The best footballers play in Europe, but the winners of the European Cup are not called the 'World Champions'. You might have most of the top players, but unless you compete against and beat teams from all over the world, you cannot call yourselves world champions.
The term 'world series' dates back to long before all those foreigners played in the MLB, so you really don't have an argument there.
Great idea. Maybe we could do the same for American sports, cutting out all the adverts, timeouts, slow-motion replays and half-time shows. Oh wait there'd be nothing left.
With no brain, it's not a 'she', it's an 'it'. Your question really is, should they keep alive a set of mindless organs and cells, for absolutely no reason?
How will that result in better sales when Slashdot is convinced they have the right to pirate everything? Better movies will just mean more visits to the pirate bay.
And that's different from the current situation... how? The plane itself already makes an annoying amount of noise. Mostly-white noise. you know,
White noise isn't a nuisance. In fact it's quiet relaxing, it drowns out the small noises so it actually seems quieter. I often leave the computer on in my bedroom when I go to sleep and there's noise nearby, as the fan drowns it out.
Conversations are far more irritating as they're unpredictable and high-pitched. Phones are even worse because you're only hearing one side of the conversation which for some reason makes it twice as annoying.
When exactly was this golden period? If you look back I think you'll find that either they went with far less luxuries than today, or that the middle class was much smaller.
If everyone worked twice as hard back then for half the money, how come families survived on only one income?
They lived in tiny, filthy houses, with no electricity, no heating, no indoor toilets and very little food and clothing. Nowadays even the poorest families have TVs, computers and better food. That's why they need two incomes.
As for profitability, if that were all it was, how come CEOs are getting a bigger and bigger share of the pie, no matter how crappy a job they do?
Supply and demand. Perhaps CEOs are a lot more important to the success of a company than they used to be. If a CEO makes a company an extra 10 billion in profits a year, a 500 million bonus is hardly an extravagent slice of the pie. They get large payouts for doing crap jobs because it's in the contract. They can have it in the contract because the demand for top CEOs outstrips supply.
the middle class is barely scraping by
Yeah, they can barely afford enough gas for the second SUV, they're using ancient plasma TVs, their video phones are at least six months out of date, they can only afford half of the premium cable channels, their broadband is only 2Mb, they only have enough hot water for five baths a day, and only one Caribbean holiday a year. They're practically living in Hoovervilles.
It's a rich boys club, and they are NOT in it for the average shareholder, they are in it for themselves and their buddies.
It's up to the shareholders to appoint their own board members. Unless you're an owner or shareholder, you have no right to dictate how a company runs itself. If they're making money they can give it to whoever they want. If you don't like it then tough shit. You wouldn't like it if they told you what to do with your money.
Make excuses for these bandits all you like but you aren't one of them and you'll never be one of them. What is good for them is not what is good for you. They are laughing at you all the way to the bank as you sell out yourself, your family, and the rest of us in a vain attempt to become something you'll never be.
With that sort of attitude, no wonder you're bitter.
If the economy is so great, why are so many former programmers and sysadmin types working at my wife's place of employment (a call center) for $12-15/hour?
$15 an hour is still above average. Being a computer programmer doesn't entitle you to massive wages, it's not the late 90s anymore, you need to actually be good at your profession. There are companies crying out for computer jobs, but they need people who are really good, not people who got a couple of certifications in 1998 and decided they were a sysadmin.
The OP was just pointing out that people seemed to care more about the company than the workers, as if the damn company could feel pain.
Of course, the remaining employees whose livelihood deponds on the prosperity of the company don't matter at all.
Such is life now, not in my grandfather's day when CEOs actually felt a little loyalty to the workers who had made them rich.
Yeah, those good old days when people worked twice as hard for twice as long for half the pay, and could be fired at a second's notice for any reason or no reason at all. The CEOs in those days were such great people.
Nnot exactly, they're doing what they feel is right to maximise shareholder value which doesn't necessarily have to be the same thing.
If shareholder value is maximised, then the company IS on track. As far as the owners of the company are concerned, the company exists to make money. Employing people and making products is a means to an end.
The problem with Google is that even when you download the video straight, it doesn't tell you how long it is so you don't know when it's going to finish.
