Don't you know that you are supposed to be tithing to the FSF and/or Software in the Public Interest? That's right. Ten percent of your pre-tax income. Now just head on over to the FSF or SPI and follow the directions. Not only is it tax deductible, it will help save your computer's soul from the Devil and the resulting torment in eternal Hell!
Sure it is. A person should be directly responsible for their own well being as well as others in their family. Forcing a person to pay for the services used by a total stranger is nothing less than theft. If I want to help people who can't pay by donating funds to charity hospitals, that's my choice. Making it an entitlement and subsidizing poor choices only makes the problem worse and opens the door for systematic fraud.
Sounds like you want everyone else to adjust to the quirks of a few people. No wonder some geeks have gotten the prima donna reps! Businesses will stay open later if it makes economic sense for them to. Unless Ottawa is going to be importing geeks by the trainload, they aren't going to make up that much of the population, so why make businesses to do things that probably won't be in their favor. Likewise, a landlord with rent control has little incentive to improve and try to attract top paying tenants. Many people move into gated comunities because of the restricted covenants. It one way to make sure that they won't have neighbors who have loud all night parties or have several cars on blocks in the front yard (at least if it's against the bylaws and they are enforced). Also, while the school computer labs with high end hardware, transportation systems, bike paths, etc. sound nice, from other posters, it sounds as if the area is already pretty heavily taxed and probably wouldn't want to pay any more. That is unless the implemented a special geek payroll tax where these workers would pay extra for the amenities used to attract the companies.
BTW, why are so many Slashdotters so obsessed with drinking and partying until practically dawn?
The fact that you think your deviant, perverted lifestyle is ok proves that you have been brainwashed. Either that or you're logging in from BizzaroWorld. So a person with high standards and a clean life is a "slug". Hmm... "Slugs" like me didn't turn a beautiful city like San Fran into a cesspool, transport and spread deadly diseases to the N. American continent, rape 13-year old boys to death, etc. Statistically, your life will be much shorter than mine due to the diseases and mental problems associated with your lifesstyle choice. I guess the "slug" will have the last laugh after all.
BTW, the PHBs at the top don't listen much to the code monkeys doing the work or the middle managers in between, so going to them is an even bigger waste of my time.
With the internet, VPNs, and the cost of office space, why don't we see more companies let most of their tech employees telecommute? Then it wouldn't matter much at all where they were located. I can do without the corporate group hugs and pep rallies (ala Steve the Monkeyboy) as well as the commute whether it be driving behind some big ass SUV or having to sit near the mutants on public transportation.
Sounds like the brainwashers did a number one you. I most techies that I know wouldn't give a shit if all the fags got AIDS and died a miserable death. They'd also like to see corporations stop spreading the bullshit about a programmer shortage so they can import "cheap" labor from Asia. I waste more time re-implementing stuff that they totally fuck up. They company would be money ahead if they just had me or any of the other native programmers do it from the beginning.
I'm so fucking sick of all this politically correct horse shit. I can't wait for China to try to nuke the coasts. They would be doing us a favor by getting rid of most of people who want special protections.
Expect to get burned. Did the people in these schools and libraries really think that these grants and giveaways would last forever? The sold out to the Beast and have to pay the price. The following song seems appropriate now. It goes out to all the network admins & guys who create the IT budgets for these institutions, because it's probably how you feel.
Blue Devil
I used to have a nice life
I used to live by the right
But I've strayed from the good side of the Lord
And I flirted with the Devil and he dealt me a card
And he told me that you will never win
And he told me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue
I never thought it could be this bad
Hurtin' like this Oh, it's killin me bad
And now I've stuck in a life of pain
And I got the Devil takin me away
And he told me that you will never win
And he hold me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue.
Imagine an out of work OSS coder who signed up with Microsoft out of despiration:
Blue Devil
I used to have a nice life
I used to live by the right
But I've strayed from the good side of the Lord
And I flirted with the Devil and he dealt me a card
And he told me that you will never win
And he told me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue
I never thought it could be this bad
Hurtin' like this, Oh, it's killin' me bad
And now I've stuck in a life of pain
And I got the Devil takin me away
And he told me that you will never win
And he hold me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't you know that you are supposed to be tithing to the FSF and/or Software in the Public Interest? That's right. Ten percent of your pre-tax income. Now just head on over to the FSF or SPI and follow the directions. Not only is it tax deductible, it will help save your computer's soul from the Devil and the resulting torment in eternal Hell!
