but I like to know what's out there. It helps me have informed conversation with my doctor/provider/whateveryoucallyours. "Hey I heard about X, would that be helpful or appropriate in this situation?" because frankly, no-one looks out for my issues better than me.
OK. That's fine .
But, the real problem here is doctors. Yes, drug advertising creates a big demand for medications that may not be appropriate. But because these medications are only available by prescription, the solution is incredibly simple. When people come in saying "I need Medication X", it's up to the doctors to say "No you don't"
I also wonder whether the knowledge from the music companies is outdated or misleading..
Outdated? Absolutely. Misleading? More like flat out lying. I wouldn't be surprised if the **AA cartel is still using Napster numbers to claim that they are being ruined by piracy.
just a couple big players carving up the geography and colluding not to compete.
Actually, it's government sponsored collusion.
In a very large percentage of cities, the local government awards an exclusive franchise to one $BIG_CABLE_COMPANY. Something in the neighborhood of 20 states have passed laws prohibiting cities from setting up their own broadband networks. A couple of cities have even turned down Google's offer of gigabit fiber because Google didn't want to pay the standard kickbacks to local politicians (aka Franchise Fees).
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
I would love for nuclear power to be more widespread, but the Nuclear Power Industry keeps giving people good reasons to be against nuclear power.
For example, instead of properly maintaining their reactors, they keep asking the NRC for lower standards so existing reactors can continue to operate as is. The companies operating nuclear reactors have a 60 year track record of greed, corruption, dishonesty, massive cost over-runs (passed on to consumers) and general incompetence.
And even without all those problems, cheap natural gas makes it impossible for nuclear power to be competitive.
"This is essential to our survival" said Ramaswamy. "We're talking about getting this in a time frame of months rather than years. We need to get going on this."
And when advertisers do nothing, then what? A sternly worded blog entry?
Advertisers don't give a shit. That's why there's a problem in the first place
In the end, contracts are worthless unless there's the threat of men with guns showing up to physically enforce them.
Has it ever gotten to this point? I'm just thinking if I ran a company and another country wanted to send their goons in to look at my hardware and proprietary data, I'd want to be able to legally tell them to fuck off.
Unless your business is in Shitcrapistan where there are no meaningful courts, Oracle has enough money to sue you no matter where you are located.
Someone analyzed Oracle's financials once. Oracle makes more money from maintenance contracts than all other parts of their business combined. Take out the maintenance contract revenue and Oracle loses money every year.
What a great business model. Sell people shit that doesn't work properly and is too complicated to figure out and then charge them extra to make it work (more or less).
Sledge hammers, axes, picks, power drills, reciprocating saws... All relatively simple tools that accomplish the same thing if you are close enough to stick a thumb drive into a port.
No, you miss the point. You don't need access to anyone's computer.
YOU don't put the thumb dive into someone's computer. You just leave it somewhere and THEY put it into their computer.
The hippies, gays, artists and black people have been replaced by 23-year-old white male Amazon workers who roam the streets in packs, swilling Jagermeister and assaulting any drag queens they spot.
Valve's management is "flat". They have been doing this for years.
Yes they have. And what *REALLY* goes on there is exactly what the OP describes:
some kind of hierarchy always forms. In the end, someone takes the role of "the boss" and people still do what the boss says. When push comes to shove, he'll make a unilateral decision and expect you to go along with it. And he'll also have some people that he likes more than others-- whether for personal or professional reasons-- and those people will be able to tell other people what to do, too. They'll be the de facto middle-management.
So it really becomes an issue of terminology rather than organization. There's no "hierarchy", but some people are more important and influential than others. There are no "managers", but you'll find yourself answering to one or more of those "more influential" people. The change in terminology creates a lot of feel-goodery for the management team, but in the best cases, it's just a hierarchy by another name. Unfortunately, the informality of the hierarchy tends to lead towards cronyism rather than egalitarianism.
We've all had to deal with asshole bosses and it is very tempting to say "Get rid of the bosses and just let people do their jobs without interference". But, you can't have a hundred people just doing whatever they want. Somebody has to be in charge. Somebody has to be the final authority when tough decisions need to be made. Otherwise, you've just got chaos. It may work for s short time, but in the long run, it simply isn't workable.
Anyone who has any real world experience knows that management by committee just doesn't work.
i have little coding knowledge and have no idea how kernel coding collaboration works
but i tend to side with linus
if he verbally abused me i'd first make sure i didn't do something so stupid it warrants such a response (in case you want to say 'nothing warrants verbal abuse', we're adults, not children) before deciding to move away.
