Huh, the 1994-2002 gap corresponds to when North Korea was in the grip of a severe famine and lack of resources. I wonder if that had anything to do with their sudden willingness to negotiate. Let's not investigate this any further, and give all credit to the Clinton administration that was the author of so many successful international adventures such as Blackhawk Down.
Amazing, they didn't name it after some anime woman with big tits or a character from a movie popular 40 years ago, or Tolkien. Or that they didn't refuse to honor their own culture at all and use a name from some distant culture. I'm sure one of the Chinese scientists wanted to name the landing site after his parrot, but evidently there were adults in charge who overruled him.
Yaknow, the copycatting hasn't changed. In fact, the endless copycats act as a barrier to entry. Why should you go to all the trouble to create a new product and prove a market exists, when all that's going to happen is 100 people open the same company offering the same product?
This is typical "Wired" journalism - seeing what they want to see, and breathlessly reporting it. Western journalists stick to the major cities. Even a trip to somewhere like Hangzhou is treated as a possibly hazardous excursion to the rural countryside. It's no surprise that they think the way they do, they like their own kind of people and do not like being around people who do not use words like "hackerspace" without cringing.
Chinese people have a very derogatory feeling toward startups. Only huge companies can make anything good, or so it goes. Small companies have a reputation of being poor and shoddy, like all the ones you know in your home town. People like Micheal Dell would have been laughed out of the board room and never gotten his first big contract. The environment is very skewed towards people like Bill Gates and Richard Garriot who came from rich families and used that to get started.
Then there are all the governmental barriers. You can't just start a company out of your garage - you need a registered office in the appropriate kind of office space. If you're a tech company, you need to have an address in a tech park, you can't just find wherever is cheapest. Of course, the tech parks all know this and are ready to offer you high prices and poor management. Try finding enough parking spaces for your employees, for example, it's a nightmare. Taxes are a big pain, the government frequently does not even know its own policies. Call the tax bureau two different days, get two different answers. Oh, and by the way, to even open a tech company requires millions in registered startup capital. It's not just getting a DBA and a tax number from your state government like you do for your garage company. It is a very involved process that takes 6-12 months and is full of bureaus who will happily reject your application for cryptic reasons.
I love how you shit all over ordinary people for living ordinary lives. Yes, cowards, they deserve whatever abuse we can dish out. Did you know 50% of all people are below average?
It's more like they were having their hypocrisy and double dealing pointed out repeatedly and got tired of the masses back-talking them. If there's one thing leftists can't stand it's a conversation where other people get to talk. Just slap a label on them (in this case "regressive" was chosen, whatever that means) and boom, instant cause to do what you wanted to do all along.
It IS feminist. They had feminists review the script and make changes. They VOLUNTARILY did this, of their own free will. Scary, isn't it? Even McCarthy didn't do things like this.
It gets funny when you realize that vigilantes are what appears when the government is not doing its job. In this case, the government is apparently not seeing to it that Donald Trump is censored, so these good citizens are stepping up and doing it themselves. Hurrah to them...oh...wait a minute
Uh, that's what SJW means. There isn't any other kind. You don't get to just tell people what words mean, using the definition that benefits your side. (Unless you're English Socialism from "1984" and you long ago exterminated your opposition.) It's a descriptive term, not proscriptive. Sadly, denying free speech to others while taking full advantage of it yourself is a hallmark of the SJW movement. It's like how conservatives favor low taxes or liberals support unions.
Try saying things like supporting the Constitution, rule of law, personal responsibility, or quoting people like Virgil, Thomas Jefferson, or MLK in support of your arguments. You'll find out real fucking fast what everyone is talking about.
Years of having potent arguments answered with "but YOUR side has problems too, LOOK!" and the subject being changed. He simply has given in to the new way of argument and is now surprised that you consider it invalid. Just think of how many "Islamic terrorism is a bad thing and we need to think of how to end it" arguments have been answered with "The Crusades were worse and killed more people so STFU". This has been going on for years and years.
No, it means YOU are the philistine and cannot understand the things the adults are saying.
You don't even know what philistine means, do you? It is the attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect. A philistine person is an individual who is smugly narrow of mind and of conventional morality whose materialistic views and tastes indicate a lack of and indifference to cultural and aesthetic values.
