Unfortunately there is no proof that an external event or condition created the statistical and mathematical variations in the results of the experiment. The conditions can be different clouds, temperature, humidity, and other atmospheric conditions. Academically the clouds and atmospheric conditions have to be and I emphasize have to be identical in the control group to be considered valid. There is no way around it. You can run an expensive experiment yourself but the experts will reject it because there is no proof that the planes, heat, change in pressure, wind, or iodine caused the precipitation. It could be anything?
Running a plane is expensive and since it can not be proved then no one will want to fund it.
The problem is today you are learning someone elses methods/functions to do tasks. After mastering the simple syntax the task turns to rote memorization. Java itself has 100,000 methods. In C++ you could have fun learning all the different things (sometimes bad and ugly). Its a great way to figure out what the computer is really doing when you reserve data types and work with objects. This is really how to learn. I guess perl is the modern equivalent to C++ and hacking if you like scripting.
Getting stuff done is important at work but long term its nice to know what these languages are actually doing.
I am not a lawyer but I was under the impression that its illegal to lower someone's salary after hiring unless its agreed upon in writing. Even that is very shaky legal grounds.
What you say is true but the value is not worth it after the launch. It is short term only and reason to be fired. I would document all the work I had done and ask for a raise after the launch. A good employer will see this and it is unethical to backstab. I do admit his employer does not sound like a good one. You would be mad if your employer lowered your salary after finding out that the economy is bad or demand 80 hours a week when they know you are hurting financially.
People do this and its a pet peeve for many managers. Most will not want to do business again with such employees as they will have too much power and can do fast one on you when you least expect it.
Whats the name of your company? I am sure many slashdotters can and are willing. The only jobs I see that are hiring are fast food and grocery stores where I am at. There are many entry level college students as well that can not find a job. If you are willing to train you can find some very motivated people fresh out of school.
Its an act of sabotage. Whether its legal or not is up to the courts. Even if that manger sounded like a jerk it works both ways. Remember the employer has a right to terminate as well if it is unhappy with the relationship or work. I would fire such an employee even if what the employee did was legal or in a verbal contract. A raise is negotiable, and so is determining the value of work he or she provides. However, if its being used at that particular time it certainly is not. The same is true for any vendor or any other business I want to deal with. There are many sharks out there.
It's fun to think of such things at work but I would not advise anyone to do it unless you know what you are doing.
"And your attitude is the exact reason why I'm leaving I/T if I can do it. People who work their ass off should be rewarded and NOT replaced. Why? Because if you reward them and keep them they'll work their ass off for you AGAIN and AGAIN."
In a severe recession the employer can always find someone better and cheaper than you and there is nothing you can do about it. Outsourcing started this but other professions are being treated the same and even secure jobs such as teachers and policemen are turning into because of recession related budget cuts. In Louisiana all the new teaching hires are flown in from South America and this is happening while 300,000 teachers are being laid off nationwide.
The only light at the end of the tunnel are the managers who do this will find their good workers leaving when the economy rebounds (it may not in the U.S.) . Owning you're own business is the only way to avoid this. You will be disappointed leaving I.T. as everyone is being replaced by cheaper foreign, H1B1, and even the 20 million unemployed. More than likely they will have years of experience in the field you want to get into.
Start your own business if you have the means to do it.
Just remember,you are always replaceable when at work and bust your butt off. The corporations are the ones calling the shots for the time being.
Keep in mind they could have liked him but could not afford to have him quit if he *is* I.T. at the company. Employers sometimes fire based on someone asking for a raise because its a sign he or she might quit or the raise is too much and needs to be scaled back. Some I.T. departments fire employees who look for work elsewhere or interview because its a security threat with those who have confidential data and a history of an ex-worker abusing it. I am sure the lawyers advise to do this and I have read stories about this on slashdot and comments supporting this.
Not all employers are like this but many are in this economy. Never assume anything when a poor sap losses his or her job. Half the time it is politics or some dumb reasons described above and half due to incompetence. If you're a teacher like your sig says you understand then. How many teachers in non-union or non tenured are let go?
