What the fuck have you ever accomplished in life? No, don't tell me, let me guess: not a goddamn thing...which is why you have so much energy available to hate on those who did and have achieved.
Because Steve Jobs was a design genius. Duh? Or do you think all "geniuses" have to eccentric old men with chalkboards full of math equations and exotic stamp collections?
This is not something even a good boss can really solve for an employee. The fundamental issue, in my mind, is that the people who write, interpret, and enforce the bureaucracy's rules, will get beaten up only if the problem they're trying to prevent actually occurs.
Oh the irony.....
Did it ever occur to you that an actual "good boss" would NOT "beat up" an employee over some arcane failure which wasn't the employee's fault?
No....that's pretty much the exact opposite of what a good leader would do. The behavior you just described is endemic of a failed organization with failed leadership.
Bad organizations and failed leaders blame employees for problems. Good leaders find causes and fix problems.
The big one is that there's essentially no profit motive.
No, their motive is glory and "being somebody", not profit, though spending tax payer dollars freely sure is a nice perk.
In a well-functioning federal agency, all of the staff are encouraged to "do the right thing" for the people they serve, rather than maximize profit.
In a poorly-functioning one--the majority--the incentive is to not rock the boat, to do just enough to get by, and to keep up appearances long enough to retire at taxpayer expense.
Secondly, because it's harder to fire someone from the U.S. federal government than from a U.S. private company, employees may be more willing to report illegal activity, because there may be less fear of effective retribution.
No, time and history have shown that the size and power of the Federal government, and the corresponding high level of corruption and graft, if anything is only likely to encourage people to go right along with it, rather than trying to fight against a large and overwhelming powerful system.
Although my confidence in this has been eroded in recent years by seeing less whistle-blower protection than I would have expected.
As well as other aspects of your theory which don't at all match up to reality, I'm sure...
No, this is fucking bullshit. When I was in basic training in the Air Force, instructors and others whose name appeared on the list of those authorized access were allowed to bring whoever they want in. To say that our dorm had no physical security would be stupid and wrong. Sure, it could be considered a higher level of security if only specific purposes on a white list can get in, but again, that's just another level you could implement.
But if you slip or just lose your presence of mind for a moment, suddenly all that force you applied over a nice slow 1 meter of lifting with your legs is applied much more quickly to your ribcage over a few centimeters.
Good thing I don't slip or "lose my presence of mind for a moment" when I'm moving around loads that are large enough to kill me if I fuck up.
Otherwise I'd have been dead long ago.
Right?
That's why it has to be taken slowly and deliberately and always with a spotter at least.
Spotters are for pussies.
If you need one, by all means, use one!.... Pussy.
Visual Studio is hardly the only development IDE on Windows. Yes, it is good, but you cannot really say that "free desktop software development dead in Windows 8" just because gasp, MS wants you to buy the new version. Hell, they even still offer Visual Studio 2010 for free!
For now.
So if you are crying about this, what about coming up with those open source IDE's?? I understand that they have never matched Visual Studio, but seriously. I even buy good web development IDE's to my OS X, like Coda 2. Stop being a cheap-ass winer and pay for quality tools.
No thanks.
You know what this story actually tells? That even FOSS users don't like their IDE's. They want to use Visual Studio from Microsoft because frankly, it is much better than the open source alternatives.
In other news, Free software advocates like Free software. Shocking!
If Microsoft is so bad then why the hell there isn't better open source versions of these things??
......Because the free Visual Studio was good enough for everyone, up until now?
Are you purposely, or just accidently this stupid?
Then I guess you weren't paying the slightest bit of attention the LAST time Google defied their governmental masters, with the big SOPA/PIPA blackout.
Unfortunately in the end, they are just as evil as the next corporation, and it's back to business as usual (buddying up to their governmental buddies) after the photo-op is over.
.....Only to be completely ignored by everyone, because everyone uses Google and more or less trusts them, and they already know the government is fucking whack to some extent.
Yehs, that's why someone with money and power was just arrested.
No, a fucking idiot mayor of a podunk town was arrested for being a dumb ass. This twit had no real money or power.
You think G.W. Bush would ever get arrested and prosecuted for hacking somebody's web site? No, because #1 he wouldn't see any need to resort to such petty measures, and #2 if he did see a need, he damn sure wouldn't do it himself by typing stupid shit into Google like "html hacking tutorial."
And that's why most countries have institutes where doctors determine what's safe and what's not and also what's legal and what's not. Some drugs alter your mind so much that we think we'd better make them illegal. And some things are innocent enough, or even considered a stimulant, so we allow them.
