Not only has this practice been going on for quite some time but even if it had just started why should anyone be shocked?
I'm going to refer back to the old adage of "The only thing constant in business is change." If this is true, which I have come to believe that it is, why should anything, done in the interest of share holders, be surprising to us?
I mean, C'mon people. Most of what has been going on in the tech industry is ridiculous. Geeks have been able to jump around from company to company in search of the highest buck and now companies view geeks as a commodity (which is our own doing) and we are the first to get canned. Big surprise. Also, Hairy's comment about being able to open up Front Page is no joke. About four months ago I ran into a girl I went to high school with. She is as dumb as rocks and our conversation sounded like it could have come right out of a Sally-Struthers-get-your-degree-at-home commercial. "Yeah, I was working a McDonalds there for a while but then I took a three month HTML class and now I'm making $15 an hour!@#!" Give me a break.
I guess that all I really have to say is that there are rules to business. Now, they may change quite a bit but there are still rules. Along with a set of rules I think you get two basic choices. You can play or you can get played.
While the above tactics may seem silly and slightly amusing, I believe there is actually a good point here.
The point: Not all cultures play by the same rules that we do.
We may think putting a Muslim in a pigskin suit for a one-way trip to hell as something outlandish and ridiculious but there are actually people out there who think this is very serious. This is also true vice-versa. Just look at our reaction to the WTC attack. In our western heads we can't possibly imagine that anyone with an ounce of humane quality would ever spend the majority of his or her life in the pursuit of mass destruction of the innocents in exchange for his or her own self-preservation. We are different people. We are raised different and we are instilled with a different value system. As Americans, we think that a jihad's civilian casualties are insane. Islam thinks it is honorable and just. We think covering someone in pig urine is gross and ridiculous. Islam thinks it is unholy.
The tactics put forth may be a little on the far side but Harry Reddington is on the right track. In order to win this so called war we have to learn the rules that the other side plays by. The other side knows our rules and has broken them in order to hit us where it hurts the most. We believe that Innocents (civilians) are to be left out of war and now our own innocents are dead. Let me ask you this, "What does an Islamic terrorist believe in?" The answer to this question also answers the question of where we need to strike the hardest.
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Not only has this practice been going on for quite some time but even if it had just started why should anyone be shocked?
I'm going to refer back to the old adage of "The only thing constant in business is change." If this is true, which I have come to believe that it is, why should anything, done in the interest of share holders, be surprising to us?
I mean, C'mon people. Most of what has been going on in the tech industry is ridiculous. Geeks have been able to jump around from company to company in search of the highest buck and now companies view geeks as a commodity (which is our own doing) and we are the first to get canned. Big surprise. Also, Hairy's comment about being able to open up Front Page is no joke. About four months ago I ran into a girl I went to high school with. She is as dumb as rocks and our conversation sounded like it could have come right out of a Sally-Struthers-get-your-degree-at-home commercial. "Yeah, I was working a McDonalds there for a while but then I took a three month HTML class and now I'm making $15 an hour!@#!" Give me a break.
I guess that all I really have to say is that there are rules to business. Now, they may change quite a bit but there are still rules. Along with a set of rules I think you get two basic choices. You can play or you can get played.
While the above tactics may seem silly and slightly amusing, I believe there is actually a good point here.
The point: Not all cultures play by the same rules that we do.
We may think putting a Muslim in a pigskin suit for a one-way trip to hell as something outlandish and ridiculious but there are actually people out there who think this is very serious. This is also true vice-versa. Just look at our reaction to the WTC attack. In our western heads we can't possibly imagine that anyone with an ounce of humane quality would ever spend the majority of his or her life in the pursuit of mass destruction of the innocents in exchange for his or her own self-preservation. We are different people. We are raised different and we are instilled with a different value system. As Americans, we think that a jihad's civilian casualties are insane. Islam thinks it is honorable and just. We think covering someone in pig urine is gross and ridiculous. Islam thinks it is unholy.
The tactics put forth may be a little on the far side but Harry Reddington is on the right track. In order to win this so called war we have to learn the rules that the other side plays by. The other side knows our rules and has broken them in order to hit us where it hurts the most. We believe that Innocents (civilians) are to be left out of war and now our own innocents are dead. Let me ask you this, "What does an Islamic terrorist believe in?" The answer to this question also answers the question of where we need to strike the hardest.