I just got out of a funny situation a week ago. I took a job as a manager that only paid 10/hr but the I.T. people were being paid 2.5x to 3x as much. It was very unprofessional and the owner mentioned my meager salary to the other works I would watch. Something sounded fishy. If this were 1999 I would have not taken the job and laughed at the guy. The owner of the computer shop was a terrible manager and he mentioned that I was not even an asset but a liability. I was very close in not accepting the job as the owner sounded snotty and indecisive, but I decided to take it because I had bills to pay. Looking back at it I have to say that we were both incompetent if this is what was agreed upon (being brutally honest). Same is true for anyone else or the slashdotter who submitted the story.
In the end the computer shop barely made $400 in revenue for the week and after the 2nd I was let go. I was planning on doing door to door sales and doing at least *something* to bring in value. But it beat working at the grocery store since its the only place hiring and I need to pay off my student loans.
In such a situation either management is bad or the employer is on life support. You need to leave or the decision will be made for you. If you do not have years of experience then your SOL and maybe store management is the next big thing to strive for after college. Many fortunate 1000 companies wont even talk to you unless you have years of experience and the college degree (or in my case I had one but 3 years out of I.T.).
For the one who submitted this story I would say I.T. is too competitive. Shoot! Webmaster salaries and computer techs are 50% of what they were in 1999. I remember when webmasters were paid $65k a year and now its about $30k. Store management is the future if you have no experience or specialty besides a business degree and less than 3 years experience. You need many years of experience for anything today for medium to large businesses and globalization creates too many foreign cheap workers to compete against.
The issue is.NET assemblies. The ones you create on the express versions will not work on the other ones. I do not think quake3 uses.NET assemblies so it should be portable. There are also no units and many debugging tools.
SQL Server does integrate quite well with ADO and.NET environments with Microsoft Ecosystems. Hate it all you want but many I.T. mangers standardized on Microsoft a decade ago and wont consider anything else. If you are stuck in an ms environment and SQL Server is already free with your $$$$ VS.Net licenses then why not use it?
SQL Server is not supported by JDBC unless you use a proprietary driver. Eclipse is strictly a java editing tool at this point even if you can use it for other things (I do not know of anyone who does) and this would explain the low SQL Server usage. I have not programmed in Java for years so maybe my knowledge is outdated.
If you look at VS.NET usage I bet its all 70% SQL Server with Oracle taking 20%. Its all based on the environment.
Unfortunately no one really does care but the shareholders and Goldman Sachs. Guess which side they are on?
I think the Chinese just are used to this and the factory owners there obviously do not care.
I think we are screwed as this is hte new norm and the only way to fight it is to lower our wages and environmental and safety regulations. We can't stop free trade but we can end our livelihood and wealth thanks to globalization.
Then the companies like Apple will just move their headquarters to Bejing and become a Chinese company. They can then outsource the white collar jobs too! Think about how much money they could save! The CEO of course will stay here and play golf all day.
Tarrifs wont work as the corporations will have a fit and fund any politician who opposes them.
Its bad because it displays Apple's tremendous monopoly like bargaining power. Jobs mentioned he plans to sue the Gnu project using H2.64 to stomp free competition by litigation. He also has the power to kill flask (I think Adobe has too much power too) and he now has the option of crippling any app he wished on your phone errr a copy of your phone (since you do not actually own it). Where do we go next? This is quite troubleome for not only users but developers and technology enthusiasts.
I used to hate MS for being proprietary and sucking. I used to dream of the day macs beat pcs and Apple became the winner. I was asked whether I would prefer to have Apple as a monopoly? I mentioned I would love Apple to take over.
Its like the twilight zone since Steve Jobs came back and resurrected Apple back from the dead. The phone was predicted to be the pc killer and Apple beat them in a very short time. Now it looks worse with Apple and I eat my words from 15 years ago. Sure Apple products do not suck but wow I thought the EULA for windows was bad?? This is getting insane. At least the pc is not using drm enforcing single tasking and locking me out of things. Trusted computing was supposed to do this but it never happened and now I oddly oppose Apple. Maybe I am cynical but I am pure shocked people would buy an I-pad and be subject to such crap?
Would Google be any different if they owned Apple's market share? Monopolies are bad and this is the return of the 19th century when monopolists are formed when the right people at the right time take on railroads, oil, and steel. The same is true for electronics today.
