A-Ha, that does sound like it. I don't know why I always block out post-The Movie episodes, even though The Movie was my all-time favorite Transformers storyline.
And what happened to the robot that replaced Optimus Prime, when he died, I remember this robot was stuck inside a comet or astroid, and he had to be found.
Ultramagnus? He got blown apart on the junk world, but they put him back together. Or are you talking about Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime? I recall neither being found in a comet.
Oh, and bring back the big mega robot, that is combined by 5 smaller ones, the green one that is all the construction machines that form a big robot.
The Constructicons? C'mon man, you're rapidly losing nerd points if you can't remember the name of the Constructicons!
ME GRIMLOCK SAY ME HOPE MICHAEL BAY AND GROUP OF NO-TALENT WRITERS DON'T CRAP ON TRANSFORMERS!
Likely candidates will be devoutly and unquestioningly religious, be a member of Future Business Leaders of America and also boy/girl scouts.
Not likely. Can you see your local Colege Republicans running off to fight the war that they cheer? Have you seen any of the War Pundits, War Preachers, or War Politicians ask for all of their able-bodied supporters to enlist? No, you won't, because they're chickenhawks who want others to die for a plank of their party's platform (the War on Terra). Therefore, the ones to fight and die will continue to be almost exclusively lower to middle class with no particular religious affiliation.
I can't "Me Too" the parent enough. Back in 1999-2000 I bought and sold many, many items off of eBay (at least many, many cheap electronics and trading cards based on my college budget). Right around 2002, however, I slowed my browsing and now I haven't even gone to the website for over a year. The reason: any non-trivial item I want to look for (laptop, camcorder, digital camera, LCD projector) is infected with frustrating-as-hell spam reading "GET ITEM X FOR FREEE!!!!11!" eBay, for all intents and purposes, has been hijacked by the no-product "FOR FREE"-guide spammers and extremely high volume power sellers. It is just really hard to wade through the crap to find some guy who's just selling his camcorder because he doesn't want it anymore.
Yeah! Great idea! And while we're all holding Dick's dick, let's just forget the fact that he commonly used the power of the federal government to punish his enemies! Let's forget that the only reason he got away with an actual, you know, CRIME was that his vice-president pardoned him! Yeah! Let's hold Richard fucking Nixon up as a shining example to our kids! "Billy? Is that Johnny giving you trouble? Tell the teacher he tried to touch your wee-wee, then he'll get expelled! Thanks, Dick!"
NO, I'm saying when I was in college, I did stupid things (in general) and one of them was to have an irrational dislike of Java because I learned my entire undergrad intro courses in C++ and then they switched all the advanced classes to Java. So not only was I learning OS, AI, networking, and database concepts, I also had to learn the intricacies of Java. No small feat if you are also working 40 hours a week and drinking heavily with college girls.
I'm saying that for a community of intelligent developers, it is tiring to see so much misplaced rage against Microsoft. That company has done some fucked-up shit, but that doesn't mean that every single thing they make automatically IS shit, and it doesn't mean that every Joe Developer on their payroll is a Class A Idiot. It means that somewhere in Microsoft some marketing guy promised something that didn't make it during the descoping phase. Gee, what a suprise.
So yeah, you have a valid point about my own past. But the difference is that now if we had Java projects I'd jump right in. Tools like JUnit and Ant are a lot easier to develop with than whatever CppUnitJunk-hack I'd be expected use programming with C++. You see, I learned from my mistakes, whereas for the last 8 years Slashdot has been tilting against Microsoft, with another 8 years in the forecast.
The other reply I saw referenced Microsoft dogfooding.Net, but not in specifics. A fundamental Microsoft offering: Visual Studio, was completely rewritten in.Net. If Microsoft ported their development suite, it means they are serious. Why? Because if the dev tools suck, it limits the uptake (or reup, for existing Windows-targetting software companies) to the Windows platform. Lean close and I'll tell you a secret: "Everything Microsft does is with the ultimate purpose to drive sales of the Windows OS." Now, some may say "they don't care, because they already own the market." That's a puerile statement. Does anyone think Microsoft is honestly stupid enough to sit back and say "That's it, we own the market, time to stop producing products and let the moeny roll in."? Realistically, Microsoft has to find new ways every year to make the Windows platform attractive to developers, because what's the alternative? Governments adopting Linux, home user adopting Apple, lunatics everywhere adopting Minix (heh)?
