Do mice breed cats? It's not progress to increase the number of people that can take your job, it's suicide. I don't give a fuck about the market, I'm not in sales. I'm not going to give anyone any rope to hang me with.
I'm more than happy to make less money than the company's founder if it means there's zero chance i could lose my life's savings if business dries up. In general, I agree, but I hope to own my own business someday. It won't be anything in the tech industry, though.
As an employee, though, you find that the corporation continues to take from you and doesn't return your contribution back in proportion. I offer 30% of my life to my employer. They do not recognize this. Eventually your time grows to be worth more than what they're willing to pay you.
I don't claim that I'm not selfish. Sure, I'm selfish. This is business. My selfishness produces benefits only to me, but it doesn't hurt anybody else in the process. The Indian who would be doing my job will get a better job eventually, if their economy is growing like it's claimed. I'm under no obligation to help him do that, though, because he is the competition.
The corporate execs' selfishness benefits themselves, too. The difference between me and them is that they're in a position where their selfishness harms potentially hundreds of thousands of their own countrymen. They don't stop to think about that. If I were the CEO of a global corp, you can bet that I would give a great deal of thought to the effect that overseas outsourcing would have on my home.
The very fact that I would think about that will keep me from ever being a CEO, though. Execs can't have consciences.
That's right, I don't want to be equalized. Why should I care about an Indian programmer that's willing to work for 1/3rd what I am? I don't go to work with the goal of benefitting anyone but myself. I benefit my company, but they pay me, so they earned it.
It's not racial bigotry; all the Indian folks I've met have been pleasant, engaging people. But sorry, when it comes down to business, I have to take care of my own, and if that means an Indian stays in a slum in Bombay, well, sorry. If you keep me from being able to take care of my financial obligations, you're the enemy.
I'm not doing anything for them, because it's not my fucking job to prop up Indians or Romanians. It's my job to prop myself up. If I have to do it for myself, they have to. If they don't want to, they suffer the consequences. That's how social Darwinism works in my world.
You confuse corporations with charities. Corporations are not benevolent. They use what they can to increase the stock price and then dump it when it has no further use to them. The increase in standard of living is a side effect, not a goal, of globalization. The goal is to make the golden parachute worth something so that when the CEO makes his/her first mistake and gets shitcanned he'll still be able to keep the payments up on his house and Benzes. If they bring some Indians out of the slums, it's good PR and nothing more to the corp.
bullshit, Gekko-boy. it just proves that people get desperate and will indenture themselves for lower wages. What happens is that wages hit rock bottom and then companies move there. The wages might be higher than they were the last time they hit rock bottom, but that's just inflation at work.
The only people getting richer are the board.
Stop worshipping at the scrotums of businessmen and get a clue. Business is out to fuck you and they will fuck you.
if teacher participation and feedback isn't important, why have teachers?
I learn much better when I sit down with something and work on it alone. Teachers almost always end up confusing me. The only thing they're good for is motivation in my learning style.
Likewise for me. I'm getting married in the fall and while my fiancee' won't be winning Miss America any time soon, she has more substance and personality than every contestant in the history of the pageant has had combined.
The body always goes to hell anyway, so if you're going to be picky about looks you should be picky about facial features, which tend to hold up well (they just get wrinkled)
It never ceases to amaze me how nit-picky geek guys are about women.
I knew a guy once that looked like Beavis. I'm not kidding. The guy was the spitting image of Beavis, down to the hair, oversize head, and everything. He'd never had a girlfriend in his life. Various women would show interest in him (never mind how desperate they must have been), but he rejected them, because they weren't supermodel-caliber in the facial appearance and body departments.
Who the hell was this Beavis to care? But he did. And as far as I know he's still never had a girlfriend.
I'm not insane and I have the papers to prove it:)
I think this current administration is quite capable of systematically persecuting atheists in a "roundup" scenario, and I believe that they would love to. The only thing that keeps them from it is the fact that most people in the country are more tolerant than they are, and they would lose too many votes by "rounding up" and brainwashing/executing/imprisoning non-Christians.