How can you say he is "an asshole without much to say"? Not only does he have far more than you to say, but he is a Professor of Literature AND he can get what he writes heard on The Daily Dot as well as Slashdot. Vladimir Nabokov had a lot to say about you people, and if you think Nabokov is a pervert just because he wrote a famous novel about a man who becomes sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl, you're a philistine too. Your prudish attitudes are the result of being contaminated with bourgeois values.
Now please note that I do not for a minute agree with any of this - but a rather large portion of the world's decision makers think this way. They have nothing but contempt for you and your kind, and your philistine attitude is their justification. If you find Nabokov, Woody Allen, or what Roman Polanski did despicable, you're one of them and your views are not worth listening to. They have simply decided that their own views are correct, and yours are wrong. That argument about your Mom being an English teacher? You'd be laughed out of any independent theater in the world.
Careful - that "individual rights" quote is just dog whistle racism. "Sheep pen" and "cattle" just make it worse. A powerful government doesn't lead to tyranny and dictatorship - that's what late-stage capitalism leads to. You know, what's happening now with Trump. Don't let your identity be associated with those types, adopt the correct line and save your own skin.
Careful, citizen. Quoting Benjamin Franklin has been identified as a common trait of extreme right-wing pro-Constitutional advocates. The correct line is to acknowledge that the government needs these powers to keep us safe from radical anti-government extremists. Citizen, do not make yourself suspicious, or associate with suspicious people. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, or other non-conformists may result in you being placed on a watchlist or no-fly list. War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength!
It's sort of like the Streisand Effect: talking about it just makes the problem worse. Moreover, concentrating on one side and ignoring the other creates a festering culture of resentment at being subject to blatantly unfair treatment. Instead of talking about misogyny (hatred of women), let's spend a day talking about misandry (hatred of men, a term so unfamiliar that in 2016 my spellchecker STILL insists it is not a word).
But no, we ain't gonna do that, eh? Haven't you seen misandristic behavior online? Why do you think that exists? Are you okay with it? If not, what can be done about it? Let's have a day to talk about it. But let's be realistic, that's never going to happen because nerds are fun to bully and they don't fight back. You have to realize how much fun it is for the SJW crowd to spew hatred online. They really enjoy it. I wish I was one, for sure. To spread fear and loathing of The Other with the full approval of your own conscience is a rare and beautiful thing for us humans to experience.
The problem is blaming a bunch of powerless computer nerds. But, since they're nerds, they're easy to bully and it's fun, too. Who doesn't enjoy shoving a nerd's face into the mud, be it literal or figurative (online)?
This is just the "confess! confess!" kind of Spanish inquisition that goes on today in the SJW crowd. They could address real problems, but those are hard. It's much more entertaining to bash people who don't fight back.
Unrelated links that do not in any way address the situation at hand? When someone says, Party A has a problem, calling out Party B doesn't solve Party A's problem. It's still there. Let's read the devastating truth again: "He and his wife had a brand new baby, and the innocent people who they slaughtered had given them a baby shower earlier this year. That new baby is an orphan because the parents decided that slaughtering innocent people was more important than living their very successful lives and raising their child."
Not invented here syndrome. You think software companies are bad about it, just imagine a company that consideres itself 100% creative. This is a big threat to their creatives and they are enacting an immune response.
Perhaps it's time to realize that "those yahoos" are real people with real opinions, and their vote counts just as much as yours. You don't want to live in the same country as them, and buddy I hear ya. Have you considered emigration? I hear France is lovely this time of year. Canada is always a popular choice for Americans fleeing oppression and reactionaries. There are several countries which share your far-left views and where you would be far more comfortable than in incorrigible forever-racist America: Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia. There will be a bit of a lifestyle change, for instance food lines will be a new thing to you, but I'm sure you'll get through. Bon voyage! Come back in 20 years and let us know how it turned out.
It seems you live in an alternate reality where SJWs are on the side of good. They are not. Any movement or political thought that seeks to ban free speech is the enemy of all of civilization.
So why would anyone want to do the boring part of programming? Stay with the fun part, starting projects! Then, when it's 90% done, abandon it and let the next idiot take it over. I've known so many good ideas that were never finished, and the creator not only declines to continue, but angrily rejects the idea that she should be forced to finish what she started.
