I don't think a reasonable person's choice of operating system is determined by the presence of human mammary glands. Otherwise Apple would be selling the iTit.
Well... it would be sort of retarded to point out the deficiencies of iOS on a Microsoft event.
Kinda like when the soviet and the american argued about their countries.
American: "But we have freedom of speech!"
Soviet: "What is that, even?"
American: "For example , if I were to walk into the White House, shout Ronald Reagan is a filthy thieving lying fuck, nobody would do anything to me."
Soviet: "Hah! We got it even better. If I were to walk into the Kremel, and shout Ronald Reagan is a filthy thieving lying fuck, it'd get into the newspaper and I'd get a commendation, even."
If you think the purpose of a demonstration/event is "nude tits for the onlookers", you're a moron whose thought centre has moved from cranium to crotch.
from voters playing Alliance characters.
That said, I love the fact that her "secret life" involves a computer game while that of a lot o republicans involve fucking men in public bathrooms.
I suspect that/. might be selling him slightly short - after all, he says he was promoted a while before that.
What I suspect happened is that he was a fine worker where he was, and someone up thought of promoting him. What resulted was him peacocking as he admits, and not being of particular use at his new place, even creating fuckups. Well, they couldn't quite demote him again because he'd read it as being a stop to his career and would leave anyways, not doing much in the meantime - the logical, if nasty option was to show him the door as unexpectedly as possible.
The actual lesson is: getting promoted doesn't mean you have everyone in your pocket yet.
There are a few exceptions. The Soviet space programme stood and fell with S.P. Korolov - his premature death was the reason the USA won the moon race.
Beats me.
However, that's what the IT industry in USA appears like, especially gaming industry - silly amounts of overtime, little job security, not that great salaries and little in the way of retirement benefits.
The writer is simply pointing out that just because someone provides a near-superhuman performance early on in a company does not mean the company owes them any loyalty: Once their usefulness has passed, kick them out the door.
And then the same people wonder why people sabotage companies they were kicked out of...
The mathematics is simple - if the "job creator" treats the workers like enemies, they'd be dumb to behave otherwise.
People who take the most business risk are not those who accept salaried positions for jobs that somebody thinks to be necessary to make more profit, it's people who take the risk in terms of putting in their own savings, capital, time and effort into a venture that nobody ever guarantees to be a winner.
Which is why when a company keels over, the risktakers get golden parachutes, and the employes not taking any risks from their salaried positions get a foot up their arse.
If they are so horrible, then why do you need a ban? Asides from hipsters, I don't see a lot of people driving,say, fixie bikes over ones with a gearbox and the thingy that allows it to run when you don't pedal. A real improvement doesn't require enforcement to be adapted.
By the way, it's amusing how a lot of these contain mercury, which the EU has zero trouble with, but they did have trouble with PbSn solder, which is a lot better than SnCu for electronics (for one, melts at about thirty degrees lower temperature)
Uhh.. this isn't haggling, because there, you can yourself make an offer, and you argue it out with the seller.
This is a worse screwup than fixed pricing.
Correct, you don't have a right to something at some price, unless you are granted one (it's called price regulation).
However, that's not the question here. The question here is whether the sellers should a) be allowed to exploit the fact that they can get information about your past transactions, and you can't easily get information on *their* past transactions. and b) whether they should be allowed to essentially set a price, then do "take it or leave it",without you ever being able to haggle back. This is not how any trade transaction in the world goes on, and I suspect if implemented, it'd bring people back to brick and mortar stores, rather than online oones.
. . . Until the time it returns control to me unexpectedly, and nonsense starts happening.
The only use for fully automatic cars I can see is automatic trucks, with heavy duty tamper and edit free hardware (reprogramming only through locked physical interface and such.)
Just.. no. First thing, that still allows someone's tampering to allow the car go haywire. Second thing, I wouldn't ever want to control a car that takes control away from me in crucial moments, because it's an unexpected response , and as such, I'd likely mess up due to the sheer WTF.
Like when I was doing the driving courses, one time I almost messed up, because just as I was going to brake, the instructor pressed the connection pedal himself, thinking the same, and I "locked up" because suddenly the connection pedal wasn't where it shoudl be.
This is standard EU modus operandi - push bullshit repeatedly until "correct" result is obtained.
I wonder how many of you remember the attempt at an european constitution. It was rejected in several countries. Next step, cut off the fluff, leave the crunch exactly the same,and have it pass as "Lisbon Treaty". Failed again, despite what was essentially bullying - i have heard politicians making asinine arguments (then, and later with the euro wall moneysink) that we're part of a collective and we have to abide by it's rules, completely ignoring that there's an election going on because we just like everyone else have a fucking right to decide. Anyways, Ireland didn't pass it, so a few exceptions were thrown to appease them specifically, and there was a rehash , with the quiet voice behind the wall mumbling that if they won't pass the bill, it'll result in future unofficial sanctions
And voila, Lisbon treaty, which reinforces centralization of the EU and chops off a significant portion of constituent countries' rights, and voice, was passed.
Expect nothing less than the same grade bullshit with ACTA.
That's exactly why we could use more women in positions of research and power.
This response to the OP implies that you think the world's problems with shit leadership would magically go away if only those in the seats of power lacked a Y chromosome. Which is equally bullshit, just slightly less blatant than the above strawman, Dr. Gluteus Watson.
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I don't think a reasonable person's choice of operating system is determined by the presence of human mammary glands. Otherwise Apple would be selling the iTit.
