The community reinvestment act was passed during the Carter Administration, and has nothing to with the FACT that lenders made unqualified loans KNOWING IN ADVANCE that those loans would be bundled and sold so that the originator was no longer directly on the hook for the potential (probable) loss.
Deregulation allowed these criminals to get away with this.
Paying attention? The unregulated market brought us the Great Depression 70 years ago and until Bush the markets stayed regulated. The _recent_ deregulation is why we're in the mess we're in now.
There's no way you don't already realize this, I'm not sure why you posted what you did.
"The office should have had a 20 minute meeting deciding what their needs were, and pass that onto the technology department, who would simply deliver those needs."
Knock Knock, Hey, guess who's in charge of that dept? When you want to create such a department guess who you appoint first?
Insightful? Think about it, the comment isn't even on topic. Why would anyone think that the government having a CTO (even companies with less than 100 employees have one) translates into "government telling us what to do"?
I think having some standardization and efficiency across agencies would save some money, and, the parent poster probably agrees with that. Maybe he's still on that first cup of coffee.
Hated her writing, not because of her politics, because the characters were so unbelievable. I read all of Atlas Shrugged but I spent the entire book distracted by retarded everyone was.
First of all, try to stop blaming "leftists" for everything you disagree with, this particular issue has nothing to do with "left" or "right".
Second, you do realize that in the United States an overwhelming majority could in fact amend the Constitution to mandate [insert ridiculous mandate here], and it would be perfectly legal AND Constitutional.
This is a country with a National Religion that is prohibiting the desecration of what they hold sacred. Why do you have a problem with that? We're not talking Free Speech here, we're talking about INSULTS. Even in Thailand, factual and/or historical information that may be unflattering to the King is NOT banned, only insults. As in, "Hey tell your FAT MOTHER to stop begging me for sex".
Are you so ignorant that you cannot distinguish between:
1)Prohibiting your family from watching FoxNews/MSNBC because of a political bias you disagree with 2)Throwing some stranger out of your house because he keeps calling your wife a Cunt.
I've heard from some Thai people that if your mother eats a lot of hot pepper during pregnancy you're more likely to go bald. I never believed it, but then I saw this video on epigenetics. The conclusion I draw from the video is that everything can be affected by genes and the environment.
In the video, there is a pair fifty-something twins, one has cancer, the other does not. Their genes were identical at birth, but now, there are many differences with regard to which genes are "on" or "off". In one twin there's a cancer suppression gene that got turned off later in life.
After a few years of paying attention, I've met H-1B's that I know were brilliant and (I assume) expensive. I've also met some that were clearly cheaper skilled labor. I expect that most people who are looking will have the same experience, and I expect that most people who know enough to look are also smart enough to know that their own singular observations are not sufficient to conclude there is a majority of one kind or the other.
It may be that those who merely read a headline and draw a conclusion have an unfounded bias, but really most people posting on slashdot are working "in the industry" so they should be...
It's fine to pay English and History majors the same as Math and Science majors. Pay them all enough to make the job attractive, there's nothing wrong with having 20 applicants for one English teaching job.
1)The union is absolutely positively in favor of changes that benefit TEACHERS. It cannot be otherwise.
Fixed that for you. --------------------
The hell you did. With compensation being what is, teachers only become teachers because they want to teach. They care. The idea that the majority (which would be needed to control the union) of teachers are self serving and indifferent to the needs of students is flat out ridiculous. You do know better.
It's not about blame. The union prevents change. It's simply fact.
I counted to 100 before I posted this so I could calm down and politely say SHUT THE FUCK UP. Seriously, I can't be more polite than that because I doubt you believe your own words. You know you're wrong.
1)The union is absolutely positively in favor of changes that benefit TEACHERS and STUDENTS. It cannot be otherwise.
2)The only reason teachers get the (still too little) salary they do is because of the union and the public outcry strikes generate. (i.e. the WA state lottery was supposed to be all for education. education never got a dime)
3)The poor state of education today has everything to do with BUDGET CUTS and the slashing of programs that promote critical and creative thinking. You can thank Ronald Reagan for convincing people that we need to focus on the "three R's" and use the money for tax breaks to big business and the wealthy.
4)Some of the rest of us would like it to do something for the students too. Pay the Teachers enough to make more Science and Math majors WANT to be teachers (in other words support the union). Put money back in the budget for programs that teach children to THINK, not just make change at WalMart (want that? support the union, they want it too). The generation that had those programs is the generation that landed us on the moon.
Or maybe Walmart greeting non-voting MTV watching tards is what you really want most people to be.
When I got hired to convert a small company from Windows to Linux ( and train the staff ) I spent some time one on one with each person, selling them on things like yakuake ( I chose KDE ). But the most important thing I did was convince them that wrt to ui and set up, "if you can imagine and articulate it, I can probably show you how to set it up that way".
This was really hard to do because people who use Windows aren't used to thinking that way. But eventually I had everyone coming to me with ideas on how to make 'their' workspace more useful. And they were happy to be using Linux because they liked it, not because their company was saving money.