It's tiring to hear the same old slams on Microsoft every day on Slashdot. I used to hate Windows and love Linux back in college, but now, 4 years out, I've taken a more moderate approach. That is to say, I'm looking out for whichever platform allows me to get my goals accomplished (has the tools, the docs, the online community). For dumb personal reasons I always hated Java, but now I love working in.Net. I'm excited that my company is looking towards some new.Net-based projects. Why? Because of all the great tools and frameworks out there to work with. I know Java had all these things as well, but for whatever reason I wasn't a fan.
By the way, and this is not a sarcastic question because I'd like to know, how does.Net not solve the DLL Hell problem? How are versioned assemblies with metadata not able to identify themselves to applications questioning their version and origin? If there's a real-world problem with this, I'd be interested in hearing more, because its the first I've heard. If you are talking about a world in which managed assemblies and unmanaged DLLs co-mingle, then I understand, but if you are talking about a.Net application I'd love to hear more.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Republicans are business-friendly---as long as that business is legit.
Hoo boy, had to wipe my eyes after that one. While I do hate the current incarnation of the Republican Party, I am in no way biased FOR the Democrats. I am a Democrat, but if they do something wrong I will (and do) hold them accountable. For instance: the anti-everyone-but-credit-card-companies bill that just floated through a REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS. It is horribly anti-consumer, but 12 Dems stepped across the aisle to support it. I strongly supported Joe Biden until he got into bed with the loan-shark business (ever heard of Universal Default? you will.) You see, unlike batshit insane Republican Plent-T-Plaint drones, I evaluate the sides to a story and make a decision based on them. It's not my fault that, unless George W. man-dates his personal History curriculum be taught in high school hstory, this time will likely go down as The Time A President Royally Fucked Every One Of His Constiuents That Didn't Make $200,000+ Per Year.
Now onto the business at hand: who, fucking exactly, has been "brought to justice" by the almighty Ashcroft Justice Department? Ken Lay, former CEO of the greatest business scam in the history of Wall Street and the guy that George W. Bush nicknamed "Kenny Boy"? No. But because some junior vice president was prosecuted on mail fraud or some such bullshit, apparently the Republican Party's vision of Justice (cover up the right tit on that statue!) has been done.
Second: Enron and AA were major democrat businesses, and in no way associated with Bush or the republican party, thankfully. I knew at this point I was dealing with (a.) a troll or (b.) someone so completed divorced from the reality we live in that no words printed on paper, screen, or spoken aloud could convince them that the Republican Party wasn't the Second Coming of Jesus Fucking Christ in all his 'steal from the rich, give to the poor' glory... wait, um, Robin Fucking Hood? Eh, whatever.
To say that Democrats supported Big Business in the Clinton Years is correct and every true progressive laments the shift to the right based on 'chasing the center,' but to wave a hand at the utter corruption of the Republican Party; to dismiss the right-wing-ization of K Street and the attempt to give to the rich while placating the poor with gay marriage and Terry Shiavo are the actions of a madman or a fool.
As you are on this particular message board I will assume you are neither. I will go ahead and assume you are a libertarian-leaning GOoPer who likes the fact that Gee Dubya cut his taxes and attacked the fools that messed with us on Sept. 11th (except... SURPRISE! It wasn't IRAQ!) Well, I know that winning elections are fun and it feels fantastic to spit in the face of us Dems and scream "We won! We have a man-date!" while you fondle yourselves and dream of a national flat tax, but unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Personal Savior and bow to every whim of Jerry Fucking Falwell, don't expect the honeymoon to last long.
But there's a sad truth, evident to anyone who has dipped into that world... and that is, except for their brown-nosing skills and personal connections, business people, management, financial/accountants are mostly useless....
So you technicians, engineers, and other professionals who can actually do real things... never you worry. Ultimately, you are the ones who have the skills to accomplish what society needs. The market of yesterday - for idiot managers, corrupt accountants - is coming to an end (though it may take some time).
