I know how to plan cities properly to allow for efficient public transit. We have no shortage of land in this country, but planning is simply not done.
Ford put a price on human life and that offended a lot of people, but it's something we do every day. My larger point here is that, while Ford probably made the wrong call on the pinto (we don't know, but expect that later cars would have better design), mandating that manufacturers take all possible steps to improve safety leads to expensive products that are hard to sell. Mandating the answer legally isn't the answer, and the real solution is one I'd like to see discussed.
Tell that to the people manslaughtered by the Ford Corporation when their Pinto cars blew-up. And yes accidents happen but the Corporation knew the fuel tanks were flawed and decided (as a whole), it was cheaper to just pay the dead people's families. That's practically premeditation. But what can you do?
Point out that in the case in question, the pinto had a missing gas cap and was hit at 55 mph by a van with a plank for a front bumper. It's unreasonable to expect a pijnto to survive that. The fact that they estimate a $11/unit design change would save 180 lives is offensive, but probably not relevant to the specific case.
You can argue both sides of this - cheaping out on something that makes a car safer causes an emotional response, but requiring a company to implement whatever it can to improve safety makes it impossible to produce cheap cars in the grey zone between dangerous and Volvo. Never mind that there's a very real potential for people to be more careless when more safety equipment is added, leading to the same level of risk.
Your made up example is tragic and completely outside my experience. Guess I work at better companies than you. What happens where I work is the smoking hot chick that runs her project like clockwork and delivers on time gets it transferred to Utah, and she is handed a promotion and more responsibility. Because she's proven herself good at what she does.
You also missed what I said, so I'll say it again: it's mostly women who judge on looks, as men aren't that discerning when dating (we are a little), and I, speaking as a raging hormone, can keep it in my pants at work.
Yes, women are judged in part on their looks and men on their ability to wield power. Good luck changing that, ever.
Women get judged - so what? I seriously don't care, and it's for two reasons: one, guys get judged just as much and two, it's the women doing the judging most of the time.
I'd love a diesel vehicle - probably my next car will be diesel, so that's either VW or BMW. Ford doesn't want to sell me a diesel, so fuck them (still pissed about that)
Seems like you stop being so damn pedantic and actually listen to the lesson. We aren't lawyers and we aren't computers. A bit of flexibility pays dividends
It isn't a pro piracy argument, it's a lamentation that overzealous assholes in the publisher are making it nearly impossible to actually use the stuff that we pay for. Common practice among some people is to buy the widget, then go download the cracked version so you don't deal with nasty rootkit of the day.
The flip side is that, half the time, you're being called in to do something that the in house guys have wanted for a year or more, and when the time comes to do it, they don't trust their own people to do it. Instead, they call you in and blow their budget for raises on your fees. You're the enemy, and rightly so. It isn't your fault, it just is.
Now, how do you feel when you're working extra weekends because those people who decided NOT to continue learning have broken something and YOU are the only one with the knowledge to fix it?
Depends on how much I'm getting paid and how often it happens. At the very least, if you expect me to screw my plans, the person responsible had better be there with me.
Just because they get ads for penis pills doesn't mean they buy 'em. Besides, guns are fun - they go bang and make holes in things, and there are lots of girls that dig that sort of thing.
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I know how to plan cities properly to allow for efficient public transit. We have no shortage of land in this country, but planning is simply not done.
Ford put a price on human life and that offended a lot of people, but it's something we do every day. My larger point here is that, while Ford probably made the wrong call on the pinto (we don't know, but expect that later cars would have better design), mandating that manufacturers take all possible steps to improve safety leads to expensive products that are hard to sell. Mandating the answer legally isn't the answer, and the real solution is one I'd like to see discussed.
Not really going to dispute that, but good luck getting 100 years of precedent reversed.
Tell that to the people manslaughtered by the Ford Corporation when their Pinto cars blew-up. And yes accidents happen but the Corporation knew the fuel tanks were flawed and decided (as a whole), it was cheaper to just pay the dead people's families. That's practically premeditation. But what can you do?