And he isn't coming into your home or office and berating you in person.
And that makes a difference... how, exactly?
Because you are apparently too dense to understand the difference between:
- A random person, who you've never met and who is 4000 miles away, calling you an asshole on a mailing list - Your boss, who controls whether or not you continue to be employed, calling you an asshole to your face.
Who got their panties in a bunch because WAAAAAHHHH LINUS SAID MEAN THINGS TO ME ON A MAILING LIST
Yes, Linus Torvalds is a gigantic, flaming dickwad. So what.
He's not your employer. You don't depend on him for your paycheck. And he isn't coming into your home or office and berating you in person. If you're that upset about something that someone wrote on a mailing list, and you have a problem with the basic concept that this is the guy who created Linux and this is how he wants things to work, then you need to GTFO.
Everyone who gets involved in kernel development (male, female or other) finds the whole process utterly brutal and gets the shit kicked out of them at some stage. While not all that nice sometimes it at least does ensure that ideas and code passes the mustard.
I generally try not to be a dickwad. However, I'm not in charge of a major software project. After reading Linus' explanation of why he isn't "nice" I can't say i disagree with him:
The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle", and I mean it.
And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've had that happen too - not telling people clearly enough that I don't like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get really upset when I am then not willing to take their work.
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Next they will be telling us that X-Wing fights can't really bank in space and don't make that "rrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaararrarrr" noise.
Batman is not real. Star Trek is not real. Jeez. It's a fucking movie. What's the deal with these dopes who find "flaws" in fictional events?
but I like to know what's out there. It helps me have informed conversation with my doctor/provider/whateveryoucallyours. "Hey I heard about X, would that be helpful or appropriate in this situation?" because frankly, no-one looks out for my issues better than me.
OK. That's fine .
But, the real problem here is doctors. Yes, drug advertising creates a big demand for medications that may not be appropriate. But because these medications are only available by prescription, the solution is incredibly simple. When people come in saying "I need Medication X", it's up to the doctors to say "No you don't"
I also wonder whether the knowledge from the music companies is outdated or misleading..
Outdated? Absolutely. Misleading? More like flat out lying. I wouldn't be surprised if the **AA cartel is still using Napster numbers to claim that they are being ruined by piracy.
a dn easy way to pirate shit with pretty much no way of getting caught.
You might want to Google Jammie Thomas and see how well that worked out for her.
just a couple big players carving up the geography and colluding not to compete.
Actually, it's government sponsored collusion.
In a very large percentage of cities, the local government awards an exclusive franchise to one $BIG_CABLE_COMPANY.
Something in the neighborhood of 20 states have passed laws prohibiting cities from setting up their own broadband networks.
A couple of cities have even turned down Google's offer of gigabit fiber because Google didn't want to pay the standard kickbacks to local politicians (aka Franchise Fees).
Still unknown is the source of the data being sold online, although signs point to it being recycled.
So, they got the info out of the Recycle Bin?
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
I would love for nuclear power to be more widespread, but the Nuclear Power Industry keeps giving people good reasons to be against nuclear power.
For example, instead of properly maintaining their reactors, they keep asking the NRC for lower standards so existing reactors can continue to operate as is. The companies operating nuclear reactors have a 60 year track record of greed, corruption, dishonesty, massive cost over-runs (passed on to consumers) and general incompetence.
And even without all those problems, cheap natural gas makes it impossible for nuclear power to be competitive.
"This is essential to our survival" said Ramaswamy. "We're talking about getting this in a time frame of months rather than years. We need to get going on this."
And when advertisers do nothing, then what? A sternly worded blog entry?
Advertisers don't give a shit. That's why there's a problem in the first place
>"the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs"
No, it fucking doesn't.
The movie is not a prediction. It's fiction.
Many of things in the movie were intended as humor. Jaws 19 is making fun of the movie industry's pattern of making sequels to shitty movies.
And poking fun at the Cubs. Hey, they're such pathetic losers that 30 years from now they'll FINALLY win a world series.
The unfortunate truth is that once someone experiences the speed and cleanliness of adblocking, they simply won't go back. Not ever.
Once you go block, you never go back.
In the end, contracts are worthless unless there's the threat of men with guns showing up to physically enforce them.
Has it ever gotten to this point? I'm just thinking if I ran a company and another country wanted to send their goons in to look at my hardware and proprietary data, I'd want to be able to legally tell them to fuck off.
Unless your business is in Shitcrapistan where there are no meaningful courts, Oracle has enough money to sue you no matter where you are located.
Which means that companies using Oracle products without any contract at all runs no risk unless someone reveals their use.
