It's a nice idea that everyone gets to play, but like it or not, this tool has been pretty much completely conscripted by not the top 1%, but by the top 0.1%.
I might call it a form of treason, except for the fact that the Robert's court endowed corporations with personhood for all intents and purposes, and the representatives to which you refer are simply serving their true constituents....
To be more specific, their supposed ignorance allows them to allow the (paying) lobbyists to write the bills in the manner that most benefits our purported representatives true constituency - the corporations and their owners who aren't satisfied with the majority of the pie, but who want the whole damn thing.
In the West, it's the big corporations that are doing the spying. They just haven't flexed their muscle yet. But given the truism about knowledge and information being power and all, that's where Big Brother's taken up abode in the West.
Perhaps. However, the underlying thesis here is that you don't own anything you create; the giant media corporations effectively own it as soon as you publish it.
The power to destroy something is, in the end, the ultimate mark of ownership. And that's what's been claimed here.
... when the power of the corporations far exceeds that of the government? When, in fact, the government has become the tool of the corporations, as opposed to the counterbalance that it is supposed to be.
However, if you have great programmers, but saddle them with a really badly implemented waterfall approach, by way of example, you'll also wind up with poor to average software in all likelihood.
Unless your devs manage to overcome the methodology. But you don't want your devs to be battling both the problems of the code and the management approach at the same time, now do you?
When done right, agile is the formalization of good work habits (realizable short term goals with something to show at the end of each sprint in order to reach the overall long term goal). It also eliminates a lot of overhead time spent in planning that gets thrown away, unnecessary gant charts, etc.
The long and the short of it is that agile saves time by making the process that a good dev would impose upon himself the formal process for the product.
If you think agile means shipping the prototype, or that because you're agile you can just halve the time to ship, you are looking for a magic wand that doesn't exist.
A protest that needs Fox New's Glenn Beck to organize and the Koch brothers to fund in order to get off the ground really isn't the same as a bunch of folks getting so upset about the status quo that they take to the streets.
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Unless He knew that morality and ethics as well as biology would evolve over time.
Maybe the first one was rules, because that's what the first set of sentient critters he decided to talk to on Earth could deal with.
Then, when we reached a certain point, those rules got replaced with something more mature.
Thing is, though, it is the 0.1% who get to play. Just the way the system works.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/11/20/the-top-0-1-of-the-nation-earn-half-of-all-capital-gains/
It's a nice idea that everyone gets to play, but like it or not, this tool has been pretty much completely conscripted by not the top 1%, but by the top 0.1%.
I might call it a form of treason, except for the fact that the Robert's court endowed corporations with personhood for all intents and purposes, and the representatives to which you refer are simply serving their true constituents....
Unfortunately, it's you and I who are going to receive said fscking.
To be more specific, their supposed ignorance allows them to allow the (paying) lobbyists to write the bills in the manner that most benefits our purported representatives true constituency - the corporations and their owners who aren't satisfied with the majority of the pie, but who want the whole damn thing.
We've already got one.
They're just too smart to take titles like "earl" and "duke".
But they most certainly exist.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/11/20/the-top-0-1-of-the-nation-earn-half-of-all-capital-gains/
In the West, it's the big corporations that are doing the spying. They just haven't flexed their muscle yet. But given the truism about knowledge and information being power and all, that's where Big Brother's taken up abode in the West.
Any cop or HR individual can always find something wrong. Always.
Why is the argument so often about putting people out of jobs?
"They're selling snake oil, but we shouldn't stop them - it would put people out of jobs."
"They're dumping poison into the river, but stopping them would put people out of jobs."
"They're product provides false hope and actually kills people, but stopping production would put people out of jobs."
"Our health care system is designed to maximize profit and not people's health, but changing it would put people out of jobs."
And so it goes - and so we develop an entire economy based around doing things that are destructive to ourselves.
Maybe. On the other hand, if you think about what's really in a McBuger, maybe the camera image is more honest than you give it credit for...
Weat argument.
The picture in an ad says, this is what our product will do for you.
If you enhance the picture, you're lying about what the product can do.
It's the equivalent of a Ford Taurus ad saying it can do 0 to 60 in 1.7 seconds.
Perhaps. However, the underlying thesis here is that you don't own anything you create; the giant media corporations effectively own it as soon as you publish it.
The power to destroy something is, in the end, the ultimate mark of ownership. And that's what's been claimed here.
... when the power of the corporations far exceeds that of the government? When, in fact, the government has become the tool of the corporations, as opposed to the counterbalance that it is supposed to be.
Sad to see it ending so soon.
... you don't even have to tell it where to take you - Google already knows.
However, if you have great programmers, but saddle them with a really badly implemented waterfall approach, by way of example, you'll also wind up with poor to average software in all likelihood.
Unless your devs manage to overcome the methodology. But you don't want your devs to be battling both the problems of the code and the management approach at the same time, now do you?
Too late when they've blown your speakers or woke your neighbors up.
It would appear that you don't understand agile.
When done right, agile is the formalization of good work habits (realizable short term goals with something to show at the end of each sprint in order to reach the overall long term goal). It also eliminates a lot of overhead time spent in planning that gets thrown away, unnecessary gant charts, etc.
The long and the short of it is that agile saves time by making the process that a good dev would impose upon himself the formal process for the product.
If you think agile means shipping the prototype, or that because you're agile you can just halve the time to ship, you are looking for a magic wand that doesn't exist.
Well, there is a silver lining to all this.
It means that the Chinese are less apt to call in their debt and bring our economy the rest of the way to hell.
It'd be killing their golden goose.
Did you read TFA?
Bingo.
Except for the technologies that China suddenly starts producing without any real R and D into how to produce them...
... to Chinese Gold Farmer.
Most folks are ignorant that this is even an issue; might get the point across to a far wider audience.
No, they're not.
A protest that needs Fox New's Glenn Beck to organize and the Koch brothers to fund in order to get off the ground really isn't the same as a bunch of folks getting so upset about the status quo that they take to the streets.
See also, astroturfing vs grassroots.