand with party leaders, watching their families take off in the new planes they worked diligently to ensure were safe and well-made.
If the planes are unsafe or crash, such a tragedy for the airline leaders to lose their families! But since they didn't ride, they will take the lessons they learned from the experience to build better, safer planes. The leaders whose families survived serve as a model and enjoy the added discipline for producing high quality airplanes the People's Aviation Industry can be proud of.
I make pretty good money but the last thing I spent $2800 on was a TV, and that was seven years ago.
It would have taken a pretty well off hobbyist to buy one of those back then. IIRC, the economy kind of sucked, inflation was high and so was unemployment.
My guess is that nobody wants to be on the bad side of any prosecuting attorney's office, which is what would happen in all but the most egregious cases.
At one extreme end, you could really be dealing with an office capable and willing to abuse their authority, which could mean jail time or at least thousands spent defending yourself against prosecutorial attacks. Even at the mild end, everybody wants leverage at the prosecutor's office. Being a whistleblower doesn't get you that leverage.
Is it just selective information available to me, or is Australia really starting to turn the corner towards a neofascist government, similar to say, South Africa of the 1970s or Korea of the early 1980s?
My first response is WTF? Have you used Outlook since Outlook 95? And what are you talking about Exchange "going down all the time"?
I work as a consultant in the SMB market and when I took this job my biggest fear was Exchange crashing and constantly having to do Exchange repairs.
After 6 years, I've only had problems with two Exchange servers, and both problems weren't really Exchange problems. One was an Exchange server that also was a domain controller (not my setup, pre-existing) and the issue was really with the DC component. The other issue was the customer free-lancing in ADSI edit. And this is out of dozens of clients running Exchange (standalone and SBS).
One of the most surprising things to me isn't how easy it is to break Exchange but how surprisingly resilient it is, despite the torture that SMB environments gave it -- cheap/shitty hardware, bad power, no cooling, frequent hard crashing, insane mailbox sizes (one user was pushing 14 gig on 2003).
As for Outlook, there's a lot to dislike there, but slow and cumbersome ain't it. I can't imagine using Gmail over Outlook, especially given the really clumsy calendar integration between Gmail and Google Calendar and the need to "page" Gmail every 100 messages. Regardless of how good Google is, a web app is still inferior to a purpose-built application.
And the "close door" button appeared to work. The door closed immediately after pressing it. This building normally holds the doors open for a long time, too; the door would not have normally closed as quickly.
FWIW, this building is pretty old (1920s?) and just had all its elevators modernized with new cars (and I'm presuming new controls, etc). Can't remember if it was an Otis or not.
Speaking of Otis, I wonder if what they mean was that the "default" configuration has no close-door button at all, not just a dummy close door button. A ton of elevators have neither a close nor open door button.
The real question is: does the government deserve the money more?
No, that's not the question. The supposition that "he's worked for it, he deserves it" is the question.
The claim is that he's "worked hard" -- this implies that the job he's doing requires "work", ie some kind of labor input to produce a work product, and has worked "hard", implying that the work was difficult, strenuous and required substantial effort and sacrifice on his part.
My argument isn't that the government deserves the money; my argument is that the "hard work" Ballmer puts in ended years ago and that the "hard work" he performs now would feel like a vacation compared to what most people believe "hard work" actually is -- an unpalatable job, done for miserly compensation in the face of demanding and unhelpful supervisors and bureaucracy, and with considerable personal challenges.
In contrast, virtually every minute of Ballmer's "work" life is spent in almost complete luxury, with almost all of his needs attended to by underlings, with many of the expenses ordinary workers are expected to bear themselves (eg, meals, transportation) funded by Microsoft and provided at a level of luxury unimaginable to all but the most privileged. And the actual "work" he does is generally limited to conversations with and giving orders to people who are his subordinates. Even the things he does that more ordinary people do for "work", such as travel, are both done in ways ordinary people aren't allowed to do (ie, private jet travel, luxury hotels, gourmet meals) and to glamorous destinations and events (Davos, Switzerland, or Aspen, Colorado).
For that kind of "work" lifestyle I think most people would be thrilled to do it all *and* actually get paid whatever penury amount they get now. That people are actually able to enjoy that lifestyle and then get up on their high horse and make some kind of moral claim to vast riches for their "hard work" never ceases to amaze me.
I have no reason to believe that he did not work for his money
What exactly has "work" been like for Ballmer these past 10-15 years, anyway?
Has it been anything like the "work" that you and I might know? The kowtowing to tyrannical bosses? The ridiculous hoop jumping and bureaucracies, the ceaseless busywork and minutiae, the pressure to "do more with less", putting up with substandard and inadequate facilities and resources, working late hours and riding public transportation back to an Ikea-furnished apartment?
Or has Steve Ballmer's work been...different...a series of trips taken in a private jet, being driven in a limousine from the jet stairs to the luxury hotel accommodations where he'd stay? Dining out at four-star restaurants? Sitting in an expansive office on luxury furniture, droning on to subordinates before driving a company-reimbursed luxury automobile back to a large luxury home, attended to by a professional staff of gardners, housekeepers and dining on a meal prepared by a professional chef?
