That's the beautiful thing about capitalism, you have the choice to buy in or not to buy in. You can always use non toll roads.
Do you actually believe that? Do you actually believe that it's a fair trade to sell out your privacy for 30 less minutes on the road?
In a society of good people, things like this wouldn't even be necessary. But Darwinist pigs like you got into the government during the Reagan years and turned American life into nothing more than a competition determining who gets fucked by bureaucrats and corporations and who doesn't.
People just want to live. Why do governments have a problem with that?
There are many of these people that are just greedy businessmen that want to make a buck, true. I don't think anything but megalomania is motivating the RIAA, though. The people that run the RIAA have been high-level executives in the music business, and presumably they know that their market isn't disappearing if they have any clue about how to read an income statement.
The goal of anti-piracy measures is not to prevent piracy, but to weed out the obedient from the subordinate, and create -more- criminals. Basically, by 'making' you opt for piracy, they are 'proving' to the law that you aren't a good little sheep and that you should be warehoused along with the pot dealers and child molesters.
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It's nicer to write, IMO. Far fewer "gotchas" than any other language. And it's far nicer to read, making it much easier to maintain. You can look at a python script and see immediately what it does. Perl has a bad rep because too many people in the Perl 'community' are showoffs that code to demonstrate how well they've memorized all the various built-ins and idiomatic shorthand. You can write Perl code that's as readable as any other language, you just have to a) want to and b) have time for it.
It's easy to write quick and dirty one-off hacks in perl, so people use it for jobs that aren't supposed to be maintainable in the first place. Unreadable perl is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that respect.
If you know a language well enough, it's always readable. And statements like "print" and "while" are nearly universal in what they do across all languages. A language has to offer more than a subjective increase in readability to be worth investing the time in learning - not all of us have the luxury of learning new languages just for fun.
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While Perl is still my sentimental favorite, I'm open-minded about programming languages, especially those that are as widely used as Python. I've never been able to really understand Python, though, because of its bizarre syntax. (insert Perl syntax joke here) It's always seemed easier to just do what I need to do in Perl, since I know it so well.
If I'm reasonably proficient in Perl, what would I gain by using Python instead? I'm not trying to troll here, I'm just wondering what I'm missing. If Google uses it internally it must have an advantage over other languages, but I've never not been able to do something in Perl if I really wanted to.
You just nailed it. That construct gets on my last nerve, and that's why I quit watching family guy. It might be funny if they used it about 1/10th the amount they do.
I had the same problem, and my dumbass doctors couldn't figure it out. I was trying everything and lowering the arm rests on my chair at work helped after about a week.
Almost every major city in the USA has not only a bus line, but at least some limited form of commuter rail system. Chicago and San Francisco/Oakland have rail systems that rival those of your pet cities.
I think you're either totally overreacting, or you had a bad experience/socially/ at a company like this. I'm sure these sorts of companies have cliques, and I imagine there is a lot of peer pressure to act in certain ways. But that doesn't mean you have to take it, and you're not penalized if you don't. What's your real complaint?
My -complaint- is about fanboys that act like Sergey Brin's shit doesn't stink because of three words of bullshit on their SEC filings. Blind worship sickens me.
I have had an experience where the company provided Google-like amenities to the workers, and then the company - not cliques of workaholic co-workers - expected a return on their investment in unpaid overtime and rah-rah bullshit. To put it bluntly, fuck that. I would rather work in an office full of people that I have nothing in common with, be uncomfortable all day, but not be expected to care after my shift is up. In fact, that's what I do. I do my job, I get paid, and there are no further obligations for either party.
So you want companies to be responsible for the social lives outside of work
You can always tell who grew up with managers for parents.
I want companies to treat their workers like human beings, not robots. That does not mean that they are "responsible for social lives" because I want them to stay the fuck out of my social life. Companies like Google would love it if you replace your social life with spending more time at work and they provide enticements to do so.