Once again I see a strange reference to accountants as part of the Evil Triumvirate (along with Managers and CEOs) that we engineers should wipe out when we storm the gates. As a husband of an accountant, I continually feel the need to set the record straight, as most people don't seem to know what accountants do. Accountants didn't say, "Hey, we can make Enron worth $XX/share if we do this crazy shit." The Executive Team of GloboCorp Y got together with the Partner(s) (the public accounting version of an Executive Board) of their Accounting firms and decided to use every loophole and deregulation trick that the glorious Republican Party gave us in order stuff their pockets with money and buy $16,000 umbrella stands. Even if you're not talking about public accounting, it's not like a junior CPA at GloboCorp's Acquistions Department was coming up with new and creative ways for the CEO to embezzle billions (with a 'b') dollars.
Chief Executive Officers and their Executive Boards are what make the world of Corporate Fraud go round. Period. Because you never really hear about an Assurance A-2 at Public Accounting Firm Z getting dragged down to the United States Senate to answer questions about a little $100 million bonus to their checks. Sadly, though, those Arthur Anderson A-2s are the ones who hit the streets searching for new jobs while a handful of George "Kenny Boy" W. Bush's buddies got off scott-free.
Note: While I lament the tremendous loss of jobs when Arthur went under, I feel no sympathy for the Consulting side of the house. I don't think public accounting firms should ever have been in that business in the first place. Highly unethical, but then again, we can thank Republican-backed deregulation and rapacious partners for that greed-inspired business practice.
The CPAs? Are you kidding? Or did you mean MBAs? Because I have a hard time seeing how certified public accountants would direct a company to focus on shareholder value rather than employee morale or product quality or innovation. Certified public accountants don't write vision statements; that's the executive committee (at their $2000/day offsite).
I can't explain it but I have seen it a few times now.
Maybe you should stick to the watching and stay away from the explaining, then.
[1] In fairness, this bill does have a couple of minor differences: it proposes that election day be a federal holiday, and
makes doing things that liberals would like to make people believe are routine and widespread, like intimidating minorities and passing out fliers with incorrect voting dates, a felony. It also prohibits executives at voting vendors from being politically active, likely to pander to the people who think Diebold's CEO stole the election for Bush, completely ignoring the impossibility of actually executing on such an allegation statewide. In short, a shameless pandering publicity stunt, which ignores the completely legitimate bills already proposed two years ago above by respected members of Congress that would have addressed the two very topics discussed by Kos and noted in the article summary (namely receipts and open source).
So it's now UnAmerican (tm, GOP) to want legal safeguards for a free vote for all? As usual, our Republican friends in power (who spend oh such my time craying about how they are the poor persecuted minority,) like to dismiss bills like the one described as ridiculous and unecessary. But here's where the Dems win:
Just how is it wrong to codify specific conflict of interest behaviors that impugn the legitmacy of our democracy as 'wrong'? How does that make liberals wackos? I believe the question should be: "Why do Republicans hate democracy?"
Why do we even need drop-down menus on websites? Whatever happened to decently laid out sites that didn't contact the server every 10 seconds to see if there was an update? Web-forums with private messages? Let them notify me of a new message when I request a new page. Real-time dynamic content does not belong in a browser window.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned here...
Yes, you are old-fashioned. Put yourself out to pasture. Drop-down menus on a web site replicate the common user interface of the menu in a desktop application. The user has implicit understanding of how they work. For example, ALA has an article up in their Usability section on how to fashion clean, cross-browser horizontal drop-downs. So find something else to rail about, like how those damn neighbor's kids are up to no good.
Number 1: Presumably, part of the way to achieve immortality would be to stay younger (i.e., more vigorous) longer. Not, as you suggest, to grow old and feeble in 70 years and then stay old and feeble for an addition 930 years. The result: people would work longer and retire much later. I do not, however, deny that there would be ecomnomic and humanitarian crises due to a shortage of jobs, livable land, and food supplies.
Number 2: You are repeating Republican spin points. Please attempt to actually learn some actual facts about the actual Social Security system and the actual report by the Social Security Trustees. In reality, SS is completely solvent until the mid 2040s unless Bush rapes the trust fund again to give more handouts to the rich. Nice troll you piece of shit right-wing liar; keep repeating those talking points you get from Faux News.