"So when you buy an iPhone, you accept that it's still Steve's? Wow."
I am no lawyer, but Microsoft got away with this BS by saying you do not actually *own* Windows when you buy it. You really purchase a copy of it.
You do not actually own the phone, just a copy of the phone owned by Steve. Its not that I agree with this anti-consumer bs but it comes to show you how much power the lawyers have interpreting things.
Many years ago when I hated Windows 3.1 with a passion someone asked me if the world would be any better if Apple won. I said yes! At least their products do not suck. Funny thing is they are more evil than MS ever was. I guess it comes to show monopolies suck no matter who owns it. Apple has way too much bargaining power and I cringe to think about the cell phone market 5 years from now.
A long time ago someone got KDE 2.x (could be 1.x) to work with QT embedded without X at all. It was not hard to do and it took a simple recompile of KDEBase. Not all KDE apps worked but the concept is certainly possible. I do not know if this would be possible with KDE today as its much more massive and has more dependencies that use X.
X.org and XFree86 sucked for a long long time but is tollerable due to decent hardware. Maybe making a gui in QT embedded can be possible?
My wife comes from a poor background as a child and I come from an upper class one.
I used to laugh at inner city kids for emulating drug dealers and being lazy for not focusing on their schoolwork so they can go to college and better themselves. My wife explained the drug dealer idol-ship as a way to earn respect and money. A drug dealer is a great goal to accomplish and these guys have real money and lives. I was dumbfounded but many inner city kids see these guys and then see a poor mom working 65 hours a week making minimum wage with 2 or 3 jobs and still trying to break even after the bills. The so called scum do not have these problems. The result makes a negative work ethic where you and I are told that hard work makes money. They see the opposite and therefore do not want to work hard. Why should I bust my butt off and go to school when I can start selling drugs and make it RICH?
Children really do worship and look up to gangs as an honorable hardworking profession like the way we look at CEO's and those who own small business. It is a form of idol-ship in the finest sense as its the only way to escape poverty and have people look up to you with respect when you become the next boss. It is very hard for teachers since these inner city kids do not believe a word they say and school just gets in the way of making money being in a gang.
I realized that it is no different from any background when money is the deciding factor on success, idol-ship, and feeling good about yourself. When people on TV shows and commercials have all these nice cars, houses, and leisure time, creates a new normalcy with anger and resentment. Why do other people have these things (ones on TV)? We may have preconceived notions on different groups but we love money and showing others that we are better. A bigger house does not make you better or happier by itself, but knowing your friends lack it makes yourself feel good. Maybe I sound cynical but this has been a problem with our human nature since the beginning of time. The desire to get ahead by working harder is wired in us to be better but it can also be used to screw others as everyone wants more than the other.
"When you elect people that axiomatically believe that government can't do anything right, you get people that intentionally do government badly."
I used to hold this view until I took economics courses and got in the real world. It is not that I oppose government more than I believe in the power of the private sector. When an economic problem exists the market will recover itself best with minimal interference from the government. Case in point, look at the current recession? If banks do not have capital people save because the result is a recession. When people save then banks have capital again and the problem corrects itself. When product A is in short supply and too expensive then the market creates competitors that make an alternative.
Do I think worker safety and environmental standards are not important? I think they are. However, if you have insane environmental standards then businesses will leave and go to China and hurt all of us.
I think with the free market that most actions that the government takes only hurts us most of the time. I think if we let all the big banks fail the risky schemes on wall street would end.... mark my words another recession is coming from these sharks with derivatives and gold.
What we need right now is less government, less regulations on workers, less taxes, and less lawsuits so we can bring jobs back to the US. We can't stop globalization so we need to compete with EVERYONE. That is not possible right now and this is pretty bad.
Unfortunately, my pessimistic side says Joe Six Pack will have a fit and vote out any politician who tells him he can't use his God given Hummer in order to lower gas prices. If he has $500,000 saved then he wants to show off he can waste money and will vote against any politican otherwise.
Also in places like L.A. a train wont help as it wont take you close enough near work. New York you will be fine but its so expensive with salaries that most companies wont bother to open a subsidiary there with cheap India and China. We are screwed either way you look at it.