Ashcroft is entitled to his religious views, but I'm also entitled to think people that are that uptight are insane idiots.
Besides, the statue is government property, and thus, at least on paper, owned by the people of the USA and subject to the Constitution. If it offends his morals, tough shit.
The Bureau of Religious Conformity is called the Supreme Court, if you haven't heard. The justices appointed by republicans don't vote with the law, they vote with their bibles. God himself votes republican, at least, that's what every preacher in the USA would have you think.
Same way with some drug paraphenelia You can have a bong or a glass pipe, as long as there are no drugs around, too. With both, the paraphenelia charge gets tacked on.
If you actually don't believe there is any sort of God, why do you care if other people do?
The same reason Jews cared about the Spanish Inquisition, and Christians cared about Muslim invaders. The ruling class will attempt to force its religion on all its subjects. The severity of the ruling class's reaction to refusal to believe is completely unpredictable, and in the case of the USA, becoming more severe every day. Our ATTORNEY GENERAL is so goddamn puritan that he couldn't stand to be pictured with a fucking STATUE of a woman with a naked breast. Yes, he's an idiot, but he could roll out the FBI and get all atheists arrested and systematically destroyed if he wanted.
THAT is why we care about other people believing in God - because they care about us NOT believing in it.
I've heard some conspiracy nuts say that the Apollo program was the first deployment of SDI. While the two guys were walking around on the surface, distracting everyone, the command module was dropping off satellites and weapons.
I love conspiracy theories.
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if the comms weren't time-sensitive, why replace the written messages at all?
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I see you know my top 40 hit. For my next number I will play the classic "Feelings"
1) There's no pride in using someone else's code.
2) GPL'd code can't be used in commercial apps (blah blah, technicalities, yeah yeah, just try to get it past your boss)
3) If you're paid by the hour, what's the rush?
Do mice breed cats? It's not progress to increase the number of people that can take your job, it's suicide. I don't give a fuck about the market, I'm not in sales. I'm not going to give anyone any rope to hang me with.
I'm more than happy to make less money than the company's founder if it means there's zero chance i could lose my life's savings if business dries up.
In general, I agree, but I hope to own my own business someday. It won't be anything in the tech industry, though.
As an employee, though, you find that the corporation continues to take from you and doesn't return your contribution back in proportion. I offer 30% of my life to my employer. They do not recognize this. Eventually your time grows to be worth more than what they're willing to pay you.
I don't claim that I'm not selfish. Sure, I'm selfish. This is business. My selfishness produces benefits only to me, but it doesn't hurt anybody else in the process. The Indian who would be doing my job will get a better job eventually, if their economy is growing like it's claimed. I'm under no obligation to help him do that, though, because he is the competition.
The corporate execs' selfishness benefits themselves, too. The difference between me and them is that they're in a position where their selfishness harms potentially hundreds of thousands of their own countrymen. They don't stop to think about that. If I were the CEO of a global corp, you can bet that I would give a great deal of thought to the effect that overseas outsourcing would have on my home.
The very fact that I would think about that will keep me from ever being a CEO, though. Execs can't have consciences.
That's right, I don't want to be equalized. Why should I care about an Indian programmer that's willing to work for 1/3rd what I am? I don't go to work with the goal of benefitting anyone but myself. I benefit my company, but they pay me, so they earned it.
It's not racial bigotry; all the Indian folks I've met have been pleasant, engaging people. But sorry, when it comes down to business, I have to take care of my own, and if that means an Indian stays in a slum in Bombay, well, sorry. If you keep me from being able to take care of my financial obligations, you're the enemy.
I'm not doing anything for them, because it's not my fucking job to prop up Indians or Romanians. It's my job to prop myself up. If I have to do it for myself, they have to. If they don't want to, they suffer the consequences. That's how social Darwinism works in my world.
You confuse corporations with charities. Corporations are not benevolent. They use what they can to increase the stock price and then dump it when it has no further use to them. The increase in standard of living is a side effect, not a goal, of globalization. The goal is to make the golden parachute worth something so that when the CEO makes his/her first mistake and gets shitcanned he'll still be able to keep the payments up on his house and Benzes. If they bring some Indians out of the slums, it's good PR and nothing more to the corp.
