Here's some questions for your meritocractic worldview: George W. Bush,heir to an old fortune, does cocaine. So does some poor kid in Dallas. The latter gets caught, and does a minimum 15 year stint due to the mandatory sentencing guidelines that GWB has instituted in Texas. Now, does GWB get to be governor of Texas because he made the right choices?
George W. has never been caught or convicted of drug use. Does your meritocratic world view allow you to slander people with whom you (obviously) disagree?
Here's another. Michael Jackson gets paid more money to endorse a pair of sneakers than entire FACTORIES of women in Asia get paid to make them. Did he work for that money?
Sure he did. He provided a service to a company. MJ has a relatively rare talent, the ability to make companies think that people care what shoes he wears. They are willing to pay a premium for that. Asian women who will work on shoes are literally a dime a dozen.
I grew up poor and paid for my own college (and Grad School). Go fuck yourself and your assumptions. People get what they want out of this world by working for it, not having it handed to them.
You'all need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself what you are doing to make the world a better place to live.
Glad you asked. I'm making as much money as possible and spending it, thus creating additional demand in the economy, stimulating growth, and rasing the standard of living for everyone. When I don't spend I invest so that capital is available for other businesses which wish to expand their businesses by either hiring new workers or purchasing additional products, also creating demand and stimulating growth.
Yeah, I'd hate to use Gumeric to do something useful, like pull current sales data out of an Oracle database, do year to date calculations, figure variances to past years, and graph the results with one button click. Guess I'll have to keep using that technically inferior but will do everything I need it to do Excel.
Boy, you've convinced me. It is definiely more efficient to have people constantly reinventing the wheel, rathen than making a small payment to someone who has already done the work. Thanks for the enlightenment.
This has nothing to do with whether this is a good time for IPOs. This has to do with the fact neither one of those companies is making any money nor has prospects of doing so in the future.
There have been more eradication of individual rights under Klinton over the past 8 years than under any Republican administrations. People harassed, FBI files read, people killed (Waco), censorship bills signed (CDA).
Hopefully George W. will clean up all this crap when he takes over.
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What does it matter if I am indicative of the average IT worker? The point is that anyone can do pretty much anything if they put their mind to it....
Sorry my parser skipped past your qualifier.
Here's some questions for your meritocractic worldview: George W. Bush,heir to an old fortune, does cocaine. So does some poor kid in Dallas. The latter gets caught, and does a minimum 15 year stint due to the mandatory sentencing guidelines that GWB has instituted in Texas. Now, does GWB get to be governor of Texas because he made the right choices?
George W. has never been caught or convicted of drug use. Does your meritocratic world view allow you to slander people with whom you (obviously) disagree?
Here's another. Michael Jackson gets paid more money to endorse a pair of sneakers than entire FACTORIES of women in Asia get paid to make them. Did he work for that money?
Sure he did. He provided a service to a company. MJ has a relatively rare talent, the ability to make companies think that people care what shoes he wears. They are willing to pay a premium for that. Asian women who will work on shoes are literally a dime a dozen.
I grew up poor and paid for my own college (and Grad School). Go fuck yourself and your assumptions. People get what they want out of this world by working for it, not having it handed to them.
You'all need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself what you are doing to make the world a better place to live.
Glad you asked. I'm making as much money as possible and spending it, thus creating additional demand in the economy, stimulating growth, and rasing the standard of living for everyone. When I don't spend I invest so that capital is available for other businesses which wish to expand their businesses by either hiring new workers or purchasing additional products, also creating demand and stimulating growth.
Hey, here is the obvious solution: lets give computers to minorities. After all, giving hand outs to people helped end poverty in this country, right?
If this was intended to be funny, I'd say you failed.
...about that guy holding the gun to his head.
Why don't you come out here, we need some help writing some billing applications. You may find that really stimulating.
Being the fastest ORB in existance is like being the leper with the most fingers.
Yeah, I'd hate to use Gumeric to do something useful, like pull current sales data out of an Oracle database, do year to date calculations, figure variances to past years, and graph the results with one button click. Guess I'll have to keep using that technically inferior but will do everything I need it to do Excel.
When reality and statistics collide, doesn't it make more sense to assume that something must be wrong with the statistics.
Gratuitous MS bashing aside, obviously people are more productive now than say 20 years ago. Its simply a hard thing to measure quantitatively.
Imagine my surprise when my I tried to load my Macro-laden Excel spreadsheet up on Gnumeric and it died.
Actually I was complaining about is arrogance.
...Tom "I know more about Quake3 than ID" , or is that Tom "Everyone else is on the take from 3dfx/Nvidia/etc..."
The guy hardly seems like the poster boy for rational thought.
Boy, you've convinced me. It is definiely more efficient to have people constantly reinventing the wheel, rathen than making a small payment to someone who has already done the work. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Sure he does.
Yeah, I'm sure E*Trade execs are wide awake at night, worrying about this.
I have all my investment money with E*Trade and think they do a great job.
That's funny.. I don't see one mention of the CIA in the constitution.
Guiness and Cider is called a bumblebee. And is damn tasty on a hot summer day.
Heretic! Burn him! Burn him!
One could argue that, but one would be wrong.
This has nothing to do with whether this is a good time for IPOs. This has to do with the fact neither one of those companies is making any money nor has prospects of doing so in the future.
You are deluding yourself.
People who vote for Democrats should be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Yeah, right...
There have been more eradication of individual rights under Klinton over the past 8 years than under any Republican administrations. People harassed, FBI files read, people killed (Waco), censorship bills signed (CDA).
Hopefully George W. will clean up all this crap when he takes over.
Just FYI, Irwin Schiff has served several jail terms for this sort of thing.
Sounds like a good place to test nukes :)