So haven't we learned from the pill that fucking with a body's hormone levels has a certain tendency to lead to bad things and that it gets worse at higher levels?
Is the intention here to hit equality by making men as miserable as women?
Contraception is the opposite of reproduction. Small yet important difference.
The problem is simply that religion still tries to shame sexual encounters outside of marriage and even outside of reproduction.
Imagine if the church went and told the believers that they had to be abstinent for five years after conceiving a child and that sharing yourself with someone without conception was actually pleasing god, I bet the religions would be gone in a hundred years tops.
In my opinion that reliance on population growth shows you, right there, that they are based on bullshit. If their holy scriptures made any sense to normally thinking people then they wouldn't rely so much on indoctrination in the families.
It does suck if your phone doesn't get the performance that could be achieved (and is achieved by other phones) but I'm not sure what this would mean in real life.
Do you need this performance on a mobile device such as a phone? As the data transfer test proved, it's not eight times slower for that, it only takes somewhat longer.
I thought it was normal the fewer flash chips perform worse.
High suicide rate. Traffic is a humongous problem. As in any western country, our cost of living is growing more rapidly than our salaries. We're heading straight for American economics, so all the nice social nets we have are eroding by the year. We are experiencing as much of a conservative tipping of the scales as the US is headed for. Our academic inflation is following the US's nicely. With such a strong currency, our export suffers. How long do you think we can buy nice things, when we have trouble selling our products? I don't want to imagine what happens if the EU ever gets fed up with our attitude.
What you did makes me want to bash your skull in. Whether it was lawful or not, whether it adheres to capitalist principles or not, it takes QUITE an amount of egoism and delusions of grandeur to pull that off without losing sleep.
So my question is this: If you think basic human ethics don't apply to you, why should I not come over there, kick your teeth to the curb and take from you whatever I damn well please?
It's not the employees' job to make the company profitable.
No really, hear me out:
The company makes a contract with an employee. His or her skills and time in exchange for a salary.
Now your employee either holds up his side of the deal or not. If he or his business unit do not turn a profit, its one of several possible reasons. A they suck. B the product sucks. C the processes suck. D marketing sucks.
In all these cases, except A, it's management's job to recognize this and do something about it. And even in case of A, it's management's job to either get the employee in line or fire them.
Now what you define as "in line" is the crux here. If an employee has been given boundaries of his jobs that allow him to perform in a legal way without working himself to the ground and he decides that it would be easier to do something illegal instead and work less, then yes, that employee is responsible for his actions and he alone (to the point where his misconduct becomes glaringly obvious and management still does nothing).
However, if said employee cannot be reasonably expected to achieve management's demands without illegal or self-harming activity, then he should be held blameless, especially in an environment that favors employers.
When you have to fire over 5000 people for shady activity then it becomes kinda hard to argue for that relatively tightly defined case where the employee is to blame. Occam's razor, dear friends. Neither 5000 people independently falling to using illegal methods nor a criminal group forming in an environment where they could not organise themselves (they couldn't seek out like-minded people, they were hired by higher-ups) seems rather far-fetched.
This is akin to Hugo Boss advertising a suit that is guaranteed to get you laid at one out of three times. You buy it, you wear it to three dates and go "Hmmm... Well, it could be date number 5 and six out of six, right?"
So you go on three more dates. Still haven't been laid. So either you bring it back now, already MUCH too late to return it with any semblance of it being unworn, or you go for three out of nine. Some people are optimists, others desperate...
We went from HP/EMC to IBM converged and from Vmware to Hyper-V.
It was a costly experiment: First IBM couldn't get their shit running for over a year (with no refunds for us, obviously) and then they sold it to Lenovo and Lenovo did not feel responsible for paing for going back to conventional networking.
The company supposed to install our Microsoft based private cloud took a look at the IBM hardware and went "I'll try my best". You can imagine how that ended up going.
So we've spent a lot of time and money in getting this shit productive. Now that we are, they are thinking about replacing it all again because IBM sent us a licensing renewal bill of about 50'000 $.
When you're a company of about twenty people and don't work via POC, this shit is exactly what "exciting new ideas and insights" ALONE will get you.
From what I hear, few people are happy with HP nowadays so it seems to me that goes for global players as well.
Think of it as recycling. Instead of adding more CO2 with every liter of dinosaur remains burned, you only burn what you previously have taken from the atmosphere.
In theory, this means everything that burns some for of gasoline or dieser could suddenly become CO2 neutral.