I certainly would prefer science to directly enrich the human experience rather than be a constant search for profit. However, I must point out that the ability to conduct pure science on something "because it's there" is no longer completely possible. Of course, one can always hole oneself up in one's apartment with a pad of paper and a pencil to unearth the next mathematical discovery. To do Science, with all it's inferred experimental Goodness, however, is becoming increasingly hard as the frontiers of science move ever out of reach of Joe Scientist and His Garage Laboratory. These days cutting edge science is done with particle accelerators, creating micro-singularities, and number crunching with 512-node computer clusters. For this reason, I don't see how we can push back towards a time where a brilliant man invents something in his backyard. Perhaps a brilliant independently wealthy man, but not a brilliant commonly-wealthy man.
Again, obviously you didn't read the Fucking article. The author states that, indeed, her SO will most likely leave the company. Stop trying to paint them as whiners. The intent of the letter/post/article is to a.) question EA management as to WHY their programmers must work such long hours when their products make a ridiculous amount of money, and b.) to warn others suckered in to work for EA because it's a video game company that the hours requried for the job are vastly understated.
Further down TFA you would see that the 8 hour, 6 day weeks were only the beginning. Next came 12 hour, 6 day weeks. Finally, that was upped to 12 hour, 7 day weeks. Now, I work on a major software product team, and even in our worst hours/days before ship we didn't have to pull those kind of shifts. Maybe a weekend, maybe a long night, but never multiple 85 hour weeks. Please RTFA and then post.
As mentioned in the post itself, Talking Points Memo is also excellent. Sorry I don't have any conservative blogs listed; I don't have a fondness for lies and general evilness.
Well, for the most part I think that sales follow promotion. That is, the industry will generally keep to its sales figures if it follows the same promotional model. It's not that I believe that iTunes is not cool or not a good step in the right direction, because they are both those things. I just don't think that iTunes, or even the current online sales model alone, is a sea change to the entire record industry.
I don't think the distribution is such a big part of the cartel's leverage anymore. With an ever-expanding amount of choices available to the average consumer, the important thing now is the money for advertising and promotion. How do acts that sign strictly with iTunes get their name into the public conciousness? The cartel brings that money and promotional power to the table.
No, congratulations to YOU: obviously you enjoy the press insulting your intelligence. I enjoy seeing actual fucking citations for the quotes I read, along with their context.
Thanks for the conservative party line, Anonymous Coward. However, the only thing I notice when I watch the Fox News Network is how they lie about things in order to sensationalize the "news" they report. Same with CNN. Same with MSNBC. Isn't it cute that after all that's happened (NYT's trashing of Gore, the way that Bush is not held to any intellectual standards at all, or the shameful way that our "press" didn't want to ask any hard questions of the Administration during the run-up to the war) our conservative friends are still only too happy to cry "Liberal Bias!" and let slip the dogs of spin?
If my choice of news is between two networks who will spin the truth to oblivion, I'd prefer no choice at all thank you. Liberals don't have a monopoly on the truth; neither do conservatives. I'd like some of the older notions of journalistic integrity to come back into style, however.
Don't try to pass off Bill O'Reilly as "news". Don't attempt to tell me that Sean Hannity is "news". The Today Show is not "news".
March 6th, 2003. The country is about to go to WAR. A press conference is held to announce our country's intentions. Where was our press? Well, let's let the supposedly liberally-biased-out-the-ass New York Times scribe Elizabeth Bumiller tell us what their thoughts were:
BUMILLER: I think we were very deferential because...it's live, it's very intense, it's frightening to stand up there. Think about it, you're standing up on prime-time live TV asking the president of the United States a question when the country's about to go to war. There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time.
The D.C. reporter for the New Goddamn York Times was frightened to ask the President a question about WHY WE WERE GOING TO WAR?!