Cute. Did you learn that in school?
I love how everything fits into neat, precise little categories in your world... too bad the real world is about 1000x more fucked up and crazy than your little bubble.
I would hope that "hardware for our brain" would be treated with the same medical methods as any medicine, food product or beverage.
Because these days the law is pretty much nothing more than someone with a lot of money and power says it is. Especially when one is Google. What do you think would happen if Schmidt said instead loudly and publicly, "No, Federal Government, we're not giving you a god damned thing without a proper warrant, etc....oh, and if you try to force us, well....we just might leave the country or seriously degrade our services here for you and your cronies, in the name of Freedom, Liberty, etc." ?
Do you really think the Federal Government would win that one in any court, let alone the one of public opinion?
Or you could just add a coat of spray-paint, throw some fake blood around, add a few torture instruments, sell some tickets, and have your very own tourist trap.
I'm a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, satellite communications engineer, twice deployed to Afghanistan. I have a high IQ and a lot of skill in various disciplines.
Hell, I'm thinking about migrating too. Dumb shits like yourself are a good part of the reason why.
I hope China invades and subjugates this shithole.
I'm imagining that world... and I just see a whole lot of licenses being signed in a hurry. [...] What? You think anyone is lobbying congress for the rights of the latter group?
What? You think the elites and the bought and paid for government can just keep taxing and squeezing and robbing and holding industry back forever, to an unlimited degree, and the "economy" will just keep chugging right along no matter what? America is such an exceptional country that even if we have to pay a 200% tax rate, we will be #1 in the world no matter what, and go to work smiling each day, proud to be Americans?
The straw that broke the camel's back is coming soon.
I don't think the judge here in this case is going to be the one who's stupid enough to pile it on there though.
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What the fuck have you ever accomplished in life? No, don't tell me, let me guess: not a goddamn thing...which is why you have so much energy available to hate on those who did and have achieved.
The only pond scum is you.
We need more chlorine in the gene pool.
Because Steve Jobs was a design genius. Duh? Or do you think all "geniuses" have to eccentric old men with chalkboards full of math equations and exotic stamp collections?
Yeah? Maybe? Your point is? Every person who achieves success, is sure to fail a few times along the way.
Sorry....I guess it would help if I actually read your comment before replying
This is not something even a good boss can really solve for an employee. The fundamental issue, in my mind, is that the people who write, interpret, and enforce the bureaucracy's rules, will get beaten up only if the problem they're trying to prevent actually occurs.
Oh the irony.....
Did it ever occur to you that an actual "good boss" would NOT "beat up" an employee over some arcane failure which wasn't the employee's fault?
No....that's pretty much the exact opposite of what a good leader would do. The behavior you just described is endemic of a failed organization with failed leadership.
Bad organizations and failed leaders blame employees for problems. Good leaders find causes and fix problems.
The big one is that there's essentially no profit motive.
No, their motive is glory and "being somebody", not profit, though spending tax payer dollars freely sure is a nice perk.
In a well-functioning federal agency, all of the staff are encouraged to "do the right thing" for the people they serve, rather than maximize profit.
In a poorly-functioning one--the majority--the incentive is to not rock the boat, to do just enough to get by, and to keep up appearances long enough to retire at taxpayer expense.
Secondly, because it's harder to fire someone from the U.S. federal government than from a U.S. private company, employees may be more willing to report illegal activity, because there may be less fear of effective retribution.
No, time and history have shown that the size and power of the Federal government, and the corresponding high level of corruption and graft, if anything is only likely to encourage people to go right along with it, rather than trying to fight against a large and overwhelming powerful system.
Although my confidence in this has been eroded in recent years by seeing less whistle-blower protection than I would have expected.
As well as other aspects of your theory which don't at all match up to reality, I'm sure...
As I clicked on the button to read the comments I felt a millions comments screaming out to me from across the internet that were basically that.
That's funny... I didn't.
Maybe it has to do with maturity, or geeks with way too much sex on the mind.
No, this is fucking bullshit. When I was in basic training in the Air Force, instructors and others whose name appeared on the list of those authorized access were allowed to bring whoever they want in. To say that our dorm had no physical security would be stupid and wrong. Sure, it could be considered a higher level of security if only specific purposes on a white list can get in, but again, that's just another level you could implement.
But if you slip or just lose your presence of mind for a moment, suddenly all that force you applied over a nice slow 1 meter of lifting with your legs is applied much more quickly to your ribcage over a few centimeters.
