The irony of the False Darwin philosophy is that if it were actually true, you wouldn't be able to step outdoors without being attacked by razor-fanged rabbits and acid-spitting butterflies.
Unions can actually alleviate tension, by coordinating disputes.
Without it, people just whinge all the time and do no work.
If you're lucky. Get a bunch of dissatisfied workers together and you can end up with violent revolution.
Get this clear: No one owes business anything. The 21st Century business model is almost entirely money-driven to the point that a lot of business is no longer as much about providing goods and services as it is about trading bits and pieces of itself back and forth so that a small number of people can profit off the trading, even if it's at the expense of profitability, long-term viability or of keeping people employed.
The world was not created solely to support an economy. An economy exists to provide for people, and when it fails the people, they can and will do extreme things that will ruin your business a lot faster than any relative levels of competitiveness. So yes, your business does owe people a living, at least until some alternative form of income becomes the standard.
As Islamic fundamentalism spreads through Africa...
Long-term, fundamentalism fails. Remember how the Christian Church used to be?
Destructive movements run counter to humanity's natural desires for comfort, safety and security. There's a reason why the most virulent movements spawn in the most backwards areas, where comfort, safety and security are at their lowest. And why they spend so much effort attempting to attack people who have moved on, trying to destroy their sense of security so that they, too will revert to barbarism.
But comfort is a corrosive influence, and in the end, such campaigns always fail. It doesn't happen quickly, but it happens.
And the sad thing about it is that the 9/11 hijackers were people who'd entered the country legally and would have been have been detected had the 1970's level air security laws actually been enforced.
Instead of correcting that, however, we got new laws and new restrictions on travel and association with those who travel and a much more intrusive screening process that notoriously doesn't catch people with ill intent, so thank goodness for alert passengers!
... then basically converts religions within minutes of meeting Obiwan. Not just converts, but becomes a zealot, scolding Han about not believing in the force literally like half an hour after he first hears of the concept
A text summary you could read in 30 seconds would not work, and it would actually hurt us if it did.
So does the video only run 30 seconds? And is it faster to rewind and repeat to digest the hard parts that it would be to re-read a document? And what about annoying co-workers by playing something with audio on it while they're trying to work? We don't all have headsets at work.
Also, while I'm not a big fan in general of "simple" explanations, there's a limit on how complicated an explanation should be when applied as a blanket statement.
Oh yes. One of the worst things that browsers did was virtually destroy the ability to use shortcut keys to do useful work instead of having to grab mouse and irritate carpal tunnels. All the shortcut keys now either do nothing or control the browser, not the app in the browser.
Plus far too many webpage authors don't leverage what few amenities we could have. For example, how many form-based pages have you visited where there's a preselected input where you can start typing instantly instead of grab-mouse-and-click before you start typing?
And don't even get me started on the drag-resized panes where the "drag grab" area is so small that you have to have machine-like motor skills to be able to mouse over it, click down, and drag without losing the whole operation.
But when it comes to gratuitous and annoying auto-playing audio-visuals, we're great!
I already have a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable. It allowed the HTC Evo phone to plug into a TV directly without needing a 2-part (adapter/cable) solution.
What I don't have laying about is a micro USB-to-USB adapter that I could use to jack in a keyboard or network connection (I often use the Pi via SSH). Other than that, I'm good.
Wasn't that supposed to be the way things worked in the Old West? Funny, you'd think that if that had been such an effective technique, it would have spread, instead of being fairly uncommon even in places where going open-carry was once supposed to be the norm.
I'll let others debate the wisdom of adding even more ammunition ricocheting about, but what I find more interesting is that supposedly the entire nation of Germany (not exactly known for being "faint-hearted") fires off less police ammunition in an entire year than a single SWAT raid in Atlanta uses.
The USA believes that guns are magic and can solve all problems. Don't like being told you can't smoke in a diner? Stand Your Ground and shoot the employees! Laid off? Go back and klll them all! Don't like Planned Parenthood? Exterminate! Rejected for a date? Blow away your school!
I really don't care if gun ownership is restricted or not in the abstract. My house is chock-full of things that can kill people. Heck, I have cabinets full of bottles with more than 3 ounces each in them! Whether you have a gun or not is less important than how responsibly you use it. If certain people can be reliably be determined to be prone to irresponsible use of guns - or for that matter, for anything, then it's not unreasonable for the rest of us to want to limit their access.
Something needs to be done, and I doubt that simply passing laws is going to solve it. We've gotten to the point where mass shootings are like Windows Virus alerts - so common that people have begun to give up even taking notice. Ho-hum, here we go again.
It's far cheaper to get 90% for not a lot, and fix the bugs.
Not if you have an entirely different person assigned to fixing the bugs.
I once knew someone who claimed that whenever an employee left his/her programs would end up being totally rewritten by the next person. Because it was easier to start from scratch than to deal with someone else's coding quirks.