I've seen this happen so many times, and the key idea here is novelty. Doing something new. It's the short attention span that demands a constant flow of shiny trinkets, each different from the last. It's bizarre seeing that a core idea of the engineering mindset, and programmers as a subset of that is (or was) damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Seeing an idea through to completion no matter what obstacles appear. In fact, overcoming those obstacles and finishing the project, whatever it might be, is (used to be) a great source of pleasure and pride.
Indeed in this very thread I am seeing people who have no conception of finishing projects and are baffled that anyone might want to do anything but the fun part. That's the part that hurts - not that different perspectives exist, but that these diverse perspectives have no intellectual space to recognize that alternate ideas even exist, and regard those who think differently as weirdos.:(
See, you have a mistaken idea. The idea that, once governments get all this money from somewhere, that things will be fixed and demand will be satisfied. This, in fact, never happens.
Perversely, the existence of more money simply creates more demand for more money. Feed the beast, and it just grows bigger. Economics, the dismal science.
Yeah, I was talking to a wealthy acquaintance recently and he says he sees a lot of people like you. Make $700,000 a year, spend $700,000 a year. Paycheck to paycheck. He has a solid business so he'll always be around, but he says that type come and go all the time. Part of his business deals with buying up distressed assets cheap, so he sees them on that end as well. Good luck to you and hope your winning streak continues for the rest of your life. If not, I have a friend willing to give a really bad rate when you need lots of cash, fast.
You mean some sort of theoretical future problem means we have to drop everything, abandon our successful economy, and adopt socialism IMMEDIATELY, without any debate? Yeah, sure.
Just a quick quiz: do you know what socialism thinks about people who don't work? Those who don't work won't eat, either. Socialism is about work, not lazy idlers. You don't believe me, I know, so here's an informative quote from someone who knows socialism much better than you do.
"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we can not use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
-- George Bernard Shaw, communist
Did we even notice that this article is about old, secondhand books? Derp, derp, derp. It's just unsettling to see people so willing to discard the old way of doing things and completely fail to see the problem with the new way, up to the point of harshly criticizing those who decline to change. A short story called "The Right to Read" should hopefully make an impression, though I doubt it.
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Huh, the 1994-2002 gap corresponds to when North Korea was in the grip of a severe famine and lack of resources. I wonder if that had anything to do with their sudden willingness to negotiate. Let's not investigate this any further, and give all credit to the Clinton administration that was the author of so many successful international adventures such as Blackhawk Down.
Amazing, they didn't name it after some anime woman with big tits or a character from a movie popular 40 years ago, or Tolkien. Or that they didn't refuse to honor their own culture at all and use a name from some distant culture. I'm sure one of the Chinese scientists wanted to name the landing site after his parrot, but evidently there were adults in charge who overruled him.
Yaknow, the copycatting hasn't changed. In fact, the endless copycats act as a barrier to entry. Why should you go to all the trouble to create a new product and prove a market exists, when all that's going to happen is 100 people open the same company offering the same product?
This is typical "Wired" journalism - seeing what they want to see, and breathlessly reporting it. Western journalists stick to the major cities. Even a trip to somewhere like Hangzhou is treated as a possibly hazardous excursion to the rural countryside. It's no surprise that they think the way they do, they like their own kind of people and do not like being around people who do not use words like "hackerspace" without cringing.
Chinese people have a very derogatory feeling toward startups. Only huge companies can make anything good, or so it goes. Small companies have a reputation of being poor and shoddy, like all the ones you know in your home town. People like Micheal Dell would have been laughed out of the board room and never gotten his first big contract. The environment is very skewed towards people like Bill Gates and Richard Garriot who came from rich families and used that to get started.
Then there are all the governmental barriers. You can't just start a company out of your garage - you need a registered office in the appropriate kind of office space. If you're a tech company, you need to have an address in a tech park, you can't just find wherever is cheapest. Of course, the tech parks all know this and are ready to offer you high prices and poor management. Try finding enough parking spaces for your employees, for example, it's a nightmare. Taxes are a big pain, the government frequently does not even know its own policies. Call the tax bureau two different days, get two different answers. Oh, and by the way, to even open a tech company requires millions in registered startup capital. It's not just getting a DBA and a tax number from your state government like you do for your garage company. It is a very involved process that takes 6-12 months and is full of bureaus who will happily reject your application for cryptic reasons.
