If I ran Comcast, I wouldn't give a crap if you cut the cable TV cord. Where are you going to get your streaming video, pal? Over my internet line, that's where. So I can charge you whatever I need to charge you for internet access to keep my revenues the same.
This progression is always quoted as a certainty. It is not. The vast majority of the time they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they kick the shit out of you.
their CEO now acknowledges that "we had an incentive program and a high-pressure sales culture within our community bank that drove behavior that many times was inappropriate and inconsistent with our values.
Maybe they should hire a guy to be like the head executive or something who would be in charge of the whole company and who would keep an eye out for shady shit like this. Oh yeah - and if that executive let this stuff happen on his watch he could be given a box to empty his desk into before security showed him to the parking lot.
Websites optimize for AltaVista, not Ask Jeeves or anyone else. It's not like some websites spend time optimizing for AltaVista and others for Lycos. Everyone optimizes for AltaVista. Then other search engines have to try to create something competitive in a world optimized for their biggest competitor. It's a monopoly. There aren't real choices. Even the alternatives have to be AltaVista-friendly just to survive. AltaVista's algorithm could be objectively worse (for the sake of argument, assume that we could ascertain this), and they would still be the dominant force. The web itself bends to AltaVista search, not the other way around. That's a natural monopoly. There is no real competition. Search works best when there is one dominant system, like the electric company. AltaVista has a monopoly on search, and I think it would be wise to start talking about search being a public utility. Seriously.
We would see this all the time in the big company I used to work at. Management would get all fricking excited about the latest fad the consultant industry had sold them. 5S. ISO. Justintime. Lean. When the actual scientists and engineers heard the plan, they would sigh. Management has discovered the scientific method. Oh good. There was no standing against the tsunami of these ideas. They had been mandated to succeed. Metrics which reinforced the vision of management would be collected. Nay sayers would be reduced to ash. The corporation would dump money and time into the effort until it burned itself out. Promotions and bonuses for management. Wait six months. Repeat cycle.
So I'm just going to start hitting that random dude that plops himself next to me at the urinal
I went to play golf one morning by myself and on the first tee I saw another single golfer who came up and asked if I wanted to play a round with him. It was fucking Jack Nicklaus! So I said yes, thank you, and we proceeded to play. He had a cooler full of beer, so I gradually relaxed and we were having a fine afternoon. We get to the 3rd tee and he excuses himself to go pee. He comes back and there is a yellow stripe right across the knees of his white pants. I say nothing, because it's fucking Jack Nicklaus. We play a couple more holes, he goes off to relieve himself again. Again he comes back, this time with another yellow stripe across his pant leg. I think this is odd, but it's Jack Nicklaus. I say nothing. This happens a third time, at the 10th hole. This time I can't contain myself. I say casually, "Hey Jack, how come every time you go to the men's room you come back with a yellow stripe across your pants?" He looks resigned and annoyed and says, "Because every time there is a guy using the urinal next to me who eventually looks up surprised and turns to me and says 'Hey, you're Jack Nicklaus!"
In 1925, Casey Stengal was playing for the Worcester Panthers. He was also general manager and a player. When he wanted to move to Toledo, he fired himself as manager, released himself as a player and resigned as president.
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And he could not destroy the Clippers.
My friend gave it to me as he was dying. It seemed very important to him that I have it.
" promising to focus on more at-risk groups once they've nailed the product"
I totally believe you, pal.
What are you on about? I haven't moderated in weeks. Chill out.
If I ran Comcast, I wouldn't give a crap if you cut the cable TV cord. Where are you going to get your streaming video, pal? Over my internet line, that's where. So I can charge you whatever I need to charge you for internet access to keep my revenues the same.
If people did not want that they would not pay for it and it would die off.
It must be nice on your planet. I would like to visit it someday.
Someone keep this idea-stealing punk from connecting people to me.
This progression is always quoted as a certainty. It is not. The vast majority of the time they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they kick the shit out of you.
When this government wants your opinion they will beat it out of you.
their CEO now acknowledges that "we had an incentive program and a high-pressure sales culture within our community bank that drove behavior that many times was inappropriate and inconsistent with our values.
Maybe they should hire a guy to be like the head executive or something who would be in charge of the whole company and who would keep an eye out for shady shit like this. Oh yeah - and if that executive let this stuff happen on his watch he could be given a box to empty his desk into before security showed him to the parking lot.
Websites optimize for AltaVista, not Ask Jeeves or anyone else. It's not like some websites spend time optimizing for AltaVista and others for Lycos. Everyone optimizes for AltaVista. Then other search engines have to try to create something competitive in a world optimized for their biggest competitor. It's a monopoly. There aren't real choices. Even the alternatives have to be AltaVista-friendly just to survive. AltaVista's algorithm could be objectively worse (for the sake of argument, assume that we could ascertain this), and they would still be the dominant force. The web itself bends to AltaVista search, not the other way around. That's a natural monopoly. There is no real competition. Search works best when there is one dominant system, like the electric company. AltaVista has a monopoly on search, and I think it would be wise to start talking about search being a public utility. Seriously.
Come on. Zuckerberg copied - and he's a billionaire now.
We would see this all the time in the big company I used to work at. Management would get all fricking excited about the latest fad the consultant industry had sold them. 5S. ISO. Justintime. Lean. When the actual scientists and engineers heard the plan, they would sigh. Management has discovered the scientific method. Oh good. There was no standing against the tsunami of these ideas. They had been mandated to succeed. Metrics which reinforced the vision of management would be collected. Nay sayers would be reduced to ash. The corporation would dump money and time into the effort until it burned itself out. Promotions and bonuses for management. Wait six months. Repeat cycle.
Any story which begins "The Italian Police say..." is off to a bad start.
People say that Chinese people don't
Ball as much as we do
'Cause their cultural revolution has shown
There are more important
Things to see to
They were the Brady and Belichick of spaceflight.
Next up: The Patriotic and Antiterrorist Transparency Act, which mandates that all houses be built with glass instead of siding and drywall.
Let's strap a couple rockets to it and move it to lunar orbit.
Raise your hand if you don't have an armed space station.
So I'm just going to start hitting that random dude that plops himself next to me at the urinal
I went to play golf one morning by myself and on the first tee I saw another single golfer who came up and asked if I wanted to play a round with him. It was fucking Jack Nicklaus! So I said yes, thank you, and we proceeded to play. He had a cooler full of beer, so I gradually relaxed and we were having a fine afternoon. We get to the 3rd tee and he excuses himself to go pee. He comes back and there is a yellow stripe right across the knees of his white pants. I say nothing, because it's fucking Jack Nicklaus. We play a couple more holes, he goes off to relieve himself again. Again he comes back, this time with another yellow stripe across his pant leg. I think this is odd, but it's Jack Nicklaus. I say nothing. This happens a third time, at the 10th hole. This time I can't contain myself. I say casually, "Hey Jack, how come every time you go to the men's room you come back with a yellow stripe across your pants?" He looks resigned and annoyed and says, "Because every time there is a guy using the urinal next to me who eventually looks up surprised and turns to me and says 'Hey, you're Jack Nicklaus!"
The one thing worse than mosquitoes is ticks.
If you have a fenced in space, invest in some chickens. Those girls will go around all day eating up the ticks.
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like he said
He was the president of the club. Once he resigned as GM, the power over players reverted to the president.
In 1925, Casey Stengal was playing for the Worcester Panthers. He was also general manager and a player. When he wanted to move to Toledo, he fired himself as manager, released himself as a player and resigned as president.
America just said. "Hold my beer and watch this!"