The management responsible for these layoffs don't care that much if they're out of a job. Every C-level manager only has to work 1 year after which they could afford never to have to work a day in their life.
People below that... not so much.
When Carly was CEO at HP, she had a 4 million dollar salary and at some point she gave herself a 16 million dollar bonus for saving lots of money (almost all HP employees waived 1 day's worth of salary at Carly's request just a few month's before she gave herself that bonus).
The current HP CEO on the other hand already has a 16 million dollar salary package. If HP goes tits up tomorrow, she's really not going to lose any sleep over it.
Only during the embargo the estimate was the 500,000 children died in Iraq, because of it. Madeline Albright thought it was totally 'worth it' though. I presume you know how to use Google if you don't believe me, then come back to me and tell me the estimate of 150,000 people killed during a much more violent period is too high.
You're coming up with too many inconvenient facts that take the steam out of his arguments.
Cold fjord is quite likely working in psy-ops and the only reason he puts in his signature is because it's supposed to rile up people, which is convenient to further his cause, while I sure that he's the type of person who would have favoured 'freedom fries' over 'french fries' not too long ago.
If there is no demand for a product, it will not sell.
The fact that there is no product (yet) that will meet a demand, doesn't mean that demand does not exist.
There's a huge demand for VTOL flying cars that are fast, safe, cheap and reliable; unfortunately, there's nobody that can supply to that demand. If someone does come up with a flying car, be sure that person will make a killing, Not because that person 'created' demand, but because there already is a demand that is unfulfilled
After all, we've been conducting a "war on poverty", "war on drugs", and more recently, a "war on terror" for many years without effective results.
What do you mean without result? The divide between rich and poor people is getting bigger every year, drug lords are making humongous amounts of money, because they're selling something that's in high demand, but unregulated and illegal, ensuring very healthy profit margins and for the war on terror, looking at the revelations of torture recently, Al-Qaeda couldn't have done a better marketing campaign themselves, which means more terrorists, which means more profits for arms manufacturers regardless which side they're supplying.
If you look a bit further and or are somewhat more cynical/paranoid, it looks like things are exactly going as planned
Make that hundreds of thousands; check out what Madeline Albright has to say about the estimated 500.000 infant deaths in Iraq. She thinks it was absolutely 'worth it'.
If you can show the person that they have a lot to gain, rather than something to lose, and treat them nice they are far more likely to divulge information
Unfortunately, treating your adversary reasonable doesn't sell weapons in the long run.
If the long term goal is to sell a many weapons as possible, creating as many enemies as possible and aggravating those enemies is the only way to go.
No, he was, by all appearances, genuinely guilty of at least one violent crime
This is rubbish. Usually it's laziness on the part of HR.
You have two candidates; one has a felony conviction, the other does not. Do you really think that the HR person is going to invest hist/her time to find out whether person with the felony was only arrested for eating a hash brownie or robbing a liquor store?
You do realise that with the establisment of BRICS that the US market has become less important as has the US dollar as a reserve currency. This is something that the US govt is fighting hard to prevent.
If that's the case, why isn't there a simlar shit storm about Wayland?
Easy, because:
1) Wayland is truly optional and essentially a drop in replacement for X
2) Wayland is not attempting to take over other functions it's not supposed to be touching
3) Wayland does not do binary logging or make you jump through hoops to actually see what's wrong with your server if it doesn't boot
I really like Wayland, since it is an improvement on X. I hate systemd with a passion (this is after having to put up with systemd zealots like you), because it's a bloated piece of software, with an ever increasing feature creep that destroys the modular architecture of Linux, while not being an improvement over the current systemV init.
If you make it too low, they will be unable to survive. If you make it too high, then even those who have the ability to work may choose not to.
If spare time is abundant, any remaining manual work that can be done will be done, by volunteers if necessary. There is a significant portion of the human population who would choose to work even if not compensated for the work itself.
If all those things could be provided to me without working, I wouldn't work.
Personally I would work even if I had enough money to never have to work again. I would spend my time on projects I would like to work on though, instead of on projects I have to work on.
Those have recently been completely gone. Traveling in public transport can only through a special chipcard that needs to be topped up with money and swiped when entering and leaving the public transport of choice.
Quite inconvenient and for some reason, even if the trip is only 2 Euros, I believe a minimum of 10 Euros needs to be on the card at all times (so for a 2 Euro trip, you need 12 Euro on the card to be able to get on).