Ahhhhhhhh, can you smell the Slashdot musical elitism? As a matter of fact, I love "the hit of the month Top 40 crap or what." Here is what I require in music:
1. It makes my body shake 2. It makes me want to hum or sing along
Now, why in the Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick can't I purchase the music I enjoy the same way you are able to purchase whatever it is you're into? This reminds me of the anti-Eminem thread a few years back by all of the people who only listen to "good" music, whatever that is.
So yes, Twista or R. Kelly or even Britney "I Fucked Up The Bond Franchise" Spears may not make an album with 19 of the most soulful and thoughtful tracks known to mankind, but if there's 1 or 2 that are really bumpin why shouldn't you be able to buy them?
I was always under the impression that, culturally, music was about making people sway to the rhythm. Maybe I'm wrong; I'm no musicologist.
You just had to make me step in you hack. You just had to repeat the RNC's spinpoint:
"We didn't do anything bad! And... and... even if we did... um... they were consulting special interests as to who to nominate!"
O Republicans! Save me from the big bad special interests that influence the Democratic party! I now know that you would never, ever, Ever, EVER write, endorse, or vote for legistlation that had the taint of special interests behind it. I know now, through your spin-pointagisms, that, say, the Christan Coalition would never attempt to influence the choice for a crucial federal circuit court or supreme court position!
Oh, thank you again, wise Republicans for showing me the error of my liberal ways and giving me tax cuts, tax cuts, and tax cuts until the nation is 99% lower class and 1% ultra-upper class. I hope I'm in the right bracket when the time comes!
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A-Ha, that does sound like it. I don't know why I always block out post-The Movie episodes, even though The Movie was my all-time favorite Transformers storyline.
Not the 90's armada version.
Agreed.
And what happened to the robot that replaced Optimus Prime, when he died, I remember this robot was stuck inside a comet or astroid, and he had to be found.
Ultramagnus? He got blown apart on the junk world, but they put him back together. Or are you talking about Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime? I recall neither being found in a comet.
Oh, and bring back the big mega robot, that is combined by 5 smaller ones, the green one that is all the construction machines that form a big robot.
The Constructicons? C'mon man, you're rapidly losing nerd points if you can't remember the name of the Constructicons!
ME GRIMLOCK SAY ME HOPE MICHAEL BAY AND GROUP OF NO-TALENT WRITERS DON'T CRAP ON TRANSFORMERS!
Likely candidates will be devoutly and unquestioningly religious, be a member of Future Business Leaders of America and also boy/girl scouts.
Not likely. Can you see your local Colege Republicans running off to fight the war that they cheer? Have you seen any of the War Pundits, War Preachers, or War Politicians ask for all of their able-bodied supporters to enlist? No, you won't, because they're chickenhawks who want others to die for a plank of their party's platform (the War on Terra). Therefore, the ones to fight and die will continue to be almost exclusively lower to middle class with no particular religious affiliation.
I can't "Me Too" the parent enough. Back in 1999-2000 I bought and sold many, many items off of eBay (at least many, many cheap electronics and trading cards based on my college budget). Right around 2002, however, I slowed my browsing and now I haven't even gone to the website for over a year. The reason: any non-trivial item I want to look for (laptop, camcorder, digital camera, LCD projector) is infected with frustrating-as-hell spam reading "GET ITEM X FOR FREEE!!!!11!" eBay, for all intents and purposes, has been hijacked by the no-product "FOR FREE"-guide spammers and extremely high volume power sellers. It is just really hard to wade through the crap to find some guy who's just selling his camcorder because he doesn't want it anymore.
Yeah! Great idea! And while we're all holding Dick's dick, let's just forget the fact that he commonly used the power of the federal government to punish his enemies! Let's forget that the only reason he got away with an actual, you know, CRIME was that his vice-president pardoned him! Yeah! Let's hold Richard fucking Nixon up as a shining example to our kids! "Billy? Is that Johnny giving you trouble? Tell the teacher he tried to touch your wee-wee, then he'll get expelled! Thanks, Dick!"
NO, I'm saying when I was in college, I did stupid things (in general) and one of them was to have an irrational dislike of Java because I learned my entire undergrad intro courses in C++ and then they switched all the advanced classes to Java. So not only was I learning OS, AI, networking, and database concepts, I also had to learn the intricacies of Java. No small feat if you are also working 40 hours a week and drinking heavily with college girls.
