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  1. In my mind, if you are driving down a road and there is an obstacle, you STOP IMMEDIATELY if it is not save to pull around it. I must side with the bus on this one. The only direction a driver has the 'right' to drive is straight, and only if there is no one going slower directly in front of them.

  2. Re: how is that relevant? on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    I didn't call you an asshole for calling me an idiot. Your an asshole because you feel so strongly about it that you can't just leave it alone now that it's said.

  3. Why park it? on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 0

    i'm thinking if I have a totally autonomous car, why ever park it? Instead of paying $40 for a parking spot while you are shopping somewhere, just keep it driving around and around until you're ready to be picked up.

  4. Re:What about this.... on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 0

    It is also possible they will cause more traffic jams, at least in the short term, because the solution to any scenario they run into that they are confused about seem to be to 'slow down'.

  5. Zuk will just send them half the cash that he wiped his ass with this morning.

  6. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Historically, spectator events are used to pacify the passes. It is no different then gladiator fights of ancient times. Left to their own devices, the masses may decide to fight for social changes that don't work in the favor of the aristocracy.

  7. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Not really. People actually value college football. For lots of people, that's the only reason they care whether the college exists at all."

    Hark! Is that another thing wrong with America that I hear?

  8. Re: Hiring There, Not Here, or Laying Off Here on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    By 'fighting hard' I was thinking more of the world wars, but valid point.

  9. Why would any employee help a company that has done nothing but shit all over them? I'd be surprised if there weren't quite a few actively contributing to violating copyright. Really, this one way asshattedness that corporations constantly show is completely exhausting.

  10. Re:lower wages on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So what skills should I shoot for? The ones that will be valuable third quarter this year? Fourth? Perhaps I should just go for broke and strive to be valuable for the last half of 2017.

  11. Re:Outsourcing on Red Hat And FCC CIOs On the Future Of Tech (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I could tell you, but all reasons I have are ethical rather than legal.

  12. Re:Age needs to be reported moving forward on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think people kind of thought that we had a certain way of life in our country, and growing up we were taught to respect our nation because people fought and died to protect the way of life we have. The end game to all this is obviously the destruction of our way of life, so people are kind of wondering if we were all being fed a line about respecting our nation and all. So when people have a good job that fits with the way of life that we grew up being told to respect, and then we lose that job, everyone kind of goes, "What? That's f*in it??".

  13. Re:Outsourcing on Red Hat And FCC CIOs On the Future Of Tech (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    In my mind, the elephant in the room is the fact that IT workers get treated generically like crap yet they feign ignorance and continue to complain about no one going into IT. Let's limit H1-Bs and make it dependent on money for training and reaching out to find workers in places where living is humane.

  14. Another thread that makes me ask why I bother to stand for the national anthem. Why respect a country that won't lift a finger to protect a way of life that people died to fight for?

  15. Re:Hiring There, Not Here, or Laying Off Here on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.. We're a hair away from 50% of the population on welfare. It really is that sad. Then welfare will fail, and people will start starving like they do in all the other countries that we fought so hard NOT to be like.

  16. Re:IBM has been dying for years... on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If IBM were a person, it would be "pretty fly for a white guy". It tries to look cool, but it constantly fails to shed its stodgy history.

  17. Re:"resource actions" or "workforce rebalancing" on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So why do they complain that no one is going into technology? Aren't they reaping what they sow? I mean, if I'm a high school student and I see technology employees being crapped on, I won't go into technology. Maybe if I was a high school student that happened to be born and raised in silicon valley I would, but otherwise no way.

  18. Re:"resource actions" or "workforce rebalancing" on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    .... and then they complain they can't attract people to technology fields.

  19. Re:What's the breakdown on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I say again.. why do I bother to stand for the Star Spangled Banner anymore. I mean if my own country is going to screw me over that badly, why bother to show respect?

  20. I just stood up for the US national anthem... and this thread made me wonder why I'm bothering to put in the effort.

  21. Re:What's the breakdown on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't need to hire H1-Bs, they have offices in all kinds of desperate nations.

  22. Re:lower wages on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Relocate to where? India???

  23. Re: how is that relevant? on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    You know what, its debatable whether I'm an idiot our not, but you have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're an asshole. I'd much rather be an idiot, even if that is indeed true. Enough said.

  24. I didn't call it free market. OP did.

  25. Re:Does anyone believe him? on Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well society can stack up how ever we want it to, assuming we have a fair and equitable government that actually cares about the quality of life within its borders.