Yep, the entire reason they even invented the transporter is because they didn't have enough money to build shuttlecraft and sets for them at the beginning. The shuttlecraft weren't seen until later episodes. The transporter was cheap and easy, from a filming standpoint.
Why should they? As long as they had a good run, what does it matter? Nothing lasts forever, certainly not any corporations. How many major corporations can you list which haven't either collapsed, been bought out, or significantly contracted in over 50 years? I can't think of any. Even IBM had a major contraction back in the 90s. Ford certainly contracted a lot, but these days they're doing great.
As for "durable goods", cars don't last that long. Sure, a few weirdos keep the 25+-year-old models in pristine shape, and other cheapos keep old cars running (barely) long past their prime, but most cars are not kept more than 2 decades or so. And this span of time is quite a bit greater than it used to be: 30-50 years ago, a car was considered junk when it had 50,000 miles on it. It's only been the last 10-20 years where it became normal for cars to go well over 100k miles.
You've got to wonder if Obama released a statement that read "I like puppies. They're cute.", how quickly would Republicans line up to declare that puppies are evil spawns of Satan and real Americans own cats, not dogs.
Personally, I think dogs are a pain in the ass and it annoys me how dogs are generally favored as pets, so I really wish Obama would do exactly this.
Then again, this probably isn't a good idea: then all the Democrat voters will suddenly be dog lovers (because they'll support anything the Democratic party tells them to, even if it only benefits their rich constituents like in the media companies), and all the Republican voters will suddenly be cat lovers, and I don't really want to hang out with Republicans. Democrats annoy me sometimes, but I can stand them far better than I can Republicans. At least the Democratic voters aren't always talking about how the Rapture is about to happen.
You still don't get it, do you? Nothing is permanent. It doesn't matter if Detroit fell; for a long time, it was highly successful. If you were a highly compensated auto executive there in the 50s, who cares if it's going downhill 20 years later? By then, you'll be retired.
By your logic, everyone in Rome at 100BC should have moved out because the city was going to fall ~500 years later.
So what if people bought cars in other countries? The biggest auto market was easily the US at that time.
As for Ford's and GM's management, yeah, they were really clueless, as they cashed in their huge paychecks. *rollseyes* It wasn't until the oil crisis that things went south, and that was many years later.
At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom,
So what? Those were never huge sellers in the American market anyway, they were a niche product. Americans were all busy buying giant gas-guzzling behemoths all the way to 1974 when the Oil Crisis hit.
So even in the early 60s, someone writing "Why Detroit will continue to rule" would have been absolutely correct; they had over 10 years of unchallenged dominance left, and even after 1974 it's not like things suddenly came to a halt there.
You're obviously not very good at reading comprehension.
>>The kernel is the only thing they have in common. >You didn't know it, but the kernel is Linux,
Obviously, I did know it.
No, Android is NOT "Linux". "Linux", in the context here, means desktop Linux. Tablets are NOT desktops. You may not like this fact but I know lots of people have problems with reality, that's life.
You're not a "Christian conservative" if you're Catholic. Catholics aren't even Christians. (Don't believe me? Go find some Southern Baptists or some fundamentalists and ask them if you're a Christian; they'll say no.)
Here's some litmus tests for you: 1) Do you believe the Rapture is going to happen soon? 2) Do you watch Christian movies starring Kirk Cameron? 3) Are you a fan of the "Left Behind" books? 4) Do you believe there's a "gay agenda"? 5) Do you believe President Obama is literally the anti-Christ?
If your answer to these is "no", then you are not a "Christian conservative".
I'm subscribed to a bunch of Democrat newsletters and politicians' email lists. I know perfectly well what liberals want and what Democrats are pushing. I also don't even have a TV and strictly avoid Faux News.
If you think the Democrat party doesn't have immigration as one of its top issues, then you are clueless.
Yes, they are temporary, but the liberals are on an anti-anti-immigration bandwagon (largely because a bunch of tech companies like Facebook want the H1B cap lifted) and will conflate the issue.
Republicans aren't interested in free markets. Just look at how they push bills to ban car manufacturers from selling cars directly to consumers, so that they can prop up the antiquated independent dealership business model.
To the religious conservatives and libertarians who make up the bulk of this site's demographics, those things are all "crazy" and "dangerous" and "soviet-like". Especially the LGBT equality thing; Slashdotters really hate that.
He's doubly stupid. Not only is he stupid enough to expose his bigotry, he can't even get the correct ethnic group. The majority of H1-Bs are most likely from India. India is not known for deserts (quite the opposite in fact, it has jungles and is famous for tigers). The slur he used is a reference to middle easterners, but those aren't a majority of imported tech workers by a long shot.
That's what these morons get for demanding resumes in.DOC format instead of PDF. I don't need someone else editing my resume, especially an employer I'm submitting it to. So why do they want it in an editable format rather than a format which is specifically designed to be read-only and to appear exactly the same no matter what device you view or print it on?