Besides, as we all know corporations never accept responsibility for anything that might hurt their bottom line.
Need to leave for an hour in the middle of the day three times a week in order to spend time with your son before soccer practice or something? Probably not a problem at Google, but probably a problem at a lot of other companies. But in return, you're expected to want to rush back to the office as soon as you're done and be with your wonderful co-workers and the foosball table.
Have you ever worked in that kind of place before?
The downside is that employers like Google expect you to love your job. If you do, good for you. But sometimes you will have other things that you need to do, but the nagging feeling that you're supposed to love your job and express that love by working your ass off will always come up, and you will feel like you're not doing enough for the great ideals of the Company.
It its own way, that's a worse kind of pressure than Dilbert-style companies have, because it's ideological pressure. You can pretty much predict what a PHB wants - he wants you to do your job, make him look good, and, even though you might have to work overtime until you find a better job, it ends when you go home. If you're supposed to drink the kool-aid and live/breathe the company 'values', then the company is not just trying to take over your time, but your mind, and I for one would rather work a few extra hours at crunch time.
Applying the real or unreal, black or white mentality to the internet is disingenuous. The internet lays somewhere between reality and imagination. It's all just bits on disks, and there is no way to verify that what you see is actually happening - but yet it can influence events and things in both reality and unreality, to the point that people can lose their lives over events that happen here, even though the things that dwell in the internet cannot affect physical reality.
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That's the beautiful thing about capitalism, you have the choice to buy in or not to buy in. You can always use non toll roads.
Do you actually believe that? Do you actually believe that it's a fair trade to sell out your privacy for 30 less minutes on the road?
In a society of good people, things like this wouldn't even be necessary. But Darwinist pigs like you got into the government during the Reagan years and turned American life into nothing more than a competition determining who gets fucked by bureaucrats and corporations and who doesn't.
People just want to live. Why do governments have a problem with that?
Cool, I love Japanese emo parties. You can watch guys cry at the sad parts of shitty anime.
There are many of these people that are just greedy businessmen that want to make a buck, true. I don't think anything but megalomania is motivating the RIAA, though. The people that run the RIAA have been high-level executives in the music business, and presumably they know that their market isn't disappearing if they have any clue about how to read an income statement.
The goal of anti-piracy measures is not to prevent piracy, but to weed out the obedient from the subordinate, and create -more- criminals. Basically, by 'making' you opt for piracy, they are 'proving' to the law that you aren't a good little sheep and that you should be warehoused along with the pot dealers and child molesters.
They left off the top three:
metric shitload - MS 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+33
shitload - S 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+30
lotta- L 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+27
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It's nicer to write, IMO. Far fewer "gotchas" than any other language. And it's far nicer to read, making it much easier to maintain. You can look at a python script and see immediately what it does.
Perl has a bad rep because too many people in the Perl 'community' are showoffs that code to demonstrate how well they've memorized all the various built-ins and idiomatic shorthand. You can write Perl code that's as readable as any other language, you just have to a) want to and b) have time for it.
It's easy to write quick and dirty one-off hacks in perl, so people use it for jobs that aren't supposed to be maintainable in the first place. Unreadable perl is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that respect.
If you know a language well enough, it's always readable. And statements like "print" and "while" are nearly universal in what they do across all languages. A language has to offer more than a subjective increase in readability to be worth investing the time in learning - not all of us have the luxury of learning new languages just for fun.
Does a stirring orchestral soundtrack narrate your life as you go about your daily business?
/. and that's saying something.
I mean goddamn. This is one of the most pretentious posts I've ever read on
can I buy stock in Godwin Industries?
While Perl is still my sentimental favorite, I'm open-minded about programming languages, especially those that are as widely used as Python. I've never been able to really understand Python, though, because of its bizarre syntax. (insert Perl syntax joke here) It's always seemed easier to just do what I need to do in Perl, since I know it so well.