Enough. I'd as soon wrassle with a pig or argue systemd.
I don't "go to" Stack Overflow these days, it comes up on Google searches when I have specific problems to solve or research to do. As a research tool, like I said, it sucks.
I don't expect to just randomly land on the site and be put off. For specific answers, often - but not always - I get usable results. What puts me off in many cases, however, it how much of the conversation is done in the exact same tone of voice you're using. It's purely defensive and does nothing to improve things.
And, in response to Dog-Cow, I'm NOT the question author. If I don't get my answer there, my research skills are good enough to look up elsewhere. It's just that if I see a question on Stack Overflow and I chase the link, I get peeved when the link proves to be nothing but a question with justifications as to why it isn't worth answering and thus I've wasted my time.
I know better places to go when you want to learn the underlying reasons
Such as?
I could name URLs, but I would be accused of being self-serving because I'm heavily involved with them. All I can say is that the reason I'm heavily involved with them is precisely because I found them to be better places to go. Also because they're older than Stackoverflow and I was using them first, but Stackoverflow wasn't enough better for my purposes to make it worth switching.
a lot of Stackoverflow questions have been marked as "too stupid"
I have never seen a question on Stackoverflow dismissed like that, even when the questions were actually stupid. Can you provide a link to an example of a reasonable question that was dismissed as "too stupid" and not given a serious answer?
I'm afraid I haven't been taking notes. It just happens often enough to annoy me, but - thankfully - not often enough to completely give up on Stackoverflow when I need a quick answer. Almost never is the answer literally "too stupid", but there are about a half a dozen stock rejections that amount to basically the same level of dismissal. And there are more instances where I can count where the answer is something like "This question has already been discussed at (some other question)" where the "some other question" turns out to be sufficiently different that none of the answers apply to the question that was so dismissed. That particular characteristic is one that makes me scream.
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The irony of the False Darwin philosophy is that if it were actually true, you wouldn't be able to step outdoors without being attacked by razor-fanged rabbits and acid-spitting butterflies.
Unions can actually alleviate tension, by coordinating disputes.
Without it, people just whinge all the time and do no work.
If you're lucky. Get a bunch of dissatisfied workers together and you can end up with violent revolution.
Get this clear: No one owes business anything. The 21st Century business model is almost entirely money-driven to the point that a lot of business is no longer as much about providing goods and services as it is about trading bits and pieces of itself back and forth so that a small number of people can profit off the trading, even if it's at the expense of profitability, long-term viability or of keeping people employed.
The world was not created solely to support an economy. An economy exists to provide for people, and when it fails the people, they can and will do extreme things that will ruin your business a lot faster than any relative levels of competitiveness. So yes, your business does owe people a living, at least until some alternative form of income becomes the standard.
My car's the same age as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
But does it crash as often?
As Islamic fundamentalism spreads through Africa...
Long-term, fundamentalism fails. Remember how the Christian Church used to be?
Destructive movements run counter to humanity's natural desires for comfort, safety and security. There's a reason why the most virulent movements spawn in the most backwards areas, where comfort, safety and security are at their lowest. And why they spend so much effort attempting to attack people who have moved on, trying to destroy their sense of security so that they, too will revert to barbarism.
But comfort is a corrosive influence, and in the end, such campaigns always fail. It doesn't happen quickly, but it happens.
Melt all the sand into glass for the solar panels!
Wait, if the Chinese are doing it, doesn't that mean that it's an evil commie tactic that no God-fearing American would ever even suggest using?
Not if they sell them in Wal-Mart.
And the sad thing about it is that the 9/11 hijackers were people who'd entered the country legally and would have been have been detected had the 1970's level air security laws actually been enforced.
Instead of correcting that, however, we got new laws and new restrictions on travel and association with those who travel and a much more intrusive screening process that notoriously doesn't catch people with ill intent, so thank goodness for alert passengers!
The CIA found a "work around" for restrictions on torture.
... then basically converts religions within minutes of meeting Obiwan. Not just converts, but becomes a zealot, scolding Han about not believing in the force literally like half an hour after he first hears of the concept
Soooo. Typical teenager, eh?
That won't help. Some of the most ardent Trump supporters I know have IQs well over 100.
I'm sorry. Null-A logic was discarded in America in the 1980's. Since then it's got to be either all or nothing.
Ah, a member of the Gnome 3 team speaks out!
A text summary you could read in 30 seconds would not work, and it would actually hurt us if it did.
So does the video only run 30 seconds? And is it faster to rewind and repeat to digest the hard parts that it would be to re-read a document? And what about annoying co-workers by playing something with audio on it while they're trying to work? We don't all have headsets at work.
Also, while I'm not a big fan in general of "simple" explanations, there's a limit on how complicated an explanation should be when applied as a blanket statement.
You know it's bad when you have a suggestion for deletion of a freedom and it gets condemned by Dick Cheney!
But she got rid of all those unproductive work-at-home employees! Surely that would have turned them around!