Maybe, but I think you're overestimating the power of the workers. In Mozilla's case, Eich stepped down voluntarily (at least that's the public story), because of all the bad press that was happening, and that was coming from the users and the general public, not from the employees. While his views on gay marriage obviously suck, he's probably a fairly decent guy otherwise and wanted what's best for Mozilla, something he's worked on for a very long time, so to him it was probably better that he remove himself from the situation so that Mozilla could thrive again.
But for other companies, they really don't care about the workers, and large numbers of workers are not going to leave because the CEO is a douche. We've seen this in countless companies. Look how long Steve Ballmer ran MS for instance. CEOs get kicked out when the board disagrees with them; that's the bottom line. It's usually over a disagreement in how to run the company (direction), or unhappiness with the choices they've made, but it can also be over the CEO's personal life making them look bad (scandal).
Curb the H1B problem, we probably will curb the recruiter spam problem
I disagree. These Indian recruiters all live in India, they aren't H1-B workers. Basically what's going on is a bunch of Indian companies have figured out that there's a good demand for engineers in the US, and that recruiting isn't exactly rocket science, you just have to have people who speak passable English and can sit on the phone for hours calling candidates and companies and matching them up. The recruiters don't even have to be very good, as long as they have an acceptable success rate to justify their pay. Since they're in India, they're not paid much relative to US salaries.
Most of us hold at least one opinion that is not the majority viewpoint
Irrelevant. The "majority viewpoint" doesn't matter, only the viewpoint of the Board of Directors of a company. If the CEO doesn't fit with that, then he's out. It doesn't matter if it's some progressive-politics-espousing company like Apple, or some conservative Christian company like Hobby Lobby; at either one, if the CEO get involved in some publicity that makes the company look bad to its preferred audience, he's out. At Apple, if he comes out as a homophobe, he'll be fired, whereas at Hobby Lobby they'd consider that a good thing, and would fire him if he came out in favor of gay marriage.
This is the whole problem here; all these conservative Christian Slashdotters are butt-hurt because someone got fired for being anti-gay-marriage, but they'd have no problem if some CEO at a conservative company got fired for being pro-gay-marriage.
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The invention of teleporters isn't going to suddenly make work obsolete.
Someone still has to build and maintain the teleporters, for instance.
For instance why bother having Starfleet at all if you can teleport instantly by belt-buckle to the Klingon homeworld?
Exactly, which is why JJ Abram's new movies don't make any sense at all.
Yep, the entire reason they even invented the transporter is because they didn't have enough money to build shuttlecraft and sets for them at the beginning. The shuttlecraft weren't seen until later episodes. The transporter was cheap and easy, from a filming standpoint.
Why should they? As long as they had a good run, what does it matter? Nothing lasts forever, certainly not any corporations. How many major corporations can you list which haven't either collapsed, been bought out, or significantly contracted in over 50 years? I can't think of any. Even IBM had a major contraction back in the 90s. Ford certainly contracted a lot, but these days they're doing great.
As for "durable goods", cars don't last that long. Sure, a few weirdos keep the 25+-year-old models in pristine shape, and other cheapos keep old cars running (barely) long past their prime, but most cars are not kept more than 2 decades or so. And this span of time is quite a bit greater than it used to be: 30-50 years ago, a car was considered junk when it had 50,000 miles on it. It's only been the last 10-20 years where it became normal for cars to go well over 100k miles.
You've got to wonder if Obama released a statement that read "I like puppies. They're cute.", how quickly would Republicans line up to declare that puppies are evil spawns of Satan and real Americans own cats, not dogs.
Personally, I think dogs are a pain in the ass and it annoys me how dogs are generally favored as pets, so I really wish Obama would do exactly this.
Then again, this probably isn't a good idea: then all the Democrat voters will suddenly be dog lovers (because they'll support anything the Democratic party tells them to, even if it only benefits their rich constituents like in the media companies), and all the Republican voters will suddenly be cat lovers, and I don't really want to hang out with Republicans. Democrats annoy me sometimes, but I can stand them far better than I can Republicans. At least the Democratic voters aren't always talking about how the Rapture is about to happen.
You still don't get it, do you? Nothing is permanent. It doesn't matter if Detroit fell; for a long time, it was highly successful. If you were a highly compensated auto executive there in the 50s, who cares if it's going downhill 20 years later? By then, you'll be retired.
By your logic, everyone in Rome at 100BC should have moved out because the city was going to fall ~500 years later.
So what if people bought cars in other countries? The biggest auto market was easily the US at that time.
As for Ford's and GM's management, yeah, they were really clueless, as they cashed in their huge paychecks. *rollseyes* It wasn't until the oil crisis that things went south, and that was many years later.
At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom,
So what? Those were never huge sellers in the American market anyway, they were a niche product. Americans were all busy buying giant gas-guzzling behemoths all the way to 1974 when the Oil Crisis hit.
So even in the early 60s, someone writing "Why Detroit will continue to rule" would have been absolutely correct; they had over 10 years of unchallenged dominance left, and even after 1974 it's not like things suddenly came to a halt there.
You're obviously not very good at reading comprehension.
>>The kernel is the only thing they have in common.