Good thing I don't slip or "lose my presence of mind for a moment" when I'm moving around loads that are large enough to kill me if I fuck up.
Otherwise I'd have been dead long ago.
Right?
That's why it has to be taken slowly and deliberately and always with a spotter at least.
Spotters are for pussies.
If you need one, by all means, use one! .... Pussy.
Give them time
No thanks
Visual Studio is hardly the only development IDE on Windows. Yes, it is good, but you cannot really say that "free desktop software development dead in Windows 8" just because gasp, MS wants you to buy the new version. Hell, they even still offer Visual Studio 2010 for free!
For now.
So if you are crying about this, what about coming up with those open source IDE's?? I understand that they have never matched Visual Studio, but seriously. I even buy good web development IDE's to my OS X, like Coda 2. Stop being a cheap-ass winer and pay for quality tools.
No thanks.
You know what this story actually tells? That even FOSS users don't like their IDE's. They want to use Visual Studio from Microsoft because frankly, it is much better than the open source alternatives.
In other news, Free software advocates like Free software. Shocking!
If Microsoft is so bad then why the hell there isn't better open source versions of these things??
......Because the free Visual Studio was good enough for everyone, up until now?
Are you purposely, or just accidently this stupid?
Then I guess you weren't paying the slightest bit of attention the LAST time Google defied their governmental masters, with the big SOPA/PIPA blackout.
Unfortunately in the end, they are just as evil as the next corporation, and it's back to business as usual (buddying up to their governmental buddies) after the photo-op is over.
.....Only to be completely ignored by everyone, because everyone uses Google and more or less trusts them, and they already know the government is fucking whack to some extent.
Yehs, that's why someone with money and power was just arrested.
No, a fucking idiot mayor of a podunk town was arrested for being a dumb ass. This twit had no real money or power.
You think G.W. Bush would ever get arrested and prosecuted for hacking somebody's web site? No, because #1 he wouldn't see any need to resort to such petty measures, and #2 if he did see a need, he damn sure wouldn't do it himself by typing stupid shit into Google like "html hacking tutorial."
And that's why most countries have institutes where doctors determine what's safe and what's not and also what's legal and what's not. Some drugs alter your mind so much that we think we'd better make them illegal. And some things are innocent enough, or even considered a stimulant, so we allow them.
Cute. Did you learn that in school?
I love how everything fits into neat, precise little categories in your world... too bad the real world is about 1000x more fucked up and crazy than your little bubble.
I would hope that "hardware for our brain" would be treated with the same medical methods as any medicine, food product or beverage.
That's a scary thought indeed.
This is +5 Interesting because it's interesting that someone could be so naive and stupid.
The scary part is that she votes.
That's the actual name of the Act
Dipshit
Because these days the law is pretty much nothing more than someone with a lot of money and power says it is. Especially when one is Google. What do you think would happen if Schmidt said instead loudly and publicly, "No, Federal Government, we're not giving you a god damned thing without a proper warrant, etc....oh, and if you try to force us, well....we just might leave the country or seriously degrade our services here for you and your cronies, in the name of Freedom, Liberty, etc." ?
Do you really think the Federal Government would win that one in any court, let alone the one of public opinion?
Or you could just add a coat of spray-paint, throw some fake blood around, add a few torture instruments, sell some tickets, and have your very own tourist trap.
Literally.
I'm a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, satellite communications engineer, twice deployed to Afghanistan. I have a high IQ and a lot of skill in various disciplines.
Hell, I'm thinking about migrating too. Dumb shits like yourself are a good part of the reason why.
I hope China invades and subjugates this shithole.
Is the DoD expecting WWIII?
Yes.
owned
Meanwhile China, unburdened by any of this nonsense, only grows bigger and stronger.
I'm imagining that world... and I just see a whole lot of licenses being signed in a hurry. [...] What? You think anyone is lobbying congress for the rights of the latter group?
What? You think the elites and the bought and paid for government can just keep taxing and squeezing and robbing and holding industry back forever, to an unlimited degree, and the "economy" will just keep chugging right along no matter what? America is such an exceptional country that even if we have to pay a 200% tax rate, we will be #1 in the world no matter what, and go to work smiling each day, proud to be Americans?
The straw that broke the camel's back is coming soon.
I don't think the judge here in this case is going to be the one who's stupid enough to pile it on there though.
Logic error reading Bullshit_Argument. Abort, retry, fail? _