It's actually kind of amazing Microsoft held together at all, considering how bad their management style is.
Yep. I'm surprised the company survived the decade-long "stack ranking" clusterfuck, which was an egregious, self-inflicted wound perpetrated by clueless management retards.
It just goes to show that inertia in a large company can keep them rolling along, even when the treads are coming off and smoke is pouring from the turret.
The problem I have with "manipulate", particularly in the context you appear to be using it, is that it connotes exactly the same sort of attempt to control what other people think blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. . ..
Yeah, um, whatever.
Let me recap, since you appear to be incapable of bothering to read and comprehend my last few comments: At no time did I suggest that my attorney should do anything other than present the facts in the most persuasive (read: manipulative) way possible to prove my case.
Again, you just have a problem with the word "manipulate", and now you're obsessing over it.
Facts can only turn out to be whatever they actually are.
You misunderstand, either on purpose or for some other reason.
If I throw a ball into a basket, then it's a fact that the ball went into the basket. I was the one who acted to make the ball go in, that is, I controlled the action that led to the "fact" that it ended up in the basket. I was in control of the creation of that factual event, if you will.
In court, I would want my attorney to present this fact using every persuasive means at his disposal to manipulate/convince/sway the court to agree that the ball did, in fact, go into the basket. And there's nothing wrong with that; that's why we hire attorneys.
At no time did I suggest that my attorney should do anything other than present the facts in the most persuasive (read: manipulative) way possible to prove my case.
You just have a problem with the word "manipulate", which seems to be petty and possibly disingenuous.
The mechanical timer broke on my (gas) drier. The part cost $180, for a drier that probably cost $500-$600. The cost for the ABS (computer) module on my 2000 Nissan Frontier was $1.8k.>
I hear you...a replacement brake light assembly with the vehicle avoidance sensor ("Blind Stop Radar") on a Ford F-150 is ~$890 from the dealer.
They won't fix it, they'll only sell you a new one. Fixing it can be done (usually) for ~$100 or so if you know where to get the parts, but Ford sure as hell won't tell you where to get them.
So just on my team, these are the people who came to every single planning meeting about this feature:
Yep. I've worked (as a contractor) at Microsoft, and yes, the meetings are constant, unproductive, and often litle more than dick-waving contests.
I rarely left a meeting feeling like we'd accomplished anything useful. Most of the decisions made were done in such a way so that no one could/would be blamed for anything that happened as a result of the meeting. Half the people there had no input and no stake in the subject at hand, but they had to come so they could "show the flag" and rack up meeting points.
The other thing that Microsoft does (including many of the contracting companies attached to MS) is reporting, reporting, reporting.
I spent ridiculous amounts of time every week detailing what I'd done that week (i.e. "tell the work story") rather than actually DOING anything. This was done to make ourselves visible to the higher-ups who had to justify their existence to their superiors.
So it got to be this reporting-fuckfest done mainly to plump up the work logs to make it appear we were doing something. And we were doing something: we were filling out shitloads of "what I did" reports, which took away from the time we needed to actually accomplish our goals. Fucking insane.
I don't see how a 15 second 5MB clip offers compelling added value over a 300KB still photo.
Because it's movin' pictures, dude, Web 2.0, a rich multimedia experience!
I feel the same way. I hate it when a news "article" has a 10 word summary and a video I'm supposed to watch to get the information. Yahoo is especially bad at this bait and switch.
If it's text I can quickly scan it to pick out the parts I want, but with video I have to clunk along at their dullard pace until they finally decide to tell me what the fuck is going on.
But Republicans and the far-right religious zealots keep telling us that stem cell research is evil and bad and wrong. They couldn't possibly be mistaken, could they??
Just wait until one of these anti-stem cell fucktards needs a stem cell-derived treatment to save his life or that of his child, then you'll see them change their fucking tune. Suddenly it'll be "god's will that led the scientists" to these breakthrough treatments.
I maintain the view that it is wholly unethical to ever wish to manipulate anyone else... for any reason.
There are all sorts of good reasons to manipulate someone, for example to protect the welfare of a child or to prevent harm, fraud, or fatality. You're welcome to whatever worldview you want, but be advised it may (read: WILL) clash with reality.
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You do not control what the facts are
Bullshit. Sometimes I am indeed one that controls or directs the events that result in what the facts turn out to be.
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so you cannot actually control how the facts will convince anyone else of the merits of your case,
That's why smart people hire attorneys to make the court understand the facts so they'll end up ruling in your favor.
Is there any behavior by Microsoft you can't rationalize away?