And even then they can tell the Oracle guys to sod off.
Nothing stops organizations from having a skunk works area either where only a select few have access or knowledge.
At one time, Oracle wouldn't sell you anything without a maintenance contract. i would be very surprised if they changed that.
Someone analyzed Oracle's financials once. Oracle makes more money from maintenance contracts than all other parts of their business combined. Take out the maintenance contract revenue and Oracle loses money every year.
What a great business model. Sell people shit that doesn't work properly and is too complicated to figure out and then charge them extra to make it work (more or less).
Sledge hammers, axes, picks, power drills, reciprocating saws...
All relatively simple tools that accomplish the same thing if you are close enough to stick a thumb drive into a port.
No, you miss the point. You don't need access to anyone's computer.
YOU don't put the thumb dive into someone's computer. You just leave it somewhere and THEY put it into their computer.
make lots and lots of these
Label each of them with things like TAX DOCUMENTS, ACCOUNT NUMBERS, and definitely lots of them labelled PORN COLLECTION
Drop them in hotels, restaurants, restrooms, subways, bus stops, just leave them all over town
Open a computer repair shop
Profit!!
The hippies, gays, artists and black people have been replaced by 23-year-old white male Amazon workers who roam the streets in packs, swilling Jagermeister and assaulting any drag queens they spot.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
There's more jobs than housing
Because companies like Google, Facebook, etc., insist on locating themselves in an area that can't accommodate the 100,000 employees they've hired.
Valve's management is "flat". They have been doing this for years.
Yes they have. And what *REALLY* goes on there is exactly what the OP describes:
some kind of hierarchy always forms. In the end, someone takes the role of "the boss" and people still do what the boss says. When push comes to shove, he'll make a unilateral decision and expect you to go along with it. And he'll also have some people that he likes more than others-- whether for personal or professional reasons-- and those people will be able to tell other people what to do, too. They'll be the de facto middle-management.
So it really becomes an issue of terminology rather than organization. There's no "hierarchy", but some people are more important and influential than others. There are no "managers", but you'll find yourself answering to one or more of those "more influential" people. The change in terminology creates a lot of feel-goodery for the management team, but in the best cases, it's just a hierarchy by another name. Unfortunately, the informality of the hierarchy tends to lead towards cronyism rather than egalitarianism.
And there's the problem.
We've all had to deal with asshole bosses and it is very tempting to say "Get rid of the bosses and just let people do their jobs without interference". But, you can't have a hundred people just doing whatever they want. Somebody has to be in charge. Somebody has to be the final authority when tough decisions need to be made. Otherwise, you've just got chaos. It may work for s short time, but in the long run, it simply isn't workable.
Anyone who has any real world experience knows that management by committee just doesn't work.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Linus Torvalds is a meanie.
i have little coding knowledge and have no idea how kernel coding collaboration works
but i tend to side with linus
if he verbally abused me i'd first make sure i didn't do something so stupid it warrants such a response (in case you want to say 'nothing warrants verbal abuse', we're adults, not children) before deciding to move away.
Here's an example of Linus ranting on someone:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/...
Yes, it's pretty harsh. But I can't honestly say that what Linus said was wrong.
And he isn't coming into your home or office and berating you in person.
And that makes a difference... how, exactly?
Because you are apparently too dense to understand the difference between:
- A random person, who you've never met and who is 4000 miles away, calling you an asshole on a mailing list
- Your boss, who controls whether or not you continue to be employed, calling you an asshole to your face.
Just another attention-whoring SJW.
Who got their panties in a bunch because WAAAAAHHHH LINUS SAID MEAN THINGS TO ME ON A MAILING LIST
Yes, Linus Torvalds is a gigantic, flaming dickwad. So what.
He's not your employer. You don't depend on him for your paycheck. And he isn't coming into your home or office and berating you in person. If you're that upset about something that someone wrote on a mailing list, and you have a problem with the basic concept that this is the guy who created Linux and this is how he wants things to work, then you need to GTFO.
Everyone who gets involved in kernel development (male, female or other) finds the whole process utterly brutal and gets the shit kicked out of them at some stage. While not all that nice sometimes it at least does ensure that ideas and code passes the mustard.
I generally try not to be a dickwad. However, I'm not in charge of a major software project. After reading Linus' explanation of why he isn't "nice" I can't say i disagree with him:
The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle", and I mean it.
And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've had that happen too - not telling people clearly enough that I don't like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get really upset when I am then not willing to take their work.
Except the link that says "downloadable PHP files" takes you to a PDF.