Yeah, you're right. He has been working hard. And sacrificing. Cut him that $2 billion check. He deserves it.
I would think the border in Nicaragua would be well known and would be well-surveyed by now, with accurate GPS coordinates. I don't think it requires a trillion dollars and a level of technology that on the US military can possess. Surveying and finding & marking boundaries is something people have been doing for centuries.
Even getting up to date maps to the military shouldn't be that hard -- maps with well-marked borders are probably one of the most important tools for any military, even the Nicaraguan military.
What doesn't surprise me, though, is that some Nicaraguan field commander was too ignorant/lazy to bother with paper maps.
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That's my biggest gripe with most libertarians I've met -- when they finally do concede that large corporations are as much of a threat to liberty as government, they blame government for creating them. Which might be true in some instances (eg, government granted monopoly) but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not, or much less so (and depending on the libertarian philosophy, some are opposed to copyright & patent in any form, which may nullify that answer).
But it strikes me as too easy to *just* blame the government without questioning corporate power at all.
Why do you need to find something "he did" to charge him?
I'm sure if "they" wanted to, "they" could toss him in a maximum security prison under a false name with a false conviction for something unsavory, like raping toddlers, with a complete faked background (criminal record, trial transcripts, etc).
What's he gonna do? Call the media and say he's in prison under false charges? And they'd believe him or even begin to prove otherwise?
And I'm sure for the smallest of considerations the word could be put out to prison gangs that this guy has a price on his head. And then a few weeks later, he's another guy killed in prison who fades into anonymity faster than they can stick his body into a Potter's Field.
Did you ever find it? I wanted it too.
"The Rolling Stones are the greatest white R&B act ever. This point is indisputable."
After that, you get into disputes. The problem for the Stones wasn't that they weren't good, but they just weren't very innovative -- they weren't doing a whole lot new, although you might argue that they were the first to synthesize pop, R&B and blues into rock and roll and do it very, very well. They kind of set the standard.
Not to mention the possibility of large fines when my (commercial) websites aren't compliant with some obscure requirement in the new guidelines.
As the fines and penalties becomes stiffer and the rules become more complex and difficult, will we end up with ADA trolls who find ADA issues and then either offer "remediation consulting services" or an anonymous phone call to whoever enforces the ADA?
I'm not sure what it is. Part of me thinks it might be growing nationalism on the part of Chinese visiting English language web forums, part of me thinks it might be the sort of general anti-Western self-loathing common to Slashdot.
And part of me thinks that if the Chinese government wanted to, they could probably easily fill a propaganda ministry building with a few thousand English speaking Chinese who did nothing all day but cruise English language web forums and slag America(ns) and work to suppress negative opinions of China & the Chinese.
When the planes are rolling off the assembly lines and ready for passengers, what happens is that minibuses roll up to the homes of the leaders of passenger jet corporation. Some nice men in a smart uniforms collect the family from their home and drive them to the airstrip connected to the plant.
At the plant, a few families are loaded onto a half-dozen planes awaiting delivery. The planes are then flown to the delivery point specified by the airlines and the families get joy ride on the newest product of the prosperous new passenger jet industry! The leaders of the passenger jet industry get to stand with party leaders, watching their families take off in the new planes they worked diligently to ensure were safe and well-made.
If the planes are unsafe or crash, such a tragedy for the airline leaders to lose their families! But since they didn't ride, they will take the lessons they learned from the experience to build better, safer planes. The leaders whose families survived serve as a model and enjoy the added discipline for producing high quality airplanes the People's Aviation Industry can be proud of.
I make pretty good money but the last thing I spent $2800 on was a TV, and that was seven years ago.
It would have taken a pretty well off hobbyist to buy one of those back then. IIRC, the economy kind of sucked, inflation was high and so was unemployment.
My guess is that nobody wants to be on the bad side of any prosecuting attorney's office, which is what would happen in all but the most egregious cases.
At one extreme end, you could really be dealing with an office capable and willing to abuse their authority, which could mean jail time or at least thousands spent defending yourself against prosecutorial attacks. Even at the mild end, everybody wants leverage at the prosecutor's office. Being a whistleblower doesn't get you that leverage.
How hard would it be for them to ADD a micro USB connector?
It would make sense, too -- the micro USB port would be a lot more durable than the dock connector, which is kind of fragile.
Is it just selective information available to me, or is Australia really starting to turn the corner towards a neofascist government, similar to say, South Africa of the 1970s or Korea of the early 1980s?
The calendar/gmail integration isn't half of what Exchange's is. It's hotlinks between the two different applications.
My first response is WTF? Have you used Outlook since Outlook 95? And what are you talking about Exchange "going down all the time"?
I work as a consultant in the SMB market and when I took this job my biggest fear was Exchange crashing and constantly having to do Exchange repairs.