I'm saying that for a community of intelligent developers, it is tiring to see so much misplaced rage against Microsoft. That company has done some fucked-up shit, but that doesn't mean that every single thing they make automatically IS shit, and it doesn't mean that every Joe Developer on their payroll is a Class A Idiot. It means that somewhere in Microsoft some marketing guy promised something that didn't make it during the descoping phase. Gee, what a suprise.
So yeah, you have a valid point about my own past. But the difference is that now if we had Java projects I'd jump right in. Tools like JUnit and Ant are a lot easier to develop with than whatever CppUnitJunk-hack I'd be expected use programming with C++. You see, I learned from my mistakes, whereas for the last 8 years Slashdot has been tilting against Microsoft, with another 8 years in the forecast.
Nothing personal, just my opinion of the masses.
The other reply I saw referenced Microsoft dogfooding .Net, but not in specifics. A fundamental Microsoft offering: Visual Studio, was completely rewritten in .Net. If Microsoft ported their development suite, it means they are serious. Why? Because if the dev tools suck, it limits the uptake (or reup, for existing Windows-targetting software companies) to the Windows platform. Lean close and I'll tell you a secret: "Everything Microsft does is with the ultimate purpose to drive sales of the Windows OS." Now, some may say "they don't care, because they already own the market." That's a puerile statement. Does anyone think Microsoft is honestly stupid enough to sit back and say "That's it, we own the market, time to stop producing products and let the moeny roll in."? Realistically, Microsoft has to find new ways every year to make the Windows platform attractive to developers, because what's the alternative? Governments adopting Linux, home user adopting Apple, lunatics everywhere adopting Minix (heh)?
.Net. I'm excited that my company is looking towards some new .Net-based projects. Why? Because of all the great tools and frameworks out there to work with. I know Java had all these things as well, but for whatever reason I wasn't a fan.
.Net not solve the DLL Hell problem? How are versioned assemblies with metadata not able to identify themselves to applications questioning their version and origin? If there's a real-world problem with this, I'd be interested in hearing more, because its the first I've heard. If you are talking about a world in which managed assemblies and unmanaged DLLs co-mingle, then I understand, but if you are talking about a .Net application I'd love to hear more.
It's tiring to hear the same old slams on Microsoft every day on Slashdot. I used to hate Windows and love Linux back in college, but now, 4 years out, I've taken a more moderate approach. That is to say, I'm looking out for whichever platform allows me to get my goals accomplished (has the tools, the docs, the online community). For dumb personal reasons I always hated Java, but now I love working in
By the way, and this is not a sarcastic question because I'd like to know, how does
"Rosebud" was the sled? ...
NOOOOoooooooOOO!
Now onto the business at hand: who, fucking exactly, has been "brought to justice" by the almighty Ashcroft Justice Department? Ken Lay, former CEO of the greatest business scam in the history of Wall Street and the guy that George W. Bush nicknamed "Kenny Boy"? No. But because some junior vice president was prosecuted on mail fraud or some such bullshit, apparently the Republican Party's vision of Justice (cover up the right tit on that statue!) has been done.
Second: Enron and AA were major democrat businesses, and in no way associated with Bush or the republican party, thankfully. I knew at this point I was dealing with (a.) a troll or (b.) someone so completed divorced from the reality we live in that no words printed on paper, screen, or spoken aloud could convince them that the Republican Party wasn't the Second Coming of Jesus Fucking Christ in all his 'steal from the rich, give to the poor' glory... wait, um, Robin Fucking Hood? Eh, whatever.
To say that Democrats supported Big Business in the Clinton Years is correct and every true progressive laments the shift to the right based on 'chasing the center,' but to wave a hand at the utter corruption of the Republican Party; to dismiss the right-wing-ization of K Street and the attempt to give to the rich while placating the poor with gay marriage and Terry Shiavo are the actions of a madman or a fool.
As you are on this particular message board I will assume you are neither. I will go ahead and assume you are a libertarian-leaning GOoPer who likes the fact that Gee Dubya cut his taxes and attacked the fools that messed with us on Sept. 11th (except... SURPRISE! It wasn't IRAQ!) Well, I know that winning elections are fun and it feels fantastic to spit in the face of us Dems and scream "We won! We have a man-date!" while you fondle yourselves and dream of a national flat tax, but unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Personal Savior and bow to every whim of Jerry Fucking Falwell, don't expect the honeymoon to last long.
