I think you're giving the right wing too much credit. They'd never come up with anything quite so hypocritical, stupid and ultimately self-defeating as the SJWs.
I mean, we have gays and feminists defending extremist Islam, FFS.
Besides Trump shit like this is one of the reasons. Americans are tired. Americans once thought only poor people who made bad choices do not get free healthcare and that due to capitalism the US healthcare is superior to Europe and Canada where they come to the US due the superiority... which was the view in the 1990s.
Greed, corruption, automation, and insanity on the right where the GOP is very very far right and crazy has changed things.
America is historically anti communist due to the end of World War II were Russia was the new Nazi germany as they owned 1/3 of the world! These folks are now old gray hairs and dying out.
Some voters voted for Trump as a middle finger to all this. They got had and now the left with the introduction of Obamacare have both caused a fire. Something has to change. People are dying. In Alabama British reporters were shocked to see poverty normally seen in third world countries in the good old USA outside of the cities. The young folks screwed over can't buy homes like their parents. Enough is enough. This is just one example and the Tax bill which was a gift to the lobbyists who treated the GOP with dont' bother coming to us for money if you don't rip people off for us just happened.
IF the NSA is behind this you can bet they have a rootkit and backdoor in all the routers and switches too which will prevent you from blocking the port even if Cisco IOS says it's blocked. There is no way to know
Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.
That's just complete and utter horseshit. Portugal is in the EU and actually does have net neutrality laws in line with EU mandates. Claiming that they charge more for certain services is just a complete lie based on a tweet by some idiot politician who had no clue what he was talking about.
I can understand the talking heads on TV news saying such ludicrous things, but I'm truly surprised to see someone on Slashdot parroting their nonsense.
Nice. An article written by a lobbyist and no proof Obama regulated the internet. All he did was say no to paywalls and throttling since the US government actually owns the internet
Yeah all on party lines with a FCC chief in charge appointed by Trump. You can't coat this any other way if you're a Trump supporter. Republicans will vote for monopolists over the people every time and are for corruption and big money. The democrats all voted against it.
Most under 20 are getting their entertainment from Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. -- and I'd bet many kids under 10 are growing up without the classic TV experience that most adults remember. Hell, I know a kid who'd rather watch Youtube or Twitch than any TV show... and he tells me most of his class is the same way.
There's definitely room for a new internet provider, but I think cable is firmly and deservedly dying.
Not anymore. Starting tomorrow net neutrality is going to be voted down. Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.
Of course it will just be cheaper to buy cable you know. Tmobile will use the l3 background to blackmail you and your ISPs so they can quad drip after your ISP triple dips by charging you, cloud provider, and now l3 for each packet courtsey of freedom errr deregulation.
Boy as Americans be prepaired to pay. Pay more now for your own TV streaming services as of tomorrow will be voted off by the appeal of net neutrality. SInce L3 owns the backbone for hte internet tmobile can now blackmail comcast to for tripple dipping which comcast will then charge you again for both ends and now the backbone for mega profits. Can't wait for my $200 a month internet bill and lacarte with VPN being firewalled out. VPN will come as an additional charge to unblock of course etc.
This has got to be intentional as these companies are salivating at the thought of making our internet like cell phones before 2007 where you had to pay a monthly fee for each service such as adding a ringtone or a map program. Net Neutrality now is the only force holding them back.
Yep and if the courts get involved you are now unemployable and someone I would run away from during any interview or background check.
Things do suck the lower you are on the food chain. But that is work. Unless you are a CEO or major VP with decision making capabilities you are just a cost and black box. Money goes in work goes out. Resign or go interview something else as there is nothing you can do anyway.
You can't force someone to be moral or ethical at the end of the day. Only you can choose how you conduct yourself
This last position I described it was the customers who were assholes too with a strict budget and a take it or leave attitude while the sales executives kissed ass with a motto of never saying no to the customer. If IT can't do it then fire then it's in the contract and the customer can always go to a competitor. Worse, your friend would be fired within 24 at ny previous employer. Unless your sales your a cost
Executives with no IT experience running IT departments.
NO. More likely the executive making promises to customers and PMs without checking with the IT department and then demanding a months worth of work be done in 72 hours to one week and fire them if they can't get it done etc.
If you do get it done then it will continue. You are screwed either way
And if your employer is not paying for you technical skills they are not worth your time either right?
That is life. I like to think people do care about other people. It's just everyone has issues and problems and are overwhelmed in their own worlds. THey do no not need to hear yours. The good news is most people don't give a shit about your employment so the only gorrilla in the room is in the man in the mirror.