My hope is that we switch to biodesiel or cooking oil. Maybe farmers in Africa and central America can finally be productive growing crops as this will be the future of fuel. This just may end their poverty.
So is this why the Ford Focus didn't have an A/C in their cheapest units when I was looking to buy in Florida a few years ago? Who would buy a car without an A/C there? Now it makes sense after reading your post. I purchased another car instead.
"So what is the reason again, to work for a boss who deliberately destroys the company? I would go straight to the big boss, and tell him that that idiot is fucking up his company, and list all the ways that he hurts him and costs him money."
Great idea! You should do just that. BTW how are the benefits at your company? Do they pay well? What about paid vacation time?
If he made better investments he could have spent more time with his kids and give them a better a life.
Livy insisted this only because he neglected the stability of his family for high risk investing on himself rather than focusing on his kids. It is all about choices when it comes to money and he made a bad one.
People need to relearn this moral as many are losing their homes by record numbers! The kids and spouses end up being screwed by the greed of owning big houses, cars, and ceilings on credit cards. In the end you take the risks and your family pays the price by going into poverty after the bank mortgages most of your income away.
My argument is true. You choose either your kids or yourself whenever you make a risk and investing is a parents soul responsibility. Prove me wrong?
No one should take excessive risks after they have kids. Its selfish.
People in jail are full of risk takers. You need to make risks and do what you love to do before you have children. After having kids the importance is on money and stability. As sarcastic as you were it is true that Child Welfare will take your kids away if you can't feed them. This is true whether it is taking a funner higher risk job over your boring stable one or excessive investing or starting a business. You should not do these things until your kids are 18. It is a fact of life.
In the 19th century you could go to debtors prison and lose your kids if you went bankrupt. There was no bankruptcy laws... at least none I am aware of.
Don't like it? Then do not have kids. Its capitalism and a fact of life. The mistakes need to be low risk as the kids come first in every decision.
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Unfortunately there is no proof that an external event or condition created the statistical and mathematical variations in the results of the experiment. The conditions can be different clouds, temperature, humidity, and other atmospheric conditions. Academically the clouds and atmospheric conditions have to be and I emphasize have to be identical in the control group to be considered valid. There is no way around it. You can run an expensive experiment yourself but the experts will reject it because there is no proof that the planes, heat, change in pressure, wind, or iodine caused the precipitation. It could be anything?
Running a plane is expensive and since it can not be proved then no one will want to fund it.
The problem is today you are learning someone elses methods/functions to do tasks. After mastering the simple syntax the task turns to rote memorization. Java itself has 100,000 methods. In C++ you could have fun learning all the different things (sometimes bad and ugly). Its a great way to figure out what the computer is really doing when you reserve data types and work with objects. This is really how to learn. I guess perl is the modern equivalent to C++ and hacking if you like scripting.
Getting stuff done is important at work but long term its nice to know what these languages are actually doing.
I am not a lawyer but I was under the impression that its illegal to lower someone's salary after hiring unless its agreed upon in writing. Even that is very shaky legal grounds.
What you say is true but the value is not worth it after the launch. It is short term only and reason to be fired. I would document all the work I had done and ask for a raise after the launch. A good employer will see this and it is unethical to backstab. I do admit his employer does not sound like a good one. You would be mad if your employer lowered your salary after finding out that the economy is bad or demand 80 hours a week when they know you are hurting financially.
People do this and its a pet peeve for many managers. Most will not want to do business again with such employees as they will have too much power and can do fast one on you when you least expect it.
Whats the name of your company? I am sure many slashdotters can and are willing. The only jobs I see that are hiring are fast food and grocery stores where I am at. There are many entry level college students as well that can not find a job. If you are willing to train you can find some very motivated people fresh out of school.
Its an act of sabotage. Whether its legal or not is up to the courts. Even if that manger sounded like a jerk it works both ways. Remember the employer has a right to terminate as well if it is unhappy with the relationship or work. I would fire such an employee even if what the employee did was legal or in a verbal contract. A raise is negotiable, and so is determining the value of work he or she provides. However, if its being used at that particular time it certainly is not. The same is true for any vendor or any other business I want to deal with. There are many sharks out there.