Point out that in the case in question, the pinto had a missing gas cap and was hit at 55 mph by a van with a plank for a front bumper. It's unreasonable to expect a pijnto to survive that. The fact that they estimate a $11/unit design change would save 180 lives is offensive, but probably not relevant to the specific case.
You can argue both sides of this - cheaping out on something that makes a car safer causes an emotional response, but requiring a company to implement whatever it can to improve safety makes it impossible to produce cheap cars in the grey zone between dangerous and Volvo. Never mind that there's a very real potential for people to be more careless when more safety equipment is added, leading to the same level of risk.
dude, pickup lines don't work for girls either.
Your made up example is tragic and completely outside my experience. Guess I work at better companies than you. What happens where I work is the smoking hot chick that runs her project like clockwork and delivers on time gets it transferred to Utah, and she is handed a promotion and more responsibility. Because she's proven herself good at what she does.
You also missed what I said, so I'll say it again: it's mostly women who judge on looks, as men aren't that discerning when dating (we are a little), and I, speaking as a raging hormone, can keep it in my pants at work.
Yes, women are judged in part on their looks and men on their ability to wield power. Good luck changing that, ever.
Women get judged - so what? I seriously don't care, and it's for two reasons: one, guys get judged just as much and two, it's the women doing the judging most of the time.
That's a failure of management. What burns me is how often the companies survive these sorts of things.
What makes their comments better than ones on facebook.
Knowledge of the rumoured question mark.
No, she's smiling at me because I'm cute and willing to share chocolate.
I seriously want one of those, but BMW won't send anything over here that isn't 'luxury'
One idea for preventing the deployment of a proof-of-concept is to make the UI for the proof-of-concept as ugly and difficult to use as possible.
Sure, like that ever works.
Either whatever you did solved the problem kinda well enough
No, the prototype solves the functional requirements, but the nonfunctional ones are toast - maintainability, scalability, things like that.
I'd love a diesel vehicle - probably my next car will be diesel, so that's either VW or BMW. Ford doesn't want to sell me a diesel, so fuck them (still pissed about that)
They aren't pirates because they're trying to by a game. The fact that the game is unplayable as shipped drives them to get the crack.
balance of power between the Judaical, Executive and Legislative branch.
Did you mean Judicial, or do you think the Jews run the courts?
It costs money to maintain the "club".
No it doesn't. If you're not a moron, it's a net negative because you can mine the data for shopping patterns and use that to drive stock turnover.
Saving $2/day leads to an extra $700 per year for vacation/toys. That's something like 3 full weekends of dance workshops, for instance.
Seems like you stop being so damn pedantic and actually listen to the lesson. We aren't lawyers and we aren't computers. A bit of flexibility pays dividends
It isn't a pro piracy argument, it's a lamentation that overzealous assholes in the publisher are making it nearly impossible to actually use the stuff that we pay for. Common practice among some people is to buy the widget, then go download the cracked version so you don't deal with nasty rootkit of the day.
Oh, ok. At the local grocery, I just do self checkout and then flirt with the cute girl riding herd on the several checkout lanes.
in practice, I can grab a few things and check out in 30 seconds. The stores are already fucking with me over membership cards and overpriced beef.
The flip side is that, half the time, you're being called in to do something that the in house guys have wanted for a year or more, and when the time comes to do it, they don't trust their own people to do it. Instead, they call you in and blow their budget for raises on your fees. You're the enemy, and rightly so. It isn't your fault, it just is.
Now, how do you feel when you're working extra weekends because those people who decided NOT to continue learning have broken something and YOU are the only one with the knowledge to fix it?
Depends on how much I'm getting paid and how often it happens. At the very least, if you expect me to screw my plans, the person responsible had better be there with me.
Just because they get ads for penis pills doesn't mean they buy 'em. Besides, guns are fun - they go bang and make holes in things, and there are lots of girls that dig that sort of thing.
they aren't racist, they're just trying to be offensive.