Target, like all large modern businesses, is run by babies. Managers in American companies are no longer grown-ups. Proof is that they never take responsibility even though they are responsible.
Even if it is someone else's fault they are STILL responsible because they are in charge. That's the difference between a manager and an employee.
Grown-ups take responsibility. Children blame others.
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this mandate would absolutely improve public safety, and that is absolutely within the government's power to regulate.
Public safety (aside from protection against military attack) is outside the jurisdiction of the federal government. The Constitution clearly withholds police power from the federal government (and for good reason). It is a state issue.
America no longer values leadership. America values drama.
There is a significant and growing crowd (which took their inspiration from assholes on the Internet) that takes personal offense at the very utterance of a declarative sentence. They are the self-proclaimed arbiters who stand ready to disprove anything given enough grist for their narcissist logic mill.
They are the people who start every sentence with "actually" or "yeah, but." They insist on consensus and then sabotage it. They litigate everything, right down to the flavor of the donuts. They like to refer to themselves as skeptics, but in reality they are just asses.
While you're at it, read up on this thing we call the 19th Century and the massive corruption involved with state governments picking Senators instead of voters.
You aren't seriously going to defend the current system as a cure for corruption, are you?
You could also do with a little less wiseass.
The supreme expression of corruption in this nation is to exclude the states from governing the Republic they founded.
If the states can be entrusted with the exclusive power to alter the Constitution, surely they can be trusted with the power to convene a Senate? It is the states duty to restrain the Federal government. It is past time they returned to that role.
When a United States Senator feels that he cannot restrain the Executive Branch except by enlisting the aid of a judge, we have lost the Republic.
Mr. Paul, you are a UNITED STATES SENATOR. You have all the power you need to put a stop to anything government does that you don't like. Write legislation. Get it passed. If the president vetoes, OVERRIDE IT. Congress was given more power than any other branch for a reason. Use it.
While you're at it, how about legislation that educates Congress on their role and power in the federal government? Given nonsense like this, it seems such legislation would be pertinent.
Also while you're at it, repeal the 17th amendment. The Senate is supposed to be a check against both the Executive Branch AND the House. Restore the Constitution to its original purpose.
Felony prosecution. 25 years to life. No parole. Must register on the "laser pointing offenders" list. Driver's license suspended. Credit Score cut to one. Automatic bankruptcy. All assets forfeited. House fuel air bombed, bulldozed, soil salted and paved over with pig iron, rocks and low grade cement.
Must stand on a chair and sing the "I AM A VERY BAD PERSON" song while applying for any job. Five million dollar fine paid in equal daily installments for 35 years. Not allowed to date, marry or smile at anyone.
Must appear in at least five television commercials a year (at own expense) to announce "I am a poopy face" while dressed up like a cartoon airplane and being physically kicked in the ass by a sunglasses-wearing security officer with a blinking overlay of name and social security number.
If not 18 yet, then the parents and grandparents are all prosecuted instead.
Anyone else a little concerned that two companies can snap their fingers and compel the entire country (every bank, every business and everyone with a credit card) to radically overhaul their entire financial infrastructure?
That's two companies with a '2' and nothing after it.
They'll work only if they aren't a sloppy, slapped together gimmick designed to rubber stamp "programmers" and install them in cubicles like spare parts.
In 2014, it is shameful that we still don't have an adequate statewide computer curriculum in the state that gave birth to Apple, Google and Blizzard.
And no, buying iPads for everyone and teaching them how to use Word is not a computer curriculum. When a 2.0 high school graduate can explain in 50 words or less what a computer is then we will have success.
The fact that someone hasn't already taken all the throwaway PCs, installed Linux on them and equipped every school in the state with a 50-desktop computer lab (at zero cost) is only further proof of our failure in technology.
Here's hoping people will look past their pet political stereotypes and commend those who defend fact-based science in pursuit of better legislation and governance.
Stack ranking is for managers who are not grown-ups.
Train your people. Teach them to improve. Defend them while they learn. Make them better and they will make the company better.
If you are in charge and something goes wrong, it's your responsibility. It's your fault. And if it isn't your fault, it's still your fault because you're the manager.
You are responsible. 100% of the time. No exceptions.
Take responsibility for your job and do your job. Train your people. Take care of your people. Grow up.
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The obvious solution is to unplug the Internet. I'm sure the government and the movie people will be thrilled.
Target, like all large modern businesses, is run by babies. Managers in American companies are no longer grown-ups. Proof is that they never take responsibility even though they are responsible.
Even if it is someone else's fault they are STILL responsible because they are in charge. That's the difference between a manager and an employee.
Grown-ups take responsibility. Children blame others.
The National Science Foundation got it wrong?
How is that possible? They're scientists! They're infallible masters of logic and fact. How could they possibly be wrong?
STEM subsidizes the fine arts eh?
George Lucas net worth $7.3 billion Degree? Film
Steven Speilberg net worth $3.1 billion Degree? Film
J.K. Rowling net worth $1 billion Degree? Classics
John Williams net worth $100 million Degree? Music
Carl Icahn net worth $20 billion Degree? Philosophy
Non-dot-com STEM billionaires? Zero.
As long as it's done on the state level. The federal government has no constitutional authority to fund education or to loan or grant money for it.
"If not only the means but the objects are unlimited, the parchment [the Constitution] should be thrown into the fire at once."
-- James Madison, author of the Constitution and fourth president of the United States, writing on the meaning of the General Welfare clause
There is a wide gulf between regulating commerce and mandating the function of every single mobile telephone in the country.