And when you download it with Firefox, if you cancel it half way through it deletes the bit you've already downloaded! Pretty frustrating when you've been downloading for two hours.
because slashdot editors don't know that the surest way to ruin a beer is to pour it into a glass
How else are you supposed to drink it, right from the barrel? Maybe if you're Barney Gumbel. Bottled beer is gassy so you need to pour it into a glass and let it rest so the gas can escape.
and that the best way is to put the bottle into the freezer a half-hour before opening it, so that it's decently chilled
When it's that cold how are you supposed to taste it? Oh wait maybe you're American, sorry my mistake.
If this isn't news, then neither was the shop opening in the first place. If the media can fawn and masturbate over Apple opening a shop, then they can get the knives out when it goes wrong.
No, but we have large unemployment, and have the constant threat of being replaced by cheap immigrant workers unless we accept more hours, less breaks and less pay.
Rugby with two players? I don't see how that would work. It would effectively just be wrestling whilst carrying a ball. You may as well just have a normal fight.
I'd really love to see some development in games dealing with building social skills. That may seem like an oxymoron but there's really something to be said for learning skills in an environment that does not induce the full amount of stress that the real world situation does.
90% of learning skills is dealing with the stress of the real world environment.
A fight club needs 2 people and a room. Rugby needs twenty-six players, a pitch, a set of goalposts, a referee and a change of clothes.
One of the nice things about rugby is that there is a position for practically every conceivable body type (from the short fat guys to the tall skinny guys).
There's no position for people who aren't bodybuilders.
It seems to me that after a year of fighting in a techie fight club, I would want to feel like I have improved and gotten fitter and stronger.
To quote fight club: "Self improvement is masturbation. Maybe self destruction is the answer."
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The best footballers play in Europe, but the winners of the European Cup are not called the 'World Champions'. You might have most of the top players, but unless you compete against and beat teams from all over the world, you cannot call yourselves world champions.
The term 'world series' dates back to long before all those foreigners played in the MLB, so you really don't have an argument there.
Great idea. Maybe we could do the same for American sports, cutting out all the adverts, timeouts, slow-motion replays and half-time shows. Oh wait there'd be nothing left.
At my company, it's:
4. No TVs, no streaming, and employees who call in sick are fired and replaced by cheap immigrants.
I'm not joking either.
Zero cost, but not zero quantity. If there was a plot of government land that they didn't need, I'd rather they sold it than gave it away for free.
With no brain, it's not a 'she', it's an 'it'. Your question really is, should they keep alive a set of mindless organs and cells, for absolutely no reason?
....They should make better movies.
How will that result in better sales when Slashdot is convinced they have the right to pirate everything? Better movies will just mean more visits to the pirate bay.
And that's different from the current situation... how? The plane itself already makes an annoying amount of noise. Mostly-white noise. you know,
White noise isn't a nuisance. In fact it's quiet relaxing, it drowns out the small noises so it actually seems quieter. I often leave the computer on in my bedroom when I go to sleep and there's noise nearby, as the fan drowns it out.
Conversations are far more irritating as they're unpredictable and high-pitched. Phones are even worse because you're only hearing one side of the conversation which for some reason makes it twice as annoying.
What's wrong with ass-porn?
Who invented it first is irrelevant, the fact is, that particular type of cheese is now universally referred to as 'Philadelphia'.
Why is there a need for vegan cheese? That's like a hardcore carnivore trying to make brocolli out of bacon.
When exactly was this golden period? If you look back I think you'll find that either they went with far less luxuries than today, or that the middle class was much smaller.
All that hassle to get in legally, and they wonder why people just jump the fence?
If everyone worked twice as hard back then for half the money, how come families survived on only one income?
They lived in tiny, filthy houses, with no electricity, no heating, no indoor toilets and very little food and clothing. Nowadays even the poorest families have TVs, computers and better food. That's why they need two incomes.
As for profitability, if that were all it was, how come CEOs are getting a bigger and bigger share of the pie, no matter how crappy a job they do?
Supply and demand. Perhaps CEOs are a lot more important to the success of a company than they used to be. If a CEO makes a company an extra 10 billion in profits a year, a 500 million bonus is hardly an extravagent slice of the pie. They get large payouts for doing crap jobs because it's in the contract. They can have it in the contract because the demand for top CEOs outstrips supply.
the middle class is barely scraping by
Yeah, they can barely afford enough gas for the second SUV, they're using ancient plasma TVs, their video phones are at least six months out of date, they can only afford half of the premium cable channels, their broadband is only 2Mb, they only have enough hot water for five baths a day, and only one Caribbean holiday a year. They're practically living in Hoovervilles.