It would be nice if everyone can do what they love without the stupid money, connections, and scarcity getting in the way but I can not think of a solution.
That would be we care about your mental health but you aren't worth a human's time.
Humans are not nice or altruistic by any sense. Sure we have built in empathy as a group so we can work together, but we have killed species, ruined land and the environment, and hurt other people for personal gains. What makes you think such a bad species cares about you unless they can get something off you? Well when I hit hard times I acknowledged that I am exactly worth 0 to everyone... if I provide no value in return.
It sucks and is depressing but your Momma is the only one who will ever love you unconditionally or maybe a dog (not human as proof). Even a spouse may leave you. She may love you now currently, but there is no guarantee she will feel the same way later. Anyone divorced or have been dumped it comes as no surprise as woman can unlove pretty easy compared to men and have no guilt even if she was your partner earlier.
We are social beings like ants. You need to pull your weight and if you are unemployed for a length of time or got in the wrong field then you suck and worthy of death pretty much as no one wants to feed you or house you. Best to acknowledge the truth and take the best step forward. I do tend to vote left wing that angers conservatives for these very reasons as I like to think I could be like any one of those folks you see in a tent on the way in the cold on my way to work in good ole USA.
Worse in India/Asia my point about the spouse rings home too. If the woman doesn't sense your masculinity and confidence she can and over time WILL loose her attraction to you and expect a divorce soon on top of the job loss. Life is cruel.
Except this article is talking about Amazon in the UK, not the USA. Good job RTFAing...
... with American investors at Wall Street demanding 15% returns every quarter forever and ever and ever with no end in sight or the CEO is fired. I am sure it is not just consumers who are demanding cheaper and cheaper costs right?
Also Walmart started this not the consumer. Walmart beat the giant Kmart and Woolsworth by forcing suppliers to cust costs so so low. It got the people into the stores and created a culture of budget prices and races to get into Walmart last decade by making it the cheapest.
The consumer is the last on the list. If you want to do business with Aamazon or Walmart you need to screw people over and use robots. Plain and simple or they won't carry your product.
There have been interviews where about a half hour in, I decided I would rather starve than work there.
After that, it was all about fucking with them. Times already wasted, might as well make something of it.
Be careful what you wish for my friend.
But yes the point of the interview should be a 2 way meeting, but when you have no job you have little options. What really gets me also is those stupid Taleo Applicant tracking systems that can take well over 1 hour to fill out only to never hear back. HR LOVES these as the program does the recuiting for them.
Many big companies have updated them not to be so soulless or use LinkedIn now to respect the applicants time more. I think after reading this and seeing the stuff that the best companies to work for are smaller businesses or startups. They are to the point and not tainted with old executives trying to find blame for mediocre hires by not waiting people and treating them like numbers who should be beg to work there.
I have been on many interviews and these are far from fun and I find them insulting and demeaning to desperate candidates who just want to work and have to jump thru hoops and be walked and weeded like cattle. I typically find companies who do this are old fashioned and have a terrible and power hungry HR department and do not have high regard to employees and assume we are all just black boxes.
So what if you are not the most confident or pause with an odd question? That does not mean you cannot perform the job. As stated psychopaths and those with narcissism such as Trump as an example would excel. As you can see that may not be someone you want to work with. Especially in a managerial position.
So? Do you have any evidence that psychopaths make worse employees? For many jobs, moral and ethical qualms can be a major impediment to performance.
As the old saying goes: "Never hire a salesman that you'd want your daughter to marry."
Would you want to work for such people? I have and one of them almost succeeded in getting me fired when I asked HR for an investigation. It turns out he called security and claimed I did an authorized investigation and I was not a lawyer to do so and CCed the chief legal officer.
He kept his job, I got a write up initially and was about ready to be shown the door when I explained I wanted to see if he was stealing and asked security simply to check the videos on that day to our back room YIKES!
They eventually fired him but still it left a damage to my reputation for a few years.
Remember when shit hits the fan sharks bite when they smell blood.
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Yeah you need to be cool and hip with the kids today. Just look at the tragedy of Erlang!
I find those on the GNU project far left yet no one will dare criticize them and have no problem using their products
I think you're giving the right wing too much credit. They'd never come up with anything quite so hypocritical, stupid and ultimately self-defeating as the SJWs.
I mean, we have gays and feminists defending extremist Islam, FFS.