I can. I do. But thanks to the greediness of the browser, the choices are limited.
I know one of the founders of a software house that started up to provide a vertical application and hired 6 programmers to do the work.
One of the directors reportedly asked "What are we going to do with these expensive programmers, once all the programs have been written?"*
Last I checked, they probably had 500 programmers working for them and were making money hand over fist.
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* You can tell that this was a long time ago. These days we know what you do with "inconvenient" employees. At the drop of a hat.
We devolved from the desktop days.
Oh yes. One of the worst things that browsers did was virtually destroy the ability to use shortcut keys to do useful work instead of having to grab mouse and irritate carpal tunnels. All the shortcut keys now either do nothing or control the browser, not the app in the browser.
Plus far too many webpage authors don't leverage what few amenities we could have. For example, how many form-based pages have you visited where there's a preselected input where you can start typing instantly instead of grab-mouse-and-click before you start typing?
And don't even get me started on the drag-resized panes where the "drag grab" area is so small that you have to have machine-like motor skills to be able to mouse over it, click down, and drag without losing the whole operation.
But when it comes to gratuitous and annoying auto-playing audio-visuals, we're great!
I already have a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable. It allowed the HTC Evo phone to plug into a TV directly without needing a 2-part (adapter/cable) solution.
What I don't have laying about is a micro USB-to-USB adapter that I could use to jack in a keyboard or network connection (I often use the Pi via SSH). Other than that, I'm good.
Wasn't that supposed to be the way things worked in the Old West? Funny, you'd think that if that had been such an effective technique, it would have spread, instead of being fairly uncommon even in places where going open-carry was once supposed to be the norm.
I'll let others debate the wisdom of adding even more ammunition ricocheting about, but what I find more interesting is that supposedly the entire nation of Germany (not exactly known for being "faint-hearted") fires off less police ammunition in an entire year than a single SWAT raid in Atlanta uses.
The USA believes that guns are magic and can solve all problems. Don't like being told you can't smoke in a diner? Stand Your Ground and shoot the employees! Laid off? Go back and klll them all! Don't like Planned Parenthood? Exterminate! Rejected for a date? Blow away your school!
I really don't care if gun ownership is restricted or not in the abstract. My house is chock-full of things that can kill people. Heck, I have cabinets full of bottles with more than 3 ounces each in them! Whether you have a gun or not is less important than how responsibly you use it. If certain people can be reliably be determined to be prone to irresponsible use of guns - or for that matter, for anything, then it's not unreasonable for the rest of us to want to limit their access.
Something needs to be done, and I doubt that simply passing laws is going to solve it. We've gotten to the point where mass shootings are like Windows Virus alerts - so common that people have begun to give up even taking notice. Ho-hum, here we go again.
It's far cheaper to get 90% for not a lot, and fix the bugs.
Not if you have an entirely different person assigned to fixing the bugs.
I once knew someone who claimed that whenever an employee left his/her programs would end up being totally rewritten by the next person. Because it was easier to start from scratch than to deal with someone else's coding quirks.
Ah. You mean like this country neighbor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Enough. I'd as soon wrassle with a pig or argue systemd.
I don't "go to" Stack Overflow these days, it comes up on Google searches when I have specific problems to solve or research to do. As a research tool, like I said, it sucks.
I don't expect to just randomly land on the site and be put off. For specific answers, often - but not always - I get usable results. What puts me off in many cases, however, it how much of the conversation is done in the exact same tone of voice you're using. It's purely defensive and does nothing to improve things.
And, in response to Dog-Cow, I'm NOT the question author. If I don't get my answer there, my research skills are good enough to look up elsewhere. It's just that if I see a question on Stack Overflow and I chase the link, I get peeved when the link proves to be nothing but a question with justifications as to why it isn't worth answering and thus I've wasted my time.
I know better places to go when you want to learn the underlying reasons
Such as?
I could name URLs, but I would be accused of being self-serving because I'm heavily involved with them. All I can say is that the reason I'm heavily involved with them is precisely because I found them to be better places to go. Also because they're older than Stackoverflow and I was using them first, but Stackoverflow wasn't enough better for my purposes to make it worth switching.
a lot of Stackoverflow questions have been marked as "too stupid"
I have never seen a question on Stackoverflow dismissed like that, even when the questions were actually stupid. Can you provide a link to an example of a reasonable question that was dismissed as "too stupid" and not given a serious answer?
I'm afraid I haven't been taking notes. It just happens often enough to annoy me, but - thankfully - not often enough to completely give up on Stackoverflow when I need a quick answer. Almost never is the answer literally "too stupid", but there are about a half a dozen stock rejections that amount to basically the same level of dismissal. And there are more instances where I can count where the answer is something like "This question has already been discussed at (some other question)" where the "some other question" turns out to be sufficiently different that none of the answers apply to the question that was so dismissed. That particular characteristic is one that makes me scream.