If Microsoft was found to be running a full-on pedophile/murder ring with the explicit written approval of Satya Nadella, you would find a way to brush it off and minimize it.
Seriously, they could be kidnapping people off the street at random and tossing them into wood chippers and you would chalk it up to "market research" or some shit.
Go back to your White Power clubhouse and fondle yourself while you babble about your brain-damaged conspiracy fantasies and your bullshit versions of history.
Because at no point does an objective presentation of the truth actually manipulate that person's actions... they evaluate the merits of an idea entirely on their own ability
Lol, you've never been to court, have you? You've never been the subject of a lawsuit (the defendant) or filed one yourself (the plaintiff), because no one that had would ever say something as uninformed as this.
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and absolutely nobody should have any power to manipulate what another person decides. Manipulation, as I have said before, suggests taking a specific attempt to control the outcome, where the only person who should ever be in full control of the outcome is the judge.
Let me know what star your planet orbits and I'll make sure to drop by and say hello the next time I'm in the neighborhood.
Lawyers manipulate the court through findings of fact, presentation of evidence, and through testimony, hopefully in pursuit of the truth and a fair outcome. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO, and that's what they're supposed to do.
You may not like the word "manipulate", but whatever word you like, that is what they do.
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In other news, "Let's Encrypt" has changed their name to "Let's Disclose".
Serves people right for using Facebook.
Grovel, you worthless worms, and swear fealty to the Almighty Zuckerberg!
Can you think of any other explanation for Windows 8?
Brain damage? LSD overdoses? A management structure composed mostly of vindictive, clueless clowntards?
It's actually kind of amazing Microsoft held together at all, considering how bad their management style is.
Yep. I'm surprised the company survived the decade-long "stack ranking" clusterfuck, which was an egregious, self-inflicted wound perpetrated by clueless management retards.
It just goes to show that inertia in a large company can keep them rolling along, even when the treads are coming off and smoke is pouring from the turret.
The problem I have with "manipulate", particularly in the context you appear to be using it, is that it connotes exactly the same sort of attempt to control what other people think blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. . . .
Yeah, um, whatever.
Let me recap, since you appear to be incapable of bothering to read and comprehend my last few comments: At no time did I suggest that my attorney should do anything other than present the facts in the most persuasive (read: manipulative) way possible to prove my case.
Again, you just have a problem with the word "manipulate", and now you're obsessing over it.
It's gone.
For a determined party (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc etc) your privacy is merely an inconvenience, and not a terribly burdensome one at that.
You... do... have a backup, ... right?
"Backups? We ain't got no backups. We don' need no backups. I don't have to show you any stinkin' backups!"
Facts can only turn out to be whatever they actually are.
You misunderstand, either on purpose or for some other reason.
If I throw a ball into a basket, then it's a fact that the ball went into the basket. I was the one who acted to make the ball go in, that is, I controlled the action that led to the "fact" that it ended up in the basket. I was in control of the creation of that factual event, if you will.
In court, I would want my attorney to present this fact using every persuasive means at his disposal to manipulate/convince/sway the court to agree that the ball did, in fact, go into the basket. And there's nothing wrong with that; that's why we hire attorneys.
At no time did I suggest that my attorney should do anything other than present the facts in the most persuasive (read: manipulative) way possible to prove my case.
You just have a problem with the word "manipulate", which seems to be petty and possibly disingenuous.
Did anyone read them?
Theoretically the higher-higher managers did, but who knows.
They probably got a stack of these combined reports every week and said, "Not another load of this shit again!" and tossed them in the shredder.
The mechanical timer broke on my (gas) drier. The part cost $180, for a drier that probably cost $500-$600.
The cost for the ABS (computer) module on my 2000 Nissan Frontier was $1.8k.>
I hear you...a replacement brake light assembly with the vehicle avoidance sensor ("Blind Stop Radar") on a Ford F-150 is ~$890 from the dealer.
They won't fix it, they'll only sell you a new one. Fixing it can be done (usually) for ~$100 or so if you know where to get the parts, but Ford sure as hell won't tell you where to get them.
So just on my team, these are the people who came to every single planning meeting about this feature:
Yep. I've worked (as a contractor) at Microsoft, and yes, the meetings are constant, unproductive, and often litle more than dick-waving contests.
I rarely left a meeting feeling like we'd accomplished anything useful. Most of the decisions made were done in such a way so that no one could/would be blamed for anything that happened as a result of the meeting. Half the people there had no input and no stake in the subject at hand, but they had to come so they could "show the flag" and rack up meeting points.
The other thing that Microsoft does (including many of the contracting companies attached to MS) is reporting, reporting, reporting.