It's fun to think of such things at work but I would not advise anyone to do it unless you know what you are doing.
"And your attitude is the exact reason why I'm leaving I/T if I can do it. People who work their ass off should be rewarded and NOT replaced. Why? Because if you reward them and keep them they'll work their ass off for you AGAIN and AGAIN."
In a severe recession the employer can always find someone better and cheaper than you and there is nothing you can do about it. Outsourcing started this but other professions are being treated the same and even secure jobs such as teachers and policemen are turning into because of recession related budget cuts. In Louisiana all the new teaching hires are flown in from South America and this is happening while 300,000 teachers are being laid off nationwide.
The only light at the end of the tunnel are the managers who do this will find their good workers leaving when the economy rebounds (it may not in the U.S.) . Owning you're own business is the only way to avoid this. You will be disappointed leaving I.T. as everyone is being replaced by cheaper foreign, H1B1, and even the 20 million unemployed. More than likely they will have years of experience in the field you want to get into.
Start your own business if you have the means to do it.
Just remember,you are always replaceable when at work and bust your butt off. The corporations are the ones calling the shots for the time being.
Keep in mind they could have liked him but could not afford to have him quit if he *is* I.T. at the company. Employers sometimes fire based on someone asking for a raise because its a sign he or she might quit or the raise is too much and needs to be scaled back. Some I.T. departments fire employees who look for work elsewhere or interview because its a security threat with those who have confidential data and a history of an ex-worker abusing it. I am sure the lawyers advise to do this and I have read stories about this on slashdot and comments supporting this.
Not all employers are like this but many are in this economy. Never assume anything when a poor sap losses his or her job. Half the time it is politics or some dumb reasons described above and half due to incompetence. If you're a teacher like your sig says you understand then. How many teachers in non-union or non tenured are let go?
I just got out of a funny situation a week ago. I took a job as a manager that only paid 10/hr but the I.T. people were being paid 2.5x to 3x as much. It was very unprofessional and the owner mentioned my meager salary to the other works I would watch. Something sounded fishy. If this were 1999 I would have not taken the job and laughed at the guy. The owner of the computer shop was a terrible manager and he mentioned that I was not even an asset but a liability. I was very close in not accepting the job as the owner sounded snotty and indecisive, but I decided to take it because I had bills to pay. Looking back at it I have to say that we were both incompetent if this is what was agreed upon (being brutally honest). Same is true for anyone else or the slashdotter who submitted the story.
In the end the computer shop barely made $400 in revenue for the week and after the 2nd I was let go. I was planning on doing door to door sales and doing at least *something* to bring in value. But it beat working at the grocery store since its the only place hiring and I need to pay off my student loans.
In such a situation either management is bad or the employer is on life support. You need to leave or the decision will be made for you. If you do not have years of experience then your SOL and maybe store management is the next big thing to strive for after college. Many fortunate 1000 companies wont even talk to you unless you have years of experience and the college degree (or in my case I had one but 3 years out of I.T.).
For the one who submitted this story I would say I.T. is too competitive. Shoot! Webmaster salaries and computer techs are 50% of what they were in 1999. I remember when webmasters were paid $65k a year and now its about $30k. Store management is the future if you have no experience or specialty besides a business degree and less than 3 years experience. You need many years of experience for anything today for medium to large businesses and globalization creates too many foreign cheap workers to compete against.
The issue is .NET assemblies. The ones you create on the express versions will not work on the other ones. I do not think quake3 uses .NET assemblies so it should be portable. There are also no units and many debugging tools.
SQL Server does integrate quite well with ADO and .NET environments with Microsoft Ecosystems. Hate it all you want but many I.T. mangers standardized on Microsoft a decade ago and wont consider anything else. If you are stuck in an ms environment and SQL Server is already free with your $$$$ VS.Net licenses then why not use it?
SQL Server is not supported by JDBC unless you use a proprietary driver. Eclipse is strictly a java editing tool at this point even if you can use it for other things (I do not know of anyone who does) and this would explain the low SQL Server usage. I have not programmed in Java for years so maybe my knowledge is outdated.