It's a rich boys club, and they are NOT in it for the average shareholder, they are in it for themselves and their buddies.
It's up to the shareholders to appoint their own board members. Unless you're an owner or shareholder, you have no right to dictate how a company runs itself. If they're making money they can give it to whoever they want. If you don't like it then tough shit. You wouldn't like it if they told you what to do with your money.
Make excuses for these bandits all you like but you aren't one of them and you'll never be one of them. What is good for them is not what is good for you. They are laughing at you all the way to the bank as you sell out yourself, your family, and the rest of us in a vain attempt to become something you'll never be.
With that sort of attitude, no wonder you're bitter.
If the economy is so great, why are so many former programmers and sysadmin types working at my wife's place of employment (a call center) for $12-15/hour?
$15 an hour is still above average. Being a computer programmer doesn't entitle you to massive wages, it's not the late 90s anymore, you need to actually be good at your profession. There are companies crying out for computer jobs, but they need people who are really good, not people who got a couple of certifications in 1998 and decided they were a sysadmin.
The OP was just pointing out that people seemed to care more about the company than the workers, as if the damn company could feel pain.
Of course, the remaining employees whose livelihood deponds on the prosperity of the company don't matter at all.
Such is life now, not in my grandfather's day when CEOs actually felt a little loyalty to the workers who had made them rich.
Yeah, those good old days when people worked twice as hard for twice as long for half the pay, and could be fired at a second's notice for any reason or no reason at all. The CEOs in those days were such great people.
Nnot exactly, they're doing what they feel is right to maximise shareholder value which doesn't necessarily have to be the same thing.
If shareholder value is maximised, then the company IS on track. As far as the owners of the company are concerned, the company exists to make money. Employing people and making products is a means to an end.
The problem with Google is that even when you download the video straight, it doesn't tell you how long it is so you don't know when it's going to finish.
And when you download it with Firefox, if you cancel it half way through it deletes the bit you've already downloaded! Pretty frustrating when you've been downloading for two hours.
What exactly are the engineering flaws in the Three Gorges Dam?
Perhaps you're insinuating that Chinese people make poor engineers, or do things on the cheap. I think that's insulting.
because slashdot editors don't know that the surest way to ruin a beer is to pour it into a glass
How else are you supposed to drink it, right from the barrel? Maybe if you're Barney Gumbel. Bottled beer is gassy so you need to pour it into a glass and let it rest so the gas can escape.
and that the best way is to put the bottle into the freezer a half-hour before opening it, so that it's decently chilled
When it's that cold how are you supposed to taste it? Oh wait maybe you're American, sorry my mistake.
If this isn't news, then neither was the shop opening in the first place. If the media can fawn and masturbate over Apple opening a shop, then they can get the knives out when it goes wrong.
Apple can't have their cake and eat it.
The American government abuses their population on a daily basis, it doesn't seem to have done them any harm.
Funny, they never get labeled as lazy.
No, but we have large unemployment, and have the constant threat of being replaced by cheap immigrant workers unless we accept more hours, less breaks and less pay.
Rugby with two players? I don't see how that would work. It would effectively just be wrestling whilst carrying a ball. You may as well just have a normal fight.
Traditional rugby, BTW, has 30 players
Only union, and that's just a kicking contest.
I'd really love to see some development in games dealing with building social skills. That may seem like an oxymoron but there's really something to be said for learning skills in an environment that does not induce the full amount of stress that the real world situation does.
90% of learning skills is dealing with the stress of the real world environment.
A fight club needs 2 people and a room. Rugby needs twenty-six players, a pitch, a set of goalposts, a referee and a change of clothes.
One of the nice things about rugby is that there is a position for practically every conceivable body type (from the short fat guys to the tall skinny guys).
There's no position for people who aren't bodybuilders.
It seems to me that after a year of fighting in a techie fight club, I would want to feel like I have improved and gotten fitter and stronger.
To quote fight club: "Self improvement is masturbation. Maybe self destruction is the answer."