Vote for a billionaire to get people to stop selling to the highest bidder no matter where they come from.... riiiight. The same Trump who has his merchandise produced in Bangladesh and China.
There's an old fable where mother sow brings her piglet to the butcher because he ought to know best how a pig works, right? Well... I'm actually not sure if such a fable exists, but it ought to.
Give me a case for my phablet with a hardware slideout keyboard that lets me rest the screen at an appropriate angle and include a trackpoint and I'm all set.
Basically, where are the 6 inch laptops with phone capabilities?
I installed the version before this. Why? Because A, I wouldn't use a touch device to do anything of real importance anyway (so the danger of not being able to browse 9gag on the toilet is quite survivable if worse should come to worst) and B, the last version pissed me off anyway and lo and behold, this version actually did bring soothing to my life.
Are you sure there was more to be proud of a few decades ago? What happens around the world today is, basically, the result of the fuckups the west committed in the last century.
You sure the difference isn't just that you're better informed nowadays?
Also don't kid yourself. Central and South America, as the rest of the world, is densely populated with people. There's just as much to be ashamed of there as in the US or where I live.
The only difference will be that it's new bullshit which gets you another few years to get used to and then fed up with. So that might be worthwhile.
Not to mention the use of guano as a fertilizer that has fungicidal properties.
Although I expect it can be quite a pain if the population grows too large as it is with pigeons. Then again, bats don't eat our waste so the insect population should regulate that in places like city parks.
You already underpay them to an obscene degree. Now you want to weaken the sign of their badges by making them risk their lives on capturing someone alive who already killed their colleagues.
How dangerous and unattractive does the job of a police officer have to be? People are already griping about how dumb the average cop is. How on earth do you expect to get mentally more capable people on that duty if there is no security, literal or financial, nor respect anymore?
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So haven't we learned from the pill that fucking with a body's hormone levels has a certain tendency to lead to bad things and that it gets worse at higher levels?
Is the intention here to hit equality by making men as miserable as women?
Chastity is not the opposite of reproduction.
Contraception is the opposite of reproduction. Small yet important difference.
The problem is simply that religion still tries to shame sexual encounters outside of marriage and even outside of reproduction.
Imagine if the church went and told the believers that they had to be abstinent for five years after conceiving a child and that sharing yourself with someone without conception was actually pleasing god, I bet the religions would be gone in a hundred years tops.
In my opinion that reliance on population growth shows you, right there, that they are based on bullshit. If their holy scriptures made any sense to normally thinking people then they wouldn't rely so much on indoctrination in the families.
True but according to wiki, it weighed 27 tons. Getting a bomber over France or Texas is probably a bit more involved than firing a ballistic missile.
Because a world dominated by the US is all peaches and cream?
It does suck if your phone doesn't get the performance that could be achieved (and is achieved by other phones) but I'm not sure what this would mean in real life.
Do you need this performance on a mobile device such as a phone? As the data transfer test proved, it's not eight times slower for that, it only takes somewhat longer.
I thought it was normal the fewer flash chips perform worse.
High suicide rate.
Traffic is a humongous problem.
As in any western country, our cost of living is growing more rapidly than our salaries.
We're heading straight for American economics, so all the nice social nets we have are eroding by the year.
We are experiencing as much of a conservative tipping of the scales as the US is headed for.
Our academic inflation is following the US's nicely.
With such a strong currency, our export suffers. How long do you think we can buy nice things, when we have trouble selling our products?
I don't want to imagine what happens if the EU ever gets fed up with our attitude.
Yeeeahhh... That Swiss dude? He was lying.
Regards from Switzerland.
If I ever actually won the lottery, how much would it cost to have someone design and build a smartphone to my very own specs?
I would really like to see the Communicator line make a comeback.
Hmm I'm not so sure. Sometimes a bit of competition, meaning pressure, can do more to inspire than having more brainpower and money on hand.
I'm just happy that there actually are people pushing the boundaries of human capability at all.
What you did makes me want to bash your skull in. Whether it was lawful or not, whether it adheres to capitalist principles or not, it takes QUITE an amount of egoism and delusions of grandeur to pull that off without losing sleep.
So my question is this: If you think basic human ethics don't apply to you, why should I not come over there, kick your teeth to the curb and take from you whatever I damn well please?
I don't get the joke. It's not like Windows Mobile works without touch screen.
In my opinion, touch screens are a disease by definition, no matter whether they work as intended or not.
It's not the employees' job to make the company profitable.
No really, hear me out:
The company makes a contract with an employee. His or her skills and time in exchange for a salary.
