Well, that depends on the organization. In better companies, bullshit artists get washed out almost immediately. At Microsoft, they can end up running the company.
The real tragedy of it all is that the USA needs a comprehensive and coherent energy policy.
Bullshit.
What the USA needs w/r/t energy is for the government to fuck off and let supply and demand sort it out. When solar power becomes more cost effective than natural gas, it won't take tax money to make it happen.
The right question is whether charter schools are good for children, not whether they're good for the failing institutions that the children are escaping.
. I'd say an atheist group out of Wisconsin that regularly tries to use the power of liberal courts by filing what could be financially crippling lawsuits against small communities in the South that they don't agree with could be considered as being a form of terrorism.
Nope. Harassment and malicious litigation aren't terrorism. Nobody's afraid that these people in Wisconsin are going to kill them.
The "value" is, in general terms, approximately the cost of production and distribution.
That sounds suspiciously close to Marx's brain-dead "labor theory of value".
The value of anything is determined by its buyers and sellers. You can spend all you want on producing statues of Alexander Hamilton made out of compressed manure, but that doesn't mean they're worth the shit you put into them.
Crowdfunding exists in the first place because the SEC fucked up the equity markets to the point where it makes no sense at all to issue shares to the public unless you can raise at least $10M.
It's time to invent a bitcoin-based, anonymous way to sell equity.
Before the Java/.net generation, there was the VB generation, and if you keep going back you can find more. Good programmers are still being trained, just as there always were. The difference now is just that there are a lot more of the low-skills chaff to sift through.
Two of the best bosses I've ever had could be described as "non-technical managers". They made sure I had what I needed to get my work done, they were very clear about the objectives, and they kept the rest of the organization from distracting our team.
That command makes a ramdisk a bit bigger than four gigs. I like to drop my Xcode projects on it; it can turn a five-minute build time into one minute or less.
Considering what Snowden got his hands on, I have to wonder whether the NSA has any secrets at all, considering that there are probably numerous professional foreign agents in the organization. It would not surprise me to learn that Russia, China, Israel, and maybe even France have total access to the lot.
For that statement to be true, then the NSA would have had infinite power before Snowden blew the whistle on them. No government or agency of a government should ever have unlimited power in the first place.
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Well, that depends on the organization. In better companies, bullshit artists get washed out almost immediately. At Microsoft, they can end up running the company.
-jcr
The real tragedy of it all is that the USA needs a comprehensive and coherent energy policy.
Bullshit.
What the USA needs w/r/t energy is for the government to fuck off and let supply and demand sort it out. When solar power becomes more cost effective than natural gas, it won't take tax money to make it happen.
-jcr
What I learned from that story is that Khosla is a corporate welfare queen. He can go to hell.
-jcr
Dawkins doesn't have any followers, he has fans. He doesn't tell them what to do.
-jcr
It's in the pockets of "administrators" who never set foot in a classroom.
-jcr
The right question is whether charter schools are good for children, not whether they're good for the failing institutions that the children are escaping.
-jcr
. I'd say an atheist group out of Wisconsin that regularly tries to use the power of liberal courts by filing what could be financially crippling lawsuits against small communities in the South that they don't agree with could be considered as being a form of terrorism.
Nope. Harassment and malicious litigation aren't terrorism. Nobody's afraid that these people in Wisconsin are going to kill them.
-jcr
If you want an example of atheist terrorism, all of the communist regimes that ever existed fit the description.
-jcr
>2. "leak" the info to some hacking circle and let others do the job for you.
Meh... Just post it on 4chan.
-jcr
The "value" is, in general terms, approximately the cost of production and distribution.
That sounds suspiciously close to Marx's brain-dead "labor theory of value".
The value of anything is determined by its buyers and sellers. You can spend all you want on producing statues of Alexander Hamilton made out of compressed manure, but that doesn't mean they're worth the shit you put into them.
-jcr
The NSA's operations abroad are not against the organization charter, and are, therefor, not against the law.
Why do you assume that the NSA's charter entitles them to break the laws of other countries?
-jcr
Crowdfunding exists in the first place because the SEC fucked up the equity markets to the point where it makes no sense at all to issue shares to the public unless you can raise at least $10M.
It's time to invent a bitcoin-based, anonymous way to sell equity.
-jcr
Before the Java/.net generation, there was the VB generation, and if you keep going back you can find more. Good programmers are still being trained, just as there always were. The difference now is just that there are a lot more of the low-skills chaff to sift through.
-jcr
I do it just to piss you off, kid. Now grow up.
-jcr
Two of the best bosses I've ever had could be described as "non-technical managers". They made sure I had what I needed to get my work done, they were very clear about the objectives, and they kept the rest of the organization from distracting our team.
-jcr
Since when is it ethical to force someone else to pay for your medicine?
-jcr
That command makes a ramdisk a bit bigger than four gigs. I like to drop my Xcode projects on it; it can turn a five-minute build time into one minute or less.
-jcr
And yes, theoretically, if you have enough RAM you don't need a scratch disk, but various Adobe products haven't quite figured that out.
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://8388608`
-jcr
What?
-jcr
You could just use higher pressure.
-jcr
Considering what Snowden got his hands on, I have to wonder whether the NSA has any secrets at all, considering that there are probably numerous professional foreign agents in the organization. It would not surprise me to learn that Russia, China, Israel, and maybe even France have total access to the lot.
-jcr
For that statement to be true, then the NSA would have had infinite power before Snowden blew the whistle on them. No government or agency of a government should ever have unlimited power in the first place.
-jcr
Our military and law enforcement absolutely must be able to use all means to catch the bad guys.
Well, they'd probably kill a couple of bad guys if they dropped nukes on all of our major cities. So, is that OK with you, sparky?
You're an idiot.
-jcr
They probably do, but it's also just as likely that Pauley is a willing participant in the dismantling of our civil liberties.
-jcr
sarcastic insinuations of sweeping corruption not backed by any evidence?
Are you serious? How much evidence are you prepared to ignore?
-jcr