Stockholders do not manage the company. They vote for the board of directors, which manages the rest. Only in special circumstances, like an offer to privatize the company, do the votes have any direct effect.
Then they aren't held accountable for what they told the company to do.
Should citizen voters be liable for prison time if they elect a senator who turns out to be corrupt?
Ah, so it is; looks like I won't be putting my/. profile and excellent karma on my resume after all.... I got so caught up getting my <s and my >s right on the first try that I completely forgot that it wasn't the same as a regular closing tag. I've also decided to learn HTML past the XHTML that I picked up long ago. To anyone who was looking at my post for insight into the inner workings of web technologies: please forgive me -- I have failed you.
Yeah, I realized that after I hit submit. I wrote the first scenario after the second, then realized that `contractor' would be ambiguous and changed it to `carpenter' without thinking about it. It was wrong.
I am sorry.
Also, I was forced to use non-compliant markup (<br> rather than </br>) because SlashCode is shit, I forgot to use `TeX Quotes', and I left out an example of a shitty contractor that I had been planning on including.
I'm not saying to write unfair contracts, just one that says "contractor will work with the client to implement X in exchange for Y$ per hour". Then, when they hire a consultant that gives them a 5000 page report detailing why they'll get 1000% better performance if they prefix all their classes with the client companies name, don't argue with them; just do it. If you were a carpenter and the homeowners changed their minds from White #001042051 to White #001042052, you wouldn't argue back that the difference is physically imperceivable to the human eye, you'd add a molecule of black to ten gallons of white and charge for it.
I'm not arguing that you should be out to do a shitty job and suck money from customers, just that if they want to piss money away, let them piss some on you.
The boomers are a pretty good place. They are an incredibly selfish, entitled, and overall shitty generation that grew up with unprecedented prosperity provided by their parents and decided that that was somehow their own work. The US will not advance until these people have died off, or at least gotten so senile that they stop voting.
Well, since we're teaching the controversy, why not? If we want to be serious about this, we should also teach the controversy of communism vs. capitalism in economics, teach the upsides of gay sex over straight sex in sex ed, and do a compare and contrast between Islam and Christianity in Social Studies with equal supportive evidence for both.
But wait, this is just a way to push Christianity and whatever the fuck the ignorant, retarded religious people chose to interpret it as to children on the public dime. It is has nothing to do with "teaching the controversy". It'll never happen.
As opposed to the crock of total shit that gets dragged out to support the idea of God, like the ontological argument or the tired, disproven "irreducible complexity" nonsense?
This is not an ethicist making this case, this is a lawyer who wants his cut.
That's not to say that the ivory tower academics (read: sociologist and other useless fields masquerading as a science) won't eventually put this in the spotlight of their shitty post-modern papers and circlejerk about how it's causing divisions in society and blah blah blah, but luckily, no one ever listens to them.
If otherwise rational adults can be conned in to buying that an omnipotent wizard 6000 years ago created the entire universe from nothing and now needs their tithe to fund his church, how do you expect children to be able tell how idiotic that is?
You're forgiven. Having since calmed down, I now realize that your level of social functioning is somewhere between that of APK and the fetid asshole spammer, so I also apologize for setting my expectations of you too high. I hope that with this misunderstanding out of the way we can be friends again, but I still hope that you will work on maturing past the `M$' antics typical of 11 year olds.
All credibility is lost. I decide this match in the favor of the AC, on account of new facts that prove beyond any doubt that Zero__Kelvin is a myopic retard with an agenda.
If you believe in magical, invisible unicorns when your a kid, it's cute. If you believe in them as an adult, you are retarded. If you want to bring up the tired argument of "cant disprove god LOL", then you are retarded. Just because it is impossible to prove that those magical unicorns don't exist, doesn't mean shit as far as showing that the possibility shouldn't be denied.
And Buddhism is bullshit too. It teaches to ignore secular concerns in the pursuit of supernatural nonsense to an even greater extent than the Judaism derivatives do.
The methods to distribute food and to purify water are largely solved. If it weren't, then the developed world would not be able to support such large populations. It's a distribution and education problem in areas so afflicted. If you want, you can probably buy some tractors and water filters right now and have them shipped to poor villages. The techniques needed to make fertilizer or purify water by boiling are well known. What is lacking is the industrial capability to manufacture enough and the supporting infrastructure, and the unwillingness of foreign entities to spend money on it and hostility by groups that benefit from the status quo (be it the warlords that will seize the goods, the arms dealers that want the conflict, or anyone else who will accept bloodshed and misery in exchange for money). A political issue that no amount of "world changing" technology is going to fix. Not interesting.
And besides that, tinkering around with regex to do neat things, while clever, doesn't mean that that cleverness will transfer to other tasks. Would you trust your rocket scientist to give you brain surgery just because both tasks are considered intelligently prestigious enough to be in a popular idiom proclaiming their brilliance?