I love how you shit all over ordinary people for living ordinary lives. Yes, cowards, they deserve whatever abuse we can dish out. Did you know 50% of all people are below average?
It's more like they were having their hypocrisy and double dealing pointed out repeatedly and got tired of the masses back-talking them. If there's one thing leftists can't stand it's a conversation where other people get to talk. Just slap a label on them (in this case "regressive" was chosen, whatever that means) and boom, instant cause to do what you wanted to do all along.
It IS feminist. They had feminists review the script and make changes. They VOLUNTARILY did this, of their own free will. Scary, isn't it? Even McCarthy didn't do things like this.
It gets funny when you realize that vigilantes are what appears when the government is not doing its job. In this case, the government is apparently not seeing to it that Donald Trump is censored, so these good citizens are stepping up and doing it themselves. Hurrah to them...oh...wait a minute
Uh, that's what SJW means. There isn't any other kind. You don't get to just tell people what words mean, using the definition that benefits your side. (Unless you're English Socialism from "1984" and you long ago exterminated your opposition.) It's a descriptive term, not proscriptive. Sadly, denying free speech to others while taking full advantage of it yourself is a hallmark of the SJW movement. It's like how conservatives favor low taxes or liberals support unions.
Try saying things like supporting the Constitution, rule of law, personal responsibility, or quoting people like Virgil, Thomas Jefferson, or MLK in support of your arguments. You'll find out real fucking fast what everyone is talking about.
Years of having potent arguments answered with "but YOUR side has problems too, LOOK!" and the subject being changed. He simply has given in to the new way of argument and is now surprised that you consider it invalid. Just think of how many "Islamic terrorism is a bad thing and we need to think of how to end it" arguments have been answered with "The Crusades were worse and killed more people so STFU". This has been going on for years and years.
No, it means YOU are the philistine and cannot understand the things the adults are saying.
You don't even know what philistine means, do you? It is the attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect. A philistine person is an individual who is smugly narrow of mind and of conventional morality whose materialistic views and tastes indicate a lack of and indifference to cultural and aesthetic values.
How can you say he is "an asshole without much to say"? Not only does he have far more than you to say, but he is a Professor of Literature AND he can get what he writes heard on The Daily Dot as well as Slashdot. Vladimir Nabokov had a lot to say about you people, and if you think Nabokov is a pervert just because he wrote a famous novel about a man who becomes sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl, you're a philistine too. Your prudish attitudes are the result of being contaminated with bourgeois values.
Now please note that I do not for a minute agree with any of this - but a rather large portion of the world's decision makers think this way. They have nothing but contempt for you and your kind, and your philistine attitude is their justification. If you find Nabokov, Woody Allen, or what Roman Polanski did despicable, you're one of them and your views are not worth listening to. They have simply decided that their own views are correct, and yours are wrong. That argument about your Mom being an English teacher? You'd be laughed out of any independent theater in the world.
Careful - that "individual rights" quote is just dog whistle racism. "Sheep pen" and "cattle" just make it worse. A powerful government doesn't lead to tyranny and dictatorship - that's what late-stage capitalism leads to. You know, what's happening now with Trump. Don't let your identity be associated with those types, adopt the correct line and save your own skin.
Careful, citizen. Quoting Benjamin Franklin has been identified as a common trait of extreme right-wing pro-Constitutional advocates. The correct line is to acknowledge that the government needs these powers to keep us safe from radical anti-government extremists. Citizen, do not make yourself suspicious, or associate with suspicious people. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, or other non-conformists may result in you being placed on a watchlist or no-fly list. War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength!
It's sort of like the Streisand Effect: talking about it just makes the problem worse. Moreover, concentrating on one side and ignoring the other creates a festering culture of resentment at being subject to blatantly unfair treatment. Instead of talking about misogyny (hatred of women), let's spend a day talking about misandry (hatred of men, a term so unfamiliar that in 2016 my spellchecker STILL insists it is not a word).
But no, we ain't gonna do that, eh? Haven't you seen misandristic behavior online? Why do you think that exists? Are you okay with it? If not, what can be done about it? Let's have a day to talk about it. But let's be realistic, that's never going to happen because nerds are fun to bully and they don't fight back. You have to realize how much fun it is for the SJW crowd to spew hatred online. They really enjoy it. I wish I was one, for sure. To spread fear and loathing of The Other with the full approval of your own conscience is a rare and beautiful thing for us humans to experience.