If you look at VS.NET usage I bet its all 70% SQL Server with Oracle taking 20%. Its all based on the environment.
Unfortunately no one really does care but the shareholders and Goldman Sachs. Guess which side they are on?
I think the Chinese just are used to this and the factory owners there obviously do not care.
I think we are screwed as this is hte new norm and the only way to fight it is to lower our wages and environmental and safety regulations. We can't stop free trade but we can end our livelihood and wealth thanks to globalization.
Then the companies like Apple will just move their headquarters to Bejing and become a Chinese company. They can then outsource the white collar jobs too! Think about how much money they could save! The CEO of course will stay here and play golf all day.
Tarrifs wont work as the corporations will have a fit and fund any politician who opposes them.
"I've seen the disassembly for Altair's BASIC.. I'd say Bill Gates could indeed code."
Well the guy I copied the code from definitely could do it well.
Its bad because it displays Apple's tremendous monopoly like bargaining power. Jobs mentioned he plans to sue the Gnu project using H2.64 to stomp free competition by litigation. He also has the power to kill flask (I think Adobe has too much power too) and he now has the option of crippling any app he wished on your phone errr a copy of your phone (since you do not actually own it). Where do we go next? This is quite troubleome for not only users but developers and technology enthusiasts.
I used to hate MS for being proprietary and sucking. I used to dream of the day macs beat pcs and Apple became the winner. I was asked whether I would prefer to have Apple as a monopoly? I mentioned I would love Apple to take over.
Its like the twilight zone since Steve Jobs came back and resurrected Apple back from the dead. The phone was predicted to be the pc killer and Apple beat them in a very short time. Now it looks worse with Apple and I eat my words from 15 years ago. Sure Apple products do not suck but wow I thought the EULA for windows was bad?? This is getting insane. At least the pc is not using drm enforcing single tasking and locking me out of things. Trusted computing was supposed to do this but it never happened and now I oddly oppose Apple. Maybe I am cynical but I am pure shocked people would buy an I-pad and be subject to such crap?
Would Google be any different if they owned Apple's market share? Monopolies are bad and this is the return of the 19th century when monopolists are formed when the right people at the right time take on railroads, oil, and steel. The same is true for electronics today.
"So when you buy an iPhone, you accept that it's still Steve's? Wow."
I am no lawyer, but Microsoft got away with this BS by saying you do not actually *own* Windows when you buy it. You really purchase a copy of it.
You do not actually own the phone, just a copy of the phone owned by Steve. Its not that I agree with this anti-consumer bs but it comes to show you how much power the lawyers have interpreting things.
Many years ago when I hated Windows 3.1 with a passion someone asked me if the world would be any better if Apple won. I said yes! At least their products do not suck. Funny thing is they are more evil than MS ever was. I guess it comes to show monopolies suck no matter who owns it. Apple has way too much bargaining power and I cringe to think about the cell phone market 5 years from now.
A long time ago someone got KDE 2.x (could be 1.x) to work with QT embedded without X at all. It was not hard to do and it took a simple recompile of KDEBase. Not all KDE apps worked but the concept is certainly possible. I do not know if this would be possible with KDE today as its much more massive and has more dependencies that use X.
X.org and XFree86 sucked for a long long time but is tollerable due to decent hardware. Maybe making a gui in QT embedded can be possible?
My wife comes from a poor background as a child and I come from an upper class one.
I used to laugh at inner city kids for emulating drug dealers and being lazy for not focusing on their schoolwork so they can go to college and better themselves. My wife explained the drug dealer idol-ship as a way to earn respect and money. A drug dealer is a great goal to accomplish and these guys have real money and lives. I was dumbfounded but many inner city kids see these guys and then see a poor mom working 65 hours a week making minimum wage with 2 or 3 jobs and still trying to break even after the bills. The so called scum do not have these problems. The result makes a negative work ethic where you and I are told that hard work makes money. They see the opposite and therefore do not want to work hard. Why should I bust my butt off and go to school when I can start selling drugs and make it RICH?