Good reason is probably the fact that a lot of people will lose their card at 10 Euro each, that's quick cash (for the transport agency that is).
Yes indeed. If you're a tourist coming to The Netherlands, expect to be severely ripped off when when using a taxi. Not only are the taxi drivers generally obnoxious and sometimes downright hostile, there's no alternative other than the few privileged companies that are allowed to pick up travelers from Schiphol airport.
A 30 minute ride will quickly add up to over 150 Euros and there's no recourse if there is any disagreement
Rent a car if possible or take the train. It's cheaper and saves you a lot of hassle.
You're willfully ignoring the objection that was made here. Now that they've decided to use systemd, in the future Gnome can't be used without it. So regardless of who decided to use systemd, once you use systemd there's no way back and any upstream project is forever bound to systemd.
It has gotten pretty clear that a lot of the hatred for systemd has nothing to do with the technical merits.
Are you actually reading post of people who have objections to systemd or are you just shutting down whenever there is any criticism?
I am very sure that if systemd were an inplace independent replacement for init, that the majority of people objecting currently would be satisfied. The problem is not that there are no technical merits to the objections people have, the problem is that the technical objections fall on deaf ears.
Well I didn't say you were one did I?. That does not detract from the fact that this is a remark that I often hear from Windows admins.
As for 'bigoted idiot', ad hominems and accusing people of making false proclamations on public forums exposes you as bit of an idiot yourself. If required I will testify under threat of perjury that I have heard windows admins proclaim this very thing, so the proclamation is anything but false.
But let that not detract from any smug feelings you might be having and need to express
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Not living in the US myself, but I thought the US government was telling everyone that the US economy was doing great?
Can someone on Slashdot, who's actually living and working in the US, paint a picture without the government propaganda?
There are strip clubs that accept amex?
The management responsible for these layoffs don't care that much if they're out of a job. Every C-level manager only has to work 1 year after which they could afford never to have to work a day in their life.
People below that... not so much.
When Carly was CEO at HP, she had a 4 million dollar salary and at some point she gave herself a 16 million dollar bonus for saving lots of money (almost all HP employees waived 1 day's worth of salary at Carly's request just a few month's before she gave herself that bonus).
The current HP CEO on the other hand already has a 16 million dollar salary package. If HP goes tits up tomorrow, she's really not going to lose any sleep over it.
Don't worry, if you get hacked, the US government will always trace it back to 'North Korea' or 'Cyber ISIL'.
Only during the embargo the estimate was the 500,000 children died in Iraq, because of it. Madeline Albright thought it was totally 'worth it' though. I presume you know how to use Google if you don't believe me, then come back to me and tell me the estimate of 150,000 people killed during a much more violent period is too high.
You're coming up with too many inconvenient facts that take the steam out of his arguments.
Cold fjord is quite likely working in psy-ops and the only reason he puts in his signature is because it's supposed to rile up people, which is convenient to further his cause, while I sure that he's the type of person who would have favoured 'freedom fries' over 'french fries' not too long ago.
If there is no demand for a product, it will not sell.
The fact that there is no product (yet) that will meet a demand, doesn't mean that demand does not exist.
There's a huge demand for VTOL flying cars that are fast, safe, cheap and reliable; unfortunately, there's nobody that can supply to that demand. If someone does come up with a flying car, be sure that person will make a killing, Not because that person 'created' demand, but because there already is a demand that is unfulfilled
Don't worry those extra profits you're generating will pay for someone's 2nd multi million private yacht.
I thought that would be Aztec Challenge on the C64.
After all, we've been conducting a "war on poverty", "war on drugs", and more recently, a "war on terror" for many years without effective results.
What do you mean without result? The divide between rich and poor people is getting bigger every year, drug lords are making humongous amounts of money, because they're selling something that's in high demand, but unregulated and illegal, ensuring very healthy profit margins and for the war on terror, looking at the revelations of torture recently, Al-Qaeda couldn't have done a better marketing campaign themselves, which means more terrorists, which means more profits for arms manufacturers regardless which side they're supplying.
If you look a bit further and or are somewhat more cynical/paranoid, it looks like things are exactly going as planned
tens of thousands indirectly
Make that hundreds of thousands; check out what Madeline Albright has to say about the estimated 500.000 infant deaths in Iraq. She thinks it was absolutely 'worth it'.