Sure it is. A person should be directly responsible for their own well being as well as others in their family. Forcing a person to pay for the services used by a total stranger is nothing less than theft. If I want to help people who can't pay by donating funds to charity hospitals, that's my choice. Making it an entitlement and subsidizing poor choices only makes the problem worse and opens the door for systematic fraud.
Sounds like you want everyone else to adjust to the quirks of a few people. No wonder some geeks have gotten the prima donna reps! Businesses will stay open later if it makes economic sense for them to. Unless Ottawa is going to be importing geeks by the trainload, they aren't going to make up that much of the population, so why make businesses to do things that probably won't be in their favor. Likewise, a landlord with rent control has little incentive to improve and try to attract top paying tenants. Many people move into gated comunities because of the restricted covenants. It one way to make sure that they won't have neighbors who have loud all night parties or have several cars on blocks in the front yard (at least if it's against the bylaws and they are enforced). Also, while the school computer labs with high end hardware, transportation systems, bike paths, etc. sound nice, from other posters, it sounds as if the area is already pretty heavily taxed and probably wouldn't want to pay any more. That is unless the implemented a special geek payroll tax where these workers would pay extra for the amenities used to attract the companies.
BTW, why are so many Slashdotters so obsessed with drinking and partying until practically dawn?
The fact that you think your deviant, perverted lifestyle is ok proves that you have been brainwashed. Either that or you're logging in from BizzaroWorld. So a person with high standards and a clean life is a "slug". Hmm... "Slugs" like me didn't turn a beautiful city like San Fran into a cesspool, transport and spread deadly diseases to the N. American continent, rape 13-year old boys to death, etc. Statistically, your life will be much shorter than mine due to the diseases and mental problems associated with your lifesstyle choice. I guess the "slug" will have the last laugh after all.
BTW, the PHBs at the top don't listen much to the code monkeys doing the work or the middle managers in between, so going to them is an even bigger waste of my time.
With the internet, VPNs, and the cost of office space, why don't we see more companies let most of their tech employees telecommute? Then it wouldn't matter much at all where they were located. I can do without the corporate group hugs and pep rallies (ala Steve the Monkeyboy) as well as the commute whether it be driving behind some big ass SUV or having to sit near the mutants on public transportation.
Sounds like the brainwashers did a number one you. I most techies that I know wouldn't give a shit if all the fags got AIDS and died a miserable death. They'd also like to see corporations stop spreading the bullshit about a programmer shortage so they can import "cheap" labor from Asia. I waste more time re-implementing stuff that they totally fuck up. They company would be money ahead if they just had me or any of the other native programmers do it from the beginning.
I'm so fucking sick of all this politically correct horse shit. I can't wait for China to try to nuke the coasts. They would be doing us a favor by getting rid of most of people who want special protections.
Expect to get burned. Did the people in these schools and libraries really think that these grants and giveaways would last forever? The sold out to the Beast and have to pay the price. The following song seems appropriate now. It goes out to all the network admins & guys who create the IT budgets for these institutions, because it's probably how you feel.
Blue Devil
I used to have a nice life
I used to live by the right
But I've strayed from the good side of the Lord
And I flirted with the Devil and he dealt me a card
And he told me that you will never win
And he told me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue
I never thought it could be this bad
Hurtin' like this Oh, it's killin me bad
And now I've stuck in a life of pain
And I got the Devil takin me away
And he told me that you will never win
And he hold me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue.
- Shelton Hank Williams
Imagine an out of work OSS coder who signed up with Microsoft out of despiration:
Blue DevilI used to have a nice life
I used to live by the right
But I've strayed from the good side of the Lord
And I flirted with the Devil and he dealt me a card
And he told me that you will never win
And he told me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue
I never thought it could be this bad
Hurtin' like this, Oh, it's killin' me bad
And now I've stuck in a life of pain
And I got the Devil takin me away
And he told me that you will never win
And he hold me that I was his only friend
I had nothing to go home to
So I sold my soul to the Devil now I'm blue.
- Shelton Hank Williams