The problem is blaming a bunch of powerless computer nerds. But, since they're nerds, they're easy to bully and it's fun, too. Who doesn't enjoy shoving a nerd's face into the mud, be it literal or figurative (online)?
This is just the "confess! confess!" kind of Spanish inquisition that goes on today in the SJW crowd. They could address real problems, but those are hard. It's much more entertaining to bash people who don't fight back.
Unrelated links that do not in any way address the situation at hand? When someone says, Party A has a problem, calling out Party B doesn't solve Party A's problem. It's still there. Let's read the devastating truth again: "He and his wife had a brand new baby, and the innocent people who they slaughtered had given them a baby shower earlier this year. That new baby is an orphan because the parents decided that slaughtering innocent people was more important than living their very successful lives and raising their child."
Not invented here syndrome. You think software companies are bad about it, just imagine a company that consideres itself 100% creative. This is a big threat to their creatives and they are enacting an immune response.
Perhaps it's time to realize that "those yahoos" are real people with real opinions, and their vote counts just as much as yours. You don't want to live in the same country as them, and buddy I hear ya. Have you considered emigration? I hear France is lovely this time of year. Canada is always a popular choice for Americans fleeing oppression and reactionaries. There are several countries which share your far-left views and where you would be far more comfortable than in incorrigible forever-racist America: Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia. There will be a bit of a lifestyle change, for instance food lines will be a new thing to you, but I'm sure you'll get through. Bon voyage! Come back in 20 years and let us know how it turned out.
It seems you live in an alternate reality where SJWs are on the side of good. They are not. Any movement or political thought that seeks to ban free speech is the enemy of all of civilization.
Did you even read my comment? Sheesh.
So why would anyone want to do the boring part of programming? Stay with the fun part, starting projects! Then, when it's 90% done, abandon it and let the next idiot take it over. I've known so many good ideas that were never finished, and the creator not only declines to continue, but angrily rejects the idea that she should be forced to finish what she started.
I've seen this happen so many times, and the key idea here is novelty. Doing something new. It's the short attention span that demands a constant flow of shiny trinkets, each different from the last. It's bizarre seeing that a core idea of the engineering mindset, and programmers as a subset of that is (or was) damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Seeing an idea through to completion no matter what obstacles appear. In fact, overcoming those obstacles and finishing the project, whatever it might be, is (used to be) a great source of pleasure and pride.
Indeed in this very thread I am seeing people who have no conception of finishing projects and are baffled that anyone might want to do anything but the fun part. That's the part that hurts - not that different perspectives exist, but that these diverse perspectives have no intellectual space to recognize that alternate ideas even exist, and regard those who think differently as weirdos. :(
See, you have a mistaken idea. The idea that, once governments get all this money from somewhere, that things will be fixed and demand will be satisfied. This, in fact, never happens.
Perversely, the existence of more money simply creates more demand for more money. Feed the beast, and it just grows bigger. Economics, the dismal science.
Yeah, I was talking to a wealthy acquaintance recently and he says he sees a lot of people like you. Make $700,000 a year, spend $700,000 a year. Paycheck to paycheck. He has a solid business so he'll always be around, but he says that type come and go all the time. Part of his business deals with buying up distressed assets cheap, so he sees them on that end as well. Good luck to you and hope your winning streak continues for the rest of your life. If not, I have a friend willing to give a really bad rate when you need lots of cash, fast.
You mean some sort of theoretical future problem means we have to drop everything, abandon our successful economy, and adopt socialism IMMEDIATELY, without any debate? Yeah, sure.
Just a quick quiz: do you know what socialism thinks about people who don't work? Those who don't work won't eat, either. Socialism is about work, not lazy idlers. You don't believe me, I know, so here's an informative quote from someone who knows socialism much better than you do.
Did we even notice that this article is about old, secondhand books? Derp, derp, derp. It's just unsettling to see people so willing to discard the old way of doing things and completely fail to see the problem with the new way, up to the point of harshly criticizing those who decline to change. A short story called "The Right to Read" should hopefully make an impression, though I doubt it.