PS. This experience is the main reason I think Gnome's 'simple/consistent' approach is the wrong one.
Ten years ago it was a topic, has anything changed recently that makes this a less exhausted subject? Whoever thought up this "round table" idea doesn't have enough to do I guess.
My most recent employers have all been Linux focused in terms of product development, but they've all had "I only know Windows" people in the IT department.
So yeah, what you said is pretty much how too many of them are set up infrastructure wise. All the managers, sales, and IT people use Windows/Outlook and all the people who make and support the product use Linux. Even at companies that have the word "Linux" in it's name it's like that.
I always wonder why people charged with making business decisions about/around linux choose to limit their own perspective by not using the product they're marketing. I'm pretty sure it's laziness.
Too bad most of the people who've commented on here didn't read your post first.
Such a lack of imagination for people who are supposed to be smarter than average. Legal assistance, prospective employer 'vetting', between jobs health insurance, investment plans, oh hey, what about start up assistance for people with brilliant ideas? A credit union?
I'd say throw out all the labels, make a stupidly long list of possible services an organization could provide to members, and then we collectively start crossing out deal breakers.
Of course, I'm too busy to help with this, I've got so many con calls and meetings that I need my weekends to get my work done.
If Intel wants grow in the embedded/mobile market the most significant decision they could make would be to start supporting the coreboot project. AMD has a far greater level of support there and so vendors are going with AMD.
I don't think AMD goes out of their way to support coreboot, they just don't go out of their way to not support it, like Intel seems to do.
Well, you seem to disagree with my post, but I can't quite pin down what you disagree with. No one could possibly equate the second example I gave with posting a tiny notice, so that can't be it. I didn't even imply that stealing was okay, so that's not it either.
Are you saying the first company is doing the right thing? Is it the number 20? As in a business should follow a different path depending on how many people are affected?
My intent was to illustrate how fear (fear makes people do stupid things) motivates the first company down a path that is more expensive than decisions motivated by compassion. Seriously, are you reading my post in a way that I don't see?
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That's a flat out lie, mod parent down.
The community reinvestment act was passed during the Carter Administration, and has nothing to with the FACT that lenders made unqualified loans KNOWING IN ADVANCE that those loans would be bundled and sold so that the originator was no longer directly on the hook for the potential (probable) loss.
Deregulation allowed these criminals to get away with this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/conservatives-seek-to-shi_n_131020.html
Paying attention? The unregulated market brought us the Great Depression 70 years ago and until Bush the markets stayed regulated. The _recent_ deregulation is why we're in the mess we're in now.
There's no way you don't already realize this, I'm not sure why you posted what you did.
"The office should have had a 20 minute meeting deciding what their needs were, and pass that onto the technology department, who would simply deliver those needs."
Knock Knock,
Hey, guess who's in charge of that dept? When you want to create such a department guess who you appoint first?
Insightful? Think about it, the comment isn't even on topic. Why would anyone think that the government having a CTO (even companies with less than 100 employees have one) translates into "government telling us what to do"?
I think having some standardization and efficiency across agencies would save some money, and, the parent poster probably agrees with that. Maybe he's still on that first cup of coffee.
Hated her writing, not because of her politics, because the characters were so unbelievable. I read all of Atlas Shrugged but I spent the entire book distracted by retarded everyone was.
First of all, try to stop blaming "leftists" for everything you disagree with, this particular issue has nothing to do with "left" or "right".
Second, you do realize that in the United States an overwhelming majority could in fact amend the Constitution to mandate [insert ridiculous mandate here], and it would be perfectly legal AND Constitutional.
This is a country with a National Religion that is prohibiting the desecration of what they hold sacred. Why do you have a problem with that? We're not talking Free Speech here, we're talking about INSULTS. Even in Thailand, factual and/or historical information that may be unflattering to the King is NOT banned, only insults. As in, "Hey tell your FAT MOTHER to stop begging me for sex".
Get it now?
Are you so ignorant that you cannot distinguish between:
1)Prohibiting your family from watching FoxNews/MSNBC because of a political bias you disagree with
2)Throwing some stranger out of your house because he keeps calling your wife a Cunt.
You Are Wrong.
They're not always in a room, in some places they have a cage like everyone else. Referred to as the "fed rack".
Common knowledge, not conspiracy theory.
I've heard from some Thai people that if your mother eats a lot of hot pepper during pregnancy you're more likely to go bald. I never believed it, but then I saw this video on epigenetics. The conclusion I draw from the video is that everything can be affected by genes and the environment.
In the video, there is a pair fifty-something twins, one has cancer, the other does not. Their genes were identical at birth, but now, there are many differences with regard to which genes are "on" or "off". In one twin there's a cancer suppression gene that got turned off later in life.
After a few years of paying attention, I've met H-1B's that I know were brilliant and (I assume) expensive. I've also met some that were clearly cheaper skilled labor. I expect that most people who are looking will have the same experience, and I expect that most people who know enough to look are also smart enough to know that their own singular observations are not sufficient to conclude there is a majority of one kind or the other.