I should also point out the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Commerce Clause justification for the ACA.
Does it have the authority to mandate vaccines?
No.
this mandate would absolutely improve public safety, and that is absolutely within the government's power to regulate.
Public safety (aside from protection against military attack) is outside the jurisdiction of the federal government. The Constitution clearly withholds police power from the federal government (and for good reason). It is a state issue.
The federal government has no legal authority to mandate this technology.
QED
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America no longer values leadership. America values drama.
There is a significant and growing crowd (which took their inspiration from assholes on the Internet) that takes personal offense at the very utterance of a declarative sentence. They are the self-proclaimed arbiters who stand ready to disprove anything given enough grist for their narcissist logic mill.
They are the people who start every sentence with "actually" or "yeah, but." They insist on consensus and then sabotage it. They litigate everything, right down to the flavor of the donuts. They like to refer to themselves as skeptics, but in reality they are just asses.
These people make real leadership impossible.
Why not send the 10% of teachers to training where they can learn to be better teachers?
When did it become the reflex action in America to go running to daddy every time something happens you don't like?
Congress has the authority and the power to put a stop to abusive mergers like this. Grow up, act like an American and call your representative.
While you're at it, read up on this thing we call the 19th Century and the massive corruption involved with state governments picking Senators instead of voters.
You aren't seriously going to defend the current system as a cure for corruption, are you?
You could also do with a little less wiseass.
The supreme expression of corruption in this nation is to exclude the states from governing the Republic they founded.
If the states can be entrusted with the exclusive power to alter the Constitution, surely they can be trusted with the power to convene a Senate? It is the states duty to restrain the Federal government. It is past time they returned to that role.
When a United States Senator feels that he cannot restrain the Executive Branch except by enlisting the aid of a judge, we have lost the Republic.
Mr. Paul, you are a UNITED STATES SENATOR. You have all the power you need to put a stop to anything government does that you don't like. Write legislation. Get it passed. If the president vetoes, OVERRIDE IT. Congress was given more power than any other branch for a reason. Use it.
While you're at it, how about legislation that educates Congress on their role and power in the federal government? Given nonsense like this, it seems such legislation would be pertinent.
Also while you're at it, repeal the 17th amendment. The Senate is supposed to be a check against both the Executive Branch AND the House. Restore the Constitution to its original purpose.
Felony prosecution. 25 years to life. No parole. Must register on the "laser pointing offenders" list. Driver's license suspended. Credit Score cut to one. Automatic bankruptcy. All assets forfeited. House fuel air bombed, bulldozed, soil salted and paved over with pig iron, rocks and low grade cement.
Must stand on a chair and sing the "I AM A VERY BAD PERSON" song while applying for any job. Five million dollar fine paid in equal daily installments for 35 years. Not allowed to date, marry or smile at anyone.
Must appear in at least five television commercials a year (at own expense) to announce "I am a poopy face" while dressed up like a cartoon airplane and being physically kicked in the ass by a sunglasses-wearing security officer with a blinking overlay of name and social security number.
If not 18 yet, then the parents and grandparents are all prosecuted instead.
And no laughing.
Anyone else a little concerned that two companies can snap their fingers and compel the entire country (every bank, every business and everyone with a credit card) to radically overhaul their entire financial infrastructure?
That's two companies with a '2' and nothing after it.
I am running businesses on throwaway PCs.
Is that clear enough for you or do you need puppets and a skywriter?
Almost every PC I've ever owned I built myself or it was a discount piece of crap.
Linux runs on all of them like a champ. Always has. I have never EVER had a problem with Linux as a business platform.
I consider it one of the most impressive achievements of the human race, even if you don't consider all the things Linux has made possible.
Let the students maintain the computers. You know, "crowdsourcing?" They're going to anyway.
Linux does not magically make everything "zero cost"
Didn't say it made everything zero cost. I said it makes the lab zero cost.
Imprecise thinking like yours is more damaging than a "clueless person."
You can buy a whole lab's worth of new kit for a fraction of the marginal cost of labor needed to keep a hodgepodge of "throwaway PCs" functioning.
Nonsense.
highly passionate yet totally clueless person making idiotic statements much like yours
I've been running a half dozen businesses (with 40 people working for me) on Linux for 20 years.
They'll work only if they aren't a sloppy, slapped together gimmick designed to rubber stamp "programmers" and install them in cubicles like spare parts.
In 2014, it is shameful that we still don't have an adequate statewide computer curriculum in the state that gave birth to Apple, Google and Blizzard.
And no, buying iPads for everyone and teaching them how to use Word is not a computer curriculum. When a 2.0 high school graduate can explain in 50 words or less what a computer is then we will have success.
The fact that someone hasn't already taken all the throwaway PCs, installed Linux on them and equipped every school in the state with a 50-desktop computer lab (at zero cost) is only further proof of our failure in technology.
Here's hoping people will look past their pet political stereotypes and commend those who defend fact-based science in pursuit of better legislation and governance.
Stack ranking is for managers who are not grown-ups.
Train your people. Teach them to improve. Defend them while they learn. Make them better and they will make the company better.
If you are in charge and something goes wrong, it's your responsibility. It's your fault. And if it isn't your fault, it's still your fault because you're the manager.
You are responsible. 100% of the time. No exceptions.
Take responsibility for your job and do your job. Train your people. Take care of your people. Grow up.
That's what happens when you fire all the good people.