They didn't break the line, your browser did. It autofits to the width of the window over a certain amount. Try buying a wider monitor before you start theorizing liberal conspiracies on the part of the so-called editors.
No, I don't particularly find those interesting and don't really care all that much. Let me clarify what I meant some; by problem, I mean a something closer to a puzzle, something intellectually challenging. The problems you describe are not those, as the solutions to such are evident but lacking the logistic plan to implement them. That is no less challenging perhaps, but not in the same way. It is the difference between developing a cure for HIV and actually navigating your way through a suspicious population while avoiding the wrath of the local warlords to actually distribute it to those in need. The problem you suggest is of the nature of the latter. Good for you. But just because that's what you find to be the noblest of goals doesn't mean that the guys working on, say, solving abstract mathematical problems need to stop and direct all their attention to your pet causes.
Anyway, let me direct your attention to the qualifier that I have attached that bit:
for whatever definition of interesting is to the solver
"Coding" is what replaceable, uncreative idiots do. It's better to solve an interesting problem, for whatever definition of interesting is to the solver, than it to be a brainless drone making another fucking login page. Why don't you try to actually make something instead of letting the potential (that you probably don't have, to be honest) waste away? If you can't do that, then at least leave the actual programmers and computer scientist to practice the art while you die having accomplish nothing but having your code thrown in the trash a single support cycle after you get laid off.
There is no god, ergo creationism is false. Almost anyone who can realize this is intellectually equipped to run circles around idiotic creationists. That's not the issue; the "debate" between creationism and evolution isn't a debate at all. The issue is will he be able to convince the audience? This would be easy if they actually held themselves to standards of normal debate, but instead, being wrong, they are forced to resort to their usually retarded ramblings and appeals to emotion to mislead the audience.
If we're lucky, in a few generations we'll have a society capable of seeing past their bullshit and can actually move on to more interesting problems.
No, fuck off. If you want to be spoon fed, go to stackoverflow and get mostly-correct answers from unemployed people who will never flame you, no matter how idiotic your questions are. Well actually, a question like "Holy shit I found out that I can use the keyboard to start my music app, what programs also have this feature" would probably get closed for being completely fucking retarded there too. If you actually wanted to learn, you would pick up a damn book (just about any book would be educational for the submitter (which is most likely you)) or use Google to actually check and see if those mythical CLI email programs exist.
Less useful but still useful are command shells. These provide file management mostly. I believe some of them may allow for sending and retrieving email messages.
Holy shit, you can start off with DOS for Dummies and work your way up from there.
But anyway, I will attempt to answer your question:
What else is out there?
Every program on every major operating system can be launched from the shell, and 99% of these can accept command line arguments. Is there any other vague, poorly-thought-out questions you'd like to ask?
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Then they aren't held accountable for what they told the company to do.
Should citizen voters be liable for prison time if they elect a senator who turns out to be corrupt?
Ah, so it is; looks like I won't be putting my /. profile and excellent karma on my resume after all.... I got so caught up getting my <s and my >s right on the first try that I completely forgot that it wasn't the same as a regular closing tag. I've also decided to learn HTML past the XHTML that I picked up long ago. To anyone who was looking at my post for insight into the inner workings of web technologies: please forgive me -- I have failed you.
Yeah, I realized that after I hit submit. I wrote the first scenario after the second, then realized that `contractor' would be ambiguous and changed it to `carpenter' without thinking about it. It was wrong.
I am sorry.
Also, I was forced to use non-compliant markup (<br> rather than </br>) because SlashCode is shit, I forgot to use `TeX Quotes', and I left out an example of a shitty contractor that I had been planning on including.
I apologize for this as well.
I'm not saying to write unfair contracts, just one that says "contractor will work with the client to implement X in exchange for Y$ per hour". Then, when they hire a consultant that gives them a 5000 page report detailing why they'll get 1000% better performance if they prefix all their classes with the client companies name, don't argue with them; just do it. If you were a carpenter and the homeowners changed their minds from White #001042051 to White #001042052, you wouldn't argue back that the difference is physically imperceivable to the human eye, you'd add a molecule of black to ten gallons of white and charge for it.
I'm not arguing that you should be out to do a shitty job and suck money from customers, just that if they want to piss money away, let them piss some on you.
Terrible advice. There is always money in confusion as long as you write the contract properly, which should always be the case.
The boomers are a pretty good place. They are an incredibly selfish, entitled, and overall shitty generation that grew up with unprecedented prosperity provided by their parents and decided that that was somehow their own work. The US will not advance until these people have died off, or at least gotten so senile that they stop voting.
Well, since we're teaching the controversy, why not? If we want to be serious about this, we should also teach the controversy of communism vs. capitalism in economics, teach the upsides of gay sex over straight sex in sex ed, and do a compare and contrast between Islam and Christianity in Social Studies with equal supportive evidence for both.