If I'm reasonably proficient in Perl, what would I gain by using Python instead? I'm not trying to troll here, I'm just wondering what I'm missing. If Google uses it internally it must have an advantage over other languages, but I've never not been able to do something in Perl if I really wanted to.
The ergonomics of the DS are different. I have big hands and they cramped up after playing a DS for a while.
Personally, I also always had nagging guilt that I should be playing a native DS game rather than a GBA game, and I don't like that feeling.
I had a DS and sold it. I still play my GBA regularly.
You just nailed it. That construct gets on my last nerve, and that's why I quit watching family guy. It might be funny if they used it about 1/10th the amount they do.
I had the same problem, and my dumbass doctors couldn't figure it out. I was trying everything and lowering the arm rests on my chair at work helped after about a week.
my wife LOVED BG&E. I liked everything about it except the pig-rhino guy that talked like he was out a kung fu movie produced in Lubbock TX.
"Jeyat Boooots Attayack"
Of course you don't, but that's ok. We don't count you as human, so it evens out.
How East-coast-elitist of you.
Almost every major city in the USA has not only a bus line, but at least some limited form of commuter rail system. Chicago and San Francisco/Oakland have rail systems that rival those of your pet cities.
Dane Cook is a cock-block. His routine on BJs all but ruined them for me for a while. I kept thinking "big money, no Whammies" :-D
I think you're either totally overreacting, or you had a bad experience /socially/ at a company like this. I'm sure these sorts of companies have cliques, and I imagine there is a lot of peer pressure to act in certain ways. But that doesn't mean you have to take it, and you're not penalized if you don't. What's your real complaint?
My -complaint- is about fanboys that act like Sergey Brin's shit doesn't stink because of three words of bullshit on their SEC filings. Blind worship sickens me.
I have had an experience where the company provided Google-like amenities to the workers, and then the company - not cliques of workaholic co-workers - expected a return on their investment in unpaid overtime and rah-rah bullshit. To put it bluntly, fuck that. I would rather work in an office full of people that I have nothing in common with, be uncomfortable all day, but not be expected to care after my shift is up. In fact, that's what I do. I do my job, I get paid, and there are no further obligations for either party.
So you want companies to be responsible for the social lives outside of work
You can always tell who grew up with managers for parents.
I want companies to treat their workers like human beings, not robots. That does not mean that they are "responsible for social lives" because I want them to stay the fuck out of my social life. Companies like Google would love it if you replace your social life with spending more time at work and they provide enticements to do so.
Besides, as we all know corporations never accept responsibility for anything that might hurt their bottom line.
Need to leave for an hour in the middle of the day three times a week in order to spend time with your son before soccer practice or something? Probably not a problem at Google, but probably a problem at a lot of other companies.
But in return, you're expected to want to rush back to the office as soon as you're done and be with your wonderful co-workers and the foosball table.
Have you ever worked in that kind of place before?
The downside is that employers like Google expect you to love your job. If you do, good for you. But sometimes you will have other things that you need to do, but the nagging feeling that you're supposed to love your job and express that love by working your ass off will always come up, and you will feel like you're not doing enough for the great ideals of the Company.
It its own way, that's a worse kind of pressure than Dilbert-style companies have, because it's ideological pressure. You can pretty much predict what a PHB wants - he wants you to do your job, make him look good, and, even though you might have to work overtime until you find a better job, it ends when you go home. If you're supposed to drink the kool-aid and live/breathe the company 'values', then the company is not just trying to take over your time, but your mind, and I for one would rather work a few extra hours at crunch time.
Applying the real or unreal, black or white mentality to the internet is disingenuous. The internet lays somewhere between reality and imagination. It's all just bits on disks, and there is no way to verify that what you see is actually happening - but yet it can influence events and things in both reality and unreality, to the point that people can lose their lives over events that happen here, even though the things that dwell in the internet cannot affect physical reality.
as long as we have the birds' phone numbers and email addresses that won't be a problem.