Now your employee either holds up his side of the deal or not. If he or his business unit do not turn a profit, its one of several possible reasons. A they suck. B the product sucks. C the processes suck. D marketing sucks.
In all these cases, except A, it's management's job to recognize this and do something about it. And even in case of A, it's management's job to either get the employee in line or fire them.
Now what you define as "in line" is the crux here. If an employee has been given boundaries of his jobs that allow him to perform in a legal way without working himself to the ground and he decides that it would be easier to do something illegal instead and work less, then yes, that employee is responsible for his actions and he alone (to the point where his misconduct becomes glaringly obvious and management still does nothing).
However, if said employee cannot be reasonably expected to achieve management's demands without illegal or self-harming activity, then he should be held blameless, especially in an environment that favors employers.
When you have to fire over 5000 people for shady activity then it becomes kinda hard to argue for that relatively tightly defined case where the employee is to blame. Occam's razor, dear friends. Neither 5000 people independently falling to using illegal methods nor a criminal group forming in an environment where they could not organise themselves (they couldn't seek out like-minded people, they were hired by higher-ups) seems rather far-fetched.
You act like that's a tragedy...
Allow me to fix the analogy for you:
This is akin to Hugo Boss advertising a suit that is guaranteed to get you laid at one out of three times. You buy it, you wear it to three dates and go "Hmmm... Well, it could be date number 5 and six out of six, right?"
So you go on three more dates. Still haven't been laid. So either you bring it back now, already MUCH too late to return it with any semblance of it being unworn, or you go for three out of nine. Some people are optimists, others desperate...
So who is the sleazeball in this scenario?
We went from HP/EMC to IBM converged and from Vmware to Hyper-V.
It was a costly experiment: First IBM couldn't get their shit running for over a year (with no refunds for us, obviously) and then they sold it to Lenovo and Lenovo did not feel responsible for paing for going back to conventional networking.
The company supposed to install our Microsoft based private cloud took a look at the IBM hardware and went "I'll try my best". You can imagine how that ended up going.
So we've spent a lot of time and money in getting this shit productive. Now that we are, they are thinking about replacing it all again because IBM sent us a licensing renewal bill of about 50'000 $.
When you're a company of about twenty people and don't work via POC, this shit is exactly what "exciting new ideas and insights" ALONE will get you.
From what I hear, few people are happy with HP nowadays so it seems to me that goes for global players as well.
That means genetic scientists can't be arsed to format the relevant columns as text?
Think of it as recycling. Instead of adding more CO2 with every liter of dinosaur remains burned, you only burn what you previously have taken from the atmosphere.
In theory, this means everything that burns some for of gasoline or dieser could suddenly become CO2 neutral.
Vote for a billionaire to get people to stop selling to the highest bidder no matter where they come from.... riiiight. The same Trump who has his merchandise produced in Bangladesh and China.
There's an old fable where mother sow brings her piglet to the butcher because he ought to know best how a pig works, right? Well... I'm actually not sure if such a fable exists, but it ought to.
Give me a case for my phablet with a hardware slideout keyboard that lets me rest the screen at an appropriate angle and include a trackpoint and I'm all set.
Basically, where are the 6 inch laptops with phone capabilities?
I installed the version before this. Why? Because A, I wouldn't use a touch device to do anything of real importance anyway (so the danger of not being able to browse 9gag on the toilet is quite survivable if worse should come to worst) and B, the last version pissed me off anyway and lo and behold, this version actually did bring soothing to my life.
Meta malware?
Are you sure there was more to be proud of a few decades ago? What happens around the world today is, basically, the result of the fuckups the west committed in the last century.
You sure the difference isn't just that you're better informed nowadays?
Also don't kid yourself. Central and South America, as the rest of the world, is densely populated with people. There's just as much to be ashamed of there as in the US or where I live.
The only difference will be that it's new bullshit which gets you another few years to get used to and then fed up with. So that might be worthwhile.
Not to mention the use of guano as a fertilizer that has fungicidal properties.
Although I expect it can be quite a pain if the population grows too large as it is with pigeons. Then again, bats don't eat our waste so the insect population should regulate that in places like city parks.
You already underpay them to an obscene degree. Now you want to weaken the sign of their badges by making them risk their lives on capturing someone alive who already killed their colleagues.
How dangerous and unattractive does the job of a police officer have to be? People are already griping about how dumb the average cop is. How on earth do you expect to get mentally more capable people on that duty if there is no security, literal or financial, nor respect anymore?