I spent ridiculous amounts of time every week detailing what I'd done that week (i.e. "tell the work story") rather than actually DOING anything. This was done to make ourselves visible to the higher-ups who had to justify their existence to their superiors.
So it got to be this reporting-fuckfest done mainly to plump up the work logs to make it appear we were doing something. And we were doing something: we were filling out shitloads of "what I did" reports, which took away from the time we needed to actually accomplish our goals. Fucking insane.
How about just adding back the fucking warning popup that was so fucking effective.
You still get to use macros, just like before.
^^^ THIS.
Seriously, what kind of head injuries do the people at Microsoft have?? This is an enormously STUPID decision made by enormously STUPID people.
Ask technically-savvy people about this and 99.99999% would say, "Don't do this", but the wizards at MS in their infinite wisdom do it anyway?
WTF, Microsoft?? Do you want your users to be fucked over?
I don't see how a 15 second 5MB clip offers compelling added value over a 300KB still photo.
Because it's movin' pictures, dude, Web 2.0, a rich multimedia experience!
I feel the same way. I hate it when a news "article" has a 10 word summary and a video I'm supposed to watch to get the information. Yahoo is especially bad at this bait and switch.
If it's text I can quickly scan it to pick out the parts I want, but with video I have to clunk along at their dullard pace until they finally decide to tell me what the fuck is going on.
How much do you want to bet that these video comments will come with ads? If not right away, then eventually.
Facebook exists to mine your info for ad-related purposes, and this will become just another channel for them to display ads.
"SexyGurl25 left you a video comment! Watch it after this short ad for $product_we_think_you_want."
But Republicans and the far-right religious zealots keep telling us that stem cell research is evil and bad and wrong. They couldn't possibly be mistaken, could they??
Just wait until one of these anti-stem cell fucktards needs a stem cell-derived treatment to save his life or that of his child, then you'll see them change their fucking tune. Suddenly it'll be "god's will that led the scientists" to these breakthrough treatments.
I maintain the view that it is wholly unethical to ever wish to manipulate anyone else... for any reason.
There are all sorts of good reasons to manipulate someone, for example to protect the welfare of a child or to prevent harm, fraud, or fatality. You're welcome to whatever worldview you want, but be advised it may (read: WILL) clash with reality.
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You do not control what the facts are
Bullshit. Sometimes I am indeed one that controls or directs the events that result in what the facts turn out to be.
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so you cannot actually control how the facts will convince anyone else of the merits of your case,
That's why smart people hire attorneys to make the court understand the facts so they'll end up ruling in your favor.
Debug performance telemetry? Yep. Clearly spyware.
Is there any behavior by Microsoft you can't rationalize away?
If Microsoft was found to be running a full-on pedophile/murder ring with the explicit written approval of Satya Nadella, you would find a way to brush it off and minimize it.
Seriously, they could be kidnapping people off the street at random and tossing them into wood chippers and you would chalk it up to "market research" or some shit.
I've joked about "MS Linux" for years, and now it looks like my worst fears have come true.
Thanks....as if I needed another reason NEVER to go to that shit hole of a state named Oklahoma.
Manipulation means to take control of something,
Yes, and I want my attorney to take control of the case and deliver a favorable outcome.
Call it whatever you like, but you're just quibbling about your preferred wording. It's a distinction without a difference.
Go back to your White Power clubhouse and fondle yourself while you babble about your brain-damaged conspiracy fantasies and your bullshit versions of history.
This is every government's wet dream.
Total identity control, penalties for NOT using your real identity.....oh I can hear the jackboots creaming in their pants already.
"Qualcomm's Connected Car Reference Platform To Connect Smart Cars To Everything"
Yes, and by "everything", they mean "ads and hackers". Yippee.
Because at no point does an objective presentation of the truth actually manipulate that person's actions... they evaluate the merits of an idea entirely on their own ability
Lol, you've never been to court, have you? You've never been the subject of a lawsuit (the defendant) or filed one yourself (the plaintiff), because no one that had would ever say something as uninformed as this.
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and absolutely nobody should have any power to manipulate what another person decides. Manipulation, as I have said before, suggests taking a specific attempt to control the outcome, where the only person who should ever be in full control of the outcome is the judge.
Let me know what star your planet orbits and I'll make sure to drop by and say hello the next time I'm in the neighborhood.
Lawyers manipulate the court through findings of fact, presentation of evidence, and through testimony, hopefully in pursuit of the truth and a fair outcome. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO, and that's what they're supposed to do.
You may not like the word "manipulate", but whatever word you like, that is what they do.