It may be that those who merely read a headline and draw a conclusion have an unfounded bias, but really most people posting on slashdot are working "in the industry" so they should be...
nevermind.
Troll? Do bad moderators suffer any consequences for blatant crap like this? A 'no mod points for you' list? Just curious.
Maybe someone will answer before I'm modded down offtopic :)
It's fine to pay English and History majors the same as Math and Science majors. Pay them all enough to make the job attractive, there's nothing wrong with having 20 applicants for one English teaching job.
1)The union is absolutely positively in favor of changes that benefit TEACHERS. It cannot be otherwise.
Fixed that for you.
--------------------
The hell you did. With compensation being what is, teachers only become teachers because they want to teach. They care. The idea that the majority (which would be needed to control the union) of teachers are self serving and indifferent to the needs of students is flat out ridiculous. You do know better.
It's not about blame. The union prevents change. It's simply fact.
I counted to 100 before I posted this so I could calm down and politely say SHUT THE FUCK UP. Seriously, I can't be more polite than that because I doubt you believe your own words. You know you're wrong.
1)The union is absolutely positively in favor of changes that benefit TEACHERS and STUDENTS. It cannot be otherwise.
2)The only reason teachers get the (still too little) salary they do is because of the union and the public outcry strikes generate. (i.e. the WA state lottery was supposed to be all for education. education never got a dime)
3)The poor state of education today has everything to do with BUDGET CUTS and the slashing of programs that promote critical and creative thinking. You can thank Ronald Reagan for convincing people that we need to focus on the "three R's" and use the money for tax breaks to big business and the wealthy.
4)Some of the rest of us would like it to do something for the students too. Pay the Teachers enough to make more Science and Math majors WANT to be teachers (in other words support the union). Put money back in the budget for programs that teach children to THINK, not just make change at WalMart (want that? support the union, they want it too). The generation that had those programs is the generation that landed us on the moon.
Or maybe Walmart greeting non-voting MTV watching tards is what you really want most people to be.
When I got hired to convert a small company from Windows to Linux ( and train the staff ) I spent some time one on one with each person, selling them on things like yakuake ( I chose KDE ). But the most important thing I did was convince them that wrt to ui and set up, "if you can imagine and articulate it, I can probably show you how to set it up that way".
This was really hard to do because people who use Windows aren't used to thinking that way. But eventually I had everyone coming to me with ideas on how to make 'their' workspace more useful. And they were happy to be using Linux because they liked it, not because their company was saving money.
PS. This experience is the main reason I think Gnome's 'simple/consistent' approach is the wrong one.
It clearly states that the drivers in this program must play a very specific game designed to improve visual alertness.
I bet I know what game it is.
Ten years ago it was a topic, has anything changed recently that makes this a less exhausted subject? Whoever thought up this "round table" idea doesn't have enough to do I guess.
My most recent employers have all been Linux focused in terms of product development, but they've all had "I only know Windows" people in the IT department.
So yeah, what you said is pretty much how too many of them are set up infrastructure wise. All the managers, sales, and IT people use Windows/Outlook and all the people who make and support the product use Linux. Even at companies that have the word "Linux" in it's name it's like that.
I always wonder why people charged with making business decisions about/around linux choose to limit their own perspective by not using the product they're marketing. I'm pretty sure it's laziness.
Excellent counter to willyhill's comment above! MOD
The parent argues convincingly that the search engine Google is not finding what you want, and the sourcetool.com search engine is.
Too bad most of the people who've commented on here didn't read your post first.
Such a lack of imagination for people who are supposed to be smarter than average. Legal assistance, prospective employer 'vetting', between jobs health insurance, investment plans, oh hey, what about start up assistance for people with brilliant ideas? A credit union?
I'd say throw out all the labels, make a stupidly long list of possible services an organization could provide to members, and then we collectively start crossing out deal breakers.
Of course, I'm too busy to help with this, I've got so many con calls and meetings that I need my weekends to get my work done.
If Intel wants grow in the embedded/mobile market the most significant decision they could make would be to start supporting the coreboot project. AMD has a far greater level of support there and so vendors are going with AMD.
I don't think AMD goes out of their way to support coreboot, they just don't go out of their way to not support it, like Intel seems to do.
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)
That was a whole separate meeting, all the cobra stuff.
I was paraphrasing 2 hour meeting. But anyway, I think giving paid time off to look for work is pretty generous.
Well, you seem to disagree with my post, but I can't quite pin down what you disagree with. No one could possibly equate the second example I gave with posting a tiny notice, so that can't be it. I didn't even imply that stealing was okay, so that's not it either.
Are you saying the first company is doing the right thing? Is it the number 20? As in a business should follow a different path depending on how many people are affected?
My intent was to illustrate how fear (fear makes people do stupid things) motivates the first company down a path that is more expensive than decisions motivated by compassion. Seriously, are you reading my post in a way that I don't see?