After 6 years, I've only had problems with two Exchange servers, and both problems weren't really Exchange problems. One was an Exchange server that also was a domain controller (not my setup, pre-existing) and the issue was really with the DC component. The other issue was the customer free-lancing in ADSI edit. And this is out of dozens of clients running Exchange (standalone and SBS).
One of the most surprising things to me isn't how easy it is to break Exchange but how surprisingly resilient it is, despite the torture that SMB environments gave it -- cheap/shitty hardware, bad power, no cooling, frequent hard crashing, insane mailbox sizes (one user was pushing 14 gig on 2003).
As for Outlook, there's a lot to dislike there, but slow and cumbersome ain't it. I can't imagine using Gmail over Outlook, especially given the really clumsy calendar integration between Gmail and Google Calendar and the need to "page" Gmail every 100 messages. Regardless of how good Google is, a web app is still inferior to a purpose-built application.
I thought drugs were the social network.
A sensible person would have followed her to work, cut her tires and ruined her paint.
Not cunnilingus, you insensitive clod!
Either that, or the highway departments can pull their heads out of their asses and let us drive 100 MPH.
And the "close door" button appeared to work. The door closed immediately after pressing it. This building normally holds the doors open for a long time, too; the door would not have normally closed as quickly.
FWIW, this building is pretty old (1920s?) and just had all its elevators modernized with new cars (and I'm presuming new controls, etc). Can't remember if it was an Otis or not.
Speaking of Otis, I wonder if what they mean was that the "default" configuration has no close-door button at all, not just a dummy close door button. A ton of elevators have neither a close nor open door button.
They'll probably call in an A-10 strike.
The real question is: does the government deserve the money more?
No, that's not the question. The supposition that "he's worked for it, he deserves it" is the question.
The claim is that he's "worked hard" -- this implies that the job he's doing requires "work", ie some kind of labor input to produce a work product, and has worked "hard", implying that the work was difficult, strenuous and required substantial effort and sacrifice on his part.
My argument isn't that the government deserves the money; my argument is that the "hard work" Ballmer puts in ended years ago and that the "hard work" he performs now would feel like a vacation compared to what most people believe "hard work" actually is -- an unpalatable job, done for miserly compensation in the face of demanding and unhelpful supervisors and bureaucracy, and with considerable personal challenges.
In contrast, virtually every minute of Ballmer's "work" life is spent in almost complete luxury, with almost all of his needs attended to by underlings, with many of the expenses ordinary workers are expected to bear themselves (eg, meals, transportation) funded by Microsoft and provided at a level of luxury unimaginable to all but the most privileged. And the actual "work" he does is generally limited to conversations with and giving orders to people who are his subordinates. Even the things he does that more ordinary people do for "work", such as travel, are both done in ways ordinary people aren't allowed to do (ie, private jet travel, luxury hotels, gourmet meals) and to glamorous destinations and events (Davos, Switzerland, or Aspen, Colorado).
For that kind of "work" lifestyle I think most people would be thrilled to do it all *and* actually get paid whatever penury amount they get now. That people are actually able to enjoy that lifestyle and then get up on their high horse and make some kind of moral claim to vast riches for their "hard work" never ceases to amaze me.
I have no reason to believe that he did not work for his money
What exactly has "work" been like for Ballmer these past 10-15 years, anyway?
Has it been anything like the "work" that you and I might know? The kowtowing to tyrannical bosses? The ridiculous hoop jumping and bureaucracies, the ceaseless busywork and minutiae, the pressure to "do more with less", putting up with substandard and inadequate facilities and resources, working late hours and riding public transportation back to an Ikea-furnished apartment?
Or has Steve Ballmer's work been...different...a series of trips taken in a private jet, being driven in a limousine from the jet stairs to the luxury hotel accommodations where he'd stay? Dining out at four-star restaurants? Sitting in an expansive office on luxury furniture, droning on to subordinates before driving a company-reimbursed luxury automobile back to a large luxury home, attended to by a professional staff of gardners, housekeepers and dining on a meal prepared by a professional chef?
Yeah, you're right. He has been working hard. And sacrificing. Cut him that $2 billion check. He deserves it.
And thanks to Amish craftsmen, you can have jet powered wings and save money on gas.
And if you call today, we'll give you two sets!
I'm more worried about my wife's dick acceptance factor.
See? Seven of Nine's outfit was inspired by science after all.
Yes, but it was inspired by reproductive science.
I would think the border in Nicaragua would be well known and would be well-surveyed by now, with accurate GPS coordinates. I don't think it requires a trillion dollars and a level of technology that on the US military can possess. Surveying and finding & marking boundaries is something people have been doing for centuries.
Even getting up to date maps to the military shouldn't be that hard -- maps with well-marked borders are probably one of the most important tools for any military, even the Nicaraguan military.
What doesn't surprise me, though, is that some Nicaraguan field commander was too ignorant/lazy to bother with paper maps.