But wait, this is just a way to push Christianity and whatever the fuck the ignorant, retarded religious people chose to interpret it as to children on the public dime. It is has nothing to do with "teaching the controversy". It'll never happen.
As opposed to the crock of total shit that gets dragged out to support the idea of God, like the ontological argument or the tired, disproven "irreducible complexity" nonsense?
Kill yourself.
I've yet to see any cases of sugar addicts selling their children for sex in exchange for a gram of light brown granulated.
This is not an ethicist making this case, this is a lawyer who wants his cut.
That's not to say that the ivory tower academics (read: sociologist and other useless fields masquerading as a science) won't eventually put this in the spotlight of their shitty post-modern papers and circlejerk about how it's causing divisions in society and blah blah blah, but luckily, no one ever listens to them.
If otherwise rational adults can be conned in to buying that an omnipotent wizard 6000 years ago created the entire universe from nothing and now needs their tithe to fund his church, how do you expect children to be able tell how idiotic that is?
Wow, that sure was a quick change of heart on your part. I think you should talk to your doctor about getting evaluated for bipolar disorder.
You're forgiven. Having since calmed down, I now realize that your level of social functioning is somewhere between that of APK and the fetid asshole spammer, so I also apologize for setting my expectations of you too high. I hope that with this misunderstanding out of the way we can be friends again, but I still hope that you will work on maturing past the `M$' antics typical of 11 year olds.
Don't tell me what to do you god damn bully.
M$
All credibility is lost. I decide this match in the favor of the AC, on account of new facts that prove beyond any doubt that Zero__Kelvin is a myopic retard with an agenda.
If you believe in magical, invisible unicorns when your a kid, it's cute. If you believe in them as an adult, you are retarded. If you want to bring up the tired argument of "cant disprove god LOL", then you are retarded. Just because it is impossible to prove that those magical unicorns don't exist, doesn't mean shit as far as showing that the possibility shouldn't be denied.
And Buddhism is bullshit too. It teaches to ignore secular concerns in the pursuit of supernatural nonsense to an even greater extent than the Judaism derivatives do.
The methods to distribute food and to purify water are largely solved. If it weren't, then the developed world would not be able to support such large populations. It's a distribution and education problem in areas so afflicted. If you want, you can probably buy some tractors and water filters right now and have them shipped to poor villages. The techniques needed to make fertilizer or purify water by boiling are well known. What is lacking is the industrial capability to manufacture enough and the supporting infrastructure, and the unwillingness of foreign entities to spend money on it and hostility by groups that benefit from the status quo (be it the warlords that will seize the goods, the arms dealers that want the conflict, or anyone else who will accept bloodshed and misery in exchange for money). A political issue that no amount of "world changing" technology is going to fix. Not interesting.
And besides that, tinkering around with regex to do neat things, while clever, doesn't mean that that cleverness will transfer to other tasks. Would you trust your rocket scientist to give you brain surgery just because both tasks are considered intelligently prestigious enough to be in a popular idiom proclaiming their brilliance?
They didn't break the line, your browser did. It autofits to the width of the window over a certain amount. Try buying a wider monitor before you start theorizing liberal conspiracies on the part of the so-called editors.
Anyway, let me direct your attention to the qualifier that I have attached that bit:
for whatever definition of interesting is to the solver
"Coding" is what replaceable, uncreative idiots do. It's better to solve an interesting problem, for whatever definition of interesting is to the solver, than it to be a brainless drone making another fucking login page. Why don't you try to actually make something instead of letting the potential (that you probably don't have, to be honest) waste away? If you can't do that, then at least leave the actual programmers and computer scientist to practice the art while you die having accomplish nothing but having your code thrown in the trash a single support cycle after you get laid off.
Perhaps the increase in Mac sales is because the users are clueless idiot hipster fanboys with money? That's what I'd peg the answer as.
There is no god, ergo creationism is false. Almost anyone who can realize this is intellectually equipped to run circles around idiotic creationists. That's not the issue; the "debate" between creationism and evolution isn't a debate at all. The issue is will he be able to convince the audience? This would be easy if they actually held themselves to standards of normal debate, but instead, being wrong, they are forced to resort to their usually retarded ramblings and appeals to emotion to mislead the audience.
If we're lucky, in a few generations we'll have a society capable of seeing past their bullshit and can actually move on to more interesting problems.
Less useful but still useful are command shells. These provide file management mostly. I believe some of them may allow for sending and retrieving email messages.
Holy shit, you can start off with DOS for Dummies and work your way up from there.
But anyway, I will attempt to answer your question:
What else is out there?
Every program on every major operating system can be launched from the shell, and 99% of these can accept command line arguments. Is there any other vague, poorly-thought-out questions you'd like to ask?