Once again I see a strange reference to accountants as part of the Evil Triumvirate (along with Managers and CEOs) that we engineers should wipe out when we storm the gates. As a husband of an accountant, I continually feel the need to set the record straight, as most people don't seem to know what accountants do. Accountants didn't say, "Hey, we can make Enron worth $XX/share if we do this crazy shit." The Executive Team of GloboCorp Y got together with the Partner(s) (the public accounting version of an Executive Board) of their Accounting firms and decided to use every loophole and deregulation trick that the glorious Republican Party gave us in order stuff their pockets with money and buy $16,000 umbrella stands. Even if you're not talking about public accounting, it's not like a junior CPA at GloboCorp's Acquistions Department was coming up with new and creative ways for the CEO to embezzle billions (with a 'b') dollars.
Chief Executive Officers and their Executive Boards are what make the world of Corporate Fraud go round. Period. Because you never really hear about an Assurance A-2 at Public Accounting Firm Z getting dragged down to the United States Senate to answer questions about a little $100 million bonus to their checks. Sadly, though, those Arthur Anderson A-2s are the ones who hit the streets searching for new jobs while a handful of George "Kenny Boy" W. Bush's buddies got off scott-free.
Note: While I lament the tremendous loss of jobs when Arthur went under, I feel no sympathy for the Consulting side of the house. I don't think public accounting firms should ever have been in that business in the first place. Highly unethical, but then again, we can thank Republican-backed deregulation and rapacious partners for that greed-inspired business practice.
The CPAs? Are you kidding? Or did you mean MBAs? Because I have a hard time seeing how certified public accountants would direct a company to focus on shareholder value rather than employee morale or product quality or innovation. Certified public accountants don't write vision statements; that's the executive committee (at their $2000/day offsite).
I can't explain it but I have seen it a few times now.
Maybe you should stick to the watching and stay away from the explaining, then.
Its for the children. Anyone who disagrees with that is just an *ssh*l*
Anyone who disagrees is logging into a secure shell session? wha?
So it's now UnAmerican (tm, GOP) to want legal safeguards for a free vote for all? As usual, our Republican friends in power (who spend oh such my time craying about how they are the poor persecuted minority,) like to dismiss bills like the one described as ridiculous and unecessary. But here's where the Dems win:
Just how is it wrong to codify specific conflict of interest behaviors that impugn the legitmacy of our democracy as 'wrong'? How does that make liberals wackos? I believe the question should be: "Why do Republicans hate democracy?"
Number 1: Presumably, part of the way to achieve immortality would be to stay younger (i.e., more vigorous) longer. Not, as you suggest, to grow old and feeble in 70 years and then stay old and feeble for an addition 930 years. The result: people would work longer and retire much later. I do not, however, deny that there would be ecomnomic and humanitarian crises due to a shortage of jobs, livable land, and food supplies.
Number 2: You are repeating Republican spin points. Please attempt to actually learn some actual facts about the actual Social Security system and the actual report by the Social Security Trustees. In reality, SS is completely solvent until the mid 2040s unless Bush rapes the trust fund again to give more handouts to the rich. Nice troll you piece of shit right-wing liar; keep repeating those talking points you get from Faux News.
I certainly would prefer science to directly enrich the human experience rather than be a constant search for profit. However, I must point out that the ability to conduct pure science on something "because it's there" is no longer completely possible. Of course, one can always hole oneself up in one's apartment with a pad of paper and a pencil to unearth the next mathematical discovery. To do Science, with all it's inferred experimental Goodness, however, is becoming increasingly hard as the frontiers of science move ever out of reach of Joe Scientist and His Garage Laboratory. These days cutting edge science is done with particle accelerators, creating micro-singularities, and number crunching with 512-node computer clusters. For this reason, I don't see how we can push back towards a time where a brilliant man invents something in his backyard. Perhaps a brilliant independently wealthy man, but not a brilliant commonly-wealthy man.