Children really do worship and look up to gangs as an honorable hardworking profession like the way we look at CEO's and those who own small business. It is a form of idol-ship in the finest sense as its the only way to escape poverty and have people look up to you with respect when you become the next boss. It is very hard for teachers since these inner city kids do not believe a word they say and school just gets in the way of making money being in a gang.
I realized that it is no different from any background when money is the deciding factor on success, idol-ship, and feeling good about yourself. When people on TV shows and commercials have all these nice cars, houses, and leisure time, creates a new normalcy with anger and resentment. Why do other people have these things (ones on TV)? We may have preconceived notions on different groups but we love money and showing others that we are better. A bigger house does not make you better or happier by itself, but knowing your friends lack it makes yourself feel good. Maybe I sound cynical but this has been a problem with our human nature since the beginning of time. The desire to get ahead by working harder is wired in us to be better but it can also be used to screw others as everyone wants more than the other.
Ill bite.
"When you elect people that axiomatically believe that government can't do anything right, you get people that intentionally do government badly."
I used to hold this view until I took economics courses and got in the real world. It is not that I oppose government more than I believe in the power of the private sector. When an economic problem exists the market will recover itself best with minimal interference from the government. Case in point, look at the current recession? If banks do not have capital people save because the result is a recession. When people save then banks have capital again and the problem corrects itself. When product A is in short supply and too expensive then the market creates competitors that make an alternative.
Do I think worker safety and environmental standards are not important? I think they are. However, if you have insane environmental standards then businesses will leave and go to China and hurt all of us.
I think with the free market that most actions that the government takes only hurts us most of the time. I think if we let all the big banks fail the risky schemes on wall street would end. ... mark my words another recession is coming from these sharks with derivatives and gold.
What we need right now is less government, less regulations on workers, less taxes, and less lawsuits so we can bring jobs back to the US. We can't stop globalization so we need to compete with EVERYONE. That is not possible right now and this is pretty bad.
Unfortunately, my pessimistic side says Joe Six Pack will have a fit and vote out any politician who tells him he can't use his God given Hummer in order to lower gas prices. If he has $500,000 saved then he wants to show off he can waste money and will vote against any politican otherwise.
Also in places like L.A. a train wont help as it wont take you close enough near work. New York you will be fine but its so expensive with salaries that most companies wont bother to open a subsidiary there with cheap India and China. We are screwed either way you look at it.
My hope is that we switch to biodesiel or cooking oil. Maybe farmers in Africa and central America can finally be productive growing crops as this will be the future of fuel. This just may end their poverty.
So is this why the Ford Focus didn't have an A/C in their cheapest units when I was looking to buy in Florida a few years ago? Who would buy a car without an A/C there? Now it makes sense after reading your post. I purchased another car instead.
"So what is the reason again, to work for a boss who deliberately destroys the company? I would go straight to the big boss, and tell him that that idiot is fucking up his company, and list all the ways that he hurts him and costs him money."
Great idea! You should do just that. BTW how are the benefits at your company? Do they pay well? What about paid vacation time?
If he made better investments he could have spent more time with his kids and give them a better a life.
Livy insisted this only because he neglected the stability of his family for high risk investing on himself rather than focusing on his kids. It is all about choices when it comes to money and he made a bad one.
People need to relearn this moral as many are losing their homes by record numbers! The kids and spouses end up being screwed by the greed of owning big houses, cars, and ceilings on credit cards. In the end you take the risks and your family pays the price by going into poverty after the bank mortgages most of your income away.
My argument is true. You choose either your kids or yourself whenever you make a risk and investing is a parents soul responsibility. Prove me wrong?
No one should take excessive risks after they have kids. Its selfish.
People in jail are full of risk takers. You need to make risks and do what you love to do before you have children. After having kids the importance is on money and stability. As sarcastic as you were it is true that Child Welfare will take your kids away if you can't feed them. This is true whether it is taking a funner higher risk job over your boring stable one or excessive investing or starting a business. You should not do these things until your kids are 18. It is a fact of life.
In the 19th century you could go to debtors prison and lose your kids if you went bankrupt. There was no bankruptcy laws ... at least none I am aware of.
Don't like it? Then do not have kids. Its capitalism and a fact of life. The mistakes need to be low risk as the kids come first in every decision.