No, you need to find a high-paying occupation that by its nature cannot be outsourced to foreign countries.
This is why so many intelligent Americans end up being lawyers.
You proved my point about screwing your fellow Americans.
However, it is true that one doesn't need a business of one's one to screw people.
bullshit, Gekko-boy. it just proves that people get desperate and will indenture themselves for lower wages. What happens is that wages hit rock bottom and then companies move there. The wages might be higher than they were the last time they hit rock bottom, but that's just inflation at work.
The only people getting richer are the board.
Stop worshipping at the scrotums of businessmen and get a clue. Business is out to fuck you and they will fuck you.
Yup. About the only way to win is to own your own business and screw your fellow Americans. We live in a society built around sociopathic greed.
he probably just wanted to be able to brag to his buddies at work. "My kid's got a COMPUTER and PROGRAMS it, what does yours do?"
if teacher participation and feedback isn't important, why have teachers?
I learn much better when I sit down with something and work on it alone. Teachers almost always end up confusing me. The only thing they're good for is motivation in my learning style.
Rush Mountmore.
don't ply me with your seamless attempts to buttress the material.
this thread is tired and needs to dye.
then watch my pants.
my record was 126 average strokes per minute.
Wow! Mine is 4 in an hour!
Likewise for me. I'm getting married in the fall and while my fiancee' won't be winning Miss America any time soon, she has more substance and personality than every contestant in the history of the pageant has had combined.
The body always goes to hell anyway, so if you're going to be picky about looks you should be picky about facial features, which tend to hold up well (they just get wrinkled)
It never ceases to amaze me how nit-picky geek guys are about women.
I knew a guy once that looked like Beavis. I'm not kidding. The guy was the spitting image of Beavis, down to the hair, oversize head, and everything. He'd never had a girlfriend in his life. Various women would show interest in him (never mind how desperate they must have been), but he rejected them, because they weren't supermodel-caliber in the facial appearance and body departments.
Who the hell was this Beavis to care? But he did. And as far as I know he's still never had a girlfriend.
I'm not insane and I have the papers to prove it :)
I think this current administration is quite capable of systematically persecuting atheists in a "roundup" scenario, and I believe that they would love to. The only thing that keeps them from it is the fact that most people in the country are more tolerant than they are, and they would lose too many votes by "rounding up" and brainwashing/executing/imprisoning non-Christians.
Ashcroft is entitled to his religious views, but I'm also entitled to think people that are that uptight are insane idiots.
Besides, the statue is government property, and thus, at least on paper, owned by the people of the USA and subject to the Constitution. If it offends his morals, tough shit.
The Bureau of Religious Conformity is called the Supreme Court, if you haven't heard. The justices appointed by republicans don't vote with the law, they vote with their bibles. God himself votes republican, at least, that's what every preacher in the USA would have you think.
Same way with some drug paraphenelia You can have a bong or a glass pipe, as long as there are no drugs around, too. With both, the paraphenelia charge gets tacked on.
If you actually don't believe there is any sort of God, why do you care if other people do?
The same reason Jews cared about the Spanish Inquisition, and Christians cared about Muslim invaders. The ruling class will attempt to force its religion on all its subjects. The severity of the ruling class's reaction to refusal to believe is completely unpredictable, and in the case of the USA, becoming more severe every day. Our ATTORNEY GENERAL is so goddamn puritan that he couldn't stand to be pictured with a fucking STATUE of a woman with a naked breast. Yes, he's an idiot, but he could roll out the FBI and get all atheists arrested and systematically destroyed if he wanted.
THAT is why we care about other people believing in God - because they care about us NOT believing in it.
someone mod this guy up, PLEASE!
thanks
I've heard some conspiracy nuts say that the Apollo program was the first deployment of SDI. While the two guys were walking around on the surface, distracting everyone, the command module was dropping off satellites and weapons.
I love conspiracy theories.
if the comms weren't time-sensitive, why replace the written messages at all?