Again, obviously you didn't read the Fucking article. The author states that, indeed, her SO will most likely leave the company. Stop trying to paint them as whiners. The intent of the letter/post/article is to a.) question EA management as to WHY their programmers must work such long hours when their products make a ridiculous amount of money, and b.) to warn others suckered in to work for EA because it's a video game company that the hours requried for the job are vastly understated.
Further down TFA you would see that the 8 hour, 6 day weeks were only the beginning. Next came 12 hour, 6 day weeks. Finally, that was upped to 12 hour, 7 day weeks. Now, I work on a major software product team, and even in our worst hours/days before ship we didn't have to pull those kind of shifts. Maybe a weekend, maybe a long night, but never multiple 85 hour weeks. Please RTFA and then post.
- Daily Kos
- Eschaton (Atrios)
- Political Animal
- Pandagon
- Hulaballoo (Digby)
- First Draft
- Joe Conason (kinda a blog, it's hosted by Salon.com)
As mentioned in the post itself, Talking Points Memo is also excellent. Sorry I don't have any conservative blogs listed; I don't have a fondness for lies and general evilness.Well, for the most part I think that sales follow promotion. That is, the industry will generally keep to its sales figures if it follows the same promotional model. It's not that I believe that iTunes is not cool or not a good step in the right direction, because they are both those things. I just don't think that iTunes, or even the current online sales model alone, is a sea change to the entire record industry.
I don't think the distribution is such a big part of the cartel's leverage anymore. With an ever-expanding amount of choices available to the average consumer, the important thing now is the money for advertising and promotion. How do acts that sign strictly with iTunes get their name into the public conciousness? The cartel brings that money and promotional power to the table.
No, congratulations to YOU: obviously you enjoy the press insulting your intelligence. I enjoy seeing actual fucking citations for the quotes I read, along with their context.
If my choice of news is between two networks who will spin the truth to oblivion, I'd prefer no choice at all thank you. Liberals don't have a monopoly on the truth; neither do conservatives. I'd like some of the older notions of journalistic integrity to come back into style, however.
Don't try to pass off Bill O'Reilly as "news". Don't attempt to tell me that Sean Hannity is "news". The Today Show is not "news".
March 6th, 2003. The country is about to go to WAR. A press conference is held to announce our country's intentions. Where was our press? Well, let's let the supposedly liberally-biased-out-the-ass New York Times scribe Elizabeth Bumiller tell us what their thoughts were:
The D.C. reporter for the New Goddamn York Times was frightened to ask the President a question about WHY WE WERE GOING TO WAR?!
I weep for democracy.
Ahhhhhhhh, can you smell the Slashdot musical elitism? As a matter of fact, I love "the hit of the month Top 40 crap or what." Here is what I require in music:
1. It makes my body shake
2. It makes me want to hum or sing along
Now, why in the Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick can't I purchase the music I enjoy the same way you are able to purchase whatever it is you're into? This reminds me of the anti-Eminem thread a few years back by all of the people who only listen to "good" music, whatever that is.
So yes, Twista or R. Kelly or even Britney "I Fucked Up The Bond Franchise" Spears may not make an album with 19 of the most soulful and thoughtful tracks known to mankind, but if there's 1 or 2 that are really bumpin why shouldn't you be able to buy them?
I was always under the impression that, culturally, music was about making people sway to the rhythm. Maybe I'm wrong; I'm no musicologist.
You just had to make me step in you hack. You just had to repeat the RNC's spinpoint:
"We didn't do anything bad! And... and... even if we did... um... they were consulting special interests as to who to nominate!"
O Republicans! Save me from the big bad special interests that influence the Democratic party! I now know that you would never, ever, Ever, EVER write, endorse, or vote for legistlation that had the taint of special interests behind it. I know now, through your spin-pointagisms, that, say, the Christan Coalition would never attempt to influence the choice for a crucial federal circuit court or supreme court position!
Oh, thank you again, wise Republicans for showing me the error of my liberal ways and giving me tax cuts, tax cuts, and tax cuts until the nation is 99% lower class and 1% ultra-upper class. I hope I'm in the right bracket when the time comes!
you make me sick.