>You didn't know it, but the kernel is Linux,
Obviously, I did know it.
No, Android is NOT "Linux". "Linux", in the context here, means desktop Linux. Tablets are NOT desktops. You may not like this fact but I know lots of people have problems with reality, that's life.
You're not a "Christian conservative" if you're Catholic. Catholics aren't even Christians. (Don't believe me? Go find some Southern Baptists or some fundamentalists and ask them if you're a Christian; they'll say no.)
Here's some litmus tests for you:
1) Do you believe the Rapture is going to happen soon?
2) Do you watch Christian movies starring Kirk Cameron?
3) Are you a fan of the "Left Behind" books?
4) Do you believe there's a "gay agenda"?
5) Do you believe President Obama is literally the anti-Christ?
If your answer to these is "no", then you are not a "Christian conservative".
If you don't understand the concept of software monoculture, then you're an idiot.
Here's a clue, moron: Adobe Reader isn't the only way to view PDFs.
I'm subscribed to a bunch of Democrat newsletters and politicians' email lists. I know perfectly well what liberals want and what Democrats are pushing. I also don't even have a TV and strictly avoid Faux News.
If you think the Democrat party doesn't have immigration as one of its top issues, then you are clueless.
Yes, they are temporary, but the liberals are on an anti-anti-immigration bandwagon (largely because a bunch of tech companies like Facebook want the H1B cap lifted) and will conflate the issue.
The liberals won't like him because he's "anti-immigration" since he's an H1-B skeptic.
They also won't like that he voted against the big bank bailout.
The Teabaggers are too stupid to vote for Bernie even though he actually probably shares several of their viewpoints.
Republicans aren't interested in free markets. Just look at how they push bills to ban car manufacturers from selling cars directly to consumers, so that they can prop up the antiquated independent dealership business model.
To the religious conservatives and libertarians who make up the bulk of this site's demographics, those things are all "crazy" and "dangerous" and "soviet-like". Especially the LGBT equality thing; Slashdotters really hate that.
He's doubly stupid. Not only is he stupid enough to expose his bigotry, he can't even get the correct ethnic group. The majority of H1-Bs are most likely from India. India is not known for deserts (quite the opposite in fact, it has jungles and is famous for tigers). The slur he used is a reference to middle easterners, but those aren't a majority of imported tech workers by a long shot.
That's what these morons get for demanding resumes in .DOC format instead of PDF. I don't need someone else editing my resume, especially an employer I'm submitting it to. So why do they want it in an editable format rather than a format which is specifically designed to be read-only and to appear exactly the same no matter what device you view or print it on?
Maybe the IT's security policy doesn't allow that.
Maybe, but I think you're overestimating the power of the workers. In Mozilla's case, Eich stepped down voluntarily (at least that's the public story), because of all the bad press that was happening, and that was coming from the users and the general public, not from the employees. While his views on gay marriage obviously suck, he's probably a fairly decent guy otherwise and wanted what's best for Mozilla, something he's worked on for a very long time, so to him it was probably better that he remove himself from the situation so that Mozilla could thrive again.
But for other companies, they really don't care about the workers, and large numbers of workers are not going to leave because the CEO is a douche. We've seen this in countless companies. Look how long Steve Ballmer ran MS for instance. CEOs get kicked out when the board disagrees with them; that's the bottom line. It's usually over a disagreement in how to run the company (direction), or unhappiness with the choices they've made, but it can also be over the CEO's personal life making them look bad (scandal).
Curb the H1B problem, we probably will curb the recruiter spam problem
I disagree. These Indian recruiters all live in India, they aren't H1-B workers. Basically what's going on is a bunch of Indian companies have figured out that there's a good demand for engineers in the US, and that recruiting isn't exactly rocket science, you just have to have people who speak passable English and can sit on the phone for hours calling candidates and companies and matching them up. The recruiters don't even have to be very good, as long as they have an acceptable success rate to justify their pay. Since they're in India, they're not paid much relative to US salaries.
It doesn't matter when it was done.
If Hobby Lobby's CEO used to act in gay porn movies years ago, and someone dug that up and posted it on the internet, he'd be fired too.
Most of us hold at least one opinion that is not the majority viewpoint
Irrelevant. The "majority viewpoint" doesn't matter, only the viewpoint of the Board of Directors of a company. If the CEO doesn't fit with that, then he's out. It doesn't matter if it's some progressive-politics-espousing company like Apple, or some conservative Christian company like Hobby Lobby; at either one, if the CEO get involved in some publicity that makes the company look bad to its preferred audience, he's out. At Apple, if he comes out as a homophobe, he'll be fired, whereas at Hobby Lobby they'd consider that a good thing, and would fire him if he came out in favor of gay marriage.
This is the whole problem here; all these conservative Christian Slashdotters are butt-hurt because someone got fired for being anti-gay-marriage, but they'd have no problem if some CEO at a conservative company got fired for being pro-gay-marriage.
So you're saying your work should be able to control your religious beliefs. Sure...
Yes, when you're CEO, it should and it does.
Will Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby hire a CEO who isn't Christian?