Well... it would be sort of retarded to point out the deficiencies of iOS on a Microsoft event. Kinda like when the soviet and the american argued about their countries.
American: "But we have freedom of speech!" Soviet: "What is that, even?" American: "For example , if I were to walk into the White House, shout Ronald Reagan is a filthy thieving lying fuck, nobody would do anything to me." Soviet: "Hah! We got it even better. If I were to walk into the Kremel, and shout Ronald Reagan is a filthy thieving lying fuck, it'd get into the newspaper and I'd get a commendation, even."
If you think the purpose of a demonstration/event is "nude tits for the onlookers", you're a moron whose thought centre has moved from cranium to crotch.
and seamonkey for things like opening URL on click, and other uses.
from voters playing Alliance characters.
That said, I love the fact that her "secret life" involves a computer game while that of a lot o republicans involve fucking men in public bathrooms.
If I recall right, he died of heart complications during an operation of stomach ulcer. That sort of death is premature.
I suspect that /. might be selling him slightly short - after all, he says he was promoted a while before that.
What I suspect happened is that he was a fine worker where he was, and someone up thought of promoting him. What resulted was him peacocking as he admits, and not being of particular use at his new place, even creating fuckups. Well, they couldn't quite demote him again because he'd read it as being a stop to his career and would leave anyways, not doing much in the meantime - the logical, if nasty option was to show him the door as unexpectedly as possible.
The actual lesson is: getting promoted doesn't mean you have everyone in your pocket yet.
There are a few exceptions. The Soviet space programme stood and fell with S.P. Korolov - his premature death was the reason the USA won the moon race.
Beats me.
However, that's what the IT industry in USA appears like, especially gaming industry - silly amounts of overtime, little job security, not that great salaries and little in the way of retirement benefits.
Smart people who aren't jerks tend to require an actual good salary ,however.
And then the same people wonder why people sabotage companies they were kicked out of ...
The mathematics is simple - if the "job creator" treats the workers like enemies, they'd be dumb to behave otherwise.
Which is why when a company keels over, the risktakers get golden parachutes, and the employes not taking any risks from their salaried positions get a foot up their arse.
I started on SuSE in 2004, then went to Slackware in October 2005 and despite a few brushes with Debian, Gentoo and OpenBSD, I never looked back.
If they are so horrible, then why do you need a ban? Asides from hipsters, I don't see a lot of people driving ,say, fixie bikes over ones with a gearbox and the thingy that allows it to run when you don't pedal. A real improvement doesn't require enforcement to be adapted.
By the way, it's amusing how a lot of these contain mercury, which the EU has zero trouble with, but they did have trouble with PbSn solder, which is a lot better than SnCu for electronics (for one, melts at about thirty degrees lower temperature)
Come fucking on. In the video he linked, they name themselves, so why repeat what is said already?
Uhh.. this isn't haggling, because there, you can yourself make an offer, and you argue it out with the seller.
This is a worse screwup than fixed pricing.
Correct, you don't have a right to something at some price, unless you are granted one (it's called price regulation). ,without you ever being able to haggle back. This is not how any trade transaction in the world goes on, and I suspect if implemented, it'd bring people back to brick and mortar stores, rather than online oones.
However, that's not the question here. The question here is whether the sellers should a) be allowed to exploit the fact that they can get information about your past transactions, and you can't easily get information on *their* past transactions. and b) whether they should be allowed to essentially set a price, then do "take it or leave it"
This feels like something Dr. Wondertainment would put in a nature documentary.
. . . Until the time it returns control to me unexpectedly, and nonsense starts happening.
The only use for fully automatic cars I can see is automatic trucks, with heavy duty tamper and edit free hardware (reprogramming only through locked physical interface and such.)
Just.. no. First thing, that still allows someone's tampering to allow the car go haywire. Second thing, I wouldn't ever want to control a car that takes control away from me in crucial moments, because it's an unexpected response , and as such, I'd likely mess up due to the sheer WTF.
Like when I was doing the driving courses, one time I almost messed up, because just as I was going to brake, the instructor pressed the connection pedal himself, thinking the same, and I "locked up" because suddenly the connection pedal wasn't where it shoudl be.
This is standard EU modus operandi - push bullshit repeatedly until "correct" result is obtained. ,and have it pass as "Lisbon Treaty". Failed again, despite what was essentially bullying - i have heard politicians making asinine arguments (then, and later with the euro wall moneysink) that we're part of a collective and we have to abide by it's rules, completely ignoring that there's an election going on because we just like everyone else have a fucking right to decide.
I wonder how many of you remember the attempt at an european constitution. It was rejected in several countries. Next step, cut off the fluff, leave the crunch exactly the same
Anyways, Ireland didn't pass it, so a few exceptions were thrown to appease them specifically, and there was a rehash , with the quiet voice behind the wall mumbling that if they won't pass the bill, it'll result in future unofficial sanctions
And voila, Lisbon treaty, which reinforces centralization of the EU and chops off a significant portion of constituent countries' rights, and voice, was passed.
Expect nothing less than the same grade bullshit with ACTA.
This response to the OP implies that you think the world's problems with shit leadership would magically go away if only those in the seats of power lacked a Y chromosome. Which is equally bullshit, just slightly less blatant than the above strawman, Dr. Gluteus Watson.
Because women in power are so much better than men... like Margaret Thatcher. Right.
They might do better - for one, many manga anime series have badass female characters, Integra Hellsing comes to mind first.