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  1. Re:Simple, poaching on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1
    Of course, if Company X had given the employee a 10cent/hr raise upon certifying in forklift driving, perhaps they would have developed some loyalty towards Company X and not jumped ship immediately. See, changing jobs can be risky and can endanger security. Employees like security, even if its only an illusion. So instead of bitching about Company Y poaching your newly trained employee and then not train anyone to take his place, you just decide not to train anyone and look for your own person to poach.
    And soon, no one can get hired at company X or company Y because you are requiring 2+ years of forklift driving but aren't willing to pay the premium for an actual trained forklift driver. so you get an h1b visa and import a trained forklift driver who is willing to work cheaper. Fast forward a while, now there are a shit ton of unemployed forklift drivers around.
    Oh and hey, sales at company x are flat and the company is in trouble because nobody can afford to buy your products. why? because of all the fucking unemployed forklift drivers.
    To quote William F Hummel

    You can't get rich selling your product to just the well-to-do. You need a mass market of buyers who earn enough income to afford more than the bare necessities."

  2. Re:Not when I'm wearing gloves... on Have Your Fingerprints Read From 6 Meters Away · · Score: 1

    On the bright side, we could leave fingerprint proof that Rush Limbaugh visited hundreds of Head Shops and gay bars across the country.

  3. Re:not a good thing on Have Your Fingerprints Read From 6 Meters Away · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm a deadbeat. However, from my perspective you are nothing more than a bottom-feeding leech. I didn't make an agreement with your company. You paid off my debt with an existing company for pennies on the dollar and hope to harass me into paying, often times inventing fees or whatever you think you can get away with to soak people who may not know any better.
    My brother had a friend that ran several credit collections companies. It turned out they were front organizations for organized crime. I don't know if you are of a similar ilk, but when you swim with slime you dirty your skin.
    Now a collections agent working for the company that I actually have a debt towards is another matter. I will work with them if I can.

    But the rest of you can die horribly.

  4. Re:stupid on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    he's bored?

  5. Re:unbreakable been around for a while on Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too · · Score: 1

    That sounds very secure. Unfortunately, there is a way around it.

    http://xkcd.com/538/

  6. Re:And still some religions ban birth control on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Well, I think it is overpopulated. And I say this because I hate people and want a lot of them to die.

  7. Re:Real science means listening to scientists on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's right. the REAL scientists aren't backed by governments that stand to gain hugely by the changes they wish to force on us. The REAL scientists are backed by corporations that stand to gain hugely by not changing anything.

  8. Re:The sky is falling... on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Can we return to environmentalism devoid of the stupid scare tactics?

    Sadly, no we can't. Because the press won't hesitate to turn the blandest scientific pronouncement into a looming disaster in order to sell a few extra papers - and ironically enough cause the destruction of even more trees by warning us about the danger of deforestation.
    Also, humans aren't geared to responding to calm, rational arguments, by choosing the more difficult option. Without a feeling of fear or panic, humans tend to ignore future problems and go instead to the choice that causes less difficulty.

  9. Re:No problem. on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Nature has no mercy and humans won't either under pressure. Some of the group die, the species lives on.

    Tell that to the dinosaurs.

  10. Re:Yeah on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suicide isn't the answer. After all, you only remove 1 human from the equation. What you really need is a couple of really good efforts at genocide. This is a crisis, its time to think big.

  11. Re:i have an idea on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    "My own memories of chemistry teaching in school are of disappointment, a shocking waste of everyone's time and extreme boredom."

    Well, sending the child to school will certainly give him the benefit of similar experience.

  12. Re:Obvious Answer on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    in the dark ages, chemistry consisted of trying to turn lead into gold without the benefit of knowing what the hell they were doing.

  13. Re:Thought so. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    well from the proposition, it sounds rather like it would be a happy ending.

  14. Re:Get a professional on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    No, the best place to find these professionals is a directory of tutors. But most people can't afford a private tutor. So they send them to large facilities called public schools which teach to the average and provide an atmosphere that is almost, but not quite totally opposed to real learning.

  15. Re:Catch them up on reading then send them in on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    right, and school is going to give him personal attention and make sure that he improves. more likely, sending him to school will just seal his doom. teachers with 25 kids in a class can't do a lot to help someone who is struggling.

  16. Re:The answer is obvious. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    it could also be that his school system is a prison training ground filled with gangs and burned out teachers who really just want their next paycheck.

  17. Re:DIY project on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Agriculture majors have to study quite a bit of chemistry

  18. Re:Ha! Broken even before that. on EU "Clean IT" Project Considers Terrorist Content Database · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to mention assholes like me who will flag things just because its funny. For example, this is a prime example of terrorist propaganda.

  19. Re:sigh on Amazon Patents Electronic Gifting · · Score: 1

    so...patent infringement. is that when you put fringe on patent leather shoes?

  20. Re:Seriously? on Microsoft's Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight · · Score: 1
  21. Re:I'm hoping for microsoft on Microsoft's Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight · · Score: 1

    and yet you are surprised you were down-voted for being redundant. too bad there isn't a -1 dumb-ass option.

  22. Re:I'm hoping for microsoft on Microsoft's Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight · · Score: 1

    Or you could find an actual working solution then you won't have to waste your valuable time limping along with a broken system. And I've used word long enough that if your people are using word for 8 hours a day, I can almost guarantee they are futzing around trying to keep word from futzing their formatting over.

  23. Re:I'm hoping for microsoft on Microsoft's Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight · · Score: 1

    If you are only spending 1% of the time editing the content you create, I shudder to think of how bad your content must suck.

  24. Re:Photographer should say "Go ahead" on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    Actually no. The fact of the matter is the image in question was on the homepage of her business. "A consulting agency specializing in Web marketing, SEO, social media and Web design."
    As an attorney and an alleged expert on web marketing, she sure as hell should know that she was using that image intentionally on her site without proper licensing.
    In fact, I would say she has a higher standard she should have to adhere to just because she has special training and expertise in the legal issues involved in publishing websites.
    So it appears Candice Schwager is both deliberately stealing the images for her business use, she is also using crippled children as an emotional bullying tool to get away with her copyright infringement.

  25. Re:Ignore the crazy lady on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    No, she
    claims to do nonprofit work for crippled children. Where the money she takes in, well only she knows where it ends up for sure.