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  1. Re:This is so ridiculous on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except 100+ years ago heavier than air flight was occurring already every day, by birds. You don't see anything flying to Mars. The complexity in question is very different.

  2. Re:Um, obviously... on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Not unlike corporations taking your labor and then using the money generated from it to lobby for laws that will put you out of work.

  3. Re:Google self driving cars are next on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    So if self aware AI develops would it be recognized as a person? Esp. since corporations are recognized as a person? You just brought up a very deep topic.

  4. Re:Um, obviously... on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Corporations have a dark side, too, like the inability to fire incompetent people, valuing seniority over ability, creating artificial scarcity, etc.

    Fixed that for you.

  5. Re:is ebay sellers union next??? on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Most employment law came directly from unions. They are not all evil and in the aggregate far better than your typical corporation in terms of ethics and morality.

  6. Re:is ebay sellers union next??? on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that Uber can hold all the cards, "Feel free to work elsewhere, oh wait there is no elsewhere".

  7. Re:Try offering service to your entire... on Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    LA and civilization does not compute.....

  8. What DevOps really means on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can have the Devs do Ops and so you don't need to hire any of those pesky Ops people. At least that is how managers see it. Saves time! Saves money! Agile! Buzzword compliant!

    Basically as I read up on DevOps I found I had been using it for years. Except I called it "running a professional software development shop where everyone works together to meet goals". Of course "DevOps" looks better on a book title or as the title of a blog post.

  9. Re:Cold War, Soviets and Russia on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I think a large number of right wing Senators had a something to do with it as well.

  10. Re:In Russia, you on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Was your sister OK?

  11. Re:In Russia, you on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    And Tsarist Russia as well. Putin is running for Tsar.

  12. This differs from Google on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    and a host of other corporations exactly how? In time the pigs look like the humans and the humans look like the pigs....

  13. Re:Majority of successful programmers uneducated? on Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I ask for evidence to back up a position and i am a troll....

  14. asking the wrong people on Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS · · Score: 1

    Considering Silly Valley's support for oppressive regimes, e.g. The Great Firewall of China, they are the wrong people to ask. The only worse whores are the weapons manufacturers.

  15. Majority of successful programmers uneducated? on Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where is he getting these numbers? From his immediate circle of friends? I have never met a successful programmer who hasn't been educated, either directly as a CS major or taking classes after getting a degree in another field. Obviously hi is wrong. You must first get a degree and then perhaps get more training upon that.

    My position is a valid as his.

  16. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet they weren't 18th century muskets.

  17. Re:Knee-jerk bullshit. on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Money doesn't like to be anthropomorphized ;)

  18. Re:how he could really make the world a better pla on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or how about he gets clean drinking water to Haiti?

  19. Re:Knee-jerk bullshit. on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you do. If it stays locked up it is not free to circulate and enrich people. Money wants to circulate, it wants to be free.

  20. Re:Sigh. She is NOT an engineer. on Software Engineer Liz Bennett Talks About Being a Woman in a Nearly All Male Workplace (Video) · · Score: 1

    Engineers can also get sued into non-existance. Sometimes the situation is so bad they kill themselves.

  21. Re:The painful truth about freelancing on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    I also saw myself as their advocate, helping them negotiate through the buzzwords and fending off marketroids to find something that would actually help them. Like I said, they do not have money to throw down a rat hole.

  22. Re:The painful truth about freelancing on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    You're fishing in the wrong pond. I usually worked for small to mid-sized businesses which did not have money to sink down a rat hole or with enough IT knowledge to set up their own IT or programming department. I did that for them, among other things. It was also a situation where a face-to-face relationships were the most important.

  23. Re:The life of the IT contractor on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 3, Informative

    You probably did not see the movie. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time I chased after a car driven by mad scientist with aliens in the trunk, I'd probably have 3 dollars.

  24. Re: uh? on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    I'm making a lot more now than my dad did. Then again, he graduated form the 8th grade and later got a GED.

  25. Re: uh? on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    Gates' father geve him money to start a company, Page and Brin were Phd students (hint, you need a degree to qualify for that). Drop outs are an anomaly.