If you can show the person that they have a lot to gain, rather than something to lose, and treat them nice they are far more likely to divulge information
Unfortunately, treating your adversary reasonable doesn't sell weapons in the long run.
If the long term goal is to sell a many weapons as possible, creating as many enemies as possible and aggravating those enemies is the only way to go.
No, he was, by all appearances, genuinely guilty of at least one violent crime
This is rubbish. Usually it's laziness on the part of HR.
You have two candidates; one has a felony conviction, the other does not. Do you really think that the HR person is going to invest hist/her time to find out whether person with the felony was only arrested for eating a hash brownie or robbing a liquor store?
You do realise that with the establisment of BRICS that the US market has become less important as has the US dollar as a reserve currency. This is something that the US govt is fighting hard to prevent.
If that's the case, why isn't there a simlar shit storm about Wayland?
Easy, because:
1) Wayland is truly optional and essentially a drop in replacement for X
2) Wayland is not attempting to take over other functions it's not supposed to be touching
3) Wayland does not do binary logging or make you jump through hoops to actually see what's wrong with your server if it doesn't boot
I really like Wayland, since it is an improvement on X. I hate systemd with a passion (this is after having to put up with systemd zealots like you), because it's a bloated piece of software, with an ever increasing feature creep that destroys the modular architecture of Linux, while not being an improvement over the current systemV init.
With some dinners (eg: liver) ketchup is mandatory to kill the gross taste.
If your liver tastes gross, the person preparing it is probably not a very good cook and no amount of ketchup will cover up the taste.
And that seems to be working an analogy as well.
If a dog that's bitten me in the past is adopted by a new owner, I am still not likely to pet it any time in the future.
Then you probably also know that traffic is typically blocked in larger organisations.
Are you for real? Do you even know what a headless server is and why people are using them?
If you make it too low, they will be unable to survive. If you make it too high, then even those who have the ability to work may choose not to.
If spare time is abundant, any remaining manual work that can be done will be done, by volunteers if necessary. There is a significant portion of the human population who would choose to work even if not compensated for the work itself.
If all those things could be provided to me without working, I wouldn't work.
Personally I would work even if I had enough money to never have to work again. I would spend my time on projects I would like to work on though, instead of on projects I have to work on.
Those have recently been completely gone. Traveling in public transport can only through a special chipcard that needs to be topped up with money and swiped when entering and leaving the public transport of choice.
Quite inconvenient and for some reason, even if the trip is only 2 Euros, I believe a minimum of 10 Euros needs to be on the card at all times (so for a 2 Euro trip, you need 12 Euro on the card to be able to get on).
Good reason is probably the fact that a lot of people will lose their card at 10 Euro each, that's quick cash (for the transport agency that is).
Yes indeed. If you're a tourist coming to The Netherlands, expect to be severely ripped off when when using a taxi. Not only are the taxi drivers generally obnoxious and sometimes downright hostile, there's no alternative other than the few privileged companies that are allowed to pick up travelers from Schiphol airport.
A 30 minute ride will quickly add up to over 150 Euros and there's no recourse if there is any disagreement
Rent a car if possible or take the train. It's cheaper and saves you a lot of hassle.
You're willfully ignoring the objection that was made here. Now that they've decided to use systemd, in the future Gnome can't be used without it. So regardless of who decided to use systemd, once you use systemd there's no way back and any upstream project is forever bound to systemd.
It has gotten pretty clear that a lot of the hatred for systemd has nothing to do with the technical merits.
Are you actually reading post of people who have objections to systemd or are you just shutting down whenever there is any criticism?
I am very sure that if systemd were an inplace independent replacement for init, that the majority of people objecting currently would be satisfied. The problem is not that there are no technical merits to the objections people have, the problem is that the technical objections fall on deaf ears.
Well I didn't say you were one did I?. That does not detract from the fact that this is a remark that I often hear from Windows admins.
As for 'bigoted idiot', ad hominems and accusing people of making false proclamations on public forums exposes you as bit of an idiot yourself. If required I will testify under threat of perjury that I have heard windows admins proclaim this very thing, so the proclamation is anything but false.
But let that not detract from any smug feelings you might be having and need to express
And it's Unix btw, not Linux.