You mean like the religious right?
A redbull has that much and is much cheaper
Besides Trump shit like this is one of the reasons. Americans are tired. Americans once thought only poor people who made bad choices do not get free healthcare and that due to capitalism the US healthcare is superior to Europe and Canada where they come to the US due the superiority ... which was the view in the 1990s.
Greed, corruption, automation, and insanity on the right where the GOP is very very far right and crazy has changed things.
America is historically anti communist due to the end of World War II were Russia was the new Nazi germany as they owned 1/3 of the world! These folks are now old gray hairs and dying out.
Some voters voted for Trump as a middle finger to all this. They got had and now the left with the introduction of Obamacare have both caused a fire. Something has to change. People are dying. In Alabama British reporters were shocked to see poverty normally seen in third world countries in the good old USA outside of the cities. The young folks screwed over can't buy homes like their parents. Enough is enough. This is just one example and the Tax bill which was a gift to the lobbyists who treated the GOP with dont' bother coming to us for money if you don't rip people off for us just happened.
It is now time.
IF the NSA is behind this you can bet they have a rootkit and backdoor in all the routers and switches too which will prevent you from blocking the port even if Cisco IOS says it's blocked. There is no way to know
That works much better and bash.exe and doing a apt-get install openssh gives you the full package
For you are weak and I am mighty ..
Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.
That's just complete and utter horseshit. Portugal is in the EU and actually does have net neutrality laws in line with EU mandates. Claiming that they charge more for certain services is just a complete lie based on a tweet by some idiot politician who had no clue what he was talking about.
I can understand the talking heads on TV news saying such ludicrous things, but I'm truly surprised to see someone on Slashdot parroting their nonsense.
Then you tell me?
Nice. An article written by a lobbyist and no proof Obama regulated the internet. All he did was say no to paywalls and throttling since the US government actually owns the internet
Yeah all on party lines with a FCC chief in charge appointed by Trump. You can't coat this any other way if you're a Trump supporter. Republicans will vote for monopolists over the people every time and are for corruption and big money. The democrats all voted against it.
Most under 20 are getting their entertainment from Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. -- and I'd bet many kids under 10 are growing up without the classic TV experience that most adults remember. Hell, I know a kid who'd rather watch Youtube or Twitch than any TV show... and he tells me most of his class is the same way.
There's definitely room for a new internet provider, but I think cable is firmly and deservedly dying.
Not anymore. Starting tomorrow net neutrality is going to be voted down. Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.
Of course it will just be cheaper to buy cable you know. Tmobile will use the l3 background to blackmail you and your ISPs so they can quad drip after your ISP triple dips by charging you, cloud provider, and now l3 for each packet courtsey of freedom errr deregulation.
Boy as Americans be prepaired to pay. Pay more now for your own TV streaming services as of tomorrow will be voted off by the appeal of net neutrality. SInce L3 owns the backbone for hte internet tmobile can now blackmail comcast to for tripple dipping which comcast will then charge you again for both ends and now the backbone for mega profits. Can't wait for my $200 a month internet bill and lacarte with VPN being firewalled out. VPN will come as an additional charge to unblock of course etc.
This has got to be intentional as these companies are salivating at the thought of making our internet like cell phones before 2007 where you had to pay a monthly fee for each service such as adding a ringtone or a map program. Net Neutrality now is the only force holding them back.
The hardware is not so underpowered compared to the 2013 era PS4 and Xboxone. You see the mario like additions here with newer music
Yep and if the courts get involved you are now unemployable and someone I would run away from during any interview or background check.
Things do suck the lower you are on the food chain. But that is work. Unless you are a CEO or major VP with decision making capabilities you are just a cost and black box. Money goes in work goes out. Resign or go interview something else as there is nothing you can do anyway.
You can't force someone to be moral or ethical at the end of the day. Only you can choose how you conduct yourself
This last position I described it was the customers who were assholes too with a strict budget and a take it or leave attitude while the sales executives kissed ass with a motto of never saying no to the customer. If IT can't do it then fire then it's in the contract and the customer can always go to a competitor. Worse, your friend would be fired within 24 at ny previous employer. Unless your sales your a cost
Executives with no IT experience running IT departments.
NO. More likely the executive making promises to customers and PMs without checking with the IT department and then demanding a months worth of work be done in 72 hours to one week and fire them if they can't get it done etc.
If you do get it done then it will continue. You are screwed either way
Sure make everyone a project manager and a chief. What can possible go wrong with that?
According to HR they are not worthy of any job therefore not worthy of life if you follow the conclusion. ... semi joking sadly.
I already die my goatee to look younger when I do a job interview.
And if your employer is not paying for you technical skills they are not worth your time either right?
That is life. I like to think people do care about other people. It's just everyone has issues and problems and are overwhelmed in their own worlds. THey do no not need to hear yours. The good news is most people don't give a shit about your employment so the only gorrilla in the room is in the man in the mirror.
It would be nice if everyone can do what they love without the stupid money, connections, and scarcity getting in the way but I can not think of a solution.
That would be we care about your mental health but you aren't worth a human's time.
Humans are not nice or altruistic by any sense. Sure we have built in empathy as a group so we can work together, but we have killed species, ruined land and the environment, and hurt other people for personal gains. What makes you think such a bad species cares about you unless they can get something off you? ... if I provide no value in return.
Well when I hit hard times I acknowledged that I am exactly worth 0 to everyone
It sucks and is depressing but your Momma is the only one who will ever love you unconditionally or maybe a dog (not human as proof). Even a spouse may leave you. She may love you now currently, but there is no guarantee she will feel the same way later. Anyone divorced or have been dumped it comes as no surprise as woman can unlove pretty easy compared to men and have no guilt even if she was your partner earlier.
We are social beings like ants. You need to pull your weight and if you are unemployed for a length of time or got in the wrong field then you suck and worthy of death pretty much as no one wants to feed you or house you. Best to acknowledge the truth and take the best step forward. I do tend to vote left wing that angers conservatives for these very reasons as I like to think I could be like any one of those folks you see in a tent on the way in the cold on my way to work in good ole USA.
Worse in India/Asia my point about the spouse rings home too. If the woman doesn't sense your masculinity and confidence she can and over time WILL loose her attraction to you and expect a divorce soon on top of the job loss. Life is cruel.
Except this article is talking about Amazon in the UK, not the USA. Good job RTFAing...
... with American investors at Wall Street demanding 15% returns every quarter forever and ever and ever with no end in sight or the CEO is fired. I am sure it is not just consumers who are demanding cheaper and cheaper costs right?
Also Walmart started this not the consumer. Walmart beat the giant Kmart and Woolsworth by forcing suppliers to cust costs so so low. It got the people into the stores and created a culture of budget prices and races to get into Walmart last decade by making it the cheapest.
The consumer is the last on the list. If you want to do business with Aamazon or Walmart you need to screw people over and use robots. Plain and simple or they won't carry your product.
There have been interviews where about a half hour in, I decided I would rather starve than work there.
After that, it was all about fucking with them. Times already wasted, might as well make something of it.
Be careful what you wish for my friend.
But yes the point of the interview should be a 2 way meeting, but when you have no job you have little options. What really gets me also is those stupid Taleo Applicant tracking systems that can take well over 1 hour to fill out only to never hear back. HR LOVES these as the program does the recuiting for them.
Many big companies have updated them not to be so soulless or use LinkedIn now to respect the applicants time more. I think after reading this and seeing the stuff that the best companies to work for are smaller businesses or startups. They are to the point and not tainted with old executives trying to find blame for mediocre hires by not waiting people and treating them like numbers who should be beg to work there.
Well did you get the job?
I have been on many interviews and these are far from fun and I find them insulting and demeaning to desperate candidates who just want to work and have to jump thru hoops and be walked and weeded like cattle. I typically find companies who do this are old fashioned and have a terrible and power hungry HR department and do not have high regard to employees and assume we are all just black boxes.
So what if you are not the most confident or pause with an odd question? That does not mean you cannot perform the job. As stated psychopaths and those with narcissism such as Trump as an example would excel. As you can see that may not be someone you want to work with. Especially in a managerial position.
So? Do you have any evidence that psychopaths make worse employees? For many jobs, moral and ethical qualms can be a major impediment to performance.
As the old saying goes: "Never hire a salesman that you'd want your daughter to marry."
Would you want to work for such people? I have and one of them almost succeeded in getting me fired when I asked HR for an investigation. It turns out he called security and claimed I did an authorized investigation and I was not a lawyer to do so and CCed the chief legal officer.
He kept his job, I got a write up initially and was about ready to be shown the door when I explained I wanted to see if he was stealing and asked security simply to check the videos on that day to our back room YIKES!
They eventually fired him but still it left a damage to my reputation for a few years.
Remember when